Comments on: Mario Demarco should go out of his way to publicly distance himself from Keith Schembri instead of doing the opposite of that

By: Peppina

Peppina — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 16:35:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Mela wahhaltulha. Brava iktar.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:19:00 +0000

What should have been done is neither here or there. The question is what to do now, with the election twelve months away, and Labour looking likely to win another term and seal Malta’s fate forever. This will be a plebiscite for oppression and haxi unless Labour is voted out.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 18:01:00 +0000

It all boils down to this. Adrian Hillman and Mario Demarco, a key Nationalist Party politician, were lifelong best friends and Hillman owed his command-and-control status at Allied Newspapers/Progress Press to that friendship. But his other best friend – secret? not so secret? – was Keith Schembri, the man running the Labour Party’s campaign and engineering its corrupt road map. And when it came down to the crunch, in the crucial years 2011-2013, the Times of Malta and less so The Sunday Times swung towards Labour, noticeably so. Keith Schembri worked to influence Adrian Hillman and Mario Demarco didn’t.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:56:00 +0000

That’s exactly what I thought as I watched her. She wouldn’t know, though, because she’s far too young to remember barmaids – though I suppose all she has to do is watch EastEnders, where they survive into the present.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 17:50:00 +0000

The Labour Party regards Mario Demarco as his father’s son and his eldest sister’s brother, and affords him the same protection from criticism and scrutiny, let alone assault.

His personality is nothing like theirs, and I really don’t think he hobnobs with Labour politicians in the same way, but he really should make it clear whose side he is on, instead of benefiting from Labour’s reluctance to touch him. It’s a real problem. When the situation is so ugly, and the stakes so high – Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat will run wild if they win power for another five years – battle-lines have to be drawn. If you’re friendly with people or you don’t want to upset them so that they don’t upset you in return, then you quite simply can’t fight them.

Another thing I’ve meant to say for a while: will everybody please cut the ‘such a gentleman’ and ‘gentlemanly’ crap. Most of those using the terms don’t even know what they mean. Coming as I do from a long line of real and actual gentlemen, and I am not going to make offensive comparisons, I can tell you one thing; GENTLEMEN FIGHT WHEN REQUIRED TO DO SO. AND GENTLEMEN NEVER, BUT NEVER, STRADDLE A FENCE.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:21:00 +0000

Yes. And one of them is out there fighting while the Labour Party/government ramps up its attempts at ruining him, while the other is busy collecting praise, admiration and sympathy from a bunch of Laburisti who include the Prime Minister’s unbelievably corrupt chief of staff.

By: T Borg

T Borg — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:56:00 +0000

If the current political situation were normal, what you say might make sense. But we are not in a normal situation.

If Labour is re-elected it will be a disaster for Malta. It is not an exaggeration, so please get real.

The abuse, nepotism and corruption we are now seeing will multiply ten times over. Forget good governance, forget the environment. It will be open season for Labour cronies to bleed Malta’s finances dry.

So there is no option for the next elections. Muscat must be removed and the only way to remove him is to vote in the Nationalist Party led by Simon Busuttil.

The only way for Muscat to be removed is for all Nationalist members of parliament, Demarco included, and all Nationalist candidates, to fight against the corruption that has overtaken the government.

By: Stephen Forster

Stephen Forster — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:32:00 +0000

Using the term “Rubbish” does not also mean the same term in Maltese either. It has soft and hard meanings.

By: Stephen Forster

Stephen Forster — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:27:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Or worse

By: Tabatha_White

Tabatha_White — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:38:00 +0000

In reply to pronoia. At this point Mark de Marco deserves to be, you know.