Why I will drive for six hours to catch a Ryanair flight to Malta to vote for the Nationalist Party
Posted by Maximus Aurelius:
I have had it up to here with these so called ‘disgruntled Nationalists’. Let’s look at the facts – you are disgruntled if you expect something personal and don’t get it. If you expect nothing personal then you can’t be disgruntled.
The so-called disgruntled Nationalists are those who expected hand-outs and didn’t get them. Those who prefer the fish to the rod and the knowledge to use it.
In direct reference to JPO and Mugliett – an employee in the private industry who does not perform, or who completely screws up his/her job, is asked to leave.
If they’re capable, they find a job elsewhere and life goes on. They do not hang around and taunt their employer until they make the company they work for bankrupt.
Yes Jeffrey, yes Mugliett – you both screwed up in your positions yet you expected to be given important roles again. How did you work that one out?
I chose the rod and the knowledge of how to use it. I never expected anything apart from an environment where I could learn and better myself.
I graduated from a univeristy that actually paid me to study there. I followed a career because there was an environment which enabled me to do so.
When I took an opportunity to work and live abroad I did so because the party in government had a vision to enter Malta into the EU and therefore created an environment where I could.
I never expected hand-outs, I never expected to have my cake and eat it, and I never asked a politician for a cushy job. That is why I am not a disgruntled Nationalist and that is why, although Air Malta do not operate in the country where I live, I will drive for six hours to catch a Ryanair flight to Malta to exercise my duty to vote (and take note, JPO – it is a duty to vote) for the only party that can create that environment.
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Well done and bang on. I was actually trying to word a similar post but I was too busy to do so.
I hear people complaining about the cost of living and that they don’t have enough disposable income and in all this they blame the government.
I believe that to date, in Malta, if one wants to work and is capable to do so – he/she should have no problem to find employment.
I studied, had part-time jobs and also risked (still do) my money and capital. I have business loans and there are nights when I don’t sleep.
Others have a 9-4 job, basic wage and have it rather easy but still complain that they need a change in government.
Maybe they should have changed their approach in their teens when investing time for their career.
Maximus Aurelius shows what true Nationalists are.
[Daphne – No, he just shows what sensible and principled people are.]
Correct, but true Nationalists were always sensible and principled.
” the university paid for you to study”
And where do you think the University got the money?
May be father Xmas. ( that according to my handbook is nothing but a Handout}
Your definition of “dissgruntled Nationalists ” is completly wrong. If I ever expected to be paid for what I did,It would have been the natural thing to just toe the line and to hell with my principles.
But I can assure you that there are still some around, of my age, who will never be Yes men, just to get along.
I would rather starve to death, than forgo my principles.
If I were you, I would have been happier if “the party in Govt
.. had created an enviorment were you could work, in Malta,not having to emigrate to make a living.
So many people content themselves with everything, but as long as it was your choice,so be it.
You quote the saying of the rod etc.
I will quote:( It might have been confucious}
A good horse sells in it’s country
Silvio, getting a stipend for going to University is not a handout, just as much as getting a salary for being employed is not a handout.
The reasoning behind this is that university graduates tend to find better paid jobs which translate into more taxes paid.
So in effect it’s an investment not a handout.
I did not ’emigrate’ as you put it. I work for a global organisation that has offices in 120 countries, including Malta.
I have chosen a different jurisdiction to gain all the relevant experience and rest assured that I will be back home in due course.
So you see, my vote for PN is also an investment.
You say ‘a good horse sells in it’s country’. I say that a great horse sells wherever, and never has it been more obvious.
Good day.
Well said.
Hear, hear! Prosit.
But when I told you that we are self sufficient and thus don’t need any government to move forward, my comment shocked you. Some consistency please. Good day.
[Daphne – What an unbelievably stupid remark this is, Luigi. Of course you need the conditions set by the state (the government) to move forward with your life. That’s why so many of my generation utterly despise the Labour Party – because it created conditions in Malta where it was impossible for us to do anything much with our lives. People of sense also despise it (and particularly Muscat) for attempting to keep Malta out of the EU. Imagine how lovely life as a Maltese would have been then. You have the right conditions, but then it’s up to you to make the most of them. If you can’t see this, then you really have a problem and only yourself to blame if things don’t turn out the way you think they should for you. If Labour screws the economy over, as it usually does because it knows no better, then you can wake at dawn and work through the night, and you still won’t get anywhere. Look around you, and I don’t mean in Malta. People of my generation don’t need to be taught this because we experienced it directly.]
What a total idiot your are, Luigi.
” I chose the rod and the knowledge of how to use it.”
“an environment where I could learn and better myself.”
“I followed a career because there was an environment which enabled me to do so.”
“When I took an opportunity to work and live abroad I did so because the party in government had a vision to enter Malta into the EU and therefore created an environment where I could.”
Does that sound as if the state had nothing to do with how this man’s life is panning out? It’s ‘cara daqs il-kristall’ to all but the most obtuse.
Thanks to Labour, my own generation had no opportunities to grab, nothing to look forward to, zilch to dream about. Our fantasies centred around one day being able to speak our minds without fearing retribution, and our country having good relations with countries not headed by despots and dictators.
I think Luigi should run off and study for his exams. There’s a good boy.
I always say that good sense will always prevail. Maximus Aurelius is the perfect example.
I share his sentiment about people expecting personal favours when I speak with colleagues who have a grudge against the government.
Why they have a grudge when they have a steady income, own a home, have all the luxuries one can need and travel once or twice a year is beyond me.
[Daphne – It’s because they think others have more than they do, and that this is unfair or that this ‘more’ has been unfairly obtained. They feel hard done by because however well they’re doing, they are ever conscious of the individuals who they believe are doing better. Twas ever thus.]
I just hope that these people come to their senses and realize what they’re risking.
indeed..spot on both of you
The whiners are all middle-aged. That should tell you something about the source of their frustration.
Since I am not very eloquent, I couldn’t convey what I feel for a very long time. Reading this post had me nodding to every single line because this is exactly what I’ve wanted to say to all the floaters/disgruntled Nationalists who think they can have it better under a different government.
Pie in the sky, pie in the effin’ sky is all they will get.
Maximus Aurelius’s feelings are exactly like mine. I’ve had it up to my nose with people grumbling that they didn’t get this or that.
I keep telling them that what is important is that we have a framework where we can fulfill all our potential in whatever field we choose, something which we never had before.
Exactly!
This reminds me of a common refrain you hear in interviews: “Ehe, nixtieq hafna immur it-Tibet. Kieku tigini l-opportunita’, kieku immur it-Tibet” (or any other location).
It always leaves me wondering what it is that this person is waiting for exactly – a lottery win for a trip to Tibet?
The mentality that things simply fall out of the sky and into your lap is still too prevalent on this island.
Couldn’t have put it better.
Well if the Nationalist Party needs the votes of people who have to drive for 6 hours to catch a flight to Malta, instead of trying to convice at least half of the 300,000 actually living on the island, it is in dire straits indeed!
[Daphne – You’ve got the wrong end of the stick, Albert. Successful people with drive, self-reliance and initiative tend to support the Nationalist Party (or more specifically, think the Labour Party is total bollocks). That’s why many of them, in the younger generation, tend to be very busy making something of their lives away from Malta, if only temporarily. Literally hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the PN’s core vote, in the younger generation, are now not in Malta. With Labour’s reasoning, they should have been stopped.]
If it was for Labour, we would not have been given the opportunity for a better education. And if we moved abroad to work or study, they would have done whatever they could to stop us from coming to vote.
Albert written in blind faith in nothingness, by a true red Maltese socialist.
Albert, for once I beg to differ with Daphne.
You are that obtuse that you simply do not know that a stick has two ends.
Who is in dire straits? The PN? Certainly not.
The PN is not promising heaven on earth, the PL is – knowing well that it will not. Now don’t come blaming Adam and Eve for that.
And this is why Labour does not want these people to vote.
You know it’s so strange and funny how in Malta a political party boasts about “opening up opportunities for Maltese to go to work abroad”.
Yes, it is great that people have this chance, but I have never heard any political leader in any campaign in any other country boast about this.
Can you imagine Obama saying “My administration has given young people the chance to leave America and make a future elsewhere”. Or Berlusconi boasting that “Sotto il mio mandato milioni di giovani sono andati all’estero per il lavoro.” Really a case of Only in Malta.
[Daphne – Yes, Albert, only in Malta because only Malta has a population of 400,000+ on two small rocks. And this is not about the ‘financial emigrant’ aspect, either. It’s all about broadening one’s outlook. What did we get thanks to the most insular period of Maltese history, 1974 to 2004? People who think that today we are suffering agony thanks to GOnziPn, and that we need a change in direction even though we are doing better than all our neighbours put together.]
I’m sorry, Albert, but comparing to Italy or USA is rather ignorant.
Do you think that Europeans do not travel to the neighbouring countries, and even beyond, to gain work experience or even study? They do go back home you know.
In this day and age, if one wants to excel and move forward in their career, working abroad is beneficial. Especially to gain knowledge and experience that can be used here.
By working abroad I do not mean leaving Malta and making a future there.
Albert, so what you’re saying is that when PL wanted us to believe that Europeans will come and take our jobs in Malta if we joined the EU they were talking utter rubbish?
How right you are.
Even us old codgers made and are still making something of ourselves outside Malta. We had to as relying on government to provide all was and is not the way things are run outside Malta.
That big daddy patronizing mentality should have left the Maltese psyche in 1800 along with the last Grandmaster.
Self-reliance is a foreign concept to many Maltese especially many Labour supporters. Many would be included in the 49 percenters if they lived in the USA.
Those are the ones with the “gibsmedat” mentality and public-funded section 8 housing, to spread the misery around that is tearing the great nation apart with their crime and laziness and unwarranted entitlement and constant whining.
No, Albert Farrugia, someone who feels compelled to drive for six hours to catch a flight to Malta so he can vote is not doing a favour to the Nationalist Party.
He is simply trying his damnedest to preserve an investment Malta made when it joined the EU and making sure that no idiot with a brain the size of a flea’s will screw things up.
Some people here, obvious Labour elves, guarantee that the Labour Party never changes and the same party values them because of their inability to figure things out for themselves, so they continue to believe what the charlatans feed them.
I’d rather starve abroad than live comfortably in Malta.
So yes, only in Malta and up yours.
This post should be sent to all those young people out there living in other countries and earning a living to remind them that they were able to do so thanks to the Nationalist Party’s vision. Just in case they are feeling too busy not to bother to vote.
Hopefully sense will prevail and people living aBroad will be permitted to vote electronically without having to go to the trouble of making the trip back. A hassle for them and a huge cost to the country to provide cheap flights. Madness in this electronic age.
Thank you Maximus – I am sick and tired of harping on this subject.
You vote for a party because you sincerely believe that its policies are the best for your country and not best for your own narrow-minded concerns.
What’s the point of getting 25% off your utilities bill if 10,000 people lose their jobs?
I am sick and tired of hearing people say that suffered because they were Nationalist and never got anything in return or they asked favours from the PN and never got them.
They still have the old southern Mediterranean mentality of village patronage.
A political party is not a job centre or an employment agency. If you want a job, go and bloody well find one.
We have so many opportunities nowadays, we are spoilt for choice.
The MLP, besides using the politics of envy (Maltese “lanzit”), has brainwashed its social benefits scroungers into expecting everything for free from the state – in Maltese “mhabbla u mredda” (I think).
Who is this? Massimo Farrugia?
H.P. Baxxter, no I am not.
And it is exactly people like the author, people who can think and reason, who have struck out and made it on their own, who don’t wait for the proverbial manna to fall into their laps.
In other words, not the William Mangions of this earth, but the very people that Labour move heaven and earth to deprive of their vote.
Great post!
this article is just spot on…can’t add anything else.
My daughter will also drive for three hours to catch a plane to come over to vote – obviously for the party which invested in our children and gave them the possibility to study abroad. Well said, Maximus.
My daughter is most determined to fly back from the UK and vote to ensure that the party which has created opportunities for her in Malta and in the EU is returned to govern, and that the party which is still anti-EU is pushed back into Opposition. And she has important exams either side of the election.
I could not go to university when I was young, because it was closed to most people who, like me, went to a church school.
I got my degree in the Nineties – the Nationalist government had removed any barriers to education.
I am living and working abroad, because I can do so. I have an EU passport, because of the Nationalist Party’s determination to join the EU. My son is studying and working abroad, because he can.
Had it been up to Joseph and the rest of his bandwagon, all of this would have been denied us.
How can we forget so easily?
I know I cannot and that is why I, too, will be making a long trip to come over to vote.
Agree completely. These are the true Nationalists. People who only vote for a political party or work for its election so that they’ll gain something they shouldn’t when the party is in power, or have unfair advantage over others, are pure parasites and should go with Labour, as it is there that their instincts lie.
As already noted by the others, the government is there to creat an adequate environment for one to progress, something which the PL is not capable of and with the present lot surely are not able to.
People like William Mangion should be ashamed of selling their vote for a job and even more ashamed of boasting about it on the news media.
Judging by the density of elvish, this post’s hit a nerve.
One word comes to mind seeing why they had to react, losers.
http://ctzen.it/2013/01/21/lavoro-mollo-tutto-e-vado-a-malta-tanti-posti-dal-turismo-al-gioco-online/
Well done.
I have been voting P.N since 1998 when I turned 18. Up until about a year ago I swore to myself that if there had to be an election tomorrow I wouldn’t vote.
But when reality kicks in, when I see that there is a good chance the MALTA LABOUR PARTY can be running Malta (God forbid) it really scares me and knocks sense into me.
Once again I will make it a point to get out there and vote P.N because despite some shortcomings, some of which have pissed me off slightly, I know that life in Malta is generally pretty good despite the global rescession.
II will do my very best to make damn sure it stays that way.
That can only be achieved by keeping the MLP in opposition where they belong.
Bravo! Spot on! I totally agree with Maximus Aurelius.
Prosit! Fully agree
Perfect reasoning, Marcus. When you have the responsibility to vote you do it in terms of the best for the country and not for some whimsical and silly reasoning of not having this and not obtaining a personal request.
I’ve just had a brother over from England and he was so impressed by the packed tearooms and restuarants every day, noon and evenings; he did not mince his words to say how lucky we were to have a free university education and as for the electricity bills, there is no comparision with what they have to pay in the UK.
Free medicines? He couldn’t believe it.
Never was a population more pampered.
Chris Mifsud, I feel exactly the same way and swore I would not vote.
Now I will be the first not to vote for the people who did not deliver.
If you are upset by a particular Minister or back bencher, do not vote for them.
But if you feel you are living in a safe and stable country and do not want to risk all you have, vote for the new candidates.
Can we share some of these posts on the social media?
[Daphne – There is a Facebook button beneath every one.]
“We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living” – Hank Williams Jr.
Thanks to Ryanair and Easyjet Labour cannot say that people working abroad earning good money are “Itturufnati”.