Give him a Burmarrad accent, and…
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Not the right example, I’m afraid. Blair went on to become Britain’s best ever Prime Minister giving Labour spectacular victories.
[Daphne – Really.]
Int b’serjeta, Mario?
I think we have to concede a point here. Blair is vastly more sophisticated than Joseph Muscat will ever be.
I find it hard to even accept Muscat and Blair in the same sentence.
Blair did a good job for the Labour party and survived on a huge sea of good will in the beginning. He was in the right place at the right time. Sadly, looking back, the UK is in a very bad situation but that is also repeated all over the world.
Muscat is an empty vessel and his game plan is to just be nothing and win the next election by default. We often underestimate the Maltese electorate but as time goes by people will see that Malta is in a pretty good position considering the economic climate.
To use a football terminology I would compare Gonzi to Alex Ferguson. You don’t need to see his day to day inner workings but you have the confidence in him built up over successive victories and you know he gets results. Ask any football fan and they would choose Fergy over a younger manager any day.
In most democratic countries the opposition has an easy job as in they only have to come up with policies to pressure the government into making changes without the problems of actually implementing those changes.
Other oppositions work on behalf of the people and lobby the government for change. Sadly in Malta that doesn’t appear to happen. Muscat is just an empty jar and if they do come to power we are all going to suffer.
Football is football but politics is real life, I just hope the Maltese public see who has been steadying the good ship Malta through rough international waters and who on the other hand is an empty vessel floating around lacking a direction and any kind of plan.
‘Blair did a good job for the Labour party’.
Prime Ministers are not elected to serve their party, whatever Joseph Muscat might believe.
Pull the other one.
‘Blair did a good job for the Labour party’.
Yes, he got them into power after 18 years in the wilderness. He made many mistakes but also did very well in other things, his role in the Northern Ireland negotiations being a high point.
The point of my article was that Joseph Muscat is not even in the same league as these other statesman.
Oh dear. Another who thinks prime ministers are there to serve their party.
No wonder Labour is a mess.
What ????
I think you sum up the majority of Labour supporters, Mario, in your statement. You look at the election results and nothing else beyond that.
Dak Mario l-aqwa li Joseph jirbhilhom l-elezzjoni, u imbaghad naraw.
X’iz-zikk huma policies.
Just ask Muscat about policies and you’re up for a “polixiex?” as an answer.
I loved a video link posted on this blog (I think it was in a comment) comparing Muscat to Obama. Even his behaviour isn’t original. Ah well.
Mario is just a sample of the real LP merchandise.
Joseph relies on a lot of Marios who may very well tip the scales in his favour if enough Nationalists and ‘floating voters’ decide not to turn up to vote. The responsibility on their shoulders is such that they should think twice before they abstain.
It is useless to complain after the fact but the pity is that all the nation will be dragged on the same path to disaster including those who thought voting was a mere inconvenience.
Three victories for UK ‘s Labour meant Great Britain went to the dogs.
We need a Malta’s Spitting Image series. Just imagine the tut-tutting from flustered MPs about the lack of respect for all the HARD work they do.
The same wide smile.
I really don’t see the point of comparing Muscat with Blair.
We should compare him with Gonzi, as after all we shall soon be asked to choose between them.
I think that we are in the happy position of having two persons whose first and foremost interest is the well-being of our country. So whoever wins, we are assured that he will do his best for us.
After all, it won’t be the end of the world if either one wins or loses. It will only take a few years to correct a mistake, if one is made.
That is what it means living in a democratic country.
[Daphne – Sorry to be so direct, Silvio, but your reasoning is catrastrophic. It “only took a few years” to correct the disaster left behind by the Labour government of 1971 to 1987, but nobody is going to give me my years aged six to 23 to live all over again in a sane and civilised country with decent opportunities. And if Mintoff hadn’t brought down Sant’s government, we would not have been able to join the European Union in 2004, and the prospects and, ultimately, lives of another generation would have been f**ked over. You are making the classic, terrible error that Labour politicians have made ever since I can remember: that of looking at Malta as an experimental laboratory and the people in it as guinea-pigs, totally oblivious to the fact that individuals who lose out in one generation cannot pick up again in the next.]
I understand perfectly what you say. Those where not nice years for anyone. I lived through them as well, and no offence meant, if I tell you that I was not as young as you were, and I went through some bad experiences as in those days I was struggling to bring up a family and that was worse than being a teenager.
We have now experienced what it feels like living in a democracy. We have tasted the good things that a stable government can do for the citizens and I am positive that we would not allow any government to make us relive those years.
[Daphne – Silvio, please. How would you prevent it? Alfred Sant perpetrated chaos in those 22 months and the only thing that stopped him was one of his own MPs – Mintoff – who brought down the government not because of principle but out of spite and long-standing animosity towards Sant. What do you imagine, that the same thing will happen wth Muscat and that you’ll get to vote him out after two years if you don’t like him?]
We now know how to fight for our rights, and this is mostly due to the fact that we now form part of the E.U.
Gone are the days when governments can survive without the backing of the people.
[Daphne – Silvio, you are wrong. Most governments in Europe are not one party elected with an absolute majority of votes. I’m struggling to think of even one that is right now, because even Malta’s is currently not. Governments do survive without the backing of the people. Look at Greece, look at Spain, look at Britain, with riot after riot, and look, for heaven’s sake, at Silvio Berlusconi, who is under investigation by the police, in the media for all the wrong reasons, and still there.]
If any government thinks it can rule us the way we were during the Mintoff or K.M.B days, it is wrong. The strength of any government depends on the support given by the people. Once that’s lost, the only way is to make way for others.
Just see what happened to Alfred Sant. Do you just for a minute think that his downfall was the work of Mintoff alone?
[Daphne – No, it wasn’t just Mintoff. It was Sant and Mintoff. Mintoff voted against his team, Sant lost control and called an election. He could have ridden it out, just as Gonzi has been riding out Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s behaviour, and he didn’t.]