So teach us, Joseph, Kurt and Keith: what IS the message? What should we who voted PN learn from you?
Cockiness, arrogance, and insufferable talk don’t play as well from the seat of power as they do from the Opposition benches
The Labour Party and its leader have yet to understand that what played successfully in Opposition sounds cocky, arrogant and insufferable from the seat of power.
All talk of teaching lessons should cease at once, because the prime minister and his government are now in the unenviable position where they are taught lessons, not deliver them.
Their cockiness and insufferably smirky behaviour is now going down like a lead balloon.
In The Malta Independent today:
The Labour Party has claimed that PN leader Simon Busuttil believes that the majority of the 36,000 votes with which the PL won the election were “bought”.
On Sunday, Dr Busuttil said that the way the PL promised an amnesty to prisoners verged on corrupt practices.
In a statement, the PL said that the PN has not yet understood the people’s message. It seems that Dr Busuttil cannot accept that the people had rejected the PN’s programme.
Before the PN leader understands this message, there is no hope that the PN will change, the PL said.
Simon Busuttil did not say that he believes the majority of the “36,000 votes” (it’s actually 18,000 people, so let’s get some perspective on that) were bought. He said something very specific, about prisoners and amnesties.
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I listened to Dr. Busuttil. Twice.
He never said that the 36,000 votes (or whatever) were bought. He was a lot more restrained than I would have liked him to be actually.
I heard him on the radio on Sunday morning , and second exactly what you say.
What lessons can someone ‘li telgha mil-hama tal-partit’ teach? Has he run an organisation or a business on a European or international level? Is he a top notch academic? He’s just an ex Labour journalist with a PhD suffering from colossal finesse, vision and honesty deficiency.
A typical “strawman” fictitious argument. Put into Simon Busuttil’s mouth a statement that he never made, attack that false statement and hope that readers are gullible fools who won’t spot the legerdemain.
It is not Simon who does not understand the message, it is those who were conned into voting for Joseph that are trying to understand what was the message they voted for, because what Joseph is doing now has nothing to do with what he said in the campaign.
He declared himself incompetent when he surrounded himself with a posse of sagrificial pawns called ministers and parliamentary secretaries.
I hope Joseph Muscat asked the Pope for forgiveness for telling lies before and after the election.
I wish that Simon and the rest of the PN will stop licking their wounds, stop apologizing and start attacking the government for the way they are running the country.
I wish that Simon should make it clear to the government that the opposition won’t take part in any commission that involves any of those who made the last five years hell for Dr. Gonzi and his government, ie, Debono, pullicino Orlando, Mugliett, Musumeci and Dalli.
Most of us who voted for the PN in the last general election are frustrated not because we lost but because of the way our leaders are whining and saying that 36,000 voters can’t be wrong, while it seems that they were wrong since the country is already going downhill.
Please PN, if you don’t want to lose the real nationalists, be strong as we always were.
Numbers are immaterial. One vote obtained in a corrupt practice way or 36000 votes obtained in a corrupt practice way, the illegality was done.
http://www.romereports.com/palio/pope-meets-with-maltese-prime-minister-and-his-twin-daughters-english-10382.html#.UciCHDX8Jdg
Ghax fil-politika Maltija biex tirbah trid tkun taf tigdeb bhal ma’ ghamel ezatt Joseph Muscat.
Issa qed jghidu wkoll li Malta qatt daqs dawn l-ahhar mitt jum ma giet imfahra dwar l-investment fil-pajjiz.
Imma dawn bis-serjeta’?
Jahsbu li l-poplu kollu daqsekk huwa gifa!
La lingua batte dove l’dente duole.
I heard Joseph underlining that the Vatican visit was rather quick and fast tracked in at least three occasions . It was PLANNED for November or thereabouts, when we would be starting the MEP electoral campaign.
So he has to devise some other ‘occasion’ for November.
Words not of a party in government but in opposition. When are these people going to seriously start running the country?
Is Labour indirectly admitting that it bought 36,000 votes?
And Labour’s propagandists should also consider very thoroughly the people’s message as delivered in the last election.
The people’s message clearly said that MALTA TAGĦNA LKOLL and MAGĦNA TISTA’ MA TAQBILX IMMA TISTA’ TAĦDEM MAGĦNA.
It is very clear that the government has not read the people’s message so before the LP starts to dictate it has first to consider its own action now that it is in government.
I know the family of a double-murderer who is serving life in prison.
They boasted about voting Labour because they were promised an amnesty for that man.
As soon as the election result was out they were all over the island celebrating the Labour victory.
Obviously they were totally misled.
Malta is a small place. People know each other and talk to each other. It is a fact not an allegation that Labour promised an amnesty to prisoners during the election campaign.
But what on earth did our dear PM present the Pope with as gifts?
Did you hear the way Joseph greeted the Pope: “Come va!”
Dan bis-serjeta, jew?
http://www.romereports.com/palio/pope-meets-with-maltese-prime-minister-and-his-twin-daughters-english-10382.html#.UciCHDX8Jdg
Yes, what are they?
They remind me of the four canopic jars used by ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to preserve certain human organs.
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