The only child in an oppressive family who buried himself in a locked-in political party
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March 1, 2013 at 2:18am
It’s become quite clear that Muscat is such a pruzuntuz because he really doesn’t know anything about real life.
His formation wasn’t university and the realities of the real world.
The force that shaped him is the Labour Party with its weird mix of strange personalities and political ideas that veer between the hopelessly inept and the madly dangerous.
He famously was attached to Alfred Sant from whom he learned the arts of obfuscation, manufacturing reality and the Macchiavellian attitude that anything goes as long as you win the prize post.
But it’s not intelligence or vision that put Muscat in the top post. It’s the low cunning of the class sneak and the simulated emotion of the sociopath.
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I am watching ‘Criminal Minds’. You have just ruined my next episode. Now I know who the sociopath is. What a spoiler.
I have to agree with this point of view on Muscat. No university formation and he has never as far as I know had any proper business experience except for his spell as a Super One journalist and some investment advice at Crystal Finance, run by his former boss at Super One, Alfred Mifsud.
He has never even been in charge of running a small business or anything else, really. I have serious reservations whether he can really govern the country. What you get from him are promises and more promises.
To be fair to Alfred Sant he did manage Metalfond (even though it went bust) and had some sort of involvement in the running of Mosta Spinning but Joseph Muscat has had absolutely no exposure to any sort of business.
The Labour Party have this habit of choosing the wrong leader. First they blundered in opting for Alfred Sant instead of Lino Spiteri and now they have made another mistake by electing Joseph Muscat over George Abela.
Certainly in Muscat’s case the GWU had a big say which is unfortunate and unwelcome. The same Union interference in the UK helped Ed Miliband or Red ED narrowly edge his older and more moderate brother David by the tiniest of margins.
I am totally undecided which way to vote. I feel that we are due for a change but deep down I fear that voting for Muscat is a big, big gamble and a leap in the dark. Between Lawrence Gonzi and Joseph Muscat I would choose Gonzi any day.
I also find Muscat ‘pruzuntuz’ and he lacks Gonzi’s charisma. Still nine more days to make up my mind.
With regard to your comments on Hollande I would point out that in the first two years all leaders tend to have low ratings especially when they adopt austerity measures.
See what happened to Monti in Italy and the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition in the UK. I am sure that come the election in the UK Ed Miliband will never do as well as he is doing in the by-elections and the Conservatives will again win the elections unless the UKIP do a Beppe Grillo.
If you agree with this point of view, your mind’s made up. It’s your emotions that need sorting out.
Bestie, I totally agree with your comments except for two small points. I would not hesitate to vote PN again and not be undecided.
You gave the answer in your comments when you declared that you will choose Gonzi over Joseph any day. So why still undecided, for the sake of change? No way, I will never change a winning team.
As regards to Hollande and France, I don’t know how often you travel to Paris but I can guarantee you that France has changed drastically. French people who despised Sarcozy are nowadays crying out loud for his return.
Let’s just hope we will not have the same repercussions over here.
If you, or one of your loved ones, were sick, who would you seek? A man who says he’s a medic though he’s never worked as one, or a doctor who has had years of experience and proven, excellent results?
Joseph Muscat has been wrong on such a number of very important things. Do you think that he will suddenly start to get it right, just because he is sitting at Castille?
The PN have a huge number of very capable candidates. Choose carefully amongst them so that the party can continue to renew itself under the guidance of a Captain who has steered his ship safely to port.
He lives behind lies and more lies.
His incompetence will be his downfall.
His smile hides big problems .
The future beckons and will prove me right.
This is not a Nostradamus quatraine,
Didn’t Joseph go to university? Then how come he has a Phd?
[Daphne – That doesn’t mean he didn’t go to university. It means he wasn’t shaped by university.]
Good question. How come he has a PhD? Here you are. Take a look at this and ask yourself whether even someone like Muscat is capable of such bombast:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/127035781/Joseph-Muscat-PhD-Thesis
As my colleague David Abulafia has pointed out, PhDs by correspondence are worth jack shit. Except in Malta of course, where they even entitle you to a cushy permanent post at the University of Malta.
Has this been established?
Has it been established that Mario Vella was the one who wrote the thesis for Joseph?
Sorry, Daph you got it wrong here. It’s Me Shall who is the super pruzuntuza. It’s she who does all the pushing. If it weren’t for her, Joseph may well still be working at Super One.
Her life ambition has been to be the “first Lady” (actually second), a la Hilary Clinton, involved in the workings of government. And why not – Joseph may well introduce the amendment of a maximum of two terms as PM in the second republic constitution, and hey presto she may be Malta’s Peron .
Joseph got his directions from Mintoff, by his own admission. Yes she’s pushy. But he’s been an avid student of new-truthing.
You forgot the ‘chip on the shoulder’ bit.
And the nanna who dragged him off to Labour meetings.
Prosit Daphne…you couldn’t have spelled it out better.
Look what happened to Italy. Beppe Grillo is an excellent comedian. But running a country isn’t a comedy. It can turn into a tragedy. Let us learn from other people’s/nation’s mistakes.
Voting for Labour would indeed be a tragedy.
Did he also lock himself in?