Comments on: “What is most worrying is that the kind of language used by the Prime Minister and the finance ministry throws Malta back to the times of the socialist government of Dom Mintoff” – today’s editorial, The Times of Malta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 31 May 2013 20:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lomax https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1061994 Fri, 31 May 2013 20:27:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1061994 The Times should have said these things before the election. Now it is a tad too late.

]]> By: winwood https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1061216 Fri, 31 May 2013 11:36:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1061216 In reply to La Redoute.

“Not nearly as badly as those who voted him into power.”

And that includes those so called “Nationalists” who spitefully boasted of having refrained from casting their vote. Hello, Ivan Camilleri and wife.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1061211 Fri, 31 May 2013 11:34:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1061211 The Times had nothing to say when Muscat rewrote history.

So Peregin got snapped at, well, it will get worse.

]]> By: Toni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1061208 Fri, 31 May 2013 11:32:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1061208 Having any doubt that we are going back to MLP times?

Just look at the people that are being resurrected and given jobs,

]]> By: voldemort https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1061084 Fri, 31 May 2013 10:27:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1061084 In reply to La Redoute.

Exactly, this is what was excpected from the Labour Party. Those who voted Labour erred badly, especially the switchers who tought that Labour has changed. Well actually they HAVE changed but to the worse.

]]> By: Manuel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1060799 Fri, 31 May 2013 07:21:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1060799 While I give credit to the well-written editorial of The Times I still feel compelled to tell the editorial board of that newspaper that it was them and their newspaper who helped Muscat get into power and while doing so during the campaign, they only saw a short term solution: change in administration and lost sight of the long term implications and consequences that a Labour government would create.

]]> By: xifajk https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1060790 Fri, 31 May 2013 07:17:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1060790 In reply to Snoopy.

Biex nghidu kollox, l-EDITORJALI tat-Times dejjem baqghu ragjonevoli.

Il-problema huma l-artikolisti li jispiccaw bi stejjer fl-ewwel pagna, li jirrappurtaw negattiv anke l-iktar storja pozittiva li kien ihabbar gvern Nazzjonalista. Fil-verita ftit nies jibqghu jaqraw sal-editorjal.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1060766 Fri, 31 May 2013 07:01:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1060766 In reply to Peter.

Exactly. To make things worse, all the signs were there for all to see, but did anybody listen? No, except for the select few who really have the short- and long-term needs of the country – not just themselves – at heart.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1060762 Fri, 31 May 2013 06:56:51 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1060762 In reply to La Redoute.

Too true. But rest assured, many of them will still have their consceince clear by the end of this legislature as they have been warped into being so, or otherwise have gained an iced bun (which is all they cared about in the first place).

]]> By: Peter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/05/what-is-most-worrying-is-that-the-kind-of-language-used-by-the-prime-minister-and-the-finance-ministry-throws-malta-back-to-the-times-of-the-socialist-government-of-dom-mintoff-todays-editoria/#comment-1060708 Fri, 31 May 2013 06:26:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=32606#comment-1060708 It’s a bit scary.

It’s almost as if Joseph Muscat & Co. have transported themselves straight from the 1980s to 2013, without at all having experienced the changes that Malta and the world have gone through since then.

So they’ve transplanted the arrogance, paranoia, inability to take criticism, micro-management instincts directly from the period of the 80s to today.

They seem to have been in suspended animation for the length of time Malta was struggling to assert itself as a modern decent democracy, now awakening to discover that they only know one outdated and scary model of governing.

The civil service must be in turmoil at the clock being turned back so forcefully.

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