Comments on: Marlene Farrugia goes for Adrian Delia’s jugular (because it takes a woman)

By: Franġiska

Franġiska — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:35:00 +0000

Nittama li jagħmlu hekk. Jekk ma naqblux mal-prinċipji tiegħu issa, m’aħniex se naqblu għax jitla’ kap hu. L-imma se tibqa’ hemm.

By: Reflections

Reflections — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:47:00 +0000

This mess could have been avoided had the application as a prospective candidate –
for a person who has never been in politics and materialised from thin air, not to mention inappropriate baggage – not been accepted in the first place!

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:38:00 +0000

Marlene rose pretty quickly. She was a member of parliament in her 30s and unlike Adrian Delia her real estate projects have resulted in the opposite of a deficit of millions.

The point is that Delia didn’t RISE. He just came out of nowhere into an emotional vacuum.

By: Mike Wagstaff

Mike Wagstaff — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:09:00 +0000

It is easy to take refuge in accusations of opportunism. More pertinent do you have any answers to the questions she poses? That is the crux.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:50:00 +0000

Oh, of course, I really, really hate men. That’s why I’m married to one, have three grown sons, a father I love dearly, and get along better with men than I do with women (because I have more in common with men my age than I do with women my age, who are mainly housewives), and tend to have more friends who are men than friends who are women (for the same reason).

I hate nobody, but if you switch to ‘dislike intensely and disapprove of’, then yes, it’s your archetypal Maltese chauvinistic man – can’t stand those.

Men don’t speak about other men the way Marlene Farrugia and I do. Only women can do that, because here we’re operating in a men’s club where the men don’t go for each other’s throats no matter what political party they’re in. Instead, they go for the women’s throats, because there is general consensus among Maltese men that public criticism by a woman cannot be tolerated.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:59:00 +0000

She’s a woman, therefore she must be vicious and spiteful, rather than thinking clearly. Right, David?

By: Galeforce

Galeforce — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:27:00 +0000

The irony is that plenty of honest people who were identified via the social media as having attended the anti corruption protest marches in Valletta last year were victimised for their political views by the Labour government, while l-avukat ta’ klassi was prominent by his absence and is now being lauded by those who should be asking him why he wasn’t there.

By: Galeforce

Galeforce — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:20:00 +0000

In reply to EarthwormDave. What's most important is that they are not in politics for money or career prospects, because they have a surplus of both already.

By: lupara bianca

lupara bianca — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:23:00 +0000

Another woman of steel, and very many men of straw.

By: observer

observer — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:51:00 +0000

In reply to carl barthet.

I do not vote for fakes – and have never done so in the last 55 years that I have been entitled to vote. Period.
I vote for honesty, experience and sincerity. That, for me, means CHRIS SAID.

I do not, and cannot, agree with your second assertion. The only way forward is to have honest, experienced and sincere leadership – certainly not Deliar’s – which will clean up the PN of the dregs of ambitious, self-seeking opportunists. Period.