I’ve never been one for PC, so I ask: might it be that no one has the courage to criticise him because of his handicap? It’s been known to happen.

Oh and we even had passages from Lino Spiteri for O Level.

I mean it’s no wonder everyone hates Maltese. I mean what in the arse is he? A politician? An economist? A columnist? Or is he a writer?

These are the people whose drivel fills the bookshelves of so-called Maltese ‘literature’.

When you have shite peddled as gold, it breeds free radical drivel, like that ‘Zminijietna’ publication. There’s no standards anywere. Why, only last month I visited an exhibition of ‘ceramic art’. Was there ever such a misnomer. Art? It’s bloody pottery. But it was funded by the government, if you please. And all the critics loved it. Wirt kulturali, my dears! Talent Malti! Imsajjar mix-xemx hanina, mahdum minn idejn hawtiela!

Lino Spiteri is a lousy writer. A LOUSY writer. And yet he endures.

[Daphne – That’s because people don’t know he’s a lousy writer, H. P. How can you tell whether somebody’s a lousy writer or not, if you never read anything other than the Maltese newspapers, bank statements, cereal packets and Facebook?]

My dears, I suggest we all brace ourselves. Because the PN are, after all, mostly lawyers.

Members of that vile profession delight in nonsense and Italianate title-spraying.

I fully expect Simon Busuttil to endorse this giant monument to Maltese stupidity, our very own Shard of Nonsense.

Alas, and so the darkness spreads. I think I shall need medical marijuana more than ever.

Now, after failing to get the title Mr President, a title he clearly craved (after the March election, he spent months bending over backwards in order to justify every dastardly act that Labour did only to publicly disagree with the choice of president when it happened), he is now clutching at straws and hoping he can get a lesser title.

And it’s so typical of a dinosaur like Spiteri (and others of his ilk) to belive in something so spectacularly undemocratic.

First things first, members of parliament should always be honourable. That’s a given. They’re gentlemen and gentlewomen who represent their people and their country. Honour should be second nature to each one of them. They don’t need a title for that.

Secondly, honour, like gentleness, kindness, gentlemanliness and thoughtfulness, work best in silence. When your better half tells you that what you did was wonderful, you don’t go around calling yourself Mr Wonderful. You act as if what you did required minimum effort, regardless of the hours or days you spent doing it. Because you’re cool, like that. Glowing inside is more than enough. You should never be a moron about it or consider a good deed you did as the first step towards sainthood.

Thirdly, and most importantly, it is not, say, Claudette Buttigieg or Leo Brincat personally who are being called honourable (that they should always be honourable is understood) but the people who put them there. It is we, the sovereign people of Malta who chose our representatives freely who are honourable.

As so often happens in Malta, people fail to make the distinction between Leo Brincat as an individual (a man over 60 who likes tweeting about the music he’s listening to) and Leo Brincat as a representative of the ninth district which elected him. It is impossible for all the people of the ninth district to sit in parliament and debate matters day in, day out so they elect a representative.

In order for Leo Brincat not to forget the people he represents, and in order for others not to forget that when they address Leo Brincat, they are effectively addressing the people of the ninth district, the people are referred to as honourable. It is NOT a title for an individual. It is an adjective which conveys the soverignty and importance of the electors. When Franco Debono and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando got up to all that dishonourable malarkey two years ago, the electors still remained honourable. It is Debono and Pullicino Orlando on a personal level who lost their dignity and honour.

I hope that all the right thinking and democratically minded people in parliament will shoot down this proposal. It’s bad enough when the average Joe fails to make the distinction between the individual and the representative of the people. When members of parliament, most of whom are lawyers, do likewise, it’s downright depressing.

This link is for a 2010 post Daphne had written about this topic, and the link below shows you the cover of Lino Spiteri’s book.

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/07/aw-hi-onorevoli/

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uDFDA%2BuwL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

[Daphne – The point is that it is NOT an Anglo-Saxon practice at all, but a misinterpretation of one. Read my post again. In Britain, The Hon. Mary/John Wood is the style used for the sons and daughters of viscounts and barons and the younger sons of earls, not members of parliament.]

Evarist, I fully concur.

They should be deemed ‘honourable’ well before entering Parliament. It should be the benchmark by which our representatives are chosen for the highest post.

They should be carrying that honour over to Parliament elevating its esteem, respect and prestige.

Instead many Members are elected for all the wrong reasons and because of this our Parliament is being reduced to a hellhole where lies are rife, where little governance is being carried out, where favours are distributed among friends, where Members have no respect for each other and spend their five year term calling each other corrupt.

I didn’t vote for change because I never did believe it would take place but those who genuinely did vote for change because they wanted a better Malta should be clamouring against this farce and they should be doing it quite vociferously.

Every time I hear these words I couldn’t stop laughing because I don’t believe in everything I hear. Sometimes they say that they are missionaries and I laugh even more since the missionaries I know don’t get paid, they go to some third world country far away from their families, risking their lives and a lot more.

Politicians=bunch of parasites.

Me too.

I’ve had enough crap thrown at me from the political party I support; this will definitely be the limit.

If they want to isolate themselves into some special group then they can do so and enjoy their solitude.

Isn’t it already bad enough that they receive a FULL pension for life not like us mere mortals.

Isn’t it already bad enough that a PN MP once said that the higher MP’s pensions will be phased out gradually and all pensions will become the same then nothing was done about it.

If the PN wants to stay in Opposition longer than necessary it can vote in favour of this and watch the numbers dwindle further.

Honourable, really, and this after spending one or several terms in Parliament calling each other corrupt.

Iddahquniex!