Comments on: Guest post: The public holds Labour to far lower standards because Labour is perceived as being ‘typically Maltese’ https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2246654 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:27:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2246654 In reply to Cikku.

Worse. And Muscat has no excuse – he is living in the European era not in post-colonial times.

]]> By: Edward https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2246560 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:37:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2246560 In reply to Edward.

Exactly. The Labour Party today does not resemble what it was when it was founded at all.

Today’s Labour Party is built on Mintoff’s image and values. Hence why the PL does not have democratic principles today.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2245876 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:32:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2245876 In reply to Edward.

Edward, lawful organisations succeed morally when they ‘implement’ their founding ideals.

The Malta Labour Party swapped to the greedy and dodgy side of affairs during the Mintoff era making itself unacceptable within civilised societies.

]]> By: Edward https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2243913 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:58:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2243913 In reply to Joe Fenech.

Not so at all. The PN are not righteous. They are right and there is a difference. I am not talking about their policies, but about what forms the foundation of their party: democratic ideals.

I for one have nothing against Ad, for example. They are a democratic party. Although unable to articulate their opposition to the PL, PN supporters instinctively say no to the PL because of that one fact regarding what underpins the PL’s core values.

]]> By: Joe Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2243842 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:30:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2243842 There are many truths in the this (I suspect ‘Edward’ is a young man) but it is also shows a very black and white vision of the Maltese political situation which resonates with PN’s self-image of perfection and righteousness which is ultimately the party’s Achilles’ heel.

]]> By: Cikku https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2242019 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:00:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2242019 In reply to matt.

U lanqas f’tiegħi. Imma għaliex meta jkun hemm il-PN fil-gvern, dawn in-nies bilkemm tarahom b’nemes jekk mhux biex jipprotestaw jew ikissru u issa donnu li reġgħu irxuxtaw u mmultiplikaw?

]]> By: Cikku https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2242012 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:57:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2242012 In reply to curious.

Ommu u missieru ma setgħux għalmuh aħjar lil binhom. Għaġnuh u tellgħuh b’karattru li ma setgħax ikun agħar milli hu. Possibbli għadhom ma ntebħux li ħolqu mostru ieħor daqs jew agħar minn Mintoff?

]]> By: Min Jaf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2241665 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:10:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2241665 MLP supporters literally got away with murder – Raymond Caruana was gunned down in the Gudja PN Club in 1986 and the police under the Labour administration then framed an innocent man, Pietru Pawl Busuttil, took him to court and charged him with the killing.

The police then conspired to throw Busuttil out of a third-floor window at St Luke’s Hospital to fake his suicide – fortunately flouted, but only because someone leaked the plot – thereby closing the court case and forever protecting the guilty parties.

]]> By: matt https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2241634 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:54:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2241634 Absolutely true. Labour standards are identical to an African nation. MLP will only change if the public matures. Sadly not in my lifetime.

]]> By: Natalie Mallett https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/guest-post-the-public-holds-labour-to-far-lower-standards-because-labour-is-perceived-as-being-typically-maltese/#comment-2241615 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:45:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49706#comment-2241615 Excellent post. Spot on.

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