More lies from Labour: Ramona Frendo fakes it to help Joseph con the public
Ramona Frendo (in white) as a Labour councillor in Zejtun in the days when the Labour Party called its candidates ‘Independent’.
Ramona Frendo’s brother – he hasn’t bothered reinventing himself or pretending to be something he’s not.
Ramona the pretend PN tal-pepe switcher, on Labour’s big campaign screen and now also on billboards
This is the Labour Party’s newest promotional video, featuring lawyer Ramona Frendo.
It is an exercise in fraud.
Frendo fakes a whole lot more than her accent (her real one is very rough) and her social background (Zejtun working-class).
Now she’s also faking her politics (Mintoffjana harxa miz-Zejtun).
With the collusion of JosephMuscatDotCom, she presents herself as a tal-pepe AB switcher who has converted to Labour because of Joseph.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
She was born into a working-class family in Zejtun to parents who couldn’t speak English and who could barely speak Maltese. Her brother still can’t.
Her mother ran a Labour Party club – in Zejtun, in the Golden Years.
Frendo herself was a Zejtun Labour Party councillor in the years when Labour called its candidates ‘independent’.
Her husband, Peter Borg of Bortex, is a committed Labour supporter from one of the best-known Labour families of the Golden Years (this is no reflection on a very successful business which I have long supported with my custom and in other ways). They still have Lino Spiteri on the pay-roll.
Ramona Frendo is by all accounts a highly intelligent woman, intelligent enough to know that for working-class people to get where they want to be, they have to start by dropping the accent, the behaviour and the appearance that places them and take on instead the manners and mores of somebody else.
She is intelligent enough to have been able to make for herself a life and a career that her mother, running the Zejtun Labour Club, couldn’t even begin to imagine. Ramona Frendo is a Nationalist success story.
And that is exactly where you can see the level of her brainwashed obsession with Labour, the ridiculous suggestion that she is a switcher. Anybody that intelligent should be able to see that the Labour Party was and is crap and that the Nationalist Party is so different that you can’t even begin making comparisons. But Frendo’s lifetime of Labour brainwashing has overcome, in the long run, her IQ.
I can see that the Nationalist Party is incomparably better than the Labour Party on all counts, from track record, to people, to plans, to know-how, to attitude, to beliefs and principles and everything else.
I can see it very clearly.
But unlike Ramona Frendo, I had the good fortune to be brought up in an extended family that was neither Nationalist nor Labour, a family that supported the Progressive Constitutional Party which was, ironically, closer to Boffa’s Labour and hostile to the Nationalist Party.
This turned out to be the best thing for me because it allows me to say in full honesty that mine was not just an intelligent assessment, but it was my own decision. That’s important when you write, as I do, about politics.
Ramona Frendo says in this video that there were times when she “voted for and with the Nationalist Party”. How disingenuous. That scale of dishonesty really bothers me. If you are going to say part of the truth, then say the whole truth. It is obvious from her choice of words – ‘with the PN and for the PN’ – when this sole occasion was: the EU membership referendum and the general election that followed, in 2003.
In doing that, Frendo was one of many thousands of Mintoffjani and Laburisti who did the same. They didn’t see their 2003 vote for the PN as a vote for the PN. They saw it as a way of holding their nose and getting EU membership.
You can see the full extent of their brainwashed-from-birth approach to Labour as a religion in the fact that this did not make them question the credentials of the Labour Party which fought against membership. They simply continued to vote for it.
The Labour Party’s campaign is one long exercise in fakery, one big con trick of lies and acting. But how they ever thought they could present Mrs Bortex, from a working-class family of diehard Zejtun Mintoffjani, as a tal-pepe PN switcher, and get away with it, is beyond me. Though I must say that the acting is pretty good and the elocution lessons have been thorough, Labour must have been really desperate.
Presenting Ramona the Zejtun Mintoffjana as a tal-pepe AB PN switcher actually beats scraping the bottom of the barrel with Kevin Drake, Ray Pitre, Albert Gauci Cunningham and Kenneth Zammit Tabona.
The day they can say they’ve got me is the day they can really say they’ve got a scalp for their teepee or a notch on their bedpost. Until then…vote Labour? Inz**bab.
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http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20130301-intershore-ma-kinitx-taf-dak-li-kien-addej
Tsk tsk.
[Daphne – Yes, I know. It’s shocking that the Labour Party’s financial controller handles people’s money without checking first where it’s coming from. It’s incumbent on all responsible professionals to do so, with money laundering laws as strict as ours, but especially important for somebody in his position.]
Kulhadd jaf jilaghab tal-innocenti.
Qeghdin Sew Alternattiva.
“Mr Cassar said Mr Farrugia also declared that the directors of Intershore Fiduciary limited who held the directorship of Aikon Limited, did not have anything to do with the issuing of invoices to Trafigura for consultancy services and neither did they know did they know about the bank accounts in Switzerland where he deposited the commissions.
Mr Tabone would invite them to lunch meetings and it was there that money was exchanged.”
This is what The Times reported. I see that iNewsmalta left out something important here.
Nobody is reporting it in the same way. Which is the true version?
This is how MaltaToday reported it:
“He said police had established that George Farrugia himself was involved in the issuing of invoices for Aikon Ltd, whose name had changed from Petrotech in 2004. Intershore Fiduciary Services directors, who held the directorship of the company, told police that were never informed of the company’s operations, and neither did they know about the bank accounts in Switzerland where Farrugia deposited Aikon revenues.”
@Manuel
Re the following text – it was written as a fresh paragraph and Mr Cassar was not referring to Intershore Fiduciary Limited.
“Mr Tabone would invite them to lunch meetings and it was there that money was exchanged.”
If Intershore is claiming that it did not know what was going on, than the MFSA should investigate.
What happenend to know your client? Was due diligence carried out? Who approved the accounts? Who drew up the accounts?
And keeping in mind that their checks and balances have spectacularly failed in this instance, are Intershore in a position, to declare that the other companies and/or individuals they are acting for, are uninvolved in criminal activities?
Was she once called “Ramona Frendo Dimech” engaged in the office of the AG? Ma nafx, I am asking.
[Daphne – No.]
That’s Donatella Frendo Dimech. A totally different person.
The Frendo Dimech who used to work in the office of the AG is Donatella Frendo Dimech, not Ramona.
Thank you.
How do their people believe them? Amazing. She can never, ever, fit the image of a switcher. My goodness, what blatant lies.
8 days……
…..a week? A Beatles classic.
+3 for the after celebration
Lara Boffa (granddaughter of Paul Boffa) has been pushed forward by her mother to be part of this moviment. But I see tremendous differences between what Mr. Boffa’s party was and this latest version of the Labour Party.
The differences seem to abound but the basic difference remains: that the new has no guiding principles, primarily it is not socialist at all.
If Ramona Frendo’s mother ran the Zejtun Labour club during the Golden Years, Ramona has had the honour of being brought up in the home base of the Zejtun ‘marmalja’, the notorious rabble who gave their village a bad reputation that survives to this day.
Hamalla ‘pulita’. She used to turn up for lectures with a hendbeggg ta’ Louisssss Vuitton. She used to prop it up on the desk making sure that the huge gold LV is facing the class.
No class.
I can totally relate as she used to lecture me at university too. You are sooooo right.
She makes my blood boil. I must add that the fakest thing this wannabe has is by far her smile – turn your back to her and you feel the daggers one by one in your spine.
So, even though she’s well-known as a ‘Mintoffjana ħadra’ she suffered no discrimination in her career. And she has the gall to talk about the need of meritocracy.
All that posing – a queen of lies.
Like you, I come from a family of Stricklandjani. My grandfather was Minister of Public Works in the coalition government, and I am proud to have his name as my middle name (not to confuse me with the journalist), although I never had the pleasure of knowing him as he passed away right after the war.
He wrote a book on the Strickland family. Of course I have a copy of this book, and also the manuscript.
Like you, I was brought up to use my brain in an intelligent manner before I cast my vote, and have done so since my first general elections in 1976.
Meritocracy, my ass! Ma nafx kif ghandhom il-wicc dawn in-nies?
Kulhadd jaf li taht il-Labour in-Nazzjonalisti dejjem batew u l-Laburisti dejjem igawdu u jiehdu l-promotions taht gvern Nazzjonalista. B’min iridu jitmejlu dawn?
I like her first Holy Communion picture in Zejtun in 1994.
She’s come a long way since then.
This is all nonsense. Why the hell should I care if somebody switches from one party to another, or pretends to do so.
Maybe the Labour Party is using her and she is using the Labour Party for what she can get after 9 March when there is a Labour government.
Ramona, vote for whom you please and just keep it to yourself, will you.
YOU SHOULD PROBABLY BOOK A WORKING HOLIDAY TO HOLLYWOOD.
You’re a great actress.
wicc ta’ ahba.!
[Daphne – Min, jien jew Dr Frendo?]
Ahba as in tahbi li Labour, hux hekk Gorg?
Gorg, issa Daphne taghna lkoll.
Mhux fier. Daphne tieghi.
Go get her then.
Labour forgets that Malta is small and that everybody knows everybody. Anyway, it is to be expected from a bunch idiots.
[Daphne – Labour forgets, especially, that there are relatively few real tal-pepe and we all know each other or of each other. As for the rest, to quote our grandparents’ generation: “Dawk ma nafuhomx.” Bottom line: you can’t sell a fake tal-pepe to the real thing. So just be honest. There’s much more respect for a working-class girl made big-time-good than there is for somebody pretending to be something she’s not. But then I don’t suppose it’s the real tal-pepe who Labour is targetting with Ramona Frendo: it’s the chavs who are impressed by that kind of posturing and don’t know her backstory.]
All it says to me is that ‘the girl done good’ under PN.
Daph, am I a real tal-pepe?
[Daphne – Introduce yourself and we’ll see.]
In fact Daphne, no one has come knocking on my door to try and convince me to vote Labour.
The very fact that the PL calls these “switchers” shows that we are not Lkoll Ahwa Maltin as they try hard to tell us by saying that there are no blue and no red.
Otherwise what are they switching from? Maltese to erm……Maltese? Pathetic.
Tweggaghom wisq lil-Laburisti meta Il-PN kien jiehu nies, Laburisti genwini, li huma favur l-Ewropa u se jivvutaw lil PN.
Din it-tattika ukoll kkupjata min tal-PN, biss tal-PN kienet vera imma tal-Labour hija gimmick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ikTh3SfjC7U
In an earlier post, you stated that Kenneth Zammit Tabona was appalled at the behaviour of Franco Debono.
However, isn’t his attitude exactly the elitist/snobbish version of Franco Debono’s?
I hope Kenneth reads your post. It’ll make his skin crawl.
[Daphne – Oh, I doubt it. She’s probably been to dinner already.]
Beautiful.
Watching that video, she’s still a bit rough around the edges. They call it bubbly.
She was on Bis-Sustanza before the budget vote, and I wasn’t aware who she was.
All I knew was that her flippant attitude to the tenure of a government made her come across as a very silly girl.
Just note how Joseph switches his face right to left and then right again, not to look a his supporters but switching teleprompters with that John Wayne serious look on his face.
What a fake.
Plagarism;
http://www.google.com.mt/imgres?q=%22I%27m+in%22&start=343&hl=en&client=opera&sa=X&channel=suggest&biw=1068&bih=566&tbm=isch&tbnid=swA6A-IiX0o1aM:&imgrefurl=http://www.zazzle.com/obama_2012_im_in_bumper_sticker-128693366585098721&docid=OwvZdUbZ6tlPfM&imgurl=http://rlv.zcache.com/obama_2012_im_in_bumper_sticker-p128693366585098721en8y3_400.jpg&w=400&h=400&ei=BcwwUYnRE8zAswb_34GIDA&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:50,s:300,i:154&iact=rc&dur=1010&sig=108668529659905287682&page=24&tbnh=176&tbnw=176&ndsp=14&tx=67&ty=98
Most probably she wants us to believe that she voted with the PN on divorce? For the EU? I cannot imagine she ever voted for PN in the general elections and probably the former two options were a lie to make herself more credible.
[Daphne – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13580505 ]
There you are, I knew you would come up with proof. Well done!
I am impressed with her command of spoken English. She is very articulate, not many politicians speak English like that.
I am not much into Maltese politics but there is something about Ramona Frendo that rubs me up the wrong way.
I saw her once on Xarabank where she said that as a lawyer there were certain types accused whom she would never defend.
The job of a criminal defence lawyer is not to judge or give her blessing to a crime or actually an alleged crime but to see that justice is carried out.
Only those pandering to popular sentiments argue that they will not defend, let’s say, anybody accused of beating their wife.
Well, she once defended a woman who drove straight into my wife’s car, causing a total of Lm3,000 worth of damage, and managed to get this same woman just 2/3 of the blame.
Considering this woman’s defence was “ma kontx naf li jghaddu karozzi minn hemm” (referring to the street wife drove down perfectly legally and carefully), I think she must be quite a good lawyer and she’ll definitely defend the indefensible.
The woman driver will probably eventually kill someone. My wife and children were lucky to get away with bruises and the latter had to walk the last km to school in February rain for exams. Well done Ramona – a good day’s work!
Chances are Ramona Frendo’s job is already chosen for her. A chairperson of a corporation or authority – ghax Malta Taghna Lkoll.
Judge or magistrate?
Are you implying that this lady is lying about her humble origins purely to get a reward from a new Labour government?
[Daphne – She’s certainly not lying to the Labour Party. They know exactly how Labour she’s always been. This is a collusion in fakery between Dr Frendo and JosephMuscatDotCom. Whether there is some consideration for doing so is not for me to say.]
I always thought she’s melodramatic.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130301/local/luxury-aviation-company-sets-up-operating-base-in-malta.459633
A world class financial services hub, the fastest growing superyachts register, requiring the top facilities and the best quality yards, now this. Another piece of the puzzle called strategy.
It also means boutique hotels, top restaurants, an unexplored retail segment and areal incentive to stop the rape and put the finest property, anywhere, back on the market.
These people ask whether it’s faster to charter a jet or come down in their boat for a meeting. Once over here they’ll come up with all sorts of questions; property, restaurant menus, audit companies, kosher food,books, old vynil or vintage boat leasing.
When the jet is theirs, they’ll ask whether servicing is avaliable.
What would the employment figure for the above be?
AD will do everything to bring it to a halt, with their idiotic taxes on income, property and the Tobin tax. They will also oppose anything on Manoel Island, let alone Tigne North. The filthy rich, jaqq.
Labour will simply mess it up. Imagine Owen Bonnici and Kenneth Zammit Tabona studying the required mix in Strait Street. Or Chetcuti and Falzon forcing a block of flats ghax m’hemmx x’taghmel.
Definitely not the time to change direction or write history.
Nahseb tajba bhala avukat biex tiddefendi l-kriminali, mhux hekk?
Sewwa nghid, Daphne, ma jahrablek xejn ghalhekk jobghoduk tal-PL.
The Labour Party propaganda machine seems to have used NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) selling techniques.
And like the PL “(…)it contains numerous factual errors and fails to produce the results asserted by proponents (…)” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming)
Yes, they’ve been after techniques of a sort on Mintoff’s recommendations to Joseph.
I am seriously concerned that Joey’s lying nature is contagious. Can you imagine him as a Prime Minister passing it on to all other EU Prime Ministers.
It is contagious. Each one supporting the lies has already been infected.
What I don’t understand is, why the whole ” we need a change in direction”.
Sure, if they focused on changing things that needed changing then perhaps that might lend them a bit more credibility.
But saying that Malta is some sort of disaster when in fact we are a miracle in the EU makes me think that they are concealing the reality from their voters because, should they be exposed to it, they would vote PN.
It’s not what you know but who you know? So let me get this straight: Labour are going to do away with networking?
It’s always been like that all over the world. That’s why you need to be a friendly and open person wherever you go, in order to make relationships that can grow and ferment and help you in the long run. Is this something the PL are against?
Quite rich coming from someone like Muscat who clearly worked his way up the ladder through networking.
She’s just mirroring the grouchy attitude of people who expect the world to fall into their laps.
Malta does need changes, but not a change in government.
Goodness, another switcher! My, my, my.
iNews jirraporta:
Hawn Cassar titkellem dwar kif hi kienet dejjem nazzjonalista. “Kont nazzjonalista u kont nemmen ħafna fikom u dejjem lilkom ivvutajt imma issa daqshekk. Issa nistennew mill-Ewropa ha naraw kif ħa tinqata’. Jiddispjaċini ħafna li kelli ndur kontra l-partit tiegħi u nara l-karti fil-qorti Ewropea Joanne Cassar vs Malta. Tal-mistħija,” temmet tgħid imweġġa’ Joanne Cassar
Why is it the government’s fault if she lost an appeal in court?
Will Labour be interfering with court sentences? We already know that it will do so with regards to the car registration tax.
Are we to expect more?
No, yes, and yes.
She certainly has come a long way since the photo depicting her as a Labour councillor – sartorially at least.
That’s her ballet class.
I wonder how PL has not paraded the king of switchers, Sandro Schembri Adami. He was elected after all and so….quite a good sample.
Does he still go around with a microscopic dog on a leash?
He can’t go anywhere, he’s ‘doing time’.
What I cannot understand is why a political party which is sure of a landslide victory in the coming election should have to stoop so low as to lie to the electorate.
Ramona Frendo is the contemporary version of Mrs Bucket. Her Sheridan goes to Chiswick House School and her embarrassing family are kept hidden away. Even her wedding pictures on Facebook show only members of her husband’s family.
No pictures with il-ma u l-pa and certainly no pictures of her Labour councillor days in that very fetching white dress.
I can’t stand people who do that. Lots of them in Malta.
St. Martin’s College.
Hi! Yes she is from Zejtun and proud of that!!! What social class do you mean ?????????? I am from Zejtun!! Yes her family are labour but she is telling the truth!!! I think you are in that social class you are talking about!! Cause you are saying those “hamalli” words in Maltese !!! And yes I am going to vote Labour with all my heart !! Cause we need a change !! Proud to live in Zejtun !!! Malta taghna lkoll
[Daphne – Sigh. But thank you for pointing out that yes, Ramona Frendo has always been Labour, just like her entire family.]
Don’t put words in my mouth!! I didn’t say she was alwas labour!!! There was times she supported dr gonzi !!:-))
[Daphne – Really? Pray tell when, and how you are privy to that information.]
“Cause we need a change”.
Marieneve, if you had a new Ferrari, would you change it for another car?
What do you mean by a new Ferrari ???
Allow me Marieneve,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0HctsBpuC4
Marieneve Attard your question about the Ferrari says so much about you, and you can’t even understand why.
Figure it out or get somebody with a different mentality to yours to explain it to you.
Maaa x’injoranza ta’ nies.
“What do you mean by a new Ferrari ???”
God give me strength.
And after the 10th of March, please help us all – we are going to need it.
geeeeeeeeeeez should we roll out the red carpet for her?
Damn right we need a change, a change of electorate. What’s with the multiple punctuation marks by the way? Slow browser or mental retardation?
Mental retarded? For what ? For saying what I think
Add ‘being unable to comprehend simple sentences in English’ to the list of reasons. Put it just before the ‘being a tedious bore’ entry and right after the one likening your IQ to my shoe size.
It’s not where or what social class she comes from, you flippin’ idiot. It’s because she’s pretending to be something she’s not.
Jesus Christ.
I’m from Zejtun too but I’m ashamed of people like you.
You should really work your brain before opening your mouth.
I open my mouth when I want and say what I want !!! But am not telling bad words to people like you are saying !!! You just don’t know what to say :-)
Yes of course, please do. I’m sure every time you open your mouth, you prove my point.
And please write in Maltese because it’s difficult to understand your English.
Marieneve, you ability to open your mouth and say what you want is thanks to Nationalist governments. On the other hand, what comes out of it…
Marieneve Attard are these the ‘bad’ words you mean?
Ps the inverted commas used for the word bad are intended for others and not for Marieneve, coz I know they are lost on her.
http://youtu.be/c9tyT2MrKeM
Yes Marieneve, you can say what you want thanks to all the liberty brought by the PN.
Would you like to change that too?
21 exclamation marks and 10 question marks. Wow, I’m impressed.
“And yes I am going to vote Labour with all my heart !!”
There was no need to inform us, Marieneve Attard. It wouldn’t have taken us long to guess who you’re voting for after reading your comment, anyway.
“And yes I am going to vote Labour with all my heart !!”
Because brains don’t come into it.
Well Marieneve Attard has to use her heart to vote Labour – she can’t exactly use her brain, can she?
And this is another comment lost on Marieneve!
Being from Zejtun has nothing to do with “class”, Marieneve. There’s a mixture of people there as there is, say, in Sliema.
This is not about her background. This is about her lying.
All I can say is manuċċa.
Ramona – so fake that even Barbie is jealous.
News analysis re same press conference:
iNews: Beppe Fenech Adami qal li jinteressah biss f’dak li jgħid hu u li “frankament” ma jinteressah xejn f’dak li jgħid Franco Debono
MaltaStar: Frankly, I don’t care what Franco Debono has to say
MaltaToday: Frankly, I just do not care what Franco Debono said on party financing, the law was never approved because Labour’s simplistic solution was not adequate.”
The same news, the same sentence, but different messages.
http://www.maltarightnow.com/default.asp?module=news&at=Jin%26%23295%3Batfu+mill%2Dewwel+offerta+l%2Distocks+tal%2Dgvern&t=a&aid=99845230&cid=24
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany.
Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct.
We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual.
National Socialism is a religion. My Party is my church. That is my gospel. The essential leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. This follows the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
This and similar lines in Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf about what he claimed to be a strategem of Jewish lies using “the principle & which is quite true in itself & that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted. “The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”
The bloody cheek.
Wara li saret nies taht it-tmexxija ta’ gvern Nazzjonalista.
Il-vera ma tafux tisthu, int u kull min hu bhalek – kif immisshom jisthu aktar is-switchers tal-pepe. Kollha.
The only thing she was right about was the name of the Moviment.
Moviment LABURISTA;
We finally have a name to the famous moviment.
Meanwhile at yesterday’s ‘youth rally’
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200747393306692&set=at.10200744236667778.1073741825.1218006300.100003942038610.100000971319944.100000744016520&type=1&permPage=1
Sorry but could not resist sending this to you. The man with the glasses must be an 18 year old…so much for a youth rally!
Why is labour so afraid of the past?
Have you noticed how the Labour Party detest anyone mentioning what happened in the past.
I always wondered why is it that all labour leaders keep boasting about their glorious past, but when we start mentioning the achievements of the PN and compare them with the MLP past they tend to get a bit rattled.
Actually, I honestly believe that they get very annoyed hearing about their past because their past is a bit of a disaster.
Who wants to remember the savage attack on Dr. Fenech Adami’s residence,
While he was doing his duty attending parliament.
The ransacking and burning down of the Times. I know a woman (she was a young girl at that time) who was there working at the time. She told me what they had to go through to get out of that burning building. After thirty five years, she still have nightmares about that night. Can she ever forget the past?
Even the Curia was not spared a visit. And this is just opposite the police depot. Shameful. No. Just normal everyday run of the mill . If it’s the “rent a mob” doing it, it’s legal. No inquiry was ever carried out, but then inquiry was not in their dictionary. Everything was legal and above board. This is the aristocracy we’re talking about.
The MLP seems to be suffering from a bout of insomnia . We all remember the fuss they caused with every capital project the PN came up with. The new telephone system, the new airport, the power station just to mention a few. The people were so used to do with second hand equipment that they did not know any better.
Now they are talking of building a new power station, because they said that the Delimara power station is a cancer factory. May I remind them, and all the residents of Marsa and the south, who filled Marsa with thousands of tons of coal. And believe me, this was all stored outside.
A few weeks ago, when all the hullabaloo of this new power station was in full swing I heard the opinion of a cancer expert saying that symptoms of cancer from air pollution start appearing after between thirty and forty years. Does it ring a bell?
It’s all right for labour and the union talking about precarious work. It seems to have slipped their minds how they used to employ people. Labour corps by the dozen. Working conditions. What are you talking about, something from outer space. You have to work under military discipline. Minimum wage.No mention of union of course, because this was in the agreement that you can’t join any union. And of course this was with the blessing on the union. But then of course the MLP and GWU were all for one. The MLP dictates and the GWU obeys. We used to call her the lap dog, and that was being very generous,?
But then the GWU used to wield an iron fist when dealing with the private sector. I remember one instant when the union ordered a strike at some factory, the name of the company escapes me at the moment. All the directors of that factory had their telephones disconnected until they gave in to the union’s demands. That’s democracy a la GWU for you.
And then we had the church school drama. KMB b’xejn jew xejn. How the Labour Party would love to forget that. The disastrous results that left in our education system.
Then there was the other debacle at the Lyceum in Humrun. Agatha Barbara who was minister of education at the time decided to do away with the entrance examination. She reckoned that everyone is entitled to a higher education. And what a disaster that was. They turned a brilliant secondary school into a pigsty and practically destroyed all types of education with their amateurish experimentation.
We can also mention Miss Barbara methods of stripping all form of authority from the teachers. She had the gall to get the pupils to report their teachers for whatever reason. That is some incentive. She even had a go at the teachers, calling them names during a prize giving ceremony. I could go on forever about their education fiascos. Where education and health are concerned the Labour Party had better hide themselves, because whatever they did they literally destroyed.
As for health reforms they managed to strip our hospital of all the best doctors and specialists. They worked themselves into a hole and could not find a way out. Ten years of conflict with the doctors, and the government could not find a solution. The truth is they did not want a solution. They wanted submission. They did not get it. Dr. Eddie Fenech Adami had to be the one to find the solution. But unfortunately too much damage had been done, and we are still suffering from it now. That’s all thanks to labour.
Labour has the cheek to talk about corruption. Is it corruption to have a minister netting fifty pounds for every coloured television set that was sold?
Is it corruption to have to pay the minister to acquire a licence to import anything? Even if it’s a sample you still have to dirty somebody’s hand. Is it corruption to have to pay a minister thousands to a certain minister for a building permit? Years ago I met old farmers who were practically crying, cause they had to sign off their farms in the middle of the night or else. This is when Psaila street was being developed. Is that corruption or was it the in thing as long as it’s done by labour?
What about that minister , who inside their own circle was nicknamed Mr. Six million?
Then what about when Mintoff appointed a secretary to oversee the works of a particular minister. Some trust. And they have the audacity to mention the word corruption. They invented that word. Hypocrites.
I could go on and on and on. The list is endless. In their sixteen years in office there so much violence, corruption and whatever you want to mention that I can fill volumes. I lived thought all of it and know thes people inside out. I will never trust them.
Same as many of you, I had my ups and downs with this government. As it is I’ve got a court case against him at the moment. But I will not let any problem, big or small, cloud my judgement come 9th March. I love my children and grandchildren to much to let anything spoil their future. All of you out there who have had problems of any sort, thing about your children’s future. Now is not the time to take chances and it’s definitely not pay back time.
The opposition is doing it’s utmost to appear moderate. This is only skin deep. Once they’re in power their true colours will come out. The Lorry Sant colours. But then it will be too late. Do we really want to reverse the clock to all this?
Is that what you want for your families and your children?
I don’t.
Dear Ramona (ghaziza Ramona): who is born a baxx does not die a pepe (min jitwieled kwadru ma jmutx tond).
What an effing poseur.
F’Malta hawn zewgt tipi ta’ nies: dawk li ibieghu l-gushion u dawk li jikluh! Int Peter, jew tieklu jew tbieghu l-gushion ukoll: x’differenza hemm?
But can the PN please publicly highlight these matters? It seems to be that they are sometimes too tired or resigned.
Why does it have to be you alone, Daphne, to bring this glaring sham to light? I am soooooo frustrated!
Ramona Frendo says that the PN government mexa b’mod zvijjat. But she doesn’t tell us where her PL vote is going to take us.
Telling, isn’t it?
Ramona qed turina WICC b’iehor.
Joseph WICCU tost
Mallia WICCU w sormu l-istess.
Deborah WICC il-qamar kwinta
Louis ghandu WICC Laskri
Issa mmorru naraw lil Gonzi u lil Joseph jiltaqghu WICC IMB’WICC fuq Xarabank.
Hadt pjacir nara l-ispot politiku gdid (risposta) tal-ucuh tal-Labour ….imma ma nistax insibu.
She might be ‘highly intelligent’, but she cannot spell ‘jgħid’ on Facebook.
And what the heck was she wearing in the photo from the first Żejtun council? Her first holy communion dress?
Nope. Little Bo Beep. And she had just found her sheep.
Good one, afm.
If I’m not mistaken Leo Brincat used to work at Bortex too. I guess you had to be Labour to build a successful business when Labour was in government.
Rumour has it that Ramona and Peter Borg were introduced to each other through the Labour Party. Labour diehard meets Labour wealth. Sounds like an arranged marriage.
Defni
Qed tkun hanina wisq ma Romuna (ghaz hekk nafuha ahna iz-Zejtun).
B’ebda mod ma qatt ivvotat Nazzjonalista. Anke kieku riedet, ommha kienet tiekolha wiccha ghax fejn jidhol il-partit ma joqghod hadd.
Din mhux l-ewwel darba li Romuna taghna qed tistahba wara xi purtiera.
Ukoll harget mal-Partit Laburista ghal Kunsill Lokali mela dawn kienu jinhbew ta’ independenti.
U minn hemm imbaghad dahlet fil mittlekless ghax rat il-kunsillieri shaba li ma kienux tal-livell li riedet tilhaq hi.
Minn hemm bdiet titrenja titkellem bl-Ingliz, ghax hawnhekk ir-rahal bl-ikreh biss kienet titkellem. (Kif nghidu ahna biz-Zejtuni)
I’d love to know how and where she learnt English, that’s where all the Maltese should learn English.
She does look fake, but one has to be to get on in life. It is something the Maltese copied from the British.
She doesn’t look fake. She is fake.
I would rather have somebody whose English is not up to scratch but who isn’t liar, than somebody who lies in good English.
You’ve got the national misgiving there.
Diana’s Audi convertible for the masses. Islanders will do it.
Joseph Muscat is blaming the government for the 4000 young people who are jobless.
How many of those 4000 are illiterate (because they refuse to learn) or have no interest at all to find a job?
Daphne,
Can you please update us with the number of clicks on your ‘blokk’?
Would love to know how many are watching.
Daph, you’re now No. 19 on Alexa – ahead of both maltastar and inews.
That says something about your power of convincing people. Please do keep exposing Labour’s falseness, wheels within wheels and clear and present danger in the hope that enough people will decide to vote for PN come Saturday.
I cannot stomach the scenario of having an ex-Super1 hack running this country in 9 days time – straight into a brick wall.
[Daphne – Well, I don’t know about that. I’m quite sure there are a lot of Laburisti driving this site up the rankings and pretending not to read it.]
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/MT
Daphne, poor Ramona is all in.
For crying out loud! Someone kindly illuminate me on why Romuna (hilarious, that post from Zejtuni) would want a change in direction and above all, what cheek to speak about meritocracy!
Dear Romuna, are you insane? What change in direction does somebody like you and your beloved Peter need?
You guys have been milking the cow big-time under the Nationalist government. Perhaps you want to augment your client database. So much for campaigning on meritocracy.
One last thing regarding class.
You can take the girl out of the village but you can never take the village out of the girl.
Ouch!
This is rich:
“The PN is tired and people like Guido de Marco, John Dalli and Louis Galea have not been replaced by people of the same credentials, so quality is lacking, said John Abela, who comes from the financial services and auditing sector, while speaking on Affari Tagħna.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/…/pn-lacks-people-with-right-credentials-...
John Dalli’s credentials?
What about the credentials of Labour candidates? Debono Grech and Silvio Parnis come to mind.
That’s right, a lot of Laburisti do come and visit this blog. I’m working offshore at the moment [somewhere in the east Med] and the first thing I do when I finish my 12 hour shift is go and visit Daphne on her blog [I love it].
I’m a big fan of yours, you write with sense although sometimes your writing cuts like a very sharp knife.
If meritocracy is not possible under a Nationalist government, to whom should we credit Ramona Frendo’s success?
As far as i know she has also been appointed to a board under this administration. So she has hardly not been recognised.
What a fraud. When people behave like this there really is no hope. This is sheer manipulation of people who do not know better by those who should do.
Exactly, why do you think Joseph Muscat now stresses that he wears black trainers.
MAMMA MIA QISKOM ANIMAL FARM
and what’s about a working-class family in Zejtun !!! xi problema hemm la nhalsu it taxxi…
Mur gib lil omm Ramona fi zmienha jkollha prim ministru jkellem lit-tfal bl-Ingliz kif rajna lil Joseph ilbierah. Dik il-problema li issa kollox inbidel, m’ghadkomx titajru bl-inglizati u l-avukati u tobba.
Grazzi ghal gvernijiet Nazzjonalisti uliedkom kollha lahqu. Issa bil-kju biex issiru avukati.
She is ridiculous. She never voted PN.
7 days…..
That woman never voted PN.
What did you say about Labour’s elves and their good use of the English language? Straight from maltastar.com,,,,,’Barrakka Lift makes its second victim’
I suppose one of the few genuine cases of ‘switchers’ is Deborah Schembri, who comes from a die-hard Nationalist family.
And who’s been confined to the ghetto.
Whatever she’ll do, Ramona will get the credit and make it to the billboard.
Cyrus was supposed to be Labour’s prize testimonial, Gauci Cunningham goes onto that one instead.
Manuel Mallia’s sent to douse the flames, but rarely ever on their fabled ONE as spokesman for a particular sector.
The only time he did, Herrera ignored his presence, it was embarrassing. Even because he refused to entertain Manuel’s absolutes to the disasters in the judiciary and lawmaking.
Ramona and I attended the same state school and used to hang around the same youth centre in our youth. In so far as her spoken Maltese is concerned, it’s never been rough as you say. Then again, I’ve no idea what comes across as rough to a Sliema lady. She has always been articulate with a sound of grasp of English. However, her English accent is far from credible and I switched channels when I heard her address a conference in an Oxbridge English accent. I could not stomach it.
The language issue is so tedious. I have more than a few tal-pepe friends from Sliema. The real deal, with nobility titles and all. I have no problem switching to English with them. That doesn’t make me a fake, simply someone who would rather meet them half-way, seeing I’m more comfortable speaking English than they are speaking Maltese. On the other hand, I have blocked an old school mate from the South, from all social networking sites. We caught up after some 20 years and I just could not stomach her and her fake English speaking ways.
My Sliema friends know my parents and know full well that my mother much like Ramona’s is barely literate with a poor grasp of English. I don’t think the issue here is politics but pretending to be someone you are not.
I simply tend to address people back in the same language they address me without giving things much thought. I speak at least three languages fluently and despite my background I have a neutral accent in any language I speak. Being the offspring of working class parents from Zejtun does not mean you are raised to speak in dialect. We’ve long had social mobility. I consider Maltese my native language. However, I struggle to write proper Maltese and would never dream of writing e-mails in Maltese or reading a book in Maltese. I probably received a poor education in Maltese. At home it was always Eynid Blyton and back then i.e. the 70s there weren’t as many children’s books in Maltese as there are today.