EU membership doesn’t figure in Muscat’s list of the PN’s top achievements since 1987. But the ban on smoking does.
Joseph Muscat held a much-trumpeted ‘chat’ on Facebook last night. It was heavily advertised.
And it was also a disaster.
He came in late (for a change) because he was watching football. Meanwhile, some of his subliterate and bewildered supporters had gathered already, asking:
fejn ic chat pls?
tista tejdli fejn ic chat?
ic chat fejnu?
There were some brilliant observations:
Carmen Camilleri
joseph mexjien imma ma irdux jemmnu bil pjan li edna u li u ahjar ghal pajizna mohok hemm halijom jejdu u shabek edin joqobuatanti ghal kull mistoqsieja iinsomma kurac max li inti bravu onest gha mamta aghana good bless you your family u ghal maltin kolla u viva il labour mela come on boys and grils coat berita xalau barra ha nahdmu ok joseph
Amid the inanities, a sensible question came in:
Etienne Vella
Dr Joseph Muscat, b’mod oggettiv, kiku kellek tazel l-iktar haga li ghogbitek li ghamel l-PN fl-ahhar 5 snin xi tkun? u l-iktar haga li ghogbitek li ghamel l-PN fl-ahhar 25 sena? grazzi hafna.
Joseph Muscat
Etienne: Se nghidlek 2 affarijiet li ghogbuni f’ 25 sena: Il-liberalizazzjoni f’ diversi oqsma tal-ekonomija u l-abolizzjoni tat-tipjip minn postijiet pubblici.
Can you believe it? EU membership doesn’t get a mention, even though it’s been the making of him, and the banning of smoking in public places does.
I think we can remove the fake pro-EU mask now.
Oh, but I forgot: it was Joseph Muscat and Labour who took us into Europe.
By this morning, they’d removed the evidence of Joseph Muscat’s inanities and wildly ignorant support base. The much trumpeted FB Chat has been wiped by the Coconut using his Stalin Magic Marker.
I should be able to manage 20 minutes, with the help of a teleprompter
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I see that the two years of Labour government do not even merit a mention.
They’ve now magicked away the original announcement too. A couple of hours ago, it was still there.
Gha mamta aghana?
I know! Can’t stop laughing long enough to try and understand what the heck she wanted to say with that.
My husband said he thinks it’s “ghax Malta taghna”.
By the way, where has Marisa Micallef gone? We haven’t heard from or of her for ages.
What PL is doing is akin to a marketing strategy, rebranding as a movement, of its logo, blue ties etc.
Five years of continuous attacks on anything the government has done, doing so to create this sense of dissatisfaction with the PN product in order to attract customers (voters) to the other side.
The use of billboards which are continuously changing.
They do not have one single solid arguement for change but are increasing their visibility to sell their party/movement.
The difference with PN is just that, PL are heavily investing on marketing but do not have anything of worth to sell, whereas PN are the party of real change and respect the people choice and do not fall to these cheap sales tricks. Pl are ridiculing democracy and people’s intelligence.
Both things Joseph mentions are still directly related to EU in one way.
Does anybody out there have a record of this? I would love to have a read through it.
I managed to understand most of what Carmen Camilleri wrote, but can someone tell me what ‘joqobuatanti’ means?
Unbelievable: Yes, unbelievable how Daphne managed to understand what Carmen Camilleri wrote. “Joqobuatanti” What’s that?
‘joqoghdu attenti’, presumably.
Haven’t figured out “max li inti bravu onest gha mamta aghana” though. Did Joseph answer this comment?
“L-abolizzjoni tat-tipjip minn postijiet publici”.
Judging by the many photos on Facebook showing young, and not so young, people in bars and nightclubs posing with glass of alcohol and cigarette in hand, that law is being broken all the time.
By the way, most of them are your avid supporters, dear Joseph.
The authorities should also take note. I cannot believe that there is all the proof all one needs showing the law being broken all the time but no one cares to do anything about it.
Daqs Obama jaf jitkellem id- dear leader fil- mass meetings. Not.
It would be interesting to know the “best” thing Mintoff ever did. Giving women the vote?
[Daphne – He didn’t even do that. That was Boffa’s government.]
It wasn’t even Boffa, it was the British, as in, “here, this is your new constitution… take it or leave it”
Spot on.
Clearly, reducing the power that the church had over the electorate.
No matter what you say, the church had to be put in its place. Obviously, the way in which Mintoff went about doing it was disgusting and out of spite more than anything – but the result was positive. We can’t have the Archbishop telling us what to do.
You must be a young person who is repeating hearsay. Any politician, especially before independence, had to take heed of the church’s influence on contemporary society. After the Mintoff-Boffa split the Labour Party became more defiant and belligent in attitude.
But, generally speaking, Mintoff unleashed his vitriolic attack on the Church after his failed Integration Plan with Britain. He attributed this failure mainly to Archbishop Gonzi’s insistence on guarantees for safeguards to the Catholic Church’s position in Maltese society. The Nationalists naturally were against Integration and they preferred a Dominion Status (like Canada).
It is true that the Church was openly ridiculed and vilified by the MLP, particularly as a result of the imposition of religious sanctions at elections which hinged on the (in)famous Six Points. It is equally true, however that many, many Labour supporters continued their usual religious practices. This paradox was emblematic of the MLP slogan: Ma’ Kristu Iva, mal-Knisja Le!
It is convincingly argued that Maltese society really started to feel alienated from the Church after Independence, with the economic boom that followed the PN’s drive to industrialise the country and open it to foreigners via tourism. It is the new-found political and cultural freedom, coupled with increased material wealth and interaction with foreigners and new attitudes, that eroded the church’s influence.
As a matter of fact, during the first years of the new Labour govt., as the political climate became tense and the economy continued to slow down (at the same time as the OPEC oil-crisis raised its head), Maltese society become more inward-looking and parochial. People again started to flock around the church, this time not for guidance or religious practice, but to organise more lavish and extravagant village festas.
One of the first things Labour did then was to ‘liberalise’ external festivities in the sense that secondary feasts were put on equal footing with that of the patron saint festa. (Guze Cassar). The resurgence in village festas experienced then continues unabated to ridiculous levels to this day.
When claiming that Mintoff put a stop on the Church’s influence on society, one should remember that normally it is the concrete gamut of economic conditions that determine the dominating culture and ideology of a society.
Maybe Muscat was using Eddy Privitera as his personal teleprompter.
josephmuscat.com: is-soltu b’ ingravata blue u addio l-ahmar.
Here’s a good question for you:
If Labour get a one seat majority, who is the most likely PL MP to “Do a Mintoff” and vote against the Labour government in a vote of confidence?
The only one without a ministry.
Jason, who else. He’s dying to take his place.
Fir-ritratt: tiela’ t-tarag. Another practice-run for Castille?
Joseph Muscat wants to emulate Mintoff in many ways but thankfully doesn’t have to stamina to give 3-hour speeches.
He had all the time to explain the electoral programme of the PL and also ample time to explain this mega project he is proposing for a new power station but we heard nothing of this and as always a speech with no substance at all. Exactly like Mintoff used to do.
Joseph Muscat and his team are trying to deceive the Maltese people with this huge project as everyone in his right senses knows that it is not feasable and that it will have a negative effect on the water and electricity tarrifs.
I assume that Gozo PL supporters went to the meeting to hear about Joseph Muscat’s plans to evolve more work for them, but as usual he did not mention anything and he told jounalists that he will divulge his plans when the time comes and in an opprtune time. No wonder Gozo always voted for the PN.
Can he at least tell us when this opportune time will come?
I seriously cannot believe the reason why at this time and age when the Maltese have matured so much, especially in education and also in mentality, thanks to the ON governments, there are still such an amount of people who vote Labour. I am sure that these voters do not understand politics at all and most of them are brainwashed or illiterate.
Very well said, Rija. My father and I were Labourites once, way back in the 1950s. As I grew up and received higher education I started to realise that the Labour speakers are nothing more than an insult to one’s intelligence.
Through persuasion I even converted my father. We made the switch in 1958.
Up to this day, Labour speakers always try to manipulate the poor in mind.
I cannot stand it and most often I turn off their talks on the media.
If some people are poor in education you should help them to educate themselves and not take advantage of their ignorance.
This is exactly what the Labour Party ALWAYS did – take advantage of ignorance of all kinds. This is why I can never ever vote Labour.