Comments on: Marlene Farrugia: “This might be the beginning of the end of the Labour movement” https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:41:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2849329 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:41:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2849329 In reply to the third eye.

Which side is Polidano on at the moment?

And the others just like him?

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2849325 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:39:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2849325 In reply to Norman Vella.

Thank you, Norman.

Well done for all your work.

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2847749 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:15:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2847749 Well, if you got nothing but incompetent clowns in the cabinet, then wanting them all out is a natural thing that should be embraced and actually accomplished.

]]> By: Tye https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2847191 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:44:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2847191 Marlene, mara ta’ veru. Dnub li qieghda mal-labour.

]]> By: the third eye https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2847109 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:27:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2847109 Twenty four months and the house of cards will start crumbling down. The question that remains in my mind is how they are going to keep it together.

]]> By: Jack Beans https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2847065 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:17:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2847065 Can Marlene and all other Lejber spokesmen and apologists stop referring to the Labour Party (PL) as the Labour Movement?

The term was coined by Dom Mintoff after the statutory GWU-MLP fusion. In today’s context it simply doesn’t make sense.

There is only a Labour Party with the political objective of winning the right to govern the country. Only paid-up members and delegates have access to the decision-making process of the Party.

Any reference or calls to a Labour Movement only serve to obfuscate the real meaning and nature of today’s Labour Party.

]]> By: Augustus https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2846345 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:50:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2846345 The most angered are the hard core Laburisti. When you ask them what they think about all this, most of them reply that it’s Joseph Muscat’s fault for welcoming into the party the rubbish thrown out by the PN.

]]> By: Malti ta' Veru https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2846281 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:27:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2846281 Perhaps this is the much awaited earthquake that Joseph promised six years ago?

]]> By: Jack Beans https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2846185 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:44:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2846185 In reply to Tabatha White.

I have this nagging suspicion that our dear Marlene is on a campaign to avenge herself on her ex-.

They both started out with the PN and when they fell apart he was high on the PN bandwagon, so she moved on to Lejber where she slowly but surely moved to the highest echelons.

During the discussion on the divorce bill which he presented in Parliament, she came out against the bill, even though Lejber was promoting it. Later she had second thoughts in a clear move to tow the (un)official party line.

When he was left an orphan (on the ballot list) she got elected. That was her moment of glory. But he was now equally at home with Joseph. Then followed the ups and downs of the two protagonists.

In a JPO-JM move, she and her partner, were ‘offered’ the Health Ministry, but only one of them could get the job! I suppose it didn’t make much difference to Jeffrey who got the job. Sure enough the Health ministry was vacant after a few months.

Completely confined to the backbench, while he was publicly enjoying his iced bun from the government and still behaving his old foolish self, she starts being outspoken in criticising the government. Meanwhile, the woman for whom he presented his divorce bill has left him after less than a year.

She gets more and more outspoken, but we cannot expect her to turn off the tables — she’s still in a minority, and I doubt she’ll win enough support from the Lejber stable.

As things turn from bad to worse, she will continue to make it bloody obvious to see Lejber unseated, sooner rather than later, and with it her ex-.

]]> By: CiVi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/12/marlene-farrugia-this-might-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-labour-movement/#comment-2846183 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:43:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=56431#comment-2846183 The quicker the better.

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