Baggage? What baggage?
Joseph Muscat continued his live performance in Jesus Christ Superstar yesterday with a sparkling rendition of I Don’t Know How to Love Them. He told The Sunday Times that he’s pleased with the party delegates’ choice of deputy leaders. And then, probably, he flashed his teeth – though that didn’t go down on the record.
Muscat insisted that L-Ispettur and Otello’s ‘political baggage’ won’t hinder his efforts at building ‘a winning team’. Well, if he builds this winning team it’ll be a bleeding miracle, given that since 1996 none of Labour’s myriad ‘winning teams’ have ever won anything – or even been a team, it transpires.
Now let’s hear what Muscat had to say about the weighty baggage of his two deputies, the moustachioed wonders from a bygone era.
“Everyone has baggage. What’s wrong with that? There is no politician who does not have political baggage. This is not a problem and I look forward to working with them, as I have already started to do.”
There is no politician without political baggage? Spoken like a true greenhorn. Our friend with the tie-dye mind is just asking to have it pointed out to him that he should have put a little qualifier in there: there is no politician without political baggage in the Labour Party. In the Nationalist Party, there are plenty. Let’s limit ourselves to party leaders. Lawrence Gonzi has no political baggage, nor did Eddie Fenech Adami. Alfred Sant was crippled by the weight of his, and Joseph ‘Vote No to Europe’ Muscat feels it necessary to brush off the baggage of L-Ispettur and Otello because he has so much of his own.
Between them, the baggage of Labour’s three stooges would sink a ship.
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Daphne, could you list the baggage items for us, please, such as Toni Abela’s demeanour before and after 1987, when he and Wenzu Mintoff pressed for party reforms but were eventually expelled? Or perhaps you could tell us what sort of baggage former superintendent Anglu Farrugia held within old Labour, apart from your personal tiff with him in your fairyland of imaginations.
Otherwise, “l-Ispettur” and “Otello”, indeed…
This sort:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC2egtVhtbA
or perhaps this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piaXExUzKnM
@Kev – quite obviously, you are the one in fairyland. Anglu Farrugia was a key member of the police interrogation team in the mid-1980s. And it wasn’t a ‘personal tiff’, but the illegal arrest of a 19-year-old girl on trumped up charges. Please remember that you are speaking here of a police officer who wrote a false confession and then forced that girl to sign it under threat. Mine was one case of many.
Everything’s all right by Labour – you can screw up as much as you like and when you get to be leader or deputy leader, you start with a clean slate. Amazing. No quality control.
Daphne – Probabli kollha jghattu l-qrun ta’ xulxin
Kev – Maybe this would help to jog your memory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZv_WnKmzGY&feature=related
@Daphne – is that all? No baggage list for Toni and just your fantasy tiff with Anglu? So it was all hot air.
You say Anglu was a “key member” of this “interrogation team”. (Investigating what? The contradictions of silly 19-year old girls?). Then he typed your statement and asked you to sign it. Then what? Did he solve the case and drag you to court, or did he just type nasty nothings?
When you preach about “political baggage” make sure you can substantiate your point. Otherwise, just stick to elifints and Otellos.
@Amanda – If the 80s were bad, the 70s were worse, and worse still were the sixties – so bad no one felt the urge to publicise the terror and no one rose to fight.
What happened in the 1980s was the culmination – our very own Maltese civil war. And as in all civil wars, it takes two to tango. Both sides contributed equally to the madness.
Kev
obvja, int wiehed minnhom hi……!!!!!!!
@Kev
It wasn’t Daphne who mentioned the Deputy Leaders’ baggage but JM himself. Your request for a list of baggage items should, therefore, have been directed towards the Mexxej rather than at Daphne who was simply commenting on JM’s statement.
And labour is happy that nationalist mps and candidates are singing the praises for Joseph. X’ma jfahhruhx, se jerga jrebbahh elezzjoni lill- PN.
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=70873
@Kev – I don’t have to substantiate my point. It’s all on record, in the courts and in the newspapers. The fact that you are ignorant of it is not something for which I should be blamed. Before you decide to admire someone, check out what they stand for, and what they’ve done. If a police inspector falsifying a confession and obtaining a signature to it under threat is all right by you, then I’ll say it once more: no wonder you support the Labour Party.
@Daphne – First, I am admiring no one. Second, no, I do not think it “is all right” to falsify evidence, I just find it hard to believe it happened the way you describe. As to your last fishing comment, I did not vote in the last general elections.
@Antoine Vella – You’re wasted here and now. You’d have made a fine dispatch officer in Brezhnev’s Pravda.
Kev – Tqallajt nisma fuq is-sittinijiet!
Let’s get this straight – The people who were responsible for many of the atrocities in the 1970s and 1980s (or who at least didn’t condemn them at that point in time) are still around the MLP now.
The 1960s were a different situation altogether.
@Kev
The law courts certainly didn’t find it hard to believe. Run away boy, don’t come back without a brain!.