Still no Astrid and her FAA? Hmmmmmm
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July 1, 2009 at 3:05pm
Ma nifilhux izjed!
Astrid and the FAA are in serious danger of losing the last remaining dregs of their credibility. Faced with an idea or a rumour, they won’t shut up. Faced with a real project, they don’t know where to begin.
Mrs Vella, who misses no opportunity to appear on every broadcast show or newspaper that will have her, there to object and protest, is uncharacteristically silent on the matter of Renzo Piano’s proposals.
I am sure the government is delighted at this silence: one pain-in-the-butt fewer makes a pleasant change.
But have the newsrooms died in their sleep? Somebody should get on the phone to challenge her about it.
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At this rate I really believe that her ‘people’ are telling the FAA that they want a Barry replica. Meanwhile, the real people want the Piano project. The FAA, I believe, are at a crossroad. They profess to speak for all people whilst the message they are getting is that the great unwashed like the project.
Do you think we have proper journalists in Malta, Daphne, or just reporters? Just yesterday on the 8.00pm news a reporter was taking a comment from one of the caravan owners who was evicted from Ghadira, and this man was complaining that he has nowhere to go with his caravan and the reporter did not challenge him as to why he doesn’t go to a licensed camping site like the one in Armier of the new one in Bahar ic-Caghaq.
[Daphne – I would have asked him why he feels the need to live in a seaside caravan at all, if he has a permanent home and a car and can drive from home to beach and back again like the rest of us ordinary mortals. What would happen if we all decided to park a caravan near the sea?]
@Daphne
“..What would happen if we all decided to park a caravan near the sea?”
Would we have a car-a-viaggio?
Sorry!
Maybe he wants to save water by not washing – or by not flushing.
Maybe her megaphone exploded.
This is too big a project (in physical size and rationale) for FAA to comment about hoping to stir emotional support! It’s a case of opportunistically choosing targets, unless…..
It’s difficult for the FAA because they would be on their own. No other organisation, not even the PL, has rubbished Piano’s proposals and the individuals writing in The Times have such a diversity of opinions about what should be done that they could never agree on a common stand.
[Daphne – Many of them do have a common opinion: GONZIPN SHODLU WAKE UP SMELL THE COFFEE?????!!!!! AND RESING. ]
Actually saw Astrid Vella at the Piano exhibition today, being quiet and obviously listening to peoples’ comments – no doubt to see where to place her ‘opinion’ before she commits herself.
Commit herself where?
Doesn’t the woman have her own opinion or what? Is she so vacuous that she has to listen to what everybody is saying and then join the biggest crowd? Interesting.
The extent and complexity of the project places Astrid out of her depth.
Silence is a sign of not being able to find anything wrong to criticise thereby risking the loss of whatever little credibility she has left.