Yes, daddy, if you say so – my God, what a prat
Daddy and the naughty obstructionist children: this is wrong on so many levels.
1. The liberal and progressive young prime minister is really a patronising paternalist. This is not the first time this personality trait has emerged – he said in an interview some days ago that when dealing with different state corporations he feels like he is dealing with children.
2. He sees parliamentarians as childish individuals who think of parliament as school and August as the summer holidays, rather than as grown-ups who have to work anyway, outside parliament, even in August because unlike him and the front bench, they don’t have large salaries or a private income.
3. The prime minister doesn’t understand that adults do not speak to fellow adults in that manner, even if they are their employer, let alone when they are not.
4. Is that how he speaks to his wife? I’ve long suspected that it is.
5. With that patriarchal attitude, he doesn’t understand that this is no longer the 1950s and he is no longer operating in a village. Time to shed the backwater mentality he grew up with – even if his father spoke to him that way, it’s no reason for him to behave that way with anybody other than his own minor children.
6. Legitimate Opposition behaviour is not ‘obstructionist’. Obstructionist is what his Opposition used to do in the last few years leading up to the general election last year: colluding with Franco Debono, Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and that pussy-whipped scum, Jesmond Mugliett, to halt, delay, vote against and bring down anything and anyone they could, so that the normal business of government was almost completely derailed.
6. The PM is not liberal, modern, progressive or young. He is an old-fashioned, middle-aged, overweight, inarticulate, paternalist backwater bumpkin who is easily impressed by money and who enjoys collecting people after a lifetime as a social and playground outcast. He is able to collect these people because a. they are as greedy and unprincipled as he is, and b. because he is very impressed by money and is a backwater bumpkin, he is easy to patronise and manipulate even as he believes that he is the one doing the patronising and manipulating.
7. If I were the Opposition, I would tell him ‘Go right ahead, daddy’, and then turn up to parliament in August in my swimming togs and armed with the largest picnic cooler I can find. That’s how you deal with people like Muscat and other assorted jerks. The Nationalist Party just doesn’t get it.
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Hi, Joe Muscat. How many times did your whip in Opposition, Joe ‘Ride the Buses’ Mizzi, ask for a quorum not so long ago?
Ah but that was not an ‘obstructionist’ opposition.
“Noted but no thanks” should be the response.
Renzi just got smothered in 7,000 amendments presented by Cinquestelle and SEL, aimed to block his electoral law reform.
They did it specifically to delay the motion’s discussion in some four comittees until after Berlusconi’s handed down another sentence tomorrow. Berlusconi presently backs Renzi, at least until today.
And that’s just the lower house, Renzi’s party barely covers the required majority in the senate.
Imagine Muscat handling that. Wot di heck.
http://www.iltempo.it/politica/2014/07/16/il-balletto-degli-emendamenti-oltre-quota-7000-1.1271753
The reality is that the PN is fast asleep and it will not even stir in its slumber let alone wake up.
I am not confident that the PN will wake up any time soon and I sincerely hope it does not yield to this pressure, because this is pressure of the most childish sort, but pressure it is.
The PM is threatening the Opposition with ‘detention’, as though we were back in school. It beggars belief. Really.
The fact no-one bats an eyelid at this degeneration in the house sets off my serhan il-mohh alarm bell.
Exactly, so the PM keeps pushing the envelope and, meeting little to no resistance from our ball-less Opposition, pushes it further still. How far will he go? How far will Dr. Busuttil let this clown play him and his colleagues?
The response should be one loud raspberry.
Question: What does the Prime Minister of Malta want to be when he grows up?
He really was an non-entity at St Aloysius’ given I – and many others – can’t remember him anywhere close to us.
‘He is an old-fashioned, middle-aged, overweight, inarticulate, paternalist backwater bumpkin who is easily impressed by money and who enjoys collecting people after a lifetime as a social and playground outcast.’
You forgot lying, balding, unattractive, shabbily dressed to mention a few choice adjectives there, but we’ll forgive you.
I would tell him bring it on, because we can carry on through right to December recess, while you cancel your September krooz with Michelle.
Loved paragraph no. 6.
Joseph Muscat feels like a big boy in the House of Representatives. That’s because he’s just back from the Summit in Brussels, where he’s clearly the little boy….and that’s not because he’s young (Renzi’s younger and he’s calling the shots) but simply because he’s a non-entity.
Just look up the video of the leaders arriving in Brussels last night: nobody goes up to him; he approaches certain leaders (among them Merkel, with whom, I’m sure, he opened with childish congratulations for the World Cup victory) but nobody seeks him out.
There is documented video evidence that things were very different for his predecessor, who was considered an equal by his peers.
Maybe it was a mistake electing Simon Busuttil as leader. You need balls to stand up to a bully
No you don’t. What you need is brains.
And in this case some serious financial backing.
Do you need financial backing to make a speech?
On the other hand, if the Nationalist Party is in debt to a whole string of bazuzli kuntratturi, plus Arms Ltd., plus its own business interests because heqq mhux illegali li l-legal practice ta’ ufficjali tal-PN jaghmel il-flus mill-passport sales, then I do not expect the Nationalist Party to put up a fight any time soon.
It will just wait for the natural cycle of elected governments to turn in their favour. Say by 2028. By then, Simon Busuttil will have retired from politics and Mario Demarco should walking up those steps in Castille, approaching sixty.
I’ll be long dead by then.