Has anybody asked Marco Cremona what he thinks now?
Marco Cremona – so what does he think about the government’s power station mess now?
Marlene Seychell, seen in this video sitting at Joseph Muscat’s feet in the Labour campaign tent. She campaigned assiduously for Joseph Muscat, told us to vote for him, and now nobody’s laughing because the joke’s on us while she sits on the board of Malta Enterprise.
That’s Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s close friend, the hydrologist Marco Cremona, asking Opposition leader Joseph Muscat some very tame questions about the proposed power roadmap, in the Labour Party’s tent/igloo during the general election campaign.
I wonder what Cremona thinks about the ongoing mess now. Has anyone asked him?
Nobody’s asked his best friend Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, either, even though up to a year ago – before his new wife walked out and the press suddenly realised that, hey, maybe it’s true he’s a swindling knave and not quite all right up there, after all – they were ringing him up for everything and hanging onto his every Facebook pronouncement like the word from the Mount.
Shouldn’t they be ringing the chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology to see what he thinks about all the new detours and dead-ends in Labour’s power roadmap? Of course they should. This is different to ringing up plain old Jeffrey Pullicino, the dentist and former member of parliament.
In this video, I also see the top half of Promod and George clothing franchisee Marlene Seychell’s head, sitting at her great leader’s feet, making sure she was as prominently on view to the cameras and the television audience as possible – except that whoever edited this video edited most of her out.
Somebody should ring her too. Mrs Seychell was one of those individuals who, along with the Grindr prowler Frederick Testa, who has given a public description of his genitals accompanied by a picture of his face, Pullicino’s secret squeeze Lara Boffa, and that obnoxious little squirt who grew up in the Zejtun Klabb Laburista, Ramona Frendo, took to the podium during a big Labour event at the Eden Arena to tell us all to vote Labour.
Would she still sit at Muscat’s feet today, now that he is no longer utterly, but utterly fashionable? Probably not. It might affect her standing with the in-crowd who are now all making contemptuous jokes about him.
Note that this is not the same thing as asking Mrs Seychell whether she still approves of what her Great Leader Muscat is doing and whether she would vote for him again, the answers to those two questions almost certainly being Yes and Yes.
Meanwhile, I suggest she makes herself useful and helps dress Mrs Muscat with choice items off the George rails. She didn’t get her directorship at Malta Enterprise for nothing. While they’re about it, whoever rings her up should throw in a question about whether she signed off on Sai Mizzi, or whether it was done without her knowledge and consent.
These people should be held accountable by the media for what they said and did, and for what they were given in return. They’re getting far too much of an easy ride.
Martin Scicluna isn’t the only one who oh-so-bravely and cleverly told us to vote for the obvious victor, and helped saddle Malta with this scumbag assembly of thieves, pimps, scoundrels, swindlers, blackguards and inept fools.
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Yes, Simon. We’ve been saying so in this blog all along.
But he won’t win the election by re-hashing the slogan from 2003. People want to know how he would have done it differently. That’s Matthew Gatt & minions’ job.
I did call Marco Cremona with the intention of asking exactly these questions that you pose here.
His reply was that he refuses to discuss these issues now and wants to focus on his business.
Mark Anthony Sammut was brilliant on Newsfeed this evening.
Facts, figures and graphs.
That those with some brains understand fully well where Muscat failed.
Muscat based his plan on the cost of production, no privatisation, Shanghai taking over BWSC, selling Enemalta’s petroleum division.
No, it was all about money saved on producing each unit.
When the source of saving isn’t there, very single day spent subsidising energy is more debt or taxes. It will be spectacular watching Muscat trying to fit the nation’s major energy consumers, industry, hotels etc, into the bill next year.
I believe these account for over 65% of the global bill. That’s when this country’s money matters will become really interesting.
EU funding AWOL, the interconnector a myth, and, and this one really hurts, alternative sources sacrificed due their mass confused cabinet.
Opportunity costs cannot be underestimated.
Some of us did not agree with the principles of some PN politicians. But they had principles. This lot are a drove of pigs at the trough, grabbing all they can before their time runs out.
Unfortunately, the PN needed to renew itself and Malta will go through hell while it happens.
Daphne, I don’t think that you are helping matters by rubbing the noses of people like Marco Cremona into this mess. They know what is happening, and further humiliation is not going to do the PN any favours.
[Daphne – Ah, the perennial error of the Politics of Persuasion. How much permanent damage has been done in thy name. Persuasion is a recipe for corruption and hostages to fortune.
The only way to deal with people like these is to grow a backbone and call them out. Marco Cremona is not a child, a teenager or a man in his 20s. He is a man my age. What do you imagine? That if you are nice to him he will sit under the PN tent in 2018? That it would be even DESIRABLE to have him there? His credibility is now permanently damaged. If he goes running to the PN in 2018, he will negatively affect the PN’s credibility by association.
Malta is a country packed with adults who are treated like children and allowed to behave like children, talking about how ‘hurt’ they are, and handled with care in case they sulk and throw a wobbly. I generalise by saying adults, because the problem is clearly confined to men of a certain type who just cannot handle rejection wherever and whoever it comes from or what form it takes, and who absolutely cannot handle any real or perceived slight.
I absolutely refuse to treat men and women my age like difficult children. If they have some psychiatric condition or a drink problem (I’m not referring to Marco Cremona here) that makes them childish, petulant and unpredictably dangerous, then they should be in the nuthouse receiving treatment, not inflicted on society and politics with everybody colluding in the pretence that it’s normal for middle-aged men to throw vicious tantrums and talk about how they were denied what they want and so they are going to be spiteful and vicious in return. It’s seriously disordered.]
I understand and agree – however, there were those who said that you were one of the reasons why the PN lost so many votes.
I think that they mean that people did not like your direct, no kid gloves approach.
[Daphne – That’s not my problem, Queen’s English. It’s their problem. I cannot be held in any way responsible for the infantile emotions and thought processes of grown men and women, and for the shortsighted idiocy of those who give them the time of the day.
If somebody were to tell me that he voted PN because he can’t stand, say, Marie Benoit or Saviour Balzan, I would advise him to see a psychiatrist, not treat his behaviour as normal or worse, justified and justifiable. Nor would I even think for one moment that Marie Benoit and Saviour Balzan are the cause of loss of votes to the Labour Party and that therefore they should tone it down. People should vote for and against politicians, not for and against journalists. You can’t vote against a journalist because we are not in parliament.
All adults are responsible for their own actions. Our vote is our choice and not something another person ‘made’ us do. Any sulking, spiteful man, or emotionally arrested woman within a 10-mile radius of me can bloody well take a running jump as far as I’m concerned. They need a short, sharp shock of real life because they’re somehow managing to edge towards the grave with one foot still in the cradle.
In the real world out there, most people are like me. They think as I do, they reason as I do, they speak as I do, they write (if they write) as I do, and they have the same attitude. That’s why I’m more at home away from my home country, because my ‘exceptional’ attitude is the contemporary European standard.
It might come as a bit of a surprise, but on a continent-wide basis, I’m the normal one and they’re not. It’s precisely because abnormality is normal here in Malta that people coming in from the outside are struck by the freakiness of the way people think, talk and behave, like big children who have lived a really sheltered life and who are permanently institutionalised and infantilised.]
People are what they are and you are not going to change they way they react when faced with humiliation. I would have left people like Marco stew as they surely regret what they did. Hurting their pride will scare them away from voting PN. By the way, I thought that Marco Cremona was an AD man.
[Daphne – The AD leader himself voted Labour, so don’t be so astonished. When discussing humiliation and hurt pride and how people react, do please distinguish between psychologically healthy adults and those who are not. I don’t think many people have had to put up with the wholesale onslaught of insults, lies, slander, libel, offensive name-calling, general hideousness and vile rudeness and taunts that I have had to endure over – what is it now? – 25 years.
Have I committed suicide? Have I gone out with a gun and mown people down? Have I sulked and rung prime ministers and stamped my feet and cried and bawled and run around on television talking about how ‘hurt’ I am? No, I have not. Because I am a normal adult and not a child.]
Marco Cremona? Regret? When pigs fly.
You’ve led a sheltered life, Queen’s English.
However, Daphne, in your commentaries you have also targeted people who are not politicians and not affiliated wih political parties simply because they spoke their mind and their ideas went contrary to those of the PN in government.
Nothing wrong with disagreeing with others but making a caricature of apolitical respectable persons is not right.
PS. This is not a reference to Marco Cremona. He is a very political person and was on AD electoral ads.
[Daphne – Really, like who? Go on, mention names instead of just repeating Labour propaganda. This is where you are wrong to the point of stupidity, and that stupidity is dangerous if you are in any way in politics. Anybody who takes part in political activism through campaigning in public or off the public stage, is playing an active part in politics. You contradict yourself because such people are, by very definition, not apolitical.
If they speak their mind and their views are politically different, it follows that they have political views in the first place and the motivation to speak about them, hence they are not apolitical but political.
The CATASTROPHIC, MAJOR error that you make, which is the exact same failing of the Nationalist Party over five years leading into six, is not to understand (not even to realise) that the Labour Party garnered the majority of its massive surplus of votes by ‘stealth campaigning’ over a prolonged period using the EXACT SAME METHODS used by religious sects and religious groups.
They used socially acceptable or familiar faces to infiltrate social groups, gained access to their network, and began the soft-sell for ‘Joseph’. Where they couldn’t use ‘agents’ who were willing to do it for free because they were Labour already, like Mrs Carlo Seychell (Marlene, with her systematic invitations for days on her boat to people she would never in a million years even have met a few years ago) they BOUGHT them, giving them a salary for access to their socially acceptable face and contacts, as with Marisa Micallef.
The blindness of the Nationalist Party to all this going on since roughly 2009, when I first realised it was happening, though I would say it started immediately Muscat was elected in 2008, is astonishing. But that may be because they had nobody plugged in to the right networks. I was, however, actually IN these networks and seeing it happening right before my eyes.
These people did not get upset because they were ‘nobodies’ and woke up to find themselves on this website. They were upset because their activities, methods and aims were exposed for what they were.
I really think you need better insight into human nature – you can’t be in politics without it. Joseph Muscat understands human nature instinctively, with the accuracy of a sociopath like Mintoff before him. All others have to work at it. I certainly had to, though I learned quite fast.]
Well said, Daphne.
Marco Cremona is NOT a hydrologist.
He holds an MSc in Water Studies (from the University of Malta) which is a broad degree quite different from a hydrology degree.
If he cannot be honest about his academic qualifications how can we expect him to be honest about anything else?
So basically he can go swim, or flush himself for a grand exit.