Comments on: Isn’t this photograph just like something from the 19th century?

By: Liberal

Liberal — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 07:16:44 +0000

The pathetic show is more in bad taste when one considers the main thrust of the speech was about relocating (read send them away) refugees elsewhere.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with relocating refugees and asylum seekers (I suspect most would actually love that), but come on, giving a press conference about relocating refugees, at a refugee open centre of all places?

The message I would take from that would be “I’ll give you some charity, but I would get rid of you at the first opportunity”.

Then again, it is Manuel Mallia. So what else should we expect?

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000

Think those beautiful little kids are wondering, ‘Did you that fat on this shit?

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:54:40 +0000

I wrote this as a comment on another entry but it’s more appropriate here.

I suppose we should be thankful the minister didn’t present them with bunches of bananas. This is the party Norman Lowell voted for, after all.

By: Allo Allo

Allo Allo — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:38:23 +0000

Ghada se jkun qed iqassam il-meals on wheels. Il-platt shun ta’ Louis Galea mwassal lilkom minn Manuel Mallia. Labour delivers.

By: victor

victor — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:03:02 +0000

When will they start doing what they promised the switchers during the campagn? So far nothing is new and they have around 200 promises to accomplish before the electorate will have a second chance of thought.

By: Dickens

Dickens — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:55:43 +0000

How disgustingly condenscending of the ''big white man with the goodies for the starving unfortunates''.

By: ken il malti

ken il malti — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:51:32 +0000

It is always “gibs me dat” with these jigs.

They certainly are the white man’s burden.

By: Critical

Critical — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:58:11 +0000

And as he gratuitously donated the fruit to the poor African children, who were looking enviously at his paunch while thinking “this bourgee is evidently not on a diet of fruit”, he whispered: “next time round, you will be ‘pushed back’ to wherever you came from thanks to our push-back-we-don’t-care-if-you-die policy”.

By: Calculator

Calculator — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:28:22 +0000

Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit
And work another’s gain
Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly) to the light:
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Have done with childish days-
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers!

– Rudyard Kipling (1899)

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:49:27 +0000

The intention is good but the message is wrong; it would have been a better idea if children of different ethnicity were seen giving fruit, playing together, interacting, and showing that ultimately we are all the same; black or white, rich or poor. The message would have had been even better if the children giving the gifts were off-springs of people in government.