Comments on: Good – time to remember that the PN is supposed to be more civilised than Labour https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026979 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:51:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026979 In reply to H.P. Lovecraft.

Busuttil just responded saying he couldn’t care less for that agreement, wasn’t his word anyway.

Even Saviour can’t get himself to accuse busuttil of inconsistency, not when he fed him all the details to the derogation.

Elve alert.

]]> By: Tom Double Thumb https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026834 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:45:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026834 Come on, Dr Busuttil. Make it clear to the hawkers especially that you will relocate the street market. This may lose you the hawkers’ vote as well as risk losing the next election.

But it will prove to those with enough brain cells that you and the Nationalist Party are men of principle and will not seek cheap votes by pandering to the whims of certain groups and making ridiculous promises.

If anything to the contrary was said in the past, then a public apology should be made and the Nationalist Party should declare they stand four-square with their leader on this.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026730 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:35:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026730 In reply to P Shaw.

I think it has nothing to do with either. It’s not the electoral promise or the middle finger which made them do it, but a genuine belief in the value of small business. Iktar flus fil-but, indawru lira, nigbdu t-turizmu and all that.

MLP is at its worst when it is ideologically closest to Nationalist money-is-all doctrine. I applaud Busuttil for stating that culture trumps mediocrity, but he could have stated it in clearer terms: business doesn’t justify everything.

Malta’s road to hell is paved with good business intentions.

It’s time for one of the parties to show that another road is possible.

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026513 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:21:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026513 I love the PN – all fur coat and no knickers.

]]> By: vanni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026504 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:17:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026504 In reply to Joe Attard.

I wonder what you said when a certain prime minister held a press conference surrounded by enough flags to rival the Palio di Siena just to announce a miserly reduction of 2 cents in the price of fuel.

]]> By: etil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026498 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:06:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026498 In reply to Joe Attard.

Matter of opinion, mate.

]]> By: gn https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026439 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 08:00:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026439 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150208/local/full-time-driver-for-part-time-chairman.555180

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3026114 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 00:52:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3026114 I think the MLP’s moving the trash market beneath and next to Parliament has nothing to do with pre-electoral promise. After all, we are talking of around 200-300 licence holders together with their families, i.e. Around 800 votes. The MLP can easily afford to lose those 600-800 votes given the 36,000 majority.

This has more to do with raising the middle figure towards Renzo Piano and his project and towards the PN who commissioned the project. It is an act of barbarism towards a symbol of Gonzi administration, similar to the Taliban destroying ancient archeological heritage in Afghanistan, and similar acts that occur regularly in uncivilized cultures.

]]> By: David https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3025906 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:22:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3025906 Supposed is the key word. The supposed civilised party had a different position before the last election.

]]> By: Challie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/02/good-time-to-remember-that-the-pn-is-supposed-to-be-more-civilised-than-labour/#comment-3025882 Sat, 07 Feb 2015 20:59:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=58687#comment-3025882 Sounds stupid if Jason Azzopardi promised a similar thing to the hawkers a few years back.

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