Comments on: “In Manuel Mallia’s position, I would have resigned” – Marlene Farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:12:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2805404 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:12:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2805404 Certain that Marlene Farrugia would have another twist to add, I read her column on Monday with no surprise, then slept on my reaction till now.

Marlene Farrugia : we’ve been there. We aren’t newcomers to flexibility of thinking and approach. You are the new arrival to it.

I don’t doubt your will to try and do something differently, but you do not have the make up for it and you never will.

We know where the limits are.
Evidently your side of the bench doesn’t.

Here’s a suggestion for you:

Why don’t you set a good example and show us that you are firmly not in agreement that Manuel Mallia stays on: to the extent that you would resign, by virtue of an example to be set to your own colleagues?

Perhaps your side will then see that you mean business, and we would too.

Words without action are just words.

– however nice they sound –
– however many words of column they use up –
– however much space in other columns is used as a buttress.

Ruins are worth saving when they have a feature of note:
aesthetics, design, original technical features, stone of particular endurance, patina or design. Witness to a specific culture or civilisation.

The Labour party has nothing to be proud of that comes from its past, nor has it delivered anything to be proud of in this legislature.

There is nothing worth saving or retaining. Every Labour experience and experiment has been a failure.

You are simply incompetent. (The only slight exception is Benna milk production and its joghurts.)

All I see is greed and the attempt to justify staying in position when nothing that was promised has been kept.

And scammer’s renegotiations.

The blame is always someone else’s.

And lies and more lies.

Each one shinier and polished more attentively than the last.

]]> By: gaetano pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2796152 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:38:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2796152 It is not what she thinks what Mallia should be doing that is of national interest.

It is what we think she should be doing that is the national topic. If I were her I would stand up, go to where Godfrey sits in Parliament, take him by the arm and walk out of parliament and the Labour Party embracing Godfrey proudly. This is what I think she should be doing.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2792810 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 04:00:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2792810 In reply to Persil.

If we all had spectacles with that “Buddy Holly” type of frame, then we all would be taken seriously.

]]> By: Martin Felice https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2791413 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:11:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2791413 Marlene Farrugia should not be taken seriously as she says a lots however when she has to vote she forgets all that she would have said and votes in accordance with party(PL) lines. Ignore whatever she says as she is taking all those who believe in her for a jolly ride.

]]> By: Persil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2791162 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:11:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2791162 How can Marlene decide for the Minister? I am sure that legally she is not in a position to give advice.

[Daphne – She is free to give her views just as you and I are, the difference being that her views carry more weight on this matter because she sits in parliament with him.]

]]> By: Harry Worth https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2791019 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:38:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2791019 Come on Marlene … Cross over and drag Geoffrey with you …

]]> By: Tinnat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2790835 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:55:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2790835 Marlene Farrugia should be aware by now that you can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

]]> By: helen https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2790424 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:00:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2790424 Ehe Marlene, issa meta nigu ghal vot ta sfiducja jekk jghogbok ivvota favur halli ssotni dak li qed tghid.

]]> By: Ernest Meli https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2790118 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:16:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2790118 So is Ms. Farrugia going to vote with the opposition regarding the vote of no confidence?

]]> By: Mila https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/11/in-manuel-mallias-position-i-would-have-resigned-marlene-farrugia/#comment-2789916 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:28:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=55586#comment-2789916 Perhaps Ms Marlene Farrugia would like to comment on how it feels to belong to a party who harbours someone who sounds like a disgusting misogynist.

”PN undergoing hymen-restoration surgery to become a virgin again – Evarist Bartolo” TMI

Isn’t this just who all parents would wish to be Minister of Education. Kudos to he who made that choice, as a father of two girls, you must really be proud to have burdened Malta with this level of trashy talker!

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-30/local-news/PN-undergoing-hymen-restoration-surgery-to-become-a-virgin-again-Evarist-Bartolo-6736126620

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