The Sunday Times editorial today: ‘Embarrassing for Malta’
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January 19, 2014 at 9:07pm
Readers often skip past a newspaper’s leading article, especially when reading that newspaper on the internet. But the leading article represents the opinion of the newspaper itself, and is actually the most important piece..
You have to read this one.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140119/editorial/Embarrassing-for-Malta.503156#.Utwvr7A1gdU
Finally .. it took a while for them to dedicate an editorial to this fiasco.
About bloody time.
Of major concern is the stand taken by Dr Joseph Muscat who after such a vote declares that he will go on with the scheme. This man is very dangerous!
Stubborn refusal by Joseph Muscat to act in conformity and in compliance with the rules and regulations of the European Union and of the international law, to the detriment of the whole Maltese nation is unforgivable behaviour in a responsible Prime Minister.
An irresponsible boy can never make a responsible prime minister.
Kollox sew imma dunque x’se jsir? Se johorguna mix-Schengen? Se jaghtu multa lil Malta? Se tghaddi xi ligi il-kummissjoni ewropea?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140119/local/Aggressors-boasted-about-student-attack-on-Facebook.503136#.Utw_dOw1hrk
Good work, Carol Peralta.
The Sunday Times must be about the last newspaper in the civilized world to censor the Malta government on its obscene and horrendous prostitution of the motherland scheme.
The Sunday Times just bleats something or other on the eve of Malta’s Armageddon.
Shame on you.
Dr. Muscat revels in poking a finger in the EU’s eye; metaphorically, of course.
I have hope that he will abandon it after letting in the first few to whom he owes it.
I don’t think there’s any hope though that the first few will be prevented. The number of them is most likely the number Edward Scicluna had let slip in his inffamous speech in Brussels, that would amount to a few million Euro.
Exactly what I think will happen!
Just chill out guys and enjoy the money !
……said the pimp to his cohorts.
Those “five seconds of revenge” in the booth are paying off quite well. We’re all being dragged into Joseph Muscat’s Faustian Pact.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clouded-smog-way-sunrise-watch-giant-commercial-screens-Tiananmen-Square.html
Yes, let us integrate with this lovely non-EU country.
But Joseph Muscat told us that China is the second largest economy in the world, and that’s more important than the smog.
What would you prefer – a job in smog or no job and clean air? Choose.
They are surely the right people to help us remove the Smellimara cancer factory.
It is a pity that this good article is counteracted by that pap about the Formula 1 driver, pop singer and royal family member.
The Times seems to be suffering from an identity crisis. It seems to criticise and defend certain policies at the same time.
A newspaper should have a vision, a motto and a set of values which it stands for and defends. Trying to please everyone is neither here nor there.
Good investigations and airtight, logical arguments are what’s necessary. All the fence-sitting is frustrating for readers.
On the whole, Times of Malta content is infuriatingly deferential and showers obeisance on Joseph Muscat and his government.
Then it publishes an editorial such as this one which expresses the feeling and anger of the majority of voters including those who last March were conned into “switching” (I hate this word and all it represents in the local context).
About time this newspaper shows more backbone; after all its “bête noire” also known as Arriva is gone.
An editorial expresses – or should express – the feeling of the medium in which it is published. That is why it is called a leader – because it leads, not follows, public opinion.
This particular leader takes the position that Muscat is embarrassing Malta by pressing ahead despite the EP resolution. Muscat embarrassed Malta the moment he bought into this scheme. The rest is detail.
The Times has never taken a position on the sale of citizenship, as it should have at the outset. If you read the leader again, you’ll see that it still doesn’t.
Totally unrelated to the above but I wanted to share this.
A hospital in Toronto is putting Malta’s, and many other countries’, immigration integration to shame with this wonderful advertisement.
http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/31.jpg%3Fw%3D389%26h%3D454
It is tragic to see the likes of Bruno Gollnish on PL’s side. He is a notorious Holocaust-denier despite being a brilliant academic.
As to other Muscat friends, the racist, populist UKIP:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-25793358
The editorial says nothing about the sale of citizenship being wrong, as a matter of principle.
With hindsight, they’ve realised that the yes vote won. That’s all.
Precisely. They’ve just put paid to the point of no return.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140120/local/editor-claims-former-pms-head-of-secretariat-wanted-him-to-publish-political-rivals-medical-info
More lies by The Times of Malta. Because printing “medical records” instead of “medical reports showing that the person in question was mentally ill and putting his actions and statements in context” is not just an error of grammar, but an outright lie.
Are they doing this on purpose or are they just incredibly illiterate?
Joseph Muscat ditched statesmanship for brinkmanship, and the stakes are extremely high as he is gambling with our future. Someone just has to stop this lunacy. Where are the sensible voices in the Labour Party ?