Comments on: So true – and where are the Maltese-clock-hunters now?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:26:00 +0000

That’s right: the Nationalist government should have used the money to bail out the Café Premier instead.

Then Muscat wouldn’t have had to do it himself.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:04:00 +0000

In any case, there is the purely electoral imperative to consider. Parties need votes.

Labour was running after the 14-18 cohort long before 2013. When the time came for them to vote, they all voted Labour, bar a few Nazzjonalisti minn familja Nazzjonalista.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:39:00 +0000

You’ve never actually been anywhere near the “bridge to nowhere”, have you?

It’s as crowded as Havana (the one in Paceville) on weekend afternoons – thick with birdwatchers, snogging couples, mums and dads and their 2.1 kids, and teenagers taking selfies or posing for sexy Facebook shots.

They love it.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:30:00 +0000

Yes, I think you are right.

Muscat has nothing to worry about. Nor do his mates. They are already on dry land. The ship will sink, and all the lifeboats are already taken.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:11:00 +0000

The ‘bridge to nowhere’ moniker was coined and used by the same members of the chattering classes who had Parliament House down as a ‘cheese-grater’ and the theatre next to it as a ‘roofless theatre’.

And all three nicknames revealed nothing but their incredible ignorance and how you should never assume that people from a tal-pepe background are by definition educated – an assumption I NEVER make because I grew up in that mind-numbing milieu and know for a fact that most of them have the minds and educational level of children or teenagers.

The ‘bridge to nowhere’ is a restoration/reconstruction of something that existed already but was destroyed over time. The alternative to creating that attractive construction, which is not a bridge as they say, was spending a lot of money getting rid of the remains of the original which had been an eyesore in the harbour for decades. Or leaving the eyesore as it was.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 17:50:00 +0000

I would never say that they were perfect and made no mistakes. But consider this: is there a difference between making a mistake, and deliberately handing out money to the undeserving?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:50:00 +0000

You know what they say: virtue is its own reward.

And then again, it all depends on what your own standards are, and on your self-respect.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 11:43:00 +0000

I’m sorry, but do politics have to do with waving banners at mass meetings?

The people who wave banners at mass meetings generally know very little about politics.

Politics are part of the world we live in and not something separate from it. Real politics are considered in the context of current affairs.

You will generally find that the most catastrophically uninformed adults – young and old – are those who grew up in homes where the adults very deliberately Did Not Discuss Politics Or Current Affairs Because These Are Things We Do Not Discuss.

People like me do not come out of nowhere. I grew up in a family where politics and current/world affairs were discussed as part of normal conversation.

My sons did, too.

It makes all the difference.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:26:00 +0000

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-09-17/local-news/Simon-Busuttil-Institutionalised-corruption-is-rife-within-government-6736142222