Comments on: The tale of the backbench MP and the army helicopter: you just have to read this story in Times of Malta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: silvio farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1535188 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:07:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1535188 Can we not notice that all these ‘fiascos’, one after the other, are being made because of all the blue-eyed boys who were made ‘consultants’ and also because of all the good people they transferred out of ministries?

The incompetence of these so-called consultants earning thousands is coming to the fore.

]]> By: pm https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1534897 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:59:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1534897 We are in 2014 and to fly from one country to another or better still from one airport to another you do not even need a paper ticket. One can just make a reservation and have an e-ticket, ready at check in.

]]> By: Victor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1534280 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:13:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1534280 In reply to Victor.

I totally agree with you. I must have expressed myself incorrectly, or perhaps was trying to be kind.

What I meant to refer to are the ones who are not entirely fooled by anything and everything the Labour media dishes out to them and take it as gospel truth because they were brainwashed since birth.

]]> By: hmm https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533799 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:10:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533799 In reply to botom.

Why assume that they knew it. They are incompetents.

]]> By: Insolja https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533764 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:36:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533764 @La Redoute
“Lying is the only thing they do professionally.”

I think I have to disagree what this statement. Professional liars are the ones who don’t get found out.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533215 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:24:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533215 This is the banana republic mentality at work.

]]> By: Victor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533164 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:43:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533164 Oh, I see that the exact same ignorant comments ave found their way here from Facebook.

S. Attard, please read Daphne’s post in full and don’t just comment without reading.

You will then learn that according to the rules, the army helicopter can be used, outside its normal army-related services, only by the Prime Minister and the President.

Furthermore, please read the article in Times of Malta just to inform yourself that there was absolutely no reason for the helicopter to be used for Justyne Caruana to carry out her ‘government’ business.

I will not go further and mention all the lies being told. I have a feeling that I will be wasting my time.

]]> By: Victor https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533149 Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:29:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533149 In reply to Lomax.

Well, Labour’s elves believe every single blatant lie the party bosses dish out to them. Then they parrot those lies on Facebook, like good boys and girls.

We can only hope that people with brains who were taken in by the electoral hype would feel their intelligence insulted, like the rest of us.

[Daphne – People with brains were not taken in by the electoral hype. It is this which worries me: that it is a lot easier to admit that you were taken in, than to conclude on that basis that there is something deficient in your powers of analysis. People have HUGE inbuilt resistance to facing facts about their own personal shortcomings. They build up Teflon barriers to the absorption of any information which tells them something about themselves that they don’t like. They will keep telling themselves that they made the right decision in voting this lot into power, and will keep finding reasons why they were right.]

]]> By: Raymond https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533099 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:52:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533099 I hope she does not try to break Gonzi’s record of using this service.

]]> By: Josette https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/the-tale-of-the-backbench-mp-and-the-army-helicopter-you-just-have-to-read-this-excellent-story-in-times-of-malta/#comment-1533049 Fri, 24 Jan 2014 23:26:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43740#comment-1533049 All the blatant lies and truth-twisting make me think that Justyne Caruana did not really have to go back to Marseilles … or to come back to Malta from Marseilles and go back again.

Dr Gonzi was entitled to use the helicopter; he was the prime minister and its use outside normal army service is reserved for the prime minister and the president.

Joseph Muscat and George Abela, in their official roles, are entitled to use it. Justyne Caruana the backbencher is not.

That is about the sum of it.

Now that it is in power, Labour has taken off its mask and what is underneath is unremittingly ugly.

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