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The President of the European Union – if you want that to happen, vote Labour or AD
This came in as a comment from H. P. Baxxter, but I’m going to pin it to the top of the page.
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On another, deadlier subject, foresight over hindsight also applies to us voters. When we set out to do anything this important, we should think ahead. We should think ahead to what Malta will look like in 2018 under Labour or under PN.
Without going into the economic scenarios, we should visualise the three major events leading up to 2018.
The 50th anniversary of independence in 2014. Now that means the 50th birthday of the nation-state of Malta. Which will be led by a man who more than anything else did everything to rewrite history. There will be, alas, more tributes to Mintoff, and big grins all round from some of the worst scum ever to tread upon Malta’s fair soil.
Valletta 2018, European Capital of Culture, will be planned and celebrated by the party that did everything possible to destroy the very idea of culture (and of Europe). Like the Cultural Revolution in China, it turned sophistication into something that was somehow anti-Maltese, and raised hamallagni to a national virtue.
It turned Malta into a pariah not just politically, but culturally. Labour’s idea of culture is il-Karnival, Wardakanta and Sibtijiet Flimkien.
They spurned Europe and turned the ship of state southwards to North Africa. And now they will be showcasing our capital to the continent which gave the light of civilisation to the world. It will be a stab in the heart of everyone who is truly passionate about European culture.
Finally, Malta’s presidency of the EU. Oh tragic irony of history, which seems to deride us mortals! The head of government, and therefore the president of this magnificent creation we call the European Union, will be none other than the chief propagandist of the anti-European crusade.
Joseph Muscat’s smirk, and his prancing about with Europe’s finest statesmen, will remind many of us of the dark days prior to 2003, when our future hung in the balance. Assuming, of course, that Malta will not have left the European Union by then. Because with a cabinet made up of Mintoffian anti-Europeans, led by Joseph Made in Brussel, the nightmare may well come true.
Voters need foresight just as much, if not more, than politicians. After all, we choose our leaders. We may hope that they have more good sense than us, but after 9th March, it will be too late.
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But hold it, with Joseph Muscat at the helm Kenneth Zammit Tabona is guaranteed to be queening around as ringmaster to Valletta European Capital of Culture.
By then the theatre will have a roof, but the bottom will have long ago dropped out of the economy.
But, who cares, seeing Kenneth attaining the apex of his glory would make our sacrifices all worth the while.
As if someone who’s still yawning at 10am will manage to make the deadline.
Like,
out of subject but worth a look. This morning in Valletta.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151462019669446&set=vb.771619445&type=2&theater
shades of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMajt-qooE
Ara ftit Deborah Schembri kif spiccat ukoll.
1:07 to 1:28
I wonder why the helium filled balloons were green.
TOO LATE for who?
Everyone, especially those who say they won’t vote PN even though they’re PN supporters.
They will never forget that their hand was right, in trembling!
Beware the Ides of March.
Excellent post H.P.B. Jesus, does it hit home, and painfully so.
OMG, five years with potty-face as our prime minister.
Shivers down my spine.
Well written Mr. Baxxter. Hope everyone reads it and votes sensibly next Saturday.
….aided and abetted by the soon-to-be euro sceptic MEP Alfred Sant.
And who is this H P Baxxter??
Someone with a brain, who can use it properly, think clearly and express himself with eloquence.
Why do you ask?
I don’t know. The European movement’s lost voice perhaps.
A buddy.
A bolt of logic
What’s this with Joseph calling for his supporters to vote early and that the 10th March should be like an ordinary day?
All I can say is that with a Labour victory in the offing most shops in my home town have put up notices saying that they will not open on Monday 11th March.
Also today on the Gozo ferry boat I felt shivers down my spine overhearing a group of Laburisti speaking about what they intend to do come the week following the elections. I sincerely hope it was just showing off otherwise poor Malta.
How can 10th of March be an ordinary day when trailers were this week already in position to block off Isla for a 3 day celebration – inhabitants saying that “lanqas il-Pulizija ser jidhlu ‘l hawn.” Of course that’s IF they slink in.
For certain, he will be King Hamallu. Whether that’s version I (Mintoff?), II (KMB?), III (Sant?) or IV (Himself) is a finer detail.
And the Carneval will be concurrent to Lent for the ensuing period.
The values of He who preaches logic through hindsight will preside.
Thank you Baxxter for the visualisation. Excellent. Will pass on.
Please don’t pass on before you vote. But, by all means, spread Baxxter’s gospel pronto.
@ La Redoute. Thanks. Very informative comments that are enlightening. Will remember to omit any personal shorthand of that nature. Did have a good laugh.
shades of…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuMajt-qooE
Outstanding, H.P.
A quick note about the positive thinking hysteria that seems to have gripped the PL and its supporters.
The only people who talk about positive thinking are those running a pyramid scheme.
My first encounter with this was when I was approached by a friend who told me about this system where you buy products like shampoo etc from this company instead of the supermarket and the more people you invite into this system the more commission you get off them, making each person rely on those beneath them for income.
When I heard this I thought ‘pyramid scheme’, but I went to one of their meetings anyway and it was all about positive thinking and dream goals becoming real.
The same can be said of every other pyramid scheme that has ever and will ever exist. Think positive, and the money will take care of itself.
It’s all well and good for jobs like salesmen who have to feel confident in order to inspire confidence in the people they are selling to, but even they know that the final choice is up to others and you have to accept that there are good days and bad days.
How does this appy to the PL? Well, there can only be so many cabinet ministers in one government.
There is no way that every candidate in the PL can be made a cabinet minister because that’s not how it works.
The first people to realise that they have been fooled by positive-thinking loonies will be the candidates themselves, who will see what they have hoped for slip between their fingers.
They will then have to keep on thinking positive, clinging to their dreams while doing jobs they hate, thinking that one day they will be chosen by Muscat and all the positive thinking will have paid off.
Anyone who complains will be seen as thinking negatively and will be marginalised and bullied by everyone else who will see them as a cancer they have to get rid of.
That atmosphere will create so much tension that in the end it will explode, leaving Malta in ruins.
They say think positive. I say think ahead.
This is indeed a profound post by HPB. Any potential switchers reading this should contemplate on these matters.
How can we have as President of the EU somebody who was rabidly against Malta joining the EU?
Franco Debono is voting Labour. What a surprise.
Everyone is missing the point.
On the 9th March the majority of the Maltese are going to gamble their vote.
Do not believe rumours that the PN are ahead in polls. They’re not, not by a long shot.
The PN is never ahead by a long shot. Even after Labour’s worst excesses, the 1987 victory was minimal.
Labour thrives on ignorance, egoism and spite. Ergo Muscat and now Franco Debono.
amen
Well said. This should be posted to all households, whether they have a blue doormat or a red one.
I so agree with you H.P. Baxxter. It seems Mr.Pony Debono has no foresight as he just declared that HE’S IN on ONE tonight.
It’d be news if he came out.
Maybe his cock won a fight?
No one was surprised it did not even make news.
Can everyone WAKE THE FUCK UP BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE?
Very well said, Baxxter. This really hits home.
Well, the first one who should have woken up was Paul Borg Olivier, but look what a miserable campaign he delivered.
The NP did have a fighting chance, and it threw right out of the window. Now, we’re f*cked.
Who said we’ll still be in EU by 2018?
As soon as the British have the in/out referendum, and UKIP gets its way, Il-Guy will surely keep to his word.
Renegotiate or we leave.
And I really believe that we’ll follow suit. Good night to all.
“Il-ftehim mal-UE tista tinbidel”
Il-Guy, in his own words in his own union’s own newspaper:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128166205/Karmenu-Vella-says-Malta-s-membership-of-the-EU-can-be-revised-l-Orizzont-23AUG2012
The UK will never leave the EU. Trust me.
Dear Daphne, I once wrote on this block that H.P.Baxter thinks that he is an expert in every subject on earth. Now he is telling us what to do on the 9th March. In A modern Democracy it’s the people’s vote that counts and I think this time the Maltese people are fed up of this government driven by corruption and arrogance.
carmel, why don’t don’t you attempt to refute his comments? Are they not valid?
BTW, this is a blog, not a block.
Carmel is confusing his blog with his block of ice.
When you go to a restaurant, and the waiter suggests a choice of dish, does it mean you’re being told what to do?
carmel – the smartest kid on the block.
Please keep up, Carmel. Almost all corruption being exposed is being traced to Labour’s backyard. Joseph himself ignored a serious case of drug trafficking. If that is not corrupt and arrogant, you can have no idea what the two words mean.
On this BLOG, Baxxter’s comments are very much valued and respected, whereas yours are definitely not.
Carmel, Who are the stars in the oil corruption episode?
Carmel, Who are the stars in the white block episode?
Carmel, are you living in Malta or what?
http://www1.internationalliving.com/qofl2011/
Have a look at this. Malta ranked 2nd in the 2011 Quality of life Index. And yet some want a change in direction because Lydia tells us we have a “pazziz imfarrak” while leading the life of socialist jet setter.
Sorry…Malta ranked 3rd in the index and Lydia speaks of a “pajjiz imfarrak”.
I wouldn’t like to nit-pick but both Malta and New Zealand obtained 76 points therefore Malta did indeed place second in a tie with New Zealand.
It’s not only the people who will be in government who should worry us. It’s all the others who still have senior positions in the Labour Party, like the deputy leader who covered up drug dealing in a Labour Party club, and the current international secretary who had signed a secret agreement with North Korea when he was minister of foreign affairs:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128167661/Alex-Sceberras-Trigona-Signs-a-Secret-Agreement-With-North-Korea
On balance Malta is better off as a member of the EU, but do we need to put Brussels on a pedestal and worship the ground they walk on?
I think even the most ardent Eurocrat Europhile would cringe in embarrasement at the way Europe is portrayed as the shining light here in Malta by people who surely know better.
[Daphne – It is a shining light, Lovejoy. It has been our salvation. Try to imagine what life would be like today without your EU passport, what business life would be like in Malta, what employment would be like…you can’t even begin.]
Then you understood nothing, Lovejoy. I do not love Brussels, or EU legislation, acquis, laws, rules, institutions and directives. I love this continent. Its people. I want to be part of it.
What are you on about, Lovejoy? Malta has fought, in Brussels, for what’s good for Malta. Witness the 1.2 billion and about to veto the financial transactions tax.
Also, our little country is lauded by the Brussels Sprouts for stick handling (ice hockey term) our way out of the European morass.
Go ahead, put the little, incompetent, red shit in and see what happens. Catastrophe.
Let’s not forget that Joseph’s dream is to accompany a child to demolish the chimney of the Delimara power station.
That will be the finest hour of our nation.
That is right and fitting. Destruction is Labour’s signature tradition.
Yes, that will put meat on our plate, instead of pizza, that will.
Kemm jiflah ikun vojt, jahasra. Qisu xi haga li tehel maz-zarbun u ma tkunx tista’ taqlaghha.
This election is stressing out a lot of people on both sides of the divide.
Joseph daqs mus tal-lehja taqta. Waqt l-elezzjoni jkun hawn qasma thossa.
Jekk trid turina kemm int statesman u trid tnaqqasha, ntrabat min qabel b’isem Nazzjonalist ghal President jekk tirbah.
It will be someone from his own camp that he wants to get rid of ‘bil-pulit’.
Karmenu (ma niftakarx x’ghidt) Vella for President.
Important events like the 50th anniversary of independence and the EU presidency are only the tip of the iceberg.
The bigger part of the iceberg is the state of the EU, especially the bigger countries.
In Italy, a communist, a comedian and a crook are trying to cobble together a government. Investors are spooked. The markets are spooked. If Italy goes down, we all go down with it. Italy is too big to bail out.
The United Kingdom might break up. In 2014, Scotland will be holding an independence referendum. Worse than that, the UK might leave the EU. In 2017 it will be holding an EU membership referendum. Even if the country survives all that in one piece, the government might not. The coalition partners hate each other’s guts.
Germany will be holding general elections later this year. Angela Merkel will probably win again but if the election goes belly up, like so many elections in Europe have done recently, Europe will lose Ms Merkel. We would have lost a strong leader who can get things done leaving us at the mercy of people like Francois Hollande.
France is another headache. Francois Hollande, Joseph Muscat’s fellow socialist, is losing popularity almost as fast as Jimmy Savile after the sex scandals broke. Whoever can is leaving the country. Many who stay are losing their jobs and firms are closing down factories and offices.
Spain and Greece have such high unemployment figures, it’s scary. Bulgaria’s government just fell. Cyprus wants to negotiate a 17 billion euro bailout. Slovenia’s government is on the verge of collapse and might ask for a bailout soon. Hungary’s government keeps locking up its opponents. All around Europe, people are protesting, losing their jobs and paying more for less.
As if Europe’s problems weren’t enough, the USA is also cutting its budget (a sequester has just kicked in) and planning on leaving Afghanistan in 2014. This is unprecedented. With Syria still in a lurch and Egypt and Libya still unstable, the world might go through tumultuous times.
Mollycoddled Malta might not have realised it but the EU is in deep shit. The last thing that we need in the coming years is a clueless, inexperienced Super One hack who couldn’t even get his choice of deputy leader right.
When Labour needed a stable, strong and smart person to counteract Simon Busuttil’s brilliance, they ended up with a hotchpotch of people who don’t even know what their party’s proposals are. Simon Busttil has had to face no less than six different people during deputy leader debates: Franco Debono, Anglu Farrugia, Louis Grech, Toni Abela, Owen Bonnici and Cyrus Engerer.
Two of those are not running for election. One is not even a Labour Party member. One is so unwell that he can’t turn up for events a week before the election. One was fired by Joseph Muscat for being too inept. One is embroiled in a drugs case. One (Owen) once sent postcards quoting a line from the song Rise Up as if it were a golden nugget by Aristotle and the other once famously broke the law by sending naked pictures of his boyfriend to his (the boyfriend’s) employer and other contacts.
You couldn’t make it up.
Compare that to Lawrence Gonzi’s billion euro deal, Simon Busuttil’s roundly applauded success in EU matters, Mario de Marco’s constant breaking of tourism records, George Pullicino’s parks and environmental projects, Tonio Fenech’s budgets which are so good, even Labour want to adopt them, and so many others.
The choice is a no-brainer. Those who can’t see that have more than a few screws loose.
Where have all the ‘big guns’ of the Labour Party gone? Are they all in hiding?
George Vella , Karmenu Vella , Louis Grech , Alfred Sant, Toni Abela,and Leo Brincat are nowhere to be seen ,they’re conspicuous by their absence.
Instead we’re having Owen Bonnici , Cyrus Engerer,Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and last but not least Franco Debono showering praises to the great leader Joseph Muscat and dishing out insults against Gonzi.
If these are the guys who will be running the country then brace yourselves for another five year rough ride and another five years of repercussions.
U lill-Gauci Cunningham, insejtu?
Well done, Baxxter.
All the points you highlight are more than worthy of consideration but there remains one equally important thing to factor in. It’s the mentality of people in general.
I dread to think what Malta will be like in five years time. The arrogance of the uneducated and the attitude of ‘kollox jaghddi u mhux xorta’ always take the upper hand during Labour administrations.
H.P. Baxxter, you’re king of this blog. I have followed Daphne’s suggestion, and passed your comments along. You have truly expressed my thoughts into words. I can’t imagine the fearless c*nt at a plenary session of EU prime ministers, so long for Malta’s outstanding reputation within the EU.
I already read in this blog about how Labour is urging people to go out and vote early.
Interestingly yesterday I had to hear part of a speach during a Labour candidate activity, due to very load mics that were being used. They were urging and pass on the word to go out and vote VERY early.
I can’t make heads or tails behind this reasoning but it would be interesting to know why.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=530024950382516
Il-filmat fejn jidher il-Prim Ministru hawnhekk fuq Facebook ta’ Deborah Schembri huwa editjat u iqsar. Ghal verifika tista’ tmur fuq is-site http://www.tvm.com.mt/live u taghzel Friday.
TVM Web-site Time Code: 16:41:15 till 16:42:11 (duration: 56 seconds).
Deborah Schembri Facebook Time Code: 1:08 till 1:26 (duration: 18 seconds).
During this campaign
Joseph Muscat – synonymous with:
1. Anti-EU
2. Taghna lkoll, taghna lkoll, taghna lkoll
3. An energy proposal which is not credible
4. Kemm int sabih Joooosephhfffff
5. Blokka silg
6. Political murder
7. Gym workout with no visible results!
And a main concern to unite malta, which baffles me. Had this wish been put forth during the clashes of the past, I would understand it. But the only clashes we have seen in the last couple of days was in a Rabat PL club! Therefore I guess the intention is to unite their own party! Not malta!
Lawrence Gonzi – synonymous with:
1. EU
2. Euro
3. Jobs
4. Health
5. Education
6. Culture
7. MALTA
The PN’s main concern is to ensure that Malta continues in the right direction to ensure jobs, state of the art health and a good education to all. Not frivolous at all.
Let us all make sure we do not end up really and truly united after March 9, all together protesting education cuts, increased taxes, high water and electricity bills, pension cuts and more. Well, after all, this is what is happening around the world.
And we can only thank our prime minister for not uniting us with these other countries in their protests by looking ahead and taking the right decisions for Malta. Malta taghna lkoll, sure – but only under the good leadership of Lawrence Gonzi.
Your utter arrogance is your downfall. You foul mouthed village gossipers, lower your nose from your shitlful faces and smell the victory,
H.P.Baxter, I agree with you all the way, but what guarantee do you have that if, and I repeat if, the PL wins the elections will live all through the five years.
It’s amusing as it is scary to see how both sides are still as blind as the next in this day and age. I have voted PN in the last two elections and have done so, not out of an inherited belief or instilled party fanaticism, but out of personal opinion and a personal understanding of what I believe to be beneficial to the future of both my country and family.
These discussions tend to always go the same path and are hardly ever done in a civil way. Both sides just come out and shoot angry personal attacks which sound as dated as the politics that they refer to from a bygone era.
Change is good. PN has been in power for too long and the results are very mixed and not all as glorious as one would like to portray. The country has progressed and PN spearheaded some of the major changes that were required at the time – but, I do not believe we need PN to be in power for another five years.
A shake up is needed and as scared as you might be about this – it’s time for it to happen.
And if you truly believe that you can vote for yourself and the future you so fondly talk about – forget about scaremongering about extraction from Europe or painting the opposition as venom from the 80s – the problem is right on your doorstep within PN as it stands – and a radical change is needed to change everything thats wrong within the party and the country as it stands.
[Daphne – The 1970s theory that shaking society up is good for it. All that gave us was the Red Brigades and the Bader Meinhof, sweetie. You can keep it. Most of us like our transitions and changes to be smooth – and yes, that includes the people voting Labour. They don’t want change. They want everything to stay exactly as it is while feeling li l-gvern huwa taghhom because there’s Joseph there instead of Lawrence. “The PN has been in power for too long” – really? That’s not a very democratic statement, is it? The PN is there because it was elected – for five years. It was elected before that and before that again. ELECTED. Who are you to decide otherwise?]
Mr Neil Kinnock was leader of the British Labour Party. He opposed Britian becoming a part of the European Community but later became an EU Commissioner and Vice-President. Today the UK Labour Party is more pro-EU than the Conservative Party.
The current UK labour leader is Ed Milliband. His predecessor was Gordon Brown and, before that, Labour was led by pro-EU Tony Blair.
Joseph Muscat campaigned against EU membership for 5 years because it suited him, he became an MEP because it was a step up and Labour leader because it was a step further. Convictions don’t matter to opportunists, but opportunism matters to the convinced.
Muscat: Malta’s EU membership is the burden of the millennium.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/128123772/Joseph-Muscat-says-that-Malta-s-EU-membership-is-the-burden-of-the-millennium-Kull-Hadd-19SEP1999