I think we can now be told who they are, perhaps. No doubt they have been ‘approached’ already.

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1. narcissus says:

   March 18, 2013 at 9:54 am

   If Joseph Muscat continues in the same pattern that he has followed in appointing those old communists from the Golden Years of Mintoff, Mario Cutajar and Mario Vella, we are assured that they will indeed be ‘super partes’ as he himself said in this video.

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2. Zunzana says:

   March 18, 2013 at 10:27 am

   (at 0.43 to 0.53 ) persuni super partes: Mario Vella, Mario Cutajar, Keith Schembri, Silvio Scerri.

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3. Jar Jar says:

   March 18, 2013 at 11:04 am

   I think these appointments of old commies are made to settle past obligations – they will jar so much with the ‘businessmen philosophy’ that they will be gone in a couple of years.

   Either that or we are in for some home-grown protectionist sh*t a la Zimbabwe.

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4. Phili B. says:

   March 18, 2013 at 11:14 am

   Every day that passes, and every bit of news of new appointments is another nail in the coffin for the Malta we cherished till the 9th of March.

   As broadly highlighted by this blog throughout the last year, we are indeed going back 30-odd years.

   And it’s not only because of the resuscitation of derelict and obsolete old faces of the regime of the time, but the actual modus operandi, which is so reminiscent of the Mintoff/KMB era.

   They preached one thing, while doing the contrary. A positive campaign, for instance, when all those of us who watch Super One and read Labour media know that we have had five solid years of negative messaging geared at the character assassination of Labour’s real and perceived enemies.

   This is just like the brainwashing years of ‘Il-Quddiem fis-Sliem’ and ‘Fil-Paci u l-Progress’ and ‘Il-Budget tal-Qawsalla’, Labour’s slogans of the 1980s, which we endured even as our country was on the verge of civil war and western Europe regarded Malta as a pariah state or vassal of another one, Gaddafi’s Libya.

   The same is happenning before our eyes now. We heard talk of positivity and foresight during the campaign, but we sensed neither.

   We’re hearing about equality, meritocracy, transparency, accountability, but can see that the exact opposite is happening.

   Unfortunately, the PN opposition has been battered and is far from having any credibility with the floating, gullible, and irresponsible segment of the population.

   These same co-nationals will never sense the burning of our beloved country, not even if their butts are on fire.

   Joseph Muscat tells us that this is 1987. But it is not. It is 1971, and all those who voted for Muscat now will so badly want to believe that they were justified and proved right that they will vote for him again, just as they did with Mintoff in 1976 despite the huge damage and the glaring signs of much worse to come.

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5. Makjavel says:

   March 18, 2013 at 2:46 pm

   “Se nhallukom tahdmu”: now we can put Joseph Muscat’s statement to the business community properly into context. No wonder, with the list of communist comrades coming out of the Labour woodwork like lice.

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