Muscat: friend of dictators and now busy turning Malta into a banana republic (again)
The prime minister’s behaviour was generally disturbing during his debate with the Opposition leader on Xarabank last Friday, but two of his comments stand out in this regard.
“Watch what you say,” he told Arnold Cassola, the AD leader, threateningly. Neither his words nor his tone were appropriate for the prime minister of a democratic state. The prime minister is not just another person. When he says something like that, both meaning and context are different to what they would be if you or I were to say the same thing.
But much worse was the way he reacted when the Opposition leader spoke of the risk of sabotage to the gas infrastructure. The prime minister replied that if there is sabotage, he hopes the Nationalist Party won’t be involved.
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And to all those who were ‘fed up of the Nationalists’, cheer up, you knew this was a plausible scenario.
Franco Debono insisted Tal-Barrani was the Nationalists’ cunning plan. And it’s the PN’s fault if the power station’s in Marsaxlokk, right?
If Muscat can order the police commissioner which investigation to carry out, contradicting himself repeatedly last Friday, (those who won’t come forward will be prosecuted, obviously the inverse is also true), who’s to say an investigation won’t follow an approved route?
That’s just a year into government.
Another one proud to vote PL
He is currently under investigation for murder
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=106307076236631&set=a.106307166236622.1073741828.100005720165576&type=1&theater
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140317/local/man-tells-police-he-burnt-missing-mans-body.511003
Oh, I see that his few Facebook friends include Jeremy Portelli, the “hunter” who heckled Dr. Simon Busuttil in Paola during an electoral campaign event.
On his Facebook, Portelli has uploaded the petition for the protection of minorities’ privileges.
I’d say the second one also reveals his mindset as leader of the Labour Party when it was in Opposition. If he assumes the PN can be involved in sabotage, wouldn’t assuming that he himself was involved in sabotaging Arriva be that much less of a stretch?
If they can issue instructions to who gets their medicine, they were doing same prior to the election.
If all the suspects in the Enemalta scandal happen to be close to Labour, no wonder this meter tampering business cannot be investigated.
They tried the same with Censu Galea and the licensing racket, and remember his rallying cry to save VAT evaders from any prison sentence.
Oh yes. Il-haxixu ma jafdax.
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.
Just returned from Liverpool. All Arriva buses operating on schedule.
Asked some people at a bus stop, ‘Happy with Arriva?’. All responded, ‘Of course, why do you ask?’
the best comment was when he said that the Freeport ships do not enter through Marsaxlokk. I was impressed.
I was shocked when i heard him say that. I loved Arnold Cassola’s reaction.
Not only does he not have a road map he’s just proved he doesn’t even have a sea route.
Does anyone have any thoughts about this;
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/15/more-sovereignty-votes-sunday-referendum-may-see-venice-elect-to-secede-from-italy/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10700499/Scotland-vote-threatens-to-derail-2015-election.html
Look, I don’t really have an opinion on this but I have found it talked about in at least one mainstream nationalist newspaper of the Right:
http://www.liberoquotidiano.it/news/11571112/Veneto–da-oggi-referendum-per.html
The referendum is being organised mostly by the Lega Nord separatists and Indipendenza Veneta.
For those familiar with Veneto, Luca Zaia the Governor of Veneto states:
nel cuore d’ogni veneto ‘ghe xè on Leon, miga on cojon’.
That remark about Green Prime Ministers in Europe (“…għax m’hemmx Prim Ministru mill-ħodor fl-Ewropa”, xi ħaġa hekk lil Arnold Cassola) was also rather spiteful.
I can’t fathom how anyone can be proud of such a nasty piece of work.
I will not mince words. I generally dislike the Greens, but in Germany they did become a force to be reckoned with and formed government in several Grand Coalition’s, nationally or on a regional basis. The German Greens are a viable party.
Therefore, to say that there are no Greens Prime Ministers in the EU is technically true but it is to deny that the EU’s engine room had a Greens – SPD (Socialist) government as recently as 2005 which, as it happens, was also rather successful.
Does anyone have a link?
http://www.tvm.com.mt/programmes/xarabank/ondemand/
The last 20 mins is where you will find both threats.
Thank you.
Dr Muscat said that an accident can only happen if there is a 1 1/2 foot tear in the gas storage tank or the pipelines carrying it, which according to Dr Muscat could only be a result of a sabotage which he implied would be caused by the PN.
I think he is already preparing the scenario in case of accident to put the blame somewhere else.
Anarchists, saboteurs, fashistkiye dvizhenii… Let’s have some show trials before the trr’rsts join in.
Slava Yosifu Muscatu!
[Daphne – Been at the cooking-sherry again, have you, Kevin?]
Jeez, Kevvy. you gotta stop snorting that stuff in the vacuum cleaner.
Thanks for alerting me, Purdie, but I never took your advice. Were you very sick?
Schnapps, Daphne. It’s helping me follow our dear leaders’ grand debate on last Friday’s Xarabank.
And you’re one blind fan if you think Simon was impressive. Only such a poor show could have caused Joseph Muscat to appear so statesmanlike and clearly in control. The sooner Simon’s sent to grass the brighter the PN’s prospects in 2018.
I happened to mute the debate and REALLY look at the speakers. ‘Stateman like and in control’ are not what came to mind. Incongruent and, because of his power, chilling, yes. But then I do not think that clowning and ridicule are commendable attributes in a leader.
Jesus Christ ! Kev, If you believe that your Joseph is a statesman, I suggest that rather than schnapps you start downing shots of tequila mixed with absinthe and sake.
If I were you I’d warm them up for better effect.
Don’t let 36,000 votes fool you, mate. In 22 months, Alfred Sant’s big victory became a big loss. And Muscat’s big victory was mainly the result of boredom and restlessness (the two factors, incidentally, which have been a main spur to war in history) and colossal spin.