What hold does John Dalli have over Joseph Muscat, that Muscat is prepared to create this damaging crisis just to distract attention from the fact that he hasn’t kicked him overboard?
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July 9, 2013 at 8:17pm
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None…absolutely none. It simply is that we have an incompetent Prime Minister with stooges for ministers.
The Dalli affair will not be swept under the carpet.
It is not the Dalli affair that can’t let the government focus but the government has an innate inability to focus and deal with crises. The best (worst) is yet to come.
We lived through the Mintoff years and history has an uncanny way of repeating itself.
None? Don’t be too sure. Muscat’s fortunes are closely allied to Dalli’s. Keeping him on costs less than giving him the boot.
Exactly, after all no one kicks his paymaster unless he has an upper hand.
This for sure Joseph does not have at all. The lust for power and hunger for might blinds the type and make of our PM.
Who knows if the Ghost of Election Past and the Ghost of Election Future has anything to do with it? Now a motion picture staring Johnny Cash.
It’s time to get back to this topic.
http://carolinemuscat.com/2013/07/dear-prime-minister-how-do-you-sleep-at-night/
It doesn´t take too much to figure out what that is.
Given that Johnny Cash risked his wellbeing and travelled long haul in a couple of hours to provide pro bono advice to help and African charity, he must be terribly angry at his friend Muscat!
And here, just today, John Dalli was presented with a golden opportunity to directly go to the defence and assistance of some “people from Africa”.
Here was an excellent opportunity for Dalli to have given a sharp tug on the string that he has tied to prime minister Joseph Muscat’s balls. But the mean old money-grubbing fake did not, did he?
So much for Dalli’s sanctimonious claims about his commitment to charity and his pro bono work “for the benefit of the people in Africa”.
You know what, Muscat could be paving the way for Dalli’s philantropic work.
And if it happens to be some power plant, the EU better accept or else.
Someone should ask our enterprising philanthropist / living martyr.
I was cut off from the news sources these last couple of days so I didn’t know about the mess that was unfolding, but as soon as I started getting myself updated about what was going on, this was exactly the first thought that came into my mind.
Jdallibahamas must have heaved big sigh of relief.
Please send Dalli to Libya with the illegal immigrants. He can claim asylum from Brussels in Africa.
I am sick of seeing him here, playing the martyr.
He will promptly be arrested in Libya if he goes there
Do not underestimate Muscat’s capacity to manipulate every situation by the use of bluff and lies. He did not get where he is on the wings of any personal moral authority.
Its clear this was an attempt to win back lost popular support and at same time take the Dalli affair off the front page. Dalli owns Muscat and quite a few others.
(in) vested interest maybe.
I suspect that Joseph Muscat does not think this is a damaging crisis.
In fact he probably thinks that he’s pulled off a major coup. He promised he’d tackle immigration and he’s ridden the execrable wave of populist frenzy the subject brings about.
He probably realised that he’d never actually get away with pushing the immigrants back, but it doesn’t matter – he tried but the dastardly EU and NGOs stopped him. Brinkmanship on a scale that Mintoff would have been proud of.
The fact that Malta’s reputation has been dragged through the mud is not important. To my deep and eternal shame, this push back move seems to have struck a chord with many of my fellow countrymen.
[Daphne – And repelled as many others in his key segments.]
Do you believe that Daf?
[Daphne – I know so. Read what’s being said. He’s made it impossible for those who like to think they’re liberal to support him openly. He doesn’t have the support of any columnist in any newspaper on this issue, and that’s already the thin end of the wedge. Because that’s where his support began among switchers and those were his cheerleaders. Push-back is a single issue but it is one which shapes the party’s image. ]
If only it were true. Dare we hope?
I do not feel that this madness and cruelty has had any effect on the so called ‘liberal switchers’. They voted on a single issue and do not care about the rest.
You mentioned earlier that somebody like Kenneth Zammit Tabona would usually feel strongly about an issue like this. I could not disagree more – observing him how happy, jolly and comfortable he is with the MLP crowd and ministers at social events, I think he is aligned with their beliefs 100%, not only on the gay issue.
He endorsed and is still endorsing everything that Joseph Muscat does. His silence on this issue is a clear sign of consent.
Perhaps the old Kenneth that you knew was simply a fake because it was convenient at the time.
@La Redoute Financially almost definitely. But this unfolding crisis of inhuman treatment I would say is totally unrelated as unexpected and proves the incompetence of our government. The PL was never and will never be a champion of human rights and that’s basically it. The Mintoffian ideology is ingrained in the PL. Called by any other name (muviment or what the ‘hack’ they call themselves) a fart stinks just as much.
It is clear that Africa desperately needs those billions of dollars of charitable funds which John Dalli was, on a pro-bono and purely voluntary basis, putting together at the Bahamas, in order to develop sustainable farms and energy systems in aid of its poor communities.
Therefore, Joseph Muscat should let John Dalli focus on those projects and give him a waiver from his work at the Ministry of Health.
What are you on about? Dalli hasn’t said a word about helping African people in Malta.
I am convinced that it was either deliberately orchestrated to divert attention from the Dalli issue or, worse, as the beginning of the end of our EU membership.
I think it could be a bit of both. But then I also wonder if Muscat has enough foresight to really plan such a thing.
Attempting to get us out of the EU would be a grave mistake. Labour might have won with 36k votes, but they do not have a mandate for getting the country out of the EU.
They lost two elections and a referendum due to that issue and Muscat made it abundantly clear before the election that they had become a pro-EU party. We all know that’s bullshit, but I still cannot believe that politically he would be able to get away with something like that.