The Opposition needs to learn the value of the scathing, measured response
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October 7, 2014 at 7:51am
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‘Gvern li jahdem bi shih fil-qasam tal-Edukazzjoni’? Tell that to the unfortunate man they chose as their scapegoat for the Klabb 3-16 debacle.
What Opposition? Dr Busuttil was quoted as saying that in Hong Kong there are street protests over democracy – but not in Malta, although democracy is threatened.
I wonder why. Duh.
Did you organise one?
Would Busuttil support it? No. He’d say it’s illegal. So why bother?
Would you be there if street protests are organised?
The PN mindset appears to me as one of entitlement. They act as if they are entitled to rule and have temporarily let Labour have a go.
How I wish to be on the Opposition benches to throw these jokes at them.
A good percentage of the population has told the Nationalist Party to sod off, so their organising any form of protest now may be counterproductive.
The Opposition needs to focus on rebuilding itself. It is lacking resources at every level and Simon Busuttil has a mammoth task to rebuild it. Without an Opposition democracy is threatened.
In the meantime it is up to the rest of us not to remain complacent. We shouldn’t expect the Opposition to do our dirty work for us.
Aren’t we part of the opposition when we comment about the government’s weaknesses on this social media?
I think we are doing are our part, regularly.
Seems like our Health Minister is more interesting in haranguing new mothers on the benefits of breast-for-two-years than he is worried about vegetables covered with slurry eaten by children. Slurry can cause cancer; formula milk does not.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-10-07/local-news/Ombudsman-to-investigate-The-Malta-Independent-report-on-slurry-dumped-on-crops-in-Mgarr-6736123239
Chris Fearne is the not minister for health. That honour belongs to Mr Sai Mizzi.
No he did not organise a protest. And neither did I.
But pray, do excuse me when I say that I firmly believed that my vote for PN in March 2013 was a vote for a party and MPs who would safeguard my rights, whether elected to the government or the opposition benches. Apparently not so.
And it looks like one day, some of us will have to roll our sleeves and show the PN how it is done. Yet, those with sufficient vision can see that the non-confrontational PN leadership will not rally behind them, making any form of protest short lived.
Think about it. On the one hand, the protesters will be crushed by a government that has mastered the art of spin and that can stifle most forms of protest. On the other, the effort will not be backed by the opposition because the PN leadership would rightfully feel threatened by being shown up for having appeased Muscat’s government and policies in the name of new form of non-confrontational politics.
Democracy in Malta has become nothing more than a pipe dream, a word from days gone by when our politicians had the spine and mettle to walk together against an oppressive government, shoulder to shoulder with the people, bleeding as one, weeping as one, shouting as one and coming together as one.
I firmly believe that Nationalists, for the greater part, have turned into mush.
Free to comment/condemn/criticize but when it comes to putting their money where their mouth is, they are nowhere to be found.
If one blames limited financial resources for the limited opposition to the government’s obscenities, that would be a fair assessment because how does one expect a total staff of 75 to do the work of over 200?
How does one expect the party to be effective when instead of a war chest, it has a shoe box filled with IOUs?
Darned right Simon & Co. have a mammoth task ahead of them and they do deserve genuine support in any shape or form instead of incessant moaning.
The Nationalist Party was never perfect because perfection in politics is hard to obtain, but never in its history did it ever rob the public blindly to enrich the Party.
I would prefer a bankrupt Nationalist Party than a filthy rich Labour Party whose wealth, really and rightfully belongs to me and you.
“No he did not organise a protest. And neither did I.
But pray, do excuse me when I say that I firmly believed that my vote for PN in March 2013 was a vote for a party and MPs who would safeguard my rights, whether elected to the government or the opposition benches. Apparently not so.”
I agree with this line of thought.
Had Joseph Muscat imposed himself on us in an undemocratic process, then yes, it would be for us to defend ourselves and organise protests.
But we had a democratic process in which we elected a government and an Opposition in a constitutionally defined manner, and the government was elected on a ticket to improve things, not to turn the clock back to the 1980s.
So the Opposition has a duty to speak out, if not to protest, for the minority, and, probably also for the majority.
Letting the government ride roughshod on the population to the extent that the standards of living achieved are being gradually undermined, especially by a minority which shows no sense of observation of the laws of the country, is not responsible.
This will work against the Opposition in the longer term, and we may already be living that longer term because, as is often said, one week in politics is a long time.
Louis Grech – Malta will continue to blossom and reach new heights. Yes, with an expected weekly increase of €1.16 p.wk in 2015.
Blossom yes, for the PL MPs, the new Klikka employed with the public service, government entities and our new ambassadors and envoys.
The poor are getting poorer, and our pensioners are just making ends meet. The divide between the new rich and the poor is getting wider.
No new productive investment, FDI or domestic, means no new well paid productive jobs. Consequently a brain drain of highly qualified Maltese seeking pastures new.
I have to say that scathing responses are, most times, superficial and unreal…on the other hand I would much rather the PN continued to deal with facts and acted on the implications of those facts rather than act out for the camera and media.
Who am I to organise a protest, if the Opposition does not bother? That’s why there is an Opposition with a full time leader. If the Opposition calls a protest, of course I would attend, but it seems a press release is sufficient protest.
Who are you? Protest doesn’t necessarily involve placards, marches and stunts, but if that’s what you want, then rally a few others and do it.
If you can’t find willing participants in the constituencies where elections are to be cancelled, then there’s your answer.