One year of Labour (but this one has no violins or singing children)

Published: March 16, 2014 at 1:34am




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  1. H.P. Baxxter says:
    March 16, 2014 at 1:36 am

    Here’s another director or advisor who should be shot. What in god’s name were they thinking with that ridiculous set-up where Simon Busuttil is talking to the host, standing up, in the middle of an empty room? And who is advising him to speak with a Sunday school tone of voice?

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    • Tabatha White says:
      March 16, 2014 at 10:22 am

      I think it says more than that Baxxter, and on a different level:

      At the end of the day, it’s each man/ woman and his/her conscience.

      At the end of the day, away from the crowd, media, facts and rumour, it’s a personal analysis, a gut feeling about the residual value: a clear synthesis of the facts; not a wanton jumble of distortion, hype and media effect: of media backed new-speak.

      The opposite of Group Think and Groupie-led mantras.

      A distancing from the relative comfort and convenience of induced short-memory application by the raving crowd.

      An invitation for mature individual thinking to start finding a place within our communities before any level of discussion is engaged in.

      That might well be the biggest challenge to those who remain approval-dependent on others for the flavour, direction and quality of their thinking.

      Sequence is of consequence?

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  2. Carmelo Micallef says:
    March 16, 2014 at 2:36 am

    One year of labour and Labour isn’t working

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  3. Vigillanti says:
    March 16, 2014 at 11:18 am

    Well done! You don’t have to scream and shout to get your message through.

    The tranquility we were used to is transmitted perfectly by Simon Busuttil in this broadcast.

    I think it’s great.

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  4. Albert Floyd says:
    March 16, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    H.P. Baxxter, I see nothing wrong with the set-up at all as most likely it is a TV studio. What did you expect a palatial saloon with gold-framed mirrors, bohemian chandeliers and baroque statues? This is a news-division production for crying out loud.

    Isn’t this Dr Busuttil’s normal tone of voice? Calm, confident, serene and reassuring.

    I still remember him very well from the days when he was head of the Malta-EU Information Centre, prior to 2004.

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      March 16, 2014 at 11:27 pm

      I expect them both to be sitting down. That’s all.

      It is precisely because it is Simon Busuttil’s normal tone of voice that I’m worried. He should be coached so he can change it. I want to see some anger.

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      • Pontius says:
        March 17, 2014 at 1:38 pm

        Baxxter,you disappoint me big time, mate! Haven’t you worked out by now that the difference between Busuttil and Muscat is not in the tone of their voices.

        Busuttil is comfortable, with or without an audience. Unlike what you may think, his voice exudes confidence.

        I, for one, never saw Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, David Cameron, screaming their heads off. But Muscat hates places where there is no audience.

        If you are old enough to remember Mintoff, he never wanted to confront Eddie Fenech Adami face to face. He postponed debate after debate on MTV until the very end of his tenure.

        And we did not see many of them either.

        Muscat is the same. Put him in front of a group of Laburisti and he thinks he is God’s gift to politics.

        I do not have to go into detail about this, because you know where I’m heading.

        Anger in politics will get you nowhere. What do you expect Busuttil to do? Bang his shoes on the table like Nikita Krushchev in the UN or behave like Berlusconi?

        I’d let Muscat do all the frowning and childish digs. After one year his body language is already giving him away.

        Busuttil is growing in his position, while Muscat is revealing a sense of insecurity with every day that passes.

      • Jozef says:
        March 17, 2014 at 4:54 pm

        Pontius, I believe Simon Busuttil needs to spike his talk a teeny weeny bit when it comes to Muscat.

        Just a bit more caustic. Cassola managed to get at him. although I couldn’t stand his sarcasm.

        Made good practice though.

      • Jozef says:
        March 17, 2014 at 5:05 pm

        Perhaps Busuttil could avoid the initial sweeping statements, or the determining criteria. He’ll discover it becomes ridiculously easy to lead Muscat up any garden path when he’s not on the defensive.

        He needs to understand who he’s dealing with, cunning, but not very bright.

        What matters is the argument. When Muscat will refuse, he’s toast.

  5. Gahan says:
    March 16, 2014 at 12:38 pm

    “Seta’ jaghmilha tajba mal-ewwel.”

    Din is-sentenza diga ilni nismaha sena fuq il-frajjeg li qieghed jaghmel Joseph li qal li “kulljum jiltaqgha man-nies”.

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  6. observer says:
    March 16, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    One year of labour labouring to belabour (vainly and unsuccessfully) its strong opponents in every quarter.

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  7. ciccio says:
    March 17, 2014 at 2:29 am

    Has that been just one year of Labour? I prefer to think it’s been 10 years already.

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