Muscat: that’s leadership for you
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January 26, 2013 at 8:51am
Just look at his shifty, childish, evasive stance and response when a reporter asks him where he was when his supposedly admired Eddie Fenech Adami took Malta into the European Union.
“Kont qieghed hawn Malta hux.”
Ha ha haj.
“Yes, but what were you doing?”
“I was taking part in this country’s democratic debate.”
Shift, shift, shuffle.
God help us.
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You’d better tell us your opinion on quotas. U turn bhal dik.
[Daphne – What are you on about.]
Let me come to your aid.
You’re against quotas allocated to the gentle sex on govt boards. So was the pn until recently. Now pn has had a sudden change of heart (a nicer way o say U turn), and thus Luigi is asking, understandably, if you changed your position too.
Hold your horses, isn’t that Edward Mintofionomics Scicluna MEP, presiding as chairman?
Karistu Abela.
Kif tasal biex tivvota ghal bniedem bhala leader ta’ partit li kien aggressivament kontra s-shubija fl-Ewropa meta Malta kenet diga dahlet, hija haga kontra l-raguni ghal ahhar. Min ivvutalu haqqu jissejjah bakkaljaw, izjed u izjed meta dak li ikkontestah kien hafna izjed superjuri minnu.
There is no word in the English language that can adequately describe this man’s hypocrisy.
Ehh, x’inhu gej ghalina.
I was thinking yesterday on these lines… that a reporter should put some a list of very specific, pointed and well drawn up questions to Muscat, Scicluna, Grech etc.
In reading the Orizzont.. I noticed the following:
They are playing with the electorate: deliberately putting points forward that have nothing to do with the context and using these as a platform, but one that is not logically sound as a platform: eg…the list of points drawn up yesterday (lists are an excellent tactic but not when the veracity or context of the contents are questionable and irrelevant);
They are using their newly found expertise on statistics to drown their readers in this supposed brilliance and by the same token push for innovation. Anyone worth their salt will tell you that statistics don’t give you innovation: they keep you within the same set of elements. Statistics and analysis may help in understanding – according to the measurement tools used – the bases in place, but not in “producing” it.
I have been thinking and asking Labour supporters: why? what’s your reason for giving them your vote?
Some of the Gozitans are quite clear: ma’ haqqnix lilna naqra xoghol: dawn il-Maltin kollha li jigu jiehdu xoghlna meta lanqas m’hemm minn fejn tiekol. Dawn l-ahhar snin qieghdin nieklu milli ghandna. Kemm ser ndumu hekk? Jaqaw id-direkt orders spiccew jew?
Maltese: one of whom told me she recently refused to meet the terms of an offer of quite a good public contract… so that she wouldn’t be seen as favoured with the NP government ‘just in case’ they lost. Hedging their bets? The courtiers taking protective stances?
Another knows his future income is well guaranteed anyway under the NP administrative system but said: why not verbally declare myself for Labour now and whether or not they come up use the contacts that “New Labour” money would bring anyway?
Didn’t realise Malta was under the sway of such flimsy, superficial values, that have no thought as to where this country is heading in the long term. That there is sufficient health of system in the country today is one thing, but such speculation may not be such of a luxury once the logically sane safety net is changed.
I have spoken to others who used to vote Labour but are quite thankful for today’s lifestyle. Whilst in their hearts yes, they would like to see a pure Labour in power, in their minds they don’t want to risk the efforts they have made and the road they have come.
As to Bencini going over. I think the MUT- stuck in its ruts for years – is well rid of him. These are people who continue to put spokes in the wheel throughout their term of office. Well the reason becomes clearer. Why they are allowed to remain on in their position in the first place is questionable, and any future public placement should be well observed.
Perhaps a growing up phase was necessary:
Job security yes, but in terms of complacency and results, how can you sack without being blasted by law suits, press, unions etc? At least these systems are in place and it time for these to function as they should. And how can you fast track the career of the more deserving without facing the same sort of injustice claims. Even if this has precisely nothing to do with favuri and nepotism? Sometimes it takes an incident such as this to move the dinosaur. The one time Joseph has done Malta a favour.
So perhaps for this reason Joseph and Co are finding it blindingly useful to say the NP is ‘complacent’. That is not the case. The NP administration is fair as a rule. It is again up to the individual to treat that job or enterprise he is in not as a resting bench or a place that should cover him/her in glory, but one where results are tendered in in terms of efficiency and profits, in line with company, organizational, national ethics and policy.
It boils down to a sense of personal responsibility. For too many years we have had to shoulder characters whose social contract only goes one way on the balance: takers rather than givers.
I’ve seen the electricity metres that work backwards: installed in the houses of Labour supporters, where the person from the electricity company coming to take the reading was known and also a Labour supporter. And this under consecutive Nationalist Administrations. No eyebrows lifted. This was a common occurrence. Is it because such practices have been curtailed in a general fashion (not case by case) that we have this big fuss on now? Before it was much more than 25% reduction of costs. A/cs on at full blast winter and summer and then literally turn the meter round so that the numbers reverse and are not so conspicuous.
Not a thought that it wasn’t right, or fair, or legal.
So when they continue to try and insist with their supporters: we have nothing to be ashamed of. No. Of course not. It’s a bit difficult when you don’t really know the meaning of shame. And when there seems to be a blanket instruction for selective memory to apply.
Sinjal li it struck a nerve.
You should be invited over to gonzi’s next mass meeting kemm ikollok xi tghid. Not that I read it, imma quite extensive prosit.
@ Joseph no2eu Muscat
Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Idiot?
Kemm kien jitkellem sabih Eddie Fenech Adami. “Fawturi”
“Kont Malta, qieghed niehu sehem f’dibattitu demokratiku”.
Typical Labour balderdash, not to use the correct Maltese equivalent (probably not allowed on this blog, either).
No, it’s allowed. I do it all the time.
Me too.
Muscat should be well-advised to keep his filthy little paws off Fenech Adami .
A fourth rateTV station reporter should steer clear of The elder statesman and pater patriae.
It will benefit Joey if he goes to Matthew 3:11 and learns all about thong sandals.
He can always try even if the learning bit might prove difficult.
An insult to human intelligence.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/603053_10151684727599741_57931785_n.jpg
using the car as a platform to wave to people…who does he think he is? Robbie Williams?
The Golden Tablet
When the people saw that Joseph was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Laurence and said, “Come, show us the way forward. As for this fellow Joseph who is forming a new middle class and is promising us the earth, we don’t know what has happened to him.”
Laurence answered them, “Tell me where you want to go and I’ll take you there.” So all the people spoke to Laurence and he listened to them. For thirteen months he listened to them and took note. He took what they told him and made it into an electoral program, fashioning it with a tool and presenting it to the people in the form of a booklet. Then they said, “This is the party you should vote for, Malta, who brought you up out of colonialism and into the EU.”
When Laurence saw this, he went on TV and announced, “We shall be giving tablets to all primary and secondary students and their teachers” So the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
Then Dom said to Joseph, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of socialism, coloured light blue and formed into a movement, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a tablet. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, This is the party you should vote for, Malta, who brought you up out of colonialism and into the EU.”
“I have seen these people,” the DOM said to Joseph, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
But Joseph sought the favour of Dom. “Dom,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you oppressed with great power and a mighty hand, but to whom you gave children allowance? Why should the PN say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them il-helsien, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. Remember your servants Lorry, Karmenu and Leo, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” Then Dom relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Joseph turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of Dom; the writing was the writing of Dom, engraved on the tablets.
When Louis heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Joseph, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”
Joseph replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.”
Louis replied, “Oh Great Leader, Lawrence has promised them a tablet for all primary and secondary school students and tablets for their teachers. Lawrence has promised them a €1,000 pension fund for every newborn child”. They are going to vote for Lawrence.
When Joseph approached the camp and saw the people dancing and indulging in revelry, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain, saying “Shit. Foiled again”. He stamped his feet, kicked Louis in the shin, buttoned his jacket, stuck out his chin, grabbed Michelle who was dancing with and hugging everybody ghax thobbom, by the arm and exited stage left. (To be continued)
Who is the gorgeous guy behind Muscat at the very beginning of the video?
[Daphne – No idea. It always surprises me to find how very different a gay man’s definition of ‘gorgeous man’ is to a straight woman’s. The first thing we would notice about him (as I did) is his helicopter ears and that he looks like he spends too much time and effort on grooming (major turn-off).]
The graph cannot be displayed, would you mind re-posting the link?
And what about the time when he was a journalist in 1996? Don’t you remember when Joseph Muscat, the journalist, ridiculed Eddie Fenech Adami?
Where are those clips?
Coming soon, I hope!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4VUQTLznwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5DtigIC-D9w&feature=endscreen
Jog anyone’s memory?
And, as expected: “Concluding Dr Muscat said the Pl was welcoming new people and assuring them that they had nothing to fear from the past. He noted what former President Eddie Fenech Adami had said about young people not interested in the past, and said the PL wanted to build a new future where all those who wanted to could participate.” http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130127/elections-news/procurement-corruption-muscat-asks-who-has-dirtied-his-hands-in-oil.454986
On the contrary, actually, Eddie Fenech Adami – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI2BxaYmNyA
Someone else shares my sentiments about Eddie Fenech Adami’s interview in The Sunday Times today, though he put it too simplistically:
“John Spiteri
Today, 20:54
We do respect grey hairs and we do thank you very much from saving us from the tyranny and hatred of the socialist regeme. But this time you are very wrong. How can one forget those years without water, without electricity. To eat a dish of spaghetti we had to cross over to Ragusa. The Police Headquarters still bear the stigma of a concentration camp of torture and murder.”