Up to no good: an excellent description of what happened in parliament
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October 26, 2014 at 11:02am
Opposition MP Claudette (Pace) Buttigieg has written an acutely-observed piece about what happened in parliament the night of the Big Power Station Debate That Wasn’t.
It takes a woman to focus on the non-verbal and to have an inherent understanding of the fact that it’s more significant than the verbal. I know a couple of men who do, but they are unusual in this respect.
As for her observations about Konrad Mizzi, I’d add that he is a textbook case of Asperger’s Syndrome – all the signs are there – which throws him wide open to unscrupulous manipulation by the prime minister.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-10-24/blogs-opinions/Up-to-no-good-6736124307
There’s one paragraph which is particularly revealing.
“At one point, Mizzi looked at Muscat with a huge grin, red face and blood-shot eyes. I read the Prime Minsiter’s lips: “Mhux ghalissa” (not yet), he told Mizzi. And Mizzi obeyed, spouting all the garbage somebody had prepared for him, a huge list of poor excuses and more promises. It was surreal.”
By contrast, Alison Bezzina’s observations and perspectives are so consistently unappetizing, that I wonder if her civil status is the only reason she was promoted to columnist.
http://www.parlament.mt/home
20.10.2014 session – scroll to 3’29” Konrad Mizzi’s hysteria is embarrassing.
It will take a woman to rebuild the PN because of women’s keener sense of strategic focus.
It took Thatcher to rebuilt the UK’s tattered economy following UK’s Labour devastation on everything. The left still hate her for what she did: She showed the world the way forward; how things should be done. Now Europe needs another Thatcher. But there’s none born yet, it seems.
The German Chancellor of that time, Schmidt if I recall correctly, had once referred to Mrs. Thatcher as ‘the only man in Europe’. Says it all I would say.
It takes a while for the world to see a great woman succeeding where men fail, but such women would be worth 20 good men.
If destroying Britain’s industrial backbone was showing the way forward, not so sure.
Minister Mizzi’s erratic behaviour in parliament shifted focus from the power station failings to George Pullicino and some unsigned document, but this was just a smoke screen as the main reason for doing this was to keep the power station investors onboard by removing any electricity competition from the PV feed-in project.
And it will be shown to be another frame up, using a planted document created by Joseph’s goons to create a a blinding spot for the Maltese idiotic press media.
They are a bunch of imzazen ready to swallow anything thrown at them.
That document is a fake, no signature, perfectly new with perfect perforations, that was never in the documentation, seen and checked by the boards and authorities involved.
Erm, that’s perjury.
That’s balance.
That’s a good piece.
No wonder this debate was not televised. Those blood-shot eyes, the lip-reading, the ‘honourable’ government MPs showing expressions of great embarrassment.
Daphne, would you know if ic-Caqnu is still ‘carrying out preliminary excavation works’ at Delimara? Would anyone know? Are there MEPA permits for those works?
Claudette Buttigieg has been coming across very solidly. I happened to be listening to the radio a few days ago when she was explaining how the government has projected itself as being very feminist and yet has displaced competent women from top positions, replacing them with male party lackeys. This is something which the PN leadership hasn’t hammered home yet.
Claudette Buttigieg is the best thing to happen to the PN in a long time, and should be given a lot more prominence.
She would have been the one to lead the PN to victory. Witty, sharp, convincing and squeaky clean. I really admire her wit.