We’re still playing the underdokk card
This is getting really tired now. When Joseph Muscat was playing the ‘underdokk’ card in the general election, he was well aware that he had a massive, unprecedented lead in the polls and was going to win by a great majority.
Now he’s playing that same card again: he’s just said on Reporter, “My aim is to be the first party in government to win a majority of seats in an EP election. We are ‘mija fil-mija’ the underdog.”
Labour has been in government for just a year, and got into government with a 36,000 vote majority. There is no way on earth it are not going to get another massively big majority in this EP election.
There are no comparisons to be made with previous EP elections, when the situation was entirely different. It’s the EP election in five years’ time, when Labour will probably still be in government, that we have to be looking at.
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“It’s the EP election in five years’ time, when Labour will probably still be in government, that we have to be looking at”
Diga qalbna maqtuha?
Let’s put it this way: last time we said it would be over before Christmas we were fucked. And the time before that.
I fail to see how anyone can actually predict anything.
That’s why it’s always better to prepare for the worst. We must dig in.
Oh dear, the jokes continue to write themselves.
Just when Joseph Muscat announces the rebirth of The Soldiers of Steel, ArcelorMittal, the biggest producers of the alloy in the world, lower their consumption forecasts due to falling demand from China.
It’s going to be Terracotta Warriors from now on in.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140512/business-news/ArcelorMittal-trims-market-outlook-on-China-Russia.518664?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arcelormittal-trims-market-outlook-on-china-russia
Daphne, why is there no one appealing to the foreign votes. How many expats do actually reside on the Island?
A lot. But very few of them are registered to vote in the European election.
He has spent a year spending (on his friends & friends of friends) what the PN had worked for and saved. So what do you expect?
It is very convenient to give the impression that he will get the same majority here, but in fact he is only referring to seat majority, which effectively means 4 out of six seats, irrespective of the number of votes.
As the polls and the PN already say so, Joseph tends quote the obvious here.
Underdog zaghzugh.
Underpuppy?
It’s a 40-year old dog, Baxxter.
It’s a forty -year-old human.
That makes him a five-year-old dog.
Therefore an adult dog.
Some puppy.
Put yourself under the table. Wait for dinner to be served. Get your fill and jump on the table and tell everyone that you have just emerged from under the table to come to that height. Now come down from your imagination and understand that what you do in your imagination Joseph does in his speeches. His graphs never start at 0 they always start below that line. Most remain below the 0 line even if he remains in movement for a century.
This is what was happening in Europe. Dr Gonzi was attending monthly meetings in Brussels at the height of a very near implosion of the Eurozone, while having to cope with the likes of Dalli, JPO, Jesmond Mugliett and Franco Debono, who were constantly ratting with Labour.
Dr Gonzi’s premiership from 2008 to 2012 was one international crisis after an other – the financial meltdown followed by the Arab spring.
And now it’s relative tomfoolery about civil unions, gay adoption, soldiers of steel, drugs and hunting referendum.
This article about the G20 summit in Cannes in 2011 makes frightening reading, as to what a close shave it was, with Merkel in tears.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f6f4d6b4-ca2e-11e3-ac05-00144feabdc0.html#axzz313WQywLp
An “underdog” is a person or group in a competition, usually in sports and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose.[1] The party, team, or individual expected to win is called the favorite or top dog. In the case where an underdog wins, the outcome is an upset. An “underdog bet” is a bet on the outsider in which odds are high.[2]
Underdog, my ass – with all the hype he’s been preaching . And boasting that his election as PM is the best thing that happened to Malta…he gives us the message that he has become god’s gift to Maltese politics and the economy.
He’s a top dog right now not an underdokk – kiesah u ardid ir-ragel.
He can’t do otherwise, preempt argument to kill it.
He was adamant he never chose the luxury of abstaining or not taking a stand, this was yesterday.
If I’m not mistaken, he refused to take a political stand on divorce giving his MP’s the free vote.
Yet he’ll say he never did that.
Something will give, it’s his person which isn’t sustainable in Labour. There’s this shift in the press, given that perhaps their business depends on credibility. Muscat doesn’t care for credibility, not when it serves him, all he wants is to enforce his persona.
What’s happening at the moment, is provocative, open dissent will be blamed as the cause why he’ll have to take ‘difficult decisions’.
Text book manipulation to deligitimise any potential adversary really, least of which being the PN.
He said he put in his declaration of assets last year, what’s the fuss?
Kiesah, ardit u imbecilli.
Unfortunately that is only the assessment of the minority.
And, by Jove, he knows it and takes huge advantage of it.
We happen to be the cultural and political backwater of Europe and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Just grin and bear it.
In twenty years’ time, when the PN is desperately trying to sort out the mess and devastation, refer to the second and third decades as the Golden Years Mark II.
All it takes is one rotten egg.
I would give anything for the opportunity to wipe that sarcastic smirk off his face. I really don’t know how he survived in the school playground.
If the Labour government were to govern just 5 years, than they would have really brought us all to our knees and can’t find a suitable word enough to describe what state Malta would be in in four years’ time. So as much as I dread it, for the ‘good’ (whatever that may be God help us) of Malta, I hope they last longer than five years. Did I really just say that?
Just saw this on The Independent..
Peter Grech says:
12 May 2014 16:38
Then Deputy Leader Anglu Farrugia was made to resign for a comment on a magistrate. Then what should the PM do with all the comments he’s been passing on the magistrate in this case.
Leading by example, yeah right