Comments on: Muscat treats his LSE audience to some of his ‘British humour’ and Maltese bad manners

By: Gareth

Gareth — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:27:48 +0000

This seems an unnecessarily harsh reflection on a talk that was well received, both the humour and the critical reflection, by those attending – I can only assume the author wasn’t there.

By: just me

just me — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:58:43 +0000

Unthinkable eh?..

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/15/article-1278635-009D9B0F00000259-673_468x578.jpg

By: Cikku

Cikku — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:53:47 +0000

In reply to J. X'tgħallem mill-Parlament Ewropew? Mela dak mar hemm biex jitgħallem! Mar hemm biex iħaxxen bwietu u jsaħħan is-siġġu. Darba tkellem u waqaf għax skont hu ma kienx hemm interpreti tal-Malti u ma riedx ikompli. Qatt xi darba smajtuh jew rajtuh xi mkien ieħor sakemm kien MEP? Allura x'ridtuh jitgħallem. Ħmar mar u ħmar ġie lura. Il-ħażin hu li twikkejna aħna bil-ħmar ta' wiżu.

By: pluribus

pluribus — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:32:35 +0000

Dear Daphne can you please refrain from portraying the disgusting state of the prime minister’s mouth? PLEASE.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:02:10 +0000

In reply to Min Jaf. Please can we stop repeating the lie that Mintoff wanted integration with the UK? Even a total geopolitical pygmy like Mintoff knew that integration was impossible, and he did everything on purpose. He knew it would be refused, then he'd have an excuse to turn against the evil Imperialists, as per his Nasserite ideology.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:59:17 +0000

In reply to Jozef. Hopleaf.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:47:23 +0000

“We consider not having a republican constitution as unthinkable” says Leslie Skipper.

He should have added : “However, we do not hesitate to suspend the Republic’s Constitutional Court for years on end to suit the Malta Labour Party’s crooked and undemocratic political ends”.

By: J

Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:17:25 +0000

I suspect he added that joke himself because it doesn’t occur to him that the Italy-England rivalry in Malta is bizarre anywhere else.

He went to England and insulted his hosts and the queen within fife minits of tokkink about de Comminwilt. Should I be amazed that five years in the European Parliament taught him nothing at all?

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:40:37 +0000

The Times said Skipper is Irish.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140302/local/payment.508956

If so, that would explain all the chip-on-the-shoulder independent Republic bollocks.

By: Conservative

Conservative — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:54:19 +0000

Let’s deliver a few home truths about our Prime Minister and his speech to the LSE in London.

(a) The LSE is generally considered to be left-leaning. He was in a pretty safe environment whatever idiocy he said.

(b) The man is ‘Mintoffian’. He follows, adulates, venerates and adores the late Prime Minister.

(c) Mintoff stuffed a republic down our throats, with the tacit collusion of the ‘irredentisti’ in the Nationalist ranks in parliament, when the only acceptable form for change would have been a constitutional referendum (vide former Chief Justice, The Hon Prof J J Cremona’s “The Maltese Constitution p.p.). It therefore follows that it is unthinkable for a ‘Mintoffian’ to think otherwise.

(d) It is unthinkable for a ‘Mintoffian’ red-neck who rose from political party TV news anchor to Prime Minister to have a monarch (and the British monarch at that) as head of state. It would only serve to constantly remind him of his ineptness and rank incompetence at all levels, mostly at the level of protocol, etiquette and general manner of dress and bearing.

(e) Much better to have the high-heel wearing, midriff-baring, rotund and scruffy, as President, than Her Majesty as comparisons can only then be favourable.

(f) The Queen would have acted as a brake on their authoritarian designs.

(g) It is probably the worst of possible manners to insult (jokingly or otherwise) your hosts. Even worse your guests.