Jeffrey seems to have forgotten that he represents the people who voted for him
Well, what do you know. Some snakes have limbs. Jeffrey and Evarist, brought together by their son and daughter, who are going out together. Sweet.
“No official should consider himself above this House,” Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando said in parliament.
More to the point, Jeffrey: no member of parliament should consider himself above the wishes of those who put him there. You hold your seat because a few thousand Nationalist supporters gave it to you TO REPRESENT US.
Instead, you use that seat for your own ends and to execute personal vendettas.
May you rot in hell.
But then perhaps you are doing that already. I can find no other explanation for the manner in which you always seem to be miserable, even when drinking, and haunted by personal demons.
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Fathers in law.
Jeffery Pullicino Orlando ghalinqas ghal darba ghandu jkun sincier u jghid fuq liema naha qieghed.
From the regular constipated expression on his face, you’d say he is currently sitting on an uncomfortable part of the fence.
JPO should rot in the deepest hell with the devil poking him at least once a second for eternity, possibly in the nether region.
I believe that Payback Orlando will support the government up to next year. This would give the woman he is about to marry some time to re-brand herself as “Pullicino Orlando” and then to garner his votes.
Why all this animosity towards Richard Cachia Caruana? I wonder why JPO voted with the Opposition?
Is it really something he is supposed to have done to him, or is it all about something the Opposition plans to do FOR him?
Could we please have a break from JPO, and update us to what really matters to the country, I mean, the Prime Minster for a day. Some updates please? Thanks.
[Daphne – It might be beyond your comprehension, but this matters on a national scale. Politics is not a game, nor is the administration of the country.]
On the first anniversary of the introduction of the divorce legslation to Malta, I seem to remember a commentary on Labour’s radio or tv station where they stated quite brazenly that ‘following an earlier suggestion for the introduction of divorce in Malta by the leader of the Labour Party, MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando took it on himself to present a private member’s bills on the subject thanks to which the divorce bill became law.
In other words, Jeffrey presented that bill after being prompted by Muscat.
Was Jeffrey’s vote yesterday a quid pro quo?
It is now painfully obvious that with a fifth columnist in their midst, the Nationalists cannot continue to govern effectively.
With a heavy heart I must concede that there is no other real option at this point. This death by a thousand cuts is too painful to watch and the PM going through the motions as if nothing is happening is pathetic at best.
It would be far better for the PM to cut his losses and call a general election. At least he would have a fighting chance and the freedom to call a spade a spade and a traitor a traitor.
At worst Joseph Muscat would be the youngest moron ever to become prime minister and we would wander through the desert for five years. Next election the PN would hopefully have cleaned itself of all the flora and fauna and would be in the strongest position possible to contest.
Sorry, I do not agree with you. Having experienced Labour Party governments in the past I do not, if at all possible, want to go through another five years of nightmares.
I have had more than enough of such worries. I think it is the Labour Party who desperately needs to cleanse itself of the oldguards if they think they have some chance of winning the next elections, never through my or my family’s vote though. I can forget but will never forgive their past.
No way, being elected to government is a duty, giving up simply because a couple of idiots think it’s democratic to personify democracy, is for Labour leaders.
There’s one thing the PM has to do, cut the don’t-blow-my-trumpet crap and shortstep these gits.
As for any hidden agenda on Labour’s ticket, are they positive people like Franco, Jeffrey and Jesmond will still be around to help? If so, they’re utter morons.
Take it to the real issues and the proposals, the ones determining our future, Labour can’t mention them, hijacked as they are by forces outside the party. Let them fester in the mess they created, the smell has turned repulsive.
Would anyone allow Labour in its present state anywhere near environmental policy related to economic growth?
No thanks.
Buffu.
He just cannot get himself to remember that week. Accusing Richard Cachia Caruana in this manner makes him the object of further ridicule.
‘Criticising a person politically is one thing but to destroy or discard them simply because they do not bow down to you is unacceptable and anti-democratic.’
Jeffrey should just stop and listen to what he’s saying, to understand how stupid he sounds.
Democracy, such a buzzword nowadays, is based on trust and I would be disgusted if Richard Cachia Caruana used his so-called power to defend Jeffrey’s interests.
What we have now is Richard’s resignation instead of this clown’s. The only positive thing to come out of this is that Joseph’s cry for accountability is proving to be material for mature adults.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120620/local/Pullicino-Orlando-It-wasn-t-personal.425095
My thoughts exactly. Thanks for writing them down.
Lest we forget: JPO’s bride-to-be was the whole motivation on JPO’s personal agenda that instigated the divorce issue; far off the altruistic intentions in rescue of the miserable battered wives. She has surely a finger in the pie in this latest Richard Cachia Caruana saga.
Kif jgħid sew il-Malti, “Meta iż-żgħira tkun fil-glorja, il-kbira titlef il-memorja” (u iktar minn hekk, kull sens ta’ raġuni).
U din ORLANDO min fejn gaba? Meta konna l-iskola, Pullicino kien, biss.
Alfred Sant used to call him OrLAND at the time of the Mistra land scandal. Any guess why?
[Daphne – No answer. It’s his mother’s surname, and her father was the Labour politician Guze Orlando Smith, not Orland Smith. He would have been so ashamed of his grandson, given what I read about him. Fortunately for him, he never lived to see his disgrace. I don’t think Jeffrey ever knew him – he must died before he was born.]
@ Teddy Cilia
U iktar minn hekk, kull sens ta’ irgulija. Sfortunatament din il-klma lanqas ghada tezisti.
With all that happened in the past few weeks not a peep from Rapunzel in Brussels. Is he still biding his time to make a move to become PN leader? How old is he anyway?
[Daphne – Possibly, but Rapunzel in Brussels is probably more concerned with getting his Sargas project activated by the Labour government. That kind of money is not to be sniffed at.]
Franco Debono has every reason to be grateful to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. Compared to Jeffrey, Franco appears loyal, sober and even moderately intelligent.
Ma’ nezagerawx.
and with better survival instincts as well.
Are you serious about their offspring going out together?
[Daphne – What do you mean, serious? It’s either a fact or it’s not a fact. Yes, it’s a fact.]
Daphne, can you please explain this because I’m lost.
“Dr Pullicino Orlando said he had a courteous meeting with Mr Cachia Caruana at the backbencher’s house last week. “I assured him of one thing: I would never vote for personal reasons. I would never stoop to that level.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/…/Pullicino-Orlando-It-...
A hired assassin would say that he has nothing personal against his intended victim , but that he is simply doing a job for which he is being paid.
JPO voted with the PL and Mugliett abstained.
Could there be the hidden hand of the prisoner in Brussels in all this, given that here we see his associates lined up against his perceived enemy?
The commission on that Sargas power plant which Joseph Muscat has put on the table is pretty good.
Why not?
Joseph tries to propose Sargas as a viable option.
Marlene dampens his enthusiasm.
Joseph backs off.
Saviour issues an ultimatum a few weeks later.
Jeffrey votes to remove Malta’s representative in the EU where issues related to the technology are under scrutiny.
In other words, Joseph has second thoughts, Jeffrey moves in.
We have a stray poodle in the house now, poor thing.
My thoughts exactly. I would add that if an MP does not feel he belongs to a party any longer, he should resign or else have the guts to vote with the Opposition on votes that really matter.
Those are the two options. Pussy-footing is not an option, or, better, it is an option for pussies and JPO, Jesmond Mugliett and Franco Debono are spineless pussies.
As if they are willing to lose the salary/pension of an MP.
Limelight seeker JPO has done his country the biggest disservice by depriving it of the experience and expertise of Mr Cachia Caruana.
Another shameful act by someone who would be dumped in the skip of political nonentities after the next election.
One would have thought that you are the very reincarnation of Boudicea, Joan of Arc, the Medusa and Beryl the Peril, rolled into one, the way these grown men are scared shitless of you.
But are these grown-up whining men for real?
It’s unbelievable.
“Jeffrey seems to have forgotten that he represents the people who voted for him”
In a democracy he represents all his constituents, not just those who voted for him.
[Daphne – Not in the Maltese system, no. That’s why we have several MPs for each constituency, from both parties, and not just one from a single party, like in Britain. Maltese MPs work for all the constituency because they have no way of knowing who voted for them, and not because that’s the way it should be.]
Thanks – I stand corrected.
I’m a foreigner who is denied the vote. So in that case who represents me, or is it “taxation without representation”? Do you think EU (non-Maltese) citizens should be allowed to vote in Maltese general elections?
[Daphne – Yes. One of my best friends is a British subject who has lived here most of her life, was married to a Maltese man and has two Maltese children. This is her home. She has never voted, because being British, she can’t, despite having her entire life invested in Malta.]
I get told by some that foreigners shouldn’t get the vote as they don’t understand Maltese politics, and wouldn’t think about their vote sufficiently. My counter to that is, how many Maltese think about their vote sufficiently ? How many Maltese have even considered voting for a party other than their parent’s one?
I suspect within 10 years, it will be an EU-wide law that once resident in a country for more than 5 years, an EU citizen can vote in their country of residence even if not a citizen.
[Daphne – I don’t think it should be tied to nationality but to residence, as it is in Britain.]
Agree, but also think a minimum residence period to qualify is sensible.
The next question I get asked by Maltese is who would I vote for? Well, I’ve voted in council elections here in Gozo, and I’ve voted for candidates from 3 parties, plus an independent.
Maybe being an outsider makes it easier to compare one candidate to another, and one manifesto to another. The first criterion was whether the candidate produced a leaflet in English – if not, how do I know what they were standing for?