CRINGE. Kevin Drake humiliates himself while Joseph Muscat gloats and smirks.
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‘So let me reflect for a moment. When a mayor was kicked out of PN on corruption, Joseph Muscat gave him prime time on lejber media because he said “one is innocent until proven guilty” … but now for Austin Gatt it is not the same story?
Who is the person who divides the Maltese into “us” and “them”?? JOSEPH MUSCAT!! ‘. Joseph Aquilina on TOM
There is only one reason why Kevin Drake is licking Muscat’s backside. His estranged wife is highly successful in EU affairs whilst he has become a nobody.
Joseph Muscat seems to be the answer to all egos and erratic demands:
William Mangion does not get the job in accordance with his personal requirements?
Marisa Micallef Leyson does not get a job in the Maltese embassy in the UK?
Zoo Productions do not manage to sell their mediocre programmes to PBS?
Kenneth Zammit Tabone does not get the contemporary art museum he is so obsessed about?
Then Joseph Muscat is the answer for all the demands and wishes. All wishes and desires will be addressed irrespective of the consequences, or if they conflict with opposing demands.
“Seddaq l-ghaqda fil-Maltin u s-sliem.”
L–ghaqda u s-sliem dejjem kienu hallmark tal-Partit Laburista, Drake.
Isthi, jekk taf. Iva jmissek tisthi u jekk ma tistax tifhem ghaliex, mela veru xieraq tkun fl-iskip tal-Labour.
Ghalli jista’ jkun, Joe Debono Grech kien taht it-tinda hdejk? X’sar minnu hu u xi erba’ ohra?
Maybe someone should look into the real reason why Kevin Drake was asked to resign by the Malta Tourism Authority, and it wasn’t of course because of his health problem.
Another spineless person who goes crying to the Labour Party to try and guarantee some comfortable posting post election.
Niche marketing at its best.
From what I see, all the speakers on this video stand to gain something when Joseph is elected prime minister.
If I’m not mistaken geologist Peter made the report commissioned by JPO on the St John’s Cathedral Tapestry Museum.
Chrysander thinks that he’s the only talented guy around. There are courses in theatre studies, vulgar “tejatrini” are out of fashion.
Kevin Drake – I feel compassion towards him; he’s in pain and desperate. M.E. is no joke, the way neurology works is somehow very mysterious. I would suggest to him alternative medicine.
He needs help. He can get better.
I can’t stand these public displays. They are in such poor taste. People who do this are just out for what they can get, nothing else. Poor sods.
Karen Mugliett forgot how much stick her husband got from Labour. But since he is not a party man he became a turncoat.
Hadd me semma kemm qala flus mal-MTA… u vera ma tisthi minn xejn!
Missu m’ghandux bzonn jisthi ukoll…
Aghtu tama u s-sliem lill-poplu, minn dan biss ghandu jimpurtana. Mhux hekk, bid-droga fil-kazini u avukati li jghattu kollox, b’tama li ibni ma jiehu din id-droga u li jien ikolli s-sliem li m’hemmx periklu!
Can we put aside for one moment the “I have just found Jesus/Joseph” born agains? I love Jesus and Joseph too.
However, let’s see what my vote stands for. Both parties are basically offering the same improvement in social measures and general welfare, and seem to have outdone themselves in this. The only glaring difference is in the economic and energy proposals.
The Nationalist plan, already under construction, is clearly the better option in the long run. Benefits will stream from the 700MW interconnector within 12 months. Reliance on oil on 250KW HFO/BWSC could be reduced by 50% or more. Marsa and old Delimara get decommissioned. Another five years, you get the gas pipeline into your energy mix. This policy is clearly safe, no risk, well considered and partly financed by the EU.
The Labour plan is simply an exercise in fooling the good people of Malta into thinking that there is a plan. Its not. Its pie in the sky. Labour knows it cannot happen. That is why they are playing so bloody minded jack shit sure that it can happen.
“Adolf, once we have them drinking from the fountain of dreams, they will embrace our lies, one after the other”.
What Labour is doing now is what it has always done.
The glaring difference is that the PN is democratic and the PL is not.
The man who is always sorry for himself
A more appropriate wording on Gowzef’s mug should have been RUTHLESS LEADER and not FEARLESS LEADER. Can he stoop any lower?
Is this the way to use sick vulnerable people?
Individuals passing through difficult moments of sickness are vulnerable and easily manipulated.
It seems our ruthless leader is targeting these people with pretty much success. There is more behind this, Daphne.
Conviction is not the reason, it’s convenience. We will see whether the ruthless leader will change medication protocols once PM (disregarding technical advice and spiralling costs) so that Mr Drake can be accommodated.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/wayne-rooney-looks-like-hes-1470049
i just laughed at Kevin’s quote
Always the actor, mask and all.
You know, you people in the PN machine simply amaze me. Looking at all these “switchers”, doesn’t it occur to you that maybe, just maybe, something might not be totally quite right in the GonziPN system so laboriously put together over these last years? So wrong, in fact, that good, honest people have given up all hope in it and are wishing for something new? Why try to destroy and ridicule these people just because they have new hope? Those who are not mesmerised any more by the governing party, the party they had pinned all their hopes on? Can’t you see, even from the results of today’s surveys, that you are now only talking to the converted and making even more and more people eager for the change that will happen in 3 weeks time? Can’t you take defeat graciously, once in a generation?
They’re not switchers, just greedy and shameless opportunists.
The only thing they are ‘mesmerised’ by is the promises Joseph Muscat is making them.
So go somewhere else with your bull rhetoric about how ‘bad’ the Nationalists are.
I bet you are one of those people who have benefited well under the Nationalists’ legislation.
You know, the ones that take and take and take, and then complain about how Muscat is your only hope.
Yes, he is your only hope – your only hope for more (you think).
Daphne: You should be the last person to speak of “humiliation”. You have humiliated yourself years ago with the kind of language you use in your articles. Instead, Kevin Drake hit a chord not just with those who were present at the Siggiewi event, but all those who watched the TV recording of the event, except you and your ilk !
Trid il-paci u s-sliem, Privitera? Fejn kont dawn l-ahhar snin biex ma ndunajtx bid-differenza bejn issa u z-zmien tad-deheb?
The look in Muscat’s eyes at 1:35 says it all. Sinister.
The problem is not Kevin Drake, who admits his illness and, of course, its symptoms, but MUSCAT who’s using Kevin Drake’s illness for his own power-hungry ends.
And then Karen Mugliett. Hasn’t she forgotten what Labour were saying this time five years ago about her husband? The corruption attack on her husband stopped because Jesmond Mugliett has helped Muscat in these last five years.
And Muscat, Varist, Manwel Mallia and the brutta compagnia talk about corruption.
Do these ‘converts’ actually think they will get a bite at the cherry when this lot are in power? Have we gone mad?
Daphne, it would be great if you point out and discuss the body language of Muscat while Drake is singing the anthem.
Muscat is thinking about the ‘brutta figura’ that he was experiencing in Siggiewi.
This is not a reaction that a leader should posses.
On the other hand, I cannot understand Drake’s reaction in Bla Agenda and At the Dome. Joseph can’t work miracles with the ill. He’s not Jesus Christ.
Can one stoop lower than to use someone who is unwell for political mileage? The only real beneficiary in this is 39-year old Joseph, not Kevin Drake.
What a zoo movement.
This is not the first time PL have done this.
When they sent Franco Debono to Xarabank, instead of their deputy leader, they used him as a pawn in their cynical games. Just like Drake, Franco is unwell, albeit in a very different way.
PL stoop so low when in opposition – I wonder what they will do when in government.
Kevin seems a little depressed.
It is being claimed in this video that Drake suffers from ME.
If this is true, then it is no wonder he has fallen into the PL skip.
The more I see videos like this the more I see the similarities between elections of 1981/1987 and the one in 2008 and this one.
In 1981 the PN obtained a majority but because of gerrymandering lost the right to govern. In 1987 the majority only became even more determined to vote in a PN government.
In 2008, Labour supporters were bewildered when they lost the election by a cat’s whisker. Because of this, they are now even more determined not to allow PN to govern.
The PN had a full five years to heal grass-root discontent but failed to do so.
The government had a similar time-span to cure dissatisfaction but was just as unsuccessful in turning the tide.
Only one thing may change the PN defeat that is being forecast.
It is just possible that individual intelligence may prevail over collective ignorance.
In 1987 the story was different. The population wanted to be rid of the system of government that existed then, a mode of rule so bad that it has even been condemned by Joseph Muscat.
Notwithstanding that, some of those condemned still form part of Labour and Muscat’s team to this day. It is therefore highly feasible that Muscat’s denunciation was only a PR exercise to win over further disgruntled voters to Labour.
Today the situation is rather different. Understandably, personal grievances count so much with the individual concerned and the fact that they were not catered for is a blemish on the present administration.
Having said that, however, intelligence demands that this ought not be sufficient motivation to condemn an administration which has been relatively successful in governing the country.
Oh, stop the bellyaching. All this rubbish about grassroots hurt and personal grievances.
To hell with personal grievances. They’re ours to sort out for ourselves.
It’s not for government to kiss our wounds and make them better. It’s about time everyone just bloody grew up and joined the real world where you have to fend for yourself instead of expecting mummy-and-daddy-government to look after you all the time.
How ironic. The guys saying that you cannot get what you deserve, had started off and rose to fame through PN’s Net TV.
A common feature for the whole lot: Displaced entitlement
Michelle told The Sunday Times that she ‘shops abroad’. Going after the retailers’ vote, then…
Michelle also said that she does the laundry at night making Joseph’s comment about the government giving free alarm clocks to people sound even more ridiculous.
From the interviews with Mrs Gonzi and Mrs Muscat, one can conclude that while Mrs Gonzi knows what her role in the campaign is, Mrs Muscat doesn’t.
The way Michelle went on about going for home visits and meetings with organisations made me wonder whether she’s contesting the election.
On the other hand, Kate specifically said that she knows she’s not a candidate. She said that she only talks to whoever talks to her and attends events only when specifically requested.
Seems that Karen Mugliett forgot the PL campaign against her husband a few years back. Shame.
When Lawrence Gonzi smiles, he does so with genuine joy, especially when surrounded by young people.
When Joseph Muscat smiles, it’s such an evil smirk.
I can’t believe that so many people don’t seem to pick on these cues.
Funny how people who did not get what they claimed is their right from this government have quickly thrown their weight behind Labour.
The Labour Party is using people like Kenneth Zammit Tabona, Ray Callejja, Kevin Drake, William Mangion, Joe Tanti, Chrysander and his team and Frederick Testa to give the impression that the art crowd is in.
The art crowd is not in.
Frederick Testa has always been a rabid Laburist.
The Zoo product has always appealed to the lowest common denominator, aka a Labour audience.
William Mangion and Joe Tanti are just two washed-up old entertainers way past their prime.
Kenneth Zammit Tabona never stops whining.
Kevin Drake, by his own admission, doesn’t do much these days because of his ME.
As for Ray Calleja, I’m not sure what his problem is, but he was Labour anyway.
This is not the Maltese art crowd.
The real Maltese art crowd only lives temporarily in Malta and is found mostly roaming the planet in search of opportunities: bigger art galleries, bigger stages, acclaimed art schools and start up companies with an artistic bent. Think Joseph Callejja, Renzo Spiteri, Sasha Vella from the Sasha and Sam Duo, Toni Sant and so many young people we have never heard of who are upping sticks and leaving for where the buzz is.
As for artists in Malta, this government, contrary to Mintoff and KMB who used to dismiss artists as time wasters, has really made an effort.
The Nationalist Party electoral programme focuses specifically on digital art and video gaming which is one of the biggest artistic industries at the moment. This goes hand in hand with the Nationalist Party’s idea of promoting a knowledge based society and attracting IT based companies to Malta.
Regarding more traditional art, the government has invested millions in restoration projects in the last five years. St John’s Co Cathedral (magnificently restored even by Kenneth Zammit Tabona’s standards) and the Renzo Piano project are only the most visible. On any given week, you hear about some building, statue, chapel, painting or other artwork being restored.
If you go to St James Cavalier, which this government set up as an art centre, there’s always something going on and in embassies and art galleries, there are art exhibitions taking place.
What’s more, this government has sponsored the Isle of MTV concert (free for everybody) and the Malta International Jazz Festival (entry is at a very reasonable price) for a number of years now and despite Malta’s small size, some international artists are actually interested in coming to perform or exhibit here.
This is a million miles away from the physically and mentally barren land which Dom Mintoff gave us back when the biggest artistic event was Malta Sajf.
Ray Calleja has been Labour all his life – comes from a familja Laburista.
1.35 – 1.38
It’s as if he’s saying “My plan’s working perfectly muahaha”
Yes, just like at university, or when he watched zoo’s video of JPO.
Thrilled when others are made fun of.
Exactly.
It’s an evil smile.
I have known Kevin in earlier years, but have not seen him for quite some time. Believe you me:- he has changed from day to night.
Hardly recognizable from the one I knew – both in looks and in outlook.
Imhawwad wahda nobis, as we say in Maltese
There was also Mrs Mugliett who wants to contribute in the next 5 years as well. Forsi ir-ragel jibni xi bridge iehor nahseb ha jkolli biex jghixu.
When people say they want to contribute, they mean they want a high profile paid job.
If contribution alone were what mattered, you wouldn’t wait around for your genius to be recognised. You’d just get on with it.
It’s not the M.E. that’s humiliating, Kevin.
What a bunch of losers enjoying their five minutes of ‘fame’ and drumming up sympathy for their ’cause’. Joseph had a field day.
I’m so sorry for Kevin Drake! He looks so ill! I hope he recovers as soon as possible.
But why is he asking Labour to help him? Does Joseph now cure with a laying on of hands, like Jesus?
Instead of going to a political party, he should be going to hospital.
every nationalist who is leaving the party is humiliating himself?
[Daphne – No, Mark. First off, to leave a political party you must first be a member. What we are talking about here is a decision to vote Labour after having previously voted PN. And what I am talking about is people making a cheap spectacle of themselves in return for some carrot that’s being held out to them. Also, with this quality of ‘switcher’, Labour merely undermines its own message, because the real message here is that the people who are switching are oddballs, because it presents only oddballs.]
Like P.T. Barnum, the American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, Joe Muscat has elevated to a fine art the ballyhoo of exhibiting side-show circus freaks.
Kevin Drake says that people told him his mother would be rolling in her grave. At the spiteful (towards his former wife) and embarrassing spectacle he made of himself, almost certainly. But not because he’s voting Labour. She may well have done the same herself.
Is this the Prime Minister we want – one who gloats at getting someone who is clearly unwell to do his bidding? It’s shameful.
I think Kevin Drake’s off his rocker.
I disagree, Sufa. Kevin’s a good guy, but sadly very sick.
Even sicker are those scumbags exploiting him for all they can squeeze out of him, for their own despicable reasons.
May the bastards rot in hell.
“Off his rocker” means “mental”, not “bad guy”. And I have to agree. He doesn’t quite look compos mentis.
A repeat of Jo Said in 2008?
Zoo’s Chrysander was always a Labour supporter, so nothing new there. On the other hand Daniel was a Nationalist supporter. Anyway I’m sure that if Labour are elected they will start having their Zoo shows on TVM.
When Kevin was speaking, nobody in the audience was smiling because there was nothing to smile about. Only Joseph couldn’t stop himself from smirking.
He was not interested in what Kevin was saying. He was triumphant because he’d got him to do it.
Il-Malti jghid jitnejjek bih f’wiccu. You can see the difference between the smile he has when he was with his twins and the smirk above.
Drake is very probably part of the PL PR electoral campaign team at present. Most likely a future PR job awaits him in the new Labour government, however ‘minn wara l-kwinti’, since his health would not allow a full time role.
The latest PL card in the game is to try to deflect the recent accusations against Toni Abela, Tony Zarb etc by reverting to cheap sentimentalism in order to appear as a ‘moviment’ of hope, succour and mercy. See-through rubbish with bad acting thrown in.
Muscat’s smile says it all.
I will always remain grateful to my first employer, even though I moved on from then because of better pay and better opportunities.
Thanks to his trust, I could boast some experience when facing interviews. So though I no longer work with him, I still hold him in great respect and gratitude.
The Zoo duo seem to ignore this fact and are happy to join the likely winning bandwagon. In so doing Labour is making itself a club of opportunists.
I know Kevin and my heart bleeds for him in his present state. I will not hold him responsible. This is his illness speaking.
Instead I will remember his irreverent wit and the many hilarious moments during our university days. He is and always will be a good guy and a gentleman.
[Daphne – I wouldn’t vouch for the last word at all, but my lips are sealed.]
Already 2 months have elapsed since Muscat’s dream came true and he was sworn in as PM, and all he and the Labour government have done so far is appoint staunch Labourites to good posts and reward those who helped him escalate into power.