Free tinkers
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March 14, 2014 at 10:29pm
The prime minister has just said that those who voted for his party last year after long years of support for the Nationalist Party are ‘free tinkers’.
And he doesn’t mean as in tinker, tailor, soldier, spy.
I can think of many nouns and adjectives to describe the people who manifested such colossally poor judgement, but free-thinker is not among them.
Now he’s not aggressive anymore. Now, he’s mockingly rude in a schoolyard way, making fun of the Opposition leader in an asinine way to shouts of approval from his intellectually-challenged audience.
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Paid tinkers. They’re on the payroll now.
The prime minister actually accused the leader of the Opposition of planning to sabotage the floating gas-storage unit.
Well, if he thought that Simon Busutill can do something like that just goes to show how warped his mind is.
Brings to mind the saying in Maltese ‘L-ispiziar milli ghandu ittiek’ (forgive my Maltese). If it crossed his mind that someone else can do it, only means that he has thought about it and hence he is capable of doing it.
For example, three bendy buses caught fire in just one week, giving justification to government to force the bendy buses off the roads and increase operational costs for Arriva.
I find it very difficult to believe that there was no sabotage. I am not saying that anyone in the PL was behind them but surely there are people in the Labour Party who have an inkling that sabotage may have been involved. How else can one explain the withholding of the technical reports on the fires?
Now that would be interesting. Can you imagine Simon Busuttil in an Osama Bin Laden style E-boat attack on the FSU Gemini?
Why should we be surprised?
Lest, of course we forget the times when Bombs were the rule of the day.
mela nesa Joseph Muscat kemm ghamlu hsara lil Malta u lill-pajjizna meta l-lejber kienu fl-oppozizzjoni, ikissru l-Power station ta’ delimara ma sehibhom KMB, u meta riedu jxewwxiu lill-UE biex ma thallix lil gvern malti jibni l-waste serve. u ma nafx kemm ikitar hsara ghamlu lil pajjizna f 25 sena opposizzjoni negattiva … kollox LE LE LE u LE.
Joseph Muscat is behaving like anything except a prime minister.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/hungary-law-photography-permission-take-pictures
Daphne not sure if you’ve come across this article…
This is the same bunch that co-opted and hijacked a real free-thinker, Manwel Dimech. A genuine rarity among the Maltese people, then and now and covered him with the PL flag and a fake Mintoffian persona and ideals long after his death in 1921.
The dead cannot protest so their lie continues.
Tinkering is all PL is good at.
Tinkers require brains to do a good job. Do you credit the Labour Party with its leaders, past and present, with that much intelligence?
It’s an insult to tinkers (the Maltese expression uses “skrapan”) to equate them to the present lot in government.
I meant ‘tinkering’ as in ‘to do a job in an amateur way’ or ‘to play about with/trial and error’ which is how the word is commonly used nowadays.
I’ve never heard ‘tinker’ being used as ‘show repairer’ (skarpan) in which case ‘cobbler’ is the word employed by the English.
They’re tinkers alright, only they weren’t free. They were bought.
Joseph Muscat, quoted in Times of Malta, 10 March: “He said that once the government secured the funds for the project it would replace the gas storage tanker with a pipeline, not necessarily linking Malta to Europe but even to a country to the south of Malta.”
This is madness. The EU promised funds to Malta for the pipeline connecting Malta to Europe. The EU will not fund a pipeline to connect Malta to North Africa.
Is Joe Muscat trying to obtain funds from a non-EU country for the pipeline? If yes, what strings will be attached? Will it make Malta susceptible to blackmail by the country controlling the pipeline? Will it not be unsafe to rely for our energy on a country in North Africa, one which will require many more years to achieve full stability?
It will be safer for Malta to rely on a stable EU democracy with a competitive energy market (i.e. Italy) than a potentially unstable democracy in North Africa where gas supply will be susceptible to political forces.
Besides, because of longer distances, the cost of a pipeline to North Africa will be much more expensive.
With every week that passes, Joseph Muscat shows himself to be unable to take decisions in a logical manner. He fails to consider the implications of his decisions.
I’m glad we have so many free tinkers, because they all have minds like a sieve.
(Free) calculators comes to mind!
It’s a common denominator since Mintoff.
WE were in the Xarabank studio audience yesterday. I had never before heard such dreadful insults as those directed at Simon Busuttil.
The PL crowd were furious during the debate. Muscat was restless, moving to and fro on the podium. Very cheeky of him to mention the clock, since Mintoff received an enormous amount of expensive gifts, which were auctioned recently.
These people are so ignorant that while Dr Cassola was speaking, one of them said, ‘Mela dak favur il-kacca’. I rest my case.
Tinker – Tinkered – Tinkering.
Joseph Muscat’s playground.
Tinker – Tanker – Passport – Lie.
Joseph surfed in on a (s)tinker
From talking passports he shied
Now whether it’s meter, merit, Nair, police, adoption or tanker
Facts and furrow inform us he lied
Min jaf Anglu Farrugia kemm dahaq wara d-dibattitu. min jaf kemm qal, ‘Ara min keccieni ghax waqajt ghac-cajt ma Simon f’xarabank. Mela hu xi jmissu jaghmel qisu tifel tal-iskola?’.
Free from any level of intelligence.
Mr. Muscat has no idea, real free thinkers vote for AD