It’s gone to their heads, hasn’t it. Now this Super One TV producer claims that Labour is going to be in power for the next 50 years by selling passports.
This is Etienne Schembri, a ‘producer/presenter’ at the Labour Party’s television station, Super One. He declares that the Nationalist Party is finished and Labour is going to be in power for the next 49 years (50 less the one that’s gone already), thanks to the sale of passports which the Nationalist Party is going to rue not doing itself when it had the chance.
They just don’t get it, do they. Some things would never occur to some people, and it’s not because they’re stupid, but because they’re normal.
Somebody I know was in Davos for the forum these last few days. “Your PM sucks,” he was told. Isn’t that great? From the admiration garnered by Fenech Adami and Gonzi (who was despised only by the chatterers at home), to this.
Mintoff sucked, Sant sucked, and now Muscat sucks. And they all thought and this one still thinks that ‘foreigners’ think they sucked and suck still because they “don’t go down on their knees” and not because there’s something seriously wrong with them, their attitude, their behaviour and their sheer inability to get along nicely with anyone other than bloody dictators (that’s a literal description, not a swear-word, incidentally), human rights violators, communists, fascists and oppressors of all stripes.
Etienne Schembri is on the left in this photograph. Who’s that with him? None other than Iosif Galea, the Lotteries & Gaming Authority official who had an affair with Gayle Kimberley, embroiled her in that mess with Silvio Zammit, and is the third man in the John Dalli ‘snus’ scandal.
There are so many dots to join up in this sleaze that you’re left with a spider’s web.
Click, click, clickety-click, Franco Debono: evil click, clickety-click.
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It really has gone to their head. How can we tell how many passports have been sold?
One Chinese man was caught but probably the others went unheard of. Are we going to continue selling passports or are we going to quit on the quiet?
I believe the latter will be better.
I recognise this as a genuine Facebook post by a Labour One producer because of the abysmal grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation. Such ignorance is difficult to fake.
Evarist Bartolo says he is worried about the lack of literacy skills in Malta. He should start by looking at the staff of the PL itself and One station. And the “communications executives” of most ministries.
Rest easy. Maltastar’s engaged the services of John Consiglio as a columnist. Apoarently, they think it raises their tone, rather than lowering his.
John Consiglio sucks too, though I knew that the moment he switched to Labour’s igloo last year.
Kieku jkollok taqra l-ahhar sentenza bil-‘punctuation’ (jew in-nuqqas taghha) ezatt kif inhi, taqta’ nifsek.
The party is an state of total inebriation.
50 years in power? That’s more than bloody Mao Zedong! Viva d-demokrazija.
We all know of a little, but really and savagely bloody, twerp who promised his people a reign by his superior race lasting, not a puny 50, but a 1000 years.
His name was Adolf. He is now cursed by those above, by those here and by those below.
Zomm il-kolp, Etienne, siehbi – tanto per, tafx.
And I still vividly remember that during the poison dwarf’s (Mintoff’s) reign, they use to say that they were going to remain in power for the whole century, but alas.
They are banking on increasing the number of Labour voters by creating new Labour citizens and getting them to pay for the privilege.
I am confused. Can someone enlighten me about this billion euros revenue that is so much quoted.
If for heaven’s sake, one sale of citizenship costs circa Euro one million,than you need to sell one million citizenship schemes in order to reach the billion sales target.
[Daphne – A billion is a thousand million nowadays.]
The capping itself requires focus.
Joseph Muscat and his party’s assurances are set in quicksand.
Provocation is the prelude to tailoring and then to result, which is not the same as negotiation, reining in and alignment.
So we are back to Wistin Abela’s mantra “Generazzjoni Socjalista”. They didn’t do it then and will not be doing it now. They are so progressive that they are still stuck to the mentality of the 80s.
In the middle eighties, an MLP minister had declared, ‘Dis-seklu taghna kollu’. Two years later they were kicked out of office and stayed there for 26 years, except for the 22 months of Alfred Sant.
On a slightly different argument: Why is Labour trying to convince its herd that if the PN is elected to government, the country will have to reimburse any money to passport holders whose passport will be revoked?
The sum of Eur 650,000 which billionaires will pay for a Maltese passport is a one time contribution – a donation – to the government. Isn’t it shameful for someone to give a donation and then ask it back? Why should a billionaire make a money gift to Joseph Muscat and his government to use on housing estates and then demand it back?
There is consensus that this is a one time purchase price in international media and international institutions like the EU.
Besides, a passport is not a private property and therefore is not subject to international law on compensation. Item 7 in the Notes page on my Maltese passport says that the passport is a property of the government of Malta and it can be withdrawn by the government at will:
“Dan il-passaport huwa propjeta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta u jista’ jirtirah meta jrid.”
It cannot be more clear than that.
But even if, in the worst of cases, the acquisition of citizenship and passport were to be considered an investment as implied in the name of the Scam, it is well known that investments do come with a risk. Some investments pay, others go wrong. Those billionaires should know this from their life experience, assuming of course that they made their millions from legitimate investments and business.
So there will be no compensation for passports revoked, “full-stop, fresh line.”
The PL is in a state of denial of premature fatigue.
It’s not fatigue. It’s unfitness for the job.
Austin Gatt was crucified when he suggested the country needs the PN for another twenty years.
After 10 months of Labour government we can say that Austin Gatt was right.
And he was bloody damn well right.
Imma dak għax arroganti, ta. Dan il-gvern mhux arroganti imma qalbieni, u tal-azzar.
Austin Gatt could have used a little bit more finesse in his arguments. As Daphne pointed out at the time, he should have used “should be in power for the next 20 years” instead of “will be in power for…” But nevertheless, his was a logical argument while Schembri is just ranting on.
So, if after 25 years the PN was accused of becoming corrupt, what would Labour look like after 50 years of being in power, after the latter’s abuse has gone so, so very far beyond the former’s in a single year?
or after 10 months…..
If they govern for 50 years, corruption will be the norm and no one would know the difference.
Significant progress has already been achieved in that regard after a mere ten months. Just imagine in 50 years.
“suck […] because they “don’t go down on their knees”
Isn’t this a contradiction in terms?
How is balding, portly, middle-aged Gowzef going to sell himself as a leader zghazugh for the next 50 years?
Not to be a dampener but sale of citizenship = sale of right to vote. With the narrow margins for elections in Malta, 20,000 new voters for PL will see them easily in power for a veeeeery long time.
[Daphne – Not correct. The right to vote is dependent on being resident in Malta as well as on being a Maltese citizen.]
Phew!
KMB sucked too.
Oh, you bet he did! It is so difficult to determine which MLP leader sucked most.
Spoken like a twat, but he’s absolutely right. I don’t think Labour can be beaten in any election. At least not in our lifetime.
At least the Maltese have been spared the promise of a thousand year Reich.
Missier ahfrilhom ghax ma jafux x’inhuma jaghmlu.
If they sell many passports……
Don’t you remember Mintoff in the Seventies, during his peaceful gatherings with his faithful followers, telling them “dan is-seklu ghalina”?
Muscat and his foreign cohorts may have had a well thought out, insidious plan. However, the implementation has been, comme toujours, abysmal.
Etienne Schembri is referring to the fact that if these new ‘Maltese citizens’ are expected to give their vote in our general elections, (who knows whether capping the scheme at 1800 applicants would be further extended). Then he might have a point. God help us.
Please don’t take these words lightly, as they are going to do all they can to retain power, even manipulate the next elections.
Labour is not concerned with governing properly, but with staying in power. So whatever this government does will be with that aim in mind.
I agree with Hmm here. They are dangerous people and will be ready to do everything to remain in power. Four years to go. We’re only in the beginning of this filthy empire.