It’s kind of worrying when the government’s behaviour is so absurd and undemocratic that even KMB makes sense
The Times reports on the former Labour premier’s view of a Second Republic, and even though he is motivated primarily by concern for neutrality and non-alignment (which can be sent to rot in hell along with their author, as far as I am concerned), that view is completely correct.
Former prime minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici has questioned the Government’s drive to amend the Constitution and create “a second republic”.
He insisted the creation of second republic meant the Constitution would change radically and asked those pushing this idea to openly say what these changes would be.
“Anybody who is serious does not simply say the Constitution should change but will outline the principles that have to change or be introduced,” Dr Mifsud Bonnici said with clear reference to the Labour Party’s electoral pledge to set up a constitutional convention that would propose changes.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has often said he wanted to oversee the creation of a second republic.
“There is no reason to create a second republic if it means destroying the foundations of the first republic. The Constitution can be updated but it does not mean we need a second republic,” Dr Mifsud Bonnici said this morning.
He was speaking at a press conference of the Campaign for National Independence, a political pressure group he heads, to criticise Government and Opposition exponents, who were suggesting changes to the Constitution’s neutrality clause.
He said this discourse was “very objectionable”. “Why do they want to change the neutrality clause? To strengthen neutrality or water it down? I believe they want to water it down by changing it in substance.”
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Since KMB is making sense, it seems to me that we are therefore worse off now than in the 70s. Maa x’biza, kill me bis-serjeta ha nehles.
Nahseb is-salvatur l-istess kien jghid. X’ma jbuslux il-pett taz-zarbun.
Fucking hell. KMB actually makes sense.
As for neutrality, I’m afraid that Joseph Muscat is a gigantic duplicity machine. We’ve already started drawing back from our EU military commitment. Malta is not taking part in EUTM Mali (Ireland, Austria, Finland and Sweden all are. Luxemburg, with a smaller army than ours, is there as well.)
Seeing as we’ve already carried out this kind of mission in Somalia, with more or less the same quality of trainees and the same weapons, the reason we’ve stayed away this time can only be political. So much for human rights (Anglu’s speech), the fight against terrorism (Joseph’s heart-wrenching letter to Obama) and l-aqwa fl-Ewropa (Labour’s election spiel).
Din pjuttost interessanti imma.
Diga t-tieni darba li KMB tkellem negattivament fuq il-Gvern – (diskors tal-President tkun l-ewwel darba).
Apparti issues ta’ Ewropa, KMB dejjem kellu lealta’ totali. X’ gara tghid?
My thoughts exactly.
I was thinking this morning that things are not well at all when I find myself agreeing with KMB.
“It’s kind of worrying when the government’s behaviour is so absurd and undemocratic that even KMB makes sense”
When I was reading it earlier, I had the exact same reaction. And I’ve not stopped thinking about it. Until you wrote it, and that gave me a sense of reassurance that I’m still sane.
I don’t think the Emperor will be too bothered by what KMB has to say.
I suspect the Emperor will use KMB’s position as a way of distancing himself from old Labour.
EMPEROR? I thought he was the Sun God.
In KMB’s time we did have a second republic: Zejtun, cradle of the marmalja uncivilisation.
Josephmuscat.com doesn’t want a second republic; he wants an empire. Land reclamation is part of his expansionist designs.
You’ll see, he’ll abolish Ġieħ ir-Repubblika and replace it with the Imperial Order of the Undervest (if others have a garter, we can jolly well have an undervest)
And a borrowed under vest at that.
Does everybody say undervest? or is it simply a translation of flok ta’ taht?
I always thought that a vest was simply a vest. My father went to St Aloysius and also just said vest.
What’s with this undervest thing?
[Daphne – It’s British English. In American English, I believe a vest is a waistcoast or jumper, but the original British English ‘vest’ has been lost, while the name for the garment that goes beneath it (under-vest) has survived. Under-vest as with under-pants, the garment that goes beneath the pants, a word which has survived only in American English, and which has since been replaced in British English by ‘trousers’.]
Also.. did Joseph Muscat go to St Aloysius for all of his school years or was he an 11+ entrant equivalent? (or minus the 2 prep years?) If so, then that explains his ‘not fitting in’ thing. Late entrants only did fit in if they passed a character-test.
In October 1983, other church schools were under visible pressure to assist this fitting in if it didn’t happen naturally…
This is a “comedy of the absurd” coming from a Labour movement notorious dictum by the paragon among its leaders, – the late lamented (by some) Mintoff – who boasted: “Nigi nitnejjek mill-Kostituzzjoni”
no job for KMB then
The child wanted a toy and he picked the Constitution.
Shit! That came with the warning “Keep out of the reach of children”
The title pretty much sums everything up.
They voted for change and they got it.
Mepa chairmanship not a part-time job – NGO – The Malta Independent
http://www.independent.com.mt › News
Away with this Cold War era mentality of neutrality! KMB, together with his Hobbit Privitera, and CNi are completley frozen in time.
One will hope that Joseph Muscat’s Labour is not using KMB as well in their strategy to divide the PN opposition.
I apologise for resorting to this sort of thinking, but we now know Muscat far better than before.
Labour might be attempting to divide and ridicule the PN by having KMB express views which align with the positions being taken by the PN. This could be an attempt to harm the PN further from within, knowing well how many PN voters would never associate themselves with whatever KMB says.
Knowing KMB’s position about the EU, are they attempting to divide the PN on the EU as well, maybe?
Muscat will be concentrating on how to obtain the blessed 2/3rds in the House. We should expect some offers to PN Parliamentary backbenchers in due course – with the false excuse that he wants to involve the PN in the governance of the country. I hope that the new PN leadership will see through this. I am sure Simon Busuttil has already smelt the rat.