Comments on: Robert Musumeci claims not to know what a conflict of interest is

By: Charles Paul Cilia

Charles Paul Cilia — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:50:00 +0000

They are playing to Muscat’s devious tactics.

By: margaret cassar

margaret cassar — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 09:00:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

I think someone should get a petition going, aimed at getting Thake back on 101……urgently.

By: Macduff

Macduff — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 22:38:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. I agree completely. But I can't help noticing we speak of the Nationalist Party as a faceless bohemoth lumbering towards self-destruction. Yet there are actual people taking taking decisions: Busuttil, Fenech, Demarco, Aquilina, Metsola, Thake, and the rest. But who is responsible for this madness?

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:45:00 +0000

Not really, no. The people who were ‘enticed away’, as you put it, simply failed to relate to the Nationalist Party in its failure to evolve with the times and grasp the Zeitgeist. That’s why it was so easy to ‘entice them away’ – because they were already off the Nationalists.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 19:42:00 +0000

Well, not in the case of law. The warrant is only required to practise in the Courts. If you don’t wish to practise in Court, then you can be a lawyer without a warrant, working for a firm, giving advice. There are many non-Maltese lawyers working in Malta in just this capacity, who don’t have a warrant.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:26:00 +0000

Those days are gone. The days of grass roots and all that rubbish are over. The Nationalist Party was never a grass roots party, anyway. It was brought to power and kept in power by the key voter segment made up of a sociodemographic profile like mine or similar to it. When these people deserted the Nationalist Party in droves, starting in 2004 with the EP general election, there was no turning back.

And they deserted the Nationalist Party precisely because they are not ‘grassroots’ types of people and will only vote for a party if it reflects their mindset. The Nationalist Party since 2004 has NOT represented our mindset at all. Many didn’t vote at all in the 2008 general election, and in the 2013 general election most of them voted Labour.

Then there were those like me who never fell for Muscat’s bullshit and recognised the Labour Party for the same old criminal outfit it always was, and voted Nationalist anyway. It doesn’t mean we identify with the Nationalist Party. It just means we think it’s a safe option compared to the dangerous option that is Labour.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:19:00 +0000

In reply to c calafato.

It’s not your degree that makes you a lawyer, economist, whatever. It’s your work. I’m an archaeology graduate, but I’ve never been an archaeologist. Robert Musumeci is a law graduate, but he’s not a lawyer. He’s an architect.

Somebody who has a law degree but has never worked as a lawyer – say, running a business instead – is not a lawyer but a managing director and business operator who read law at university X number of years ago.

By: c calafato

c calafato — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 16:51:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Didn't he graduate in law last November? He was all over his Facebook page about thesis and graduation.

By: Pappagallu

Pappagallu — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 15:12:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Being station manager then accounts for the stupid and insipid two-hour programme after lunch. Is it poissible that the Party is so weak that it doesn't see the fatality in such a waste of time ?

By: Marinton

Marinton — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:17:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. You couldn't have described my relationship with radio any better. Mr Thake was the only reason I went back to the airwaves and actually enjoyed being stuck in traffic.