So much for the cautious optimism and ‘we have a great deal of work to do’
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May 16, 2012 at 7:07pm
I can’t believe these fools are counting their chickens so blatantly in public. Do they never learn their blinking lesson?
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In a year’s time when Hollande f**ks up the French economy and p*sses off the rich and opens the borders to North Africans (I saw a lot of Africans and Muslims celebrating his victory), then the Malta LP will realise their mistake.
Will LP adopt the same immigration policy as Hollande in Malta?
[Daphne – Paul, you haven’t been following. The Maltese Labour Party is RIGHT-WING XENOPHOBIC AND CONSERVATIVE IN THAT BAVARIAN SORT OF WAY. It is with Norman Lowell on the subject of immigration, but too careful to say as much, apart from Joseph’s occasional slip. You’re talking of a political party that didn’t want Malta to join the EU because foreigners would take ‘our’ jobs, for heaven’s sake.]
I watched part of an interview with Tony Zarb on Super One last night. It was about the Air Malta saga and the most prominent thing on their mind seemed to be that “il-barranin” were getting ‘our’ jobs and earning massive salaries.
According to you the P.L. is a conservative party. So where does that leave the P.N.
[Daphne – It is left-wing on matters of social policy – VERY left-wing – and liberal on matters of economic policy. It is conservative on matters to do with religious tradition.]
The P.L.calls itself a Social Democratic Movment, something that the old P.N. was (after, of course, it stopped being a right-wing Facist party, but that is an old story in the good old days).
Irrespective of what they call themselves they are nothing but individuals who are only eager to be in power and to hell with the rest of us.
[Daphne – Rubbish. Politicians have to run the country, whatever their vested interests are. That is democracy. We elect our representatives to represent us and take decisions on our behalf. Some are only in it for themselves. Others are not. It’s a matter of choosing, that’s all. Such generalisations are ridiculous.]
On our part we are nothing but a spineless lot who swallow what they tell us, at least most of us are.
Just try asking Marija from Mosta or Guza from Msida what it means to be a socialist or a Nationalist.I can assure you that you will end up with lots of beautiful recipies for cooking bragjoli.
[Daphne – That’s a universal problem. It’s not typical of Malta. At least Marija from Mosta votes, which is more than can be said for her equivalent in Britain or the United States.]
So the P.L. is Very Left, Liberal and Conservative.
[Daphne – I was talking about the PN, Silvio, not the PL.]
That makes it a bit of everything. This must be the reason why we are always hearing that they will win the next elections. For it is a party that caters for all different opinions.
So, according to you democracy means that we still have to vote for politicians “whatever their vested interest”.
Do you really mean it?
[Daphne – Do you deliberately misunderstand? No, I said that some politicians have vested interests, and some do not. And that the choice is entirely up to us. But we have to know exactly who and what the candidates are, and not be cheated of information. That’s where the press comes in.]
Don’t you think it would be better for our country, if as you say, the equivalent of our Marijas stay at home than just put the number 1 where someone tells her.
[Daphne – No, I don’t think it would be better at all. It would be frightening. And it certainly wasn’t better for the world’s democracies when women didn’t have the vote on the basis that they were not fit to take such decisions.]
I admit that there are lots and lots of women who are quite up to it, but I’m afraid politics should not have to bother them. After all that’s what we men are here for, to take care of them as we are doing by providing all their needs, giving them all their rights, but when it comes to politics, it might be to rough for them.
[Daphne – I’m not going to rise to the bait, so don’t waste your time. I no longer argue with men who think this way. I just ignore them.]
Does Joseph make it a point to follow every politician into the restrooms to get a photo? Does he let them wash their hands first?
Kif ghadhom ma hargux idoqqu fit-toroq? B’din ir-rata se johorgu qabel ma l-Prim Ministru jiddikjara l-gurnata tal-elezzjoni.
Int hrigt idoqq l-ahhar elezzjoni Wayne?
In 2008, they were out celebrating victory in the streets on vote-counting Sunday at 10am.
Ghandek ragun. Jien jumejn qabel ma ittiehed il-vot ta fiducja fil-gvern meta hasbu li Franco Debono ha jivvota maghhom ircevejt telefonata mil-ufficju tal-Profs Scicluna fin-Naxxar ihegguni biex nivvotalu ghax gejja elezzjoni bikrijja. Vera miskin dan l-istar candidate. Suppost jaf ahjar. Jahasra.
I have given up all hope. It appears to me that there is no avoiding what is coming. Basically, the PL get elected, they f**k up big time and destroy all the hard work the current government has achieved, I will go back to hiding the fact I am Maltese to avoid the embarrassment, and the people of Malta will learn a lesson they will not forget very easily.
It is what happened before.
The situation has turned full circle. It’s the hamalli ta’ wara ‘l muntanji’s turn to run the show. God help you all. (I live in the UK).
Will they? Learn a lesson that is.
I don’t think so. After only nine years the PN was kicked out of power in 1996 and were it not for Mintoff and his eccentricity we would be in deep s***t today. Can you imagine the people almost tried to have a second chance four years ago.
Recent history teaches us that the memory span of the Maltese in their majority is rather poor.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/A-Republic-built-on-injustice-20120514
Dak ir-ritratt mhux ta’ meta kienu habtu ma’ xulxin b’kumbinazzjoni gewwa kurridur fi Strasbourg, hu kienu r-rappurtawh bhala laqa’ bejn Hollande u Joseph?
Bir-rata li qed jaqghu ghac-cajt ma tantx se jmisshom malajr.
Not really a picture to be proud of. It looks like someone arrived at a party without an invite.
Off topic but this is the response I received when I tried logging on to your ‘lovesexy’ article: https://welcome.o2wifi.co.uk/images/blockeddomain.html.
Just to let you know.
[Daphne – That would be a problem at your end.]
No, Can’t access it either Daphne. It must have been removed
(Reuters) – France’s Socialist president-elect Francois Hollande may use a summer audit of state finances to water down his generous campaign promises rather than risk a backlash from financial markets against stubbornly high deficits and rising debt.
Now it’s the REAL world.
Promises made, elections won, promises cannot be kept because there are problems with state finances.
Sounds familiar.
Please please tell me this is a fake. I need to fool myself into thinking they are not such emotional nincompoops.
Ghax fuq kollox,il-mettokrazija titlob li min imissu,i mhux kif tmissu,
Minn imissu jidhol please. Emm nahseb jien imisni,ghax issa ilni nistenna hafna,u Michelle diga xtrat il-libsa ta l’okkazjoni.
Yes, I believe that they will be elected and we will be back to second hand goods ghax huma bil-ghaqal and with no frills.
Fuq l-istess nota ta’ min imissu, lbierah rcevejt telefonata mill-Malta Today biex jaghmluli survey.
Il-mistoqsijiet kienu wahda fuq il-gay marriages, l-ohra f’min ghandi fiducja jekk hux f’Joseph Muscat jew Lawrence Gonzi, l-ohra min nixtieq li jirbah l-elezzjoni, (as against x’qed ighidu n-nies), u tal-ahhar jekk l-elezzjoni hux gejja f’Settembru jew Marzu. So, be prepared for the call.
What really annoys me are the blatant political lies and people’s general blindness/(far)-right wing tendencies. Namely, it’s the PN’s fault that the economy is so bad and the “go back home because you are a coloured terrorist criminal”.
For one, the global economy is totally screwed. In 2010, Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz claimed that what we see now is the tip of the ice-berg. (http://www.josephstiglitz.com/). Professor Stiglitz is a professor because he publishes widely and is a highly influential political economist unlike our so called professors most of whom wouldn’t recognise a peer reviewed journal if it bit them in the behind (to use a Bl’adderism).
Secondly, Greece and other debt ridden EU members have it so bad that Malta is a paradise in comparison. The crippling of countries like Greece, Spain, France and Italy have such a negative effect on the EU and the global economy that this is not a country-by-country or a regional issue anymore. Today I took the time to contrast different stock indices and noted how they all (e.g. Nasdaq, FT, Heng Seng, Nikkei and others) move in unison like dominoes. We are lucky that we are close to full employment, that people afford to buy around 20 to 30 cars daily (according to the NSO), and as you mentioned people spend about 140 Euros per bed night. When I read that I almost fainted – that’s a lot of money.
Third, the only information sources considered by people, in general, are the first lines of newspaper articles, a couple of lines of the blog posts on the Times, a quick scan of Wikipedia, people’s Facebook statuses (especially the politicians and the red pseudo-opinion leaders) and their daily (selective) fixes of local news.
On that basis the mass electorate claims to be well read, mature enough to vote for change and liberal enough to send all refugees at home because to cite one blogger:
“to be sure, the Somalis that come here have to take responsibility for the state of their country at some point. They are the authors of their own misery and it is they who have created the continuing problems with warring factions and tribal gangsterism. And it is they who have created Al Shabaab, the Islamic terrorists group who are more interested in stoning 13 year old girls then doing something constructive to improve their country”.
Another one cites the rise of TB to be caused by African immigration and cites British newspapers as a source without reading the entire article. The person claims British descent and uses Britain as an example. I hate to say this but after living in the UK for a number of years I noticed a general laziness and reduced productivity among the locals (due to their colonial past and rich social services schemes) and foreigners finding excellent niches to be rather enterprising. However, such things are never stated.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120514/local/73-migrants-being-brought-to-malta.419708
Anyway, I should really stop wasting my time trying to understand the Maltese heart – I always ended up disillusioned by the fact that we will never change.
Finally, it is no wonder that Malta had a fascist past and, probably, a neo-Fascist party would be a success if they had clear and comprehensive political schema to mask certain fundamentalist aspects that one reads in Mr Lowell’s website.
“Daqt imiss lilna”
Speaks volumes.
On a totally different note, what a totally bloody waste of time the remove-RCC-motion hearings are. Why are the PL hell-bent on doing totally useless things?
Is Hollande a short man? He looked as tall as Merkel in a photo I saw in the news papers yesterday. Or is Joseph taking growing pills since he looks big in this photo!
There is something definitely wring with this picture, the perspective maybe or has it been photoshopped? Or has Joseph become larger than life?
You never lose an opportunity to refer to the LP leader as “Malta’s future Prime Minister”. So why are you so surprised that others do likewise?
Which reminds me of your free flowing insults, and your surpise at others making a mention of a fact that could be interpreted as one to whoever.
But then of course, you are above the rest of us, thus different rules apply there I guess.
[Daphne – The crucial difference, Mandango (what a stupid nick) is that I am not a politician. Work it out.]
The PL need at least another five years in Opposition – then, maybe only then, will they be able to really change their attitudes and come down to earth on serious matters.
I really mean this in all honesty and for the best interest of Malta. By that time too, the old guard would have become too weary to continue in politics – or am I being over-optimistic. On our part we have to work hard to retain what we have gained over the past 25 years (less two years) and not lose everything just for the sake of change.
Chris Cardona fuq Facebook:
Bongu hbieb u kuragg ghax dalwaqt imiss lilna li nerbhu.
About time! wara 16-il sena!
Nispera li taghmlux xi storja ohra u tergghu titilfu, Sur Chris Cardona.
Daphne – for your attention
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17958520
…and in Malta some people prefer Maltese to be the medium of teaching at university.