When people this age are back to shouting it out, you know the mood has shifted permanently
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December 13, 2014 at 8:06pm
It already seems a lifetime ago that people this age, any age really, were made to feel embarrassed for supporting the Nationalist Party and ended up actually becoming too embarrassed to do so.
But in 20 short months, that situation has been reversed. The Taghna Lkoll mass hysteria has totally evaporated the switchers who wouldn’t shut up about it are now silent in the main.
Post by Karl Azzopardi.
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Dr Busuttil had mentioned this visit as one of the highlights of his month.
He LOVED every minute of this visit and it shows.
This probably happened after the one he mentioned in his speech. Graduation buscades happen everyday during these weeks, and from what I could see on Facebook, Simon Busuttil met with hundreds of students at the PN headquarters from all the buscades that were going there.
Not the same can go for Joseph Muscat, whom I heard did all he could to avoid these students’ celebrations – including his staff lying that he’s abroad whilst his self-leased Alfa was parked next to Kastilja – amongst many other excuses that hundreds of students got from OPM staff and the soldiers stationed there to avoid any interaction with the Supreme Leader.
I thought this a little inappropriate. As commerce students, they should be talking about what our government is doing to the economy, not joking around with the Leader of the Opposition. The last thing Malta needs is for Simon Busuttil not to be taken seriously.
[Daphne – It was a celebration, the post-graduation blow-out. I’d be worried if they sat around discussing the economy. Time and place for everything.]
Daphne’s right. Come on, Stephen! Perspective?
Stephen is right in the sense that these graduate “zghazagh” need to have their energy channelled to useful purposes, not straitjacketed in some “Forum Professjonisti”. If someone is to write our tomorrow, it’s them, not the politicians. We’ve had enough of them.
I mean if my appeal to Batman is successful, I’ll them to greet him.
There is a time and a place, but I would like to see students take politics more seriously, especially since they’re the ones who are going to be hurt the most by this government’s policies.
The Nationalist Party has been left to do everything by itself because the tools which are supposed to make democracy work aren’t working.
For example, important public entities like the National Statistics Office have been bought off and could you imagine Malta’s biggest trade union, GWU, criticizing the government? What about TVM, the national television station?
To say nothing of the police, newspapers such as Malta Today and everybody else who’s just too scared to speak up. All this while (most of) the very people who’ve been raised in a normal society and who should know better sit idly by, thinking that our government is just like any other.
It takes a big incident like Malliagate to get their attention. God, I miss the days of Gonzi, I should never have taken them for granted.
Call me jaded, but I don’t miss the days of Gonzi at all. Not one bit. His administration left a legacy of appeasement of the worst scum ever to stain the earth, of exportation of our top villains to Europe, of blatant cronyism, and of monumentally bad character judgement.
No, I don’t miss those days at all. What I look forward to are the days of Simon Busuttil. How refreshing to have a prime minister who is untainted by corruption or the usual Maltese dubious links, who doesn’t hobnob with bazuzli, who doesn’t talk like a sales brochure, and who has been tempered by life’s adversities.
Have you ever had a buscade? If not, I pity you. They’re plenty of fun. I’ll remember mine till the day I die.
My daughter showed me this just today. How comfortable and at ease Dr. Busuttil looks around the new graduates. It’s a brilliant clip. Blue shirt guy is hilarious!
“X’ma tkunx Nazzjonalista!” – my daughter’s comment. Graduated last year, now 2nd year Masters (indulge my ‘proud dad’ moment).
“Det, I’m vowtink Lejber.”
“Nivvota Labour? INZABBAB!”
“Guys, jien se nivvota AD!”
Oh, so you were the one, were you?
AD? HA HA HA HA HA
Neil, with that kind of language, you are going to end up being head-hunted by the Labour Party.
I was never ashamed to be Nationalist. Downhearted and disillusioned for a while but never ashamed.
I don’t think it was ever really fashionable to be Labour at University, or at least that’s the impression I got during the past five years I spent there.
It was a bit cool after the general election debate that Labour managed to take over at Sir Temi Zammit hall and after the general election… but the fad died soon after.
Graduation celebrations and politics do not mix. What we see here is off putting and these people comes across as blue versions of pre-election ‘Taghna Lkoll’ participants.
Youths should by all means be active in politics and protest virulently especially in situations like the current Maltese one, but in order to preserve their objectivity and their decency they need to move away from this very unhealthy party-allegiance mentality.
There is nothing wrong and unhealthy to have allegiance to what is right.
Can I get a “SHAME ON YOU”, brethren?
Here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBShN8qT4lk
Embarrassed to be a Nationalist? I never felt such embarrassment. And why should I? The Nationalist Party built this nation.
I used to think that us BCom students were always predominantly Nationalist: pro-market and against state intervention, it would not make sense to support socialism and its parasitical tendency to shift the money from those who have worked hard for it to social benefit shoppers. Then again, on the rock, one’s upbringing overrules economic principles.