Time for a direct comparison, I think
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November 23, 2014 at 8:39pm
The prime minister’s letter to the Opposition leader (wrong address indicating lack of awareness of the distinction between party leader and Opposition leader; badly written; poor vocabulary; arrogant; copy released to the press is not on letterhead or signed) and the Opposition leader’s reply:
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Decency vs hamallagni
Hoofing.
Have you read the comments on Times of Malta’s comments board? Are people paid to write that shit, or do they really think in such a screwed-up way?
As if the Opposition is making headlines about this because of the reply to the Budget tomorrow! Are they mad? The Police Minister’s driver shoots at an unarmed person and they make less fuss than they would if a farmer had shot his dog.
How in the name of all that is Holy are we going to put up with another eight years if this. We are going to be on our knees begging for sweet mercy.
Muscat injorant, arroganti u kif tghid il-habiba tieghu Nicola Abela Garrett….f*cking w*nker.
So Muscat is accusing the PN of milking this “incident” to gain political points.
Does Muscat think therefore that a minister’s driver carrying and firing a gun is an insignificant matter?
This is not something the PN orchestrated. This is not something the PN helped fuel.
This is something that a person in the Police Minister’s trust actually went out and did. This is one of those “only the Labour Party” moments, which for some reason seems to turn into an “only in Malta” moment.
No, I refuse to accept that this sort of thing is typical of Malta.
With the way it has all panned out I say that Mallia and Muscat should both resign, Mallia for choosing this madman as his driver and then lying about what he did and working to protect him, and Muscat for actually trying to guide public opinion on such an open and shut case. Oh, and for choosing Manuel Mallia in the same way that Mallia chose his driver.
If it was incorrectly addressed he had every right to send the letter back, unopened. I’m not being pedantic in the slightest.
Simon Busuttil should have handed back the correspondence that also seems to have been written ‘a caldo’.
If it weren’t ‘a caldo’, it should be pretty warm and sizzling by the next round.
Spot the difference.
Basing on the images above, the “Prime Minister’s” letter was not issued on an official letterhead, nor was it signed…
If we do not want history to repeat itself, one way to do it is to remember it.
One reason for the mess our country is in now is because many, Eddie Fenech Adami included, thought that what happened in the 80s will not repeat itself.
Alavolja ghandhom it-toqba ta’ so@@m@m thares l-isfel, xorta jdelku kullimkien.
The original version goes:
Kieku sormom ma jhariss l-isfel lanqas jahraw ma jafu.
Under the circumstances; ‘Non o stante’ li t-toqba ta’…; sounds better.
The PM’s letter’s tone is that of a litigation lawyer or debt collecting company.
Paul Sheehan is running around the streets when he should have been arrested and charged by now, and yet not one word from Muscat or the Police Commissioner on this. And as for the Toad, he protects those who protect him.
Did you notice that there is an obvious grammatical mistake in the Muscat letter? “Ministeru ghal-Intern” should be “Ministeru ghall-Intern”. What bloody incompetents – so much for the pompous words.
Great reply.
Since the letter is not signed, could it be that it was not sent by Joseph Muscat but by Mallia himself without Joseph Muscat’s consent or knowledge? I am not trying to defend Joseph Muscat, but I believe this is a possibility.
And if this is the case, it would show that Joseph Muscat is just a puppet prime minister. The real prime minister would be Manuel Mallia.
[Daphne – Oh come on.]
Two letters, two worlds apart. Never doubted Simon Busuttil. It’s a long way, but he will succeed in throwing out this incompetent government.
I bet the prime minister’s letter was the work of Leli Mallia, including typing, and the A4 sheet provided from his stationery cupboard.
Obviously, Mallia has no prime minister letter heads ( I hope ).
Do notice that there are no Maltese fonts in that letter too.
So Leli must have prepared it for the prime minister to sign.
The wrong address gives further weight to my argument.
Can you imagine David Cameron writing a letter to Ed Miliband containing a grammatical mistake? I sure as hell can’t, and I sure as hell will never be returning to that cesspit of an island.
A small detail as well; look at the date on the letter signed by the prime minister.
22 Novembru 2014. – ta’ is missing.
It was hastily done and by an amateur.
There are three references to dates in the Prime Minister’s letter, and all three have a different format.
Why doesn’t the Prime Minister use Maltese fonts in his letter to Simon Busuttil?
I hope this may be a turning point for the Nationalist Party. For the first time in almost two years, they’ve come out fighting.
The Prime Minister is in a very tight spot: if Manuel Mallia is sacked, it looks as though he gave in to Simon Busuttil’s pressure. If he keeps him, a degree of complicity attaches to him, as pointed out in the letter of reply.
For the first time, Simon Busuttil emerges as a statesman. Let us hope it is the first of many.
[Daphne – If the prime minister sacks Mallia, it will not look as though he gave in to the Opposition’s pressure. This is not a game called I Squeeze and You Give In. The prime minister has to sack Mallia because he has to sack Mallia. Opposition pressure has nothing to do with it. Opposition pressure is there to CONVEY TO THE PUBLIC that Mallia’s position is untenable, and not to get the prime minister to sack him.]
The PM should have sacked Mallia long before the Opposition was perceived as putting pressure on him to do so.
He should have relieved him of his cabinet post on Wednesday night.
The fact that he chickened out is entirely his problem.
Well consider this. Could it be that they are waiting for Sebastiano Brunno to escape from prison and then Mallia will resign for that?
This is not as far fetched as it looks.
Under Maltese law, criminal prosecution is brought about by the Police Commissioner, right? Then he too should be sacked, for failing to prosecute Sheehan.
Wait a moment. He probably has legal advice from the Attorney General.
Then the Prime Minister, the Minister, the Security Driver, the Police Commissioner and the Attorney General would have to go.
Who’s left to run this place?
My reply would be: Fiat justitia ruat caelum.
But everyone seems to be caught up in the political tug-of-war.
I meant the perception not the reality. This will be the way Joseph Muscat reasons:”If I do it now, they’ll think it’s because Simon Busuttil demanded it.”
We have been landed with a bunch of incompetent morons running our country.
They are unable to write and address a simple letter.
Just imagine.
They are only good at ventilating, read farting. with somebody else’s asshole of course.
Big deal.
Naħseb li l-ittra kitibha Manwel Mallia.
Insomma, kitibha min kitibha huwa avukat għax il-lingwaġġ użat fit-totalita’ tagħha huwa dak legali, u aktar minn hekk ma sarx użu mill-alfabett Malti fejn jidħlu l-ħ, ġ, ċ u ż.
An official letter from the Prime Minister without the Maltese fonts? Shame.
Without an official crest, without a printed address, without a signature to boot! I don’t think it came from anywhere near Castille.
Is shooting directly at another person not called attempted murder? In my opinion this whole mess is a cover up of an attempted murder and the prime minister is an accomplice.
Exactly Theresa.
Until Sheehan is arraigned for attempted murder we can honestly say that we have a PM and a Home Affairs minister who are both accomplices of this same crime.
Not to mention the A/Police Commissioner of course.
The main charge will have to be attempted homicide. That’s the way it’s been done for ages.
If he shot at a moving car without justification there’s no way around it.
Elsewhere you wrote that this letter reads like it was written by Mallia himself. To me it reads like letters written by any number of old fashioned lawyers. It sounds nothing like Muscat but I never imagined that he wrote his stuff himself.
The letter should have been sent to the office of the Leader of the Opposition. Lack of education.
But who is the prime minister’s mentor?
Here we are dealing officially not on a partisan level.
[Daphne – The prime minister shouldn’t need to be told the difference between the Opposition leader and the party leader, or that the Opposition leader’s office is in the parliament house, the Palace.]
Yes. It stinks of a put-down there too.
A put-down, and then we shake hands.
Dr Busuttil, we need to be out in the streets protesting, not shaking hands.
We don’t shake hands with a sham government that is continuing to strip us of our rights.
This line should be a constant.
The terminology used in the ‘Prime Minister’s’ letter is very legally oriented (ai termini) (vericita), and I think it is more the work of a lawyer rather than Muscat.
Furthermore, it has now been a few years since we started using “tal-” in front of all nouns, including those starting with a vowel.
In the PM’s letter one can still see “ta’ l-Att”. It seems our leaders cannot even adhere to our language rules.
Today we also found out that the President’s driver carries a weapon too. And he is not even a police officer.
Also the Speaker of the House instructed that no weapons would be allowed into the Parliament building.
At this point would it be wrong to assume that all ministerial drivers are armed with a fire arm?
With our government’s dealings with the Azerbaijanis, the Libyan ex-PM, Henley & Partners, Shiv Nair and the like, and with ISIS gaining ground in Libya, they might be feeling a little bit insecure.
Hence all the theatrics of security details wherever our Prime Minister and wife go.
Or maybe the Home Affairs Minister has instilled that fear into his colleagues.
He must have passed on information from our National Security Agency that every one of their lives is under threat.
Maybe he’s using his connections to the underworld to create a clear and present danger. Control through fear.
Just a wuss trying hard to sound commanding. Fail.
Joseph Muscat ineħħi l-Ministru tal-Intern
http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/11/joseph-muscat-inehhi-l-ministru-tal.html
I don’t quite understand why Carm Mifsud Bonnici does not have the respect he deserves within his party. Is there anything I don’t know?
The guy has gotta go. Just like the other guy who had a death on his watch should have gone.
Eh, tajjeb. L-inkjesta se ssir ghax il-kap tal-oppozizzjoni qieghed jivventila (!) l-allegazzjonijiet pubblikament, mhux ghax id-driver qabad jispara fit-triq, harget stqarrija ‘zbaljata’ ecc.
Eddie Fenech Adami must be having all sorts of flashbacks and nightmares right now. I pity him seeing his life’s work evaporate in the hands of thugs.
Minn dan kollu, lanqas li seta jaghmel Joseph Muscat hu li jiddikkjara pubblikament, li x-xufier tieghu, li ukoll hu pulizija igorr jew ma jgorrx arma.
Jista jghidilna u jserrhilna rasna li l-huta mhux minn rasha tinten? U jekk ma jirrispondix ghaliex? Zgur li mhux ghax il-poplu stupidu imma ghax Joseph bezziegh u bir-risposta tieghu jibza li jidhol f`xi sqaq dejjaq.
Tghid Manwel Mallia ghalhekk ghadu hemm? Wehel fi sqaq dejjaq Manwel u Joseph ma jistax jaqilghu jew bil kontra? Jista xi hadd jghidli.
Iftaħ ħalqek u ngħidlek min inti.