Democracy in action – “jostakkolaw lill-Gvern” , so according to you we have no right to show our dissent?

Mela min, skont int, għandhu d-dritt jikkritika l-Gvern? Mhux dik id-demokrazzija, sistema fejn il-Gvern ma jistax jagħmel li jrid bin-nies meta jabeż ċerti limiti?

I’ve always thought that the vainglorious was more Andrew’s cause.

I am glad to see certain other names on that list, and late though it is, it would be good to see a more complete one.

Why Maltese University staff are so uncontactable, even to students, boils down to inefficiency of general attitude really.

Canada. Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper, 1896, 68 days.

Not yet, Victor. No one fears (let alone respects) little Joey, Including his ‘followers’.

Such a good point, Daphne.

However, with these people, short sighted that they are, if I may use an old naval term, it’s never helpful to piss into the wind.

Done some more research about this.

So Muscat told a Swedish journalist that the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs did not understand his British humour. But it seems that nobody is understanding whatever Muscat says any more.

In other replies to the media – Muscat, who did not have a teleprompter – tried to deny that his government was working on pushbacks.

Which must mean that the Editor of The Times misunderstood Muscat’s intentions in the leader of 10 July 2013, entitled “Illegal, dangerous and disgraceful,” where the Editor said:

“Governments have a duty to consider each claim to asylum on its merits, not automatically push them back. This is a legal as well as moral obligation. The Maltese government was not willing to do this yesterday.

It is clear that Dr Muscat is adopting such reprehensible tactics because a vocal majority is behind him. They, and the rest of us, will live to regret it.”

Even Saviour Balzan misunderstood Joseph Muscat’s intentions in his blog dated 9 July 2013, where he says among other things:

“This is a shameful act and perhaps a new page to Muscat’s style of politics. It continues to shed light on the Labour party’s position on migration, and the decision by the Prime Minister to jump on the national bandwagon of xenophobia.”

Both editors should perhaps issue an apology to Muscat about their misunderstandings. But I do not think so.

Thank goodness that the ECHR misunderstood him too. Its order to stop any pushbacks stopped the government’s plan to send around 50 ‘healthy men’ back to Libya where the respect for the human rights of immigrants is, how shall I put it, at the same level as that of Joseph Muscat and his government.

And even hundreds of comments on the Times of Malta blogs confirm that Muscat was widely misunderstood by the xenophobes. They were pouring praise on Muscat for protecting the “national interest” with his stand to send immigrants back.

I do not blame the journalists if they do not understand Muscat any more. I think even his supporters, including both the switchers on one side and the xenophobes on the other, do not understand his political direction any more. It’s one direction one day, and the opposite direction the next.

Edward Mallia was fired from the University of Malta at least three years ago. Get your facts right. Besides which, it smacks of witch-hunting to shove the declaration before everyone who has ever worked at the University of Malta, including scientists, who are expected to avoid politics like the plague.

As for Andrew Azzopardi, would you expect honour from that despicable character?

Or maybe they are afraid to stick their neck out. Can’t really judge them since everyone who has lived under Labour knows how they like to hold a grudge.

I have been very vocal about this issue on facebook but my mother, who has received several political transfers already (I’m not joking), is worried that I won’t get the job I applied for with the government. And she’s probably right.