Comments on: Joseph Muscat: “Other countries have the same scheme. But Malta’s scheme is better. And other countries do not have their own Opposition hindering them.”

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:34:29 +0000

In reply to Jozef. Thank you, Jozef. More.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:53:43 +0000

In reply to Jozef.

I zapped to ONE yesterday, the newscaster kept going on and on with the piece, all pre-electoral.

I mean, why does one have to be reminded that il-kontijiet se jorhsu u nehlisu mit-tniggiz tal-heavy fuel oil, if the piece was about the technical reports submitted to MEPA?

What he didn’t say was that it’s practically impossible to have that thing ready by March 2015, and that Labour extended the supply of fuel oil for the next two years, an admission that conversion can’t take place before then.

For when it is needed, Tabatha.

By: Wayne Hewitt

Wayne Hewitt — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:38:00 +0000

It is the government which is hindering Malta, not the Opposition.

The Opposition is trying to stop more harm being done. That’s not hindering.

Ukraine’s Yanukovich said that the Opposition there is hindering his country’s progress in the EU.

They’re saying the same.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:24:59 +0000

In reply to Jozef.

I think it’s important at this point to be logging info and details of that history rewritten and the current state of affairs.

From detailed factual report of what is known intimately to hearsay, that is the task one should be preparing in different circles. An activity with purpose.

For when it is needed.

We all need to play our part in lifting this scourge.

Details have a way of filling in gaps.
Facts, stray detail, rumour.
They have a way of demystifying illusion.
Mapping of details is cloak, shield, dagger and sword.

“Be prepared”?

For when it is needed.

By: Dez

Dez — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:47:13 +0000

” But the Opposition’s methods had backfired on it, and the majority of the people now agreed with the scheme and the unprecedented economic wealth it would yield.”

Joseph Muscat is King of Liars. What a deceitful Prime minister. He truly deserves to end up like Gheddafi.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:37:45 +0000

In reply to Evarist Saliba. Perhaps they've long done so, and key appointments have taken this into account - directly or indirectly.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:34:49 +0000

In reply to Connor Attard.

“a sizeable portion of the electorate couldn’t see through this conman’s disguise”

That sizeable portion contains many who, when faced with rational analysis, have said “tohloqnix problemi.”

In other words, “don’t make my brain work overtime in trying to understand why the rational analysis is different to what I’ve been told.”

The conman presents Arcadia on a plate.

L-aqwa li Joseph Muscat said it. So many have their brains switched off.

To expect them to keep up with the gymnastics of the mind required to both analyze and keep up with lie upon lie, to refer back and compare, to project forward, to read beyond the Orizzont headlines or to listen to anything other than feel-good party propaganda is just too much.

By: Gaetano Pace

Gaetano Pace — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:27:32 +0000

No country has an Opposition telling them “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” neither has any country an opposition telling them to follow in the footsteps of Cyprus. There is not one single country having its Opposition advising Iceland not to join the EU nor adopt the Euro for its currency.

Nor could any country have an Opposition telling it to be another Switzerland in the Mediterranean for there is only one sea bearing that name. No country has turned its prime minister into a salesman of passports, either.

By: Evarist Saliba

Evarist Saliba — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:06:32 +0000

The Labour-leaning columnist Lino Spiteri wrote the other day about the ‘individual investor programme’, and claimed that other countries have citizenship schemes, but was careful enough not to describe these schemes as “similar” or “identical” to Muscat’s. Perhaps Spiteri and Muscat should compare notes.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:14:12 +0000

In reply to vanni. They can lie, safe in the knowledge that no country's embassy is going to rat on them. They don't say what sort of consultation they mean, do they?