Comments on: You just have to laugh (cynically) – not only because people fell for it, but because he got away with this brass-necked lie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: canon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304658 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:08:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304658 That was British humour.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304539 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:19:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304539 The People voted Joseph Muscat into power. That’s a measure of what sort of boards we’d get if The People chose those too.

]]> By: Francis Saliba MD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304525 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 20:00:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304525 In PL Movement parlance, “as soon as possible” means certainly not during the first six months of governing by which time there would be few vacant plum jobs on government boards to be filled and voted for “in a system similar to the election of the boards of listed companies”.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304481 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:53:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304481 Ah, the days when he was stuck to a podium. All he had to do was read a teleprompter.

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304444 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:54:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304444 Well to be fair he did say that ‘voting parameters have yet to be set’.

Looks like that’s been taken care of now.

]]> By: Niki B https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304442 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:51:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304442 Right, so we will end up having to choose from a bunch of budding/failed politicians, opportunists and popularity seekers on the Boards. Well, that’s what we have now anyway, so what’s changing?

]]> By: admin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/you-just-have-to-laugh-cynically-not-only-because-people-fell-for-it-but-because-he-got-away-with-this-brass-necked-lie/#comment-1304428 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:30:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=38411#comment-1304428 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-01-26/news/people-to-vote-for-members-on-government-boards-756449301/

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