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You ended up ruining an otherwise excellent piece
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But definitely not an excellent political career.

Oh, so Simon Busuttil was being negative, what does Lino Spiteri think this week’s vote was then, non-positive?

Yes indeed. Europe should be taking care of extremists. Agreed.

But considering they are siding with our Joseph would not Europe be taking care of Joseph whose company they keep and in whom they found an idol to carry their oracle.

I would rather say Joseph knows them all. I have reason to believe that he had the pleasure of their company where he imbibed of their extremist outlook of things which he is now regargitating once he is in power.

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Resignations-looming-on-National-Book-Council-20140118

He implied that in comparison the sale of passports pales into insignificance.

Spiteri at least has the decency to continue to appeal for a residency requirement to be tied to the sale of passports. He is however completely off the mark to accuse Simon Busuttil of negativity.

On the very contrary, the leader of the Opposition has put forward a number of proposals in Parliament, and no doubt also in his private meetings since, which would have saved the day for Malta. That is called being positive.

The Prime Minister, however, in his supreme wisdom, or obstinacy, ploughed ahead. That is called being negative.

Please maintain objectivity throughout, Mr. Spiteri, and do not let partisan politics finally get the better of you in your retirement. You ended up ruining an otherwise excellent piece.

For years their battle cry was (and still is) “Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox”, and yet they show so little faith in this country being able to govern itself.

In the 1950s the leader and flock campaigned for integration with Britain. In the 1960s when the PN campaigned for Independence, Mintoff and his followers voted against in the referendum and then flatly refused to accept the fact of Independence.

In the 1970s, it was virtually integration with “our blood brothers” (Mintoff’s words) of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, with its political murders, its violence, fear and oppression and its gross violations of human rights.

In the 1980s the great thing was NEUTRALITY and alliance with the Non-Aligned Movement which included among others Cuba, the USSR, the European Communist bloc, Egypt, and strong ties with AAPSO, North Korea and Red China.

Alfred Sant in the 1990s spoke of Malta as “makku” to be easily swallowed by European sharks. And of course there was that huge effort to keep Malta out of Europe, the freezing of Malta’s application and the refusal to accept that the majority in the referendum were in favour of our joining the EU.

Now, 10 months after Joseph Muscat promised to make Malta “the best in Europe” – whatever that means – we have come full circle and that word from the 1950s – INTEGRATION – is again arising from the dead, this time with China and other non-EU Member countries.

The big question is, how can any of that be reconciled with “Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox”?

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-01-19/news/sacked-for-criminal-association-cleared-on-a-technicality-now-a-vat-director-3722117121/

Carry on switchers.