Marlene Farrugia: “This might be the beginning of the end of the Labour movement”
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December 10, 2014 at 10:14am
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U it-tabib Etienne Grech ghadu ma xebax jitqanzah jipprova jiggustifika lil Manuel Mallia. Tghid ghadu ma tah xejn Joseph u qed jispira li forsi jlaqqat il-borma milli fadal u jaghtih xi haga?
It-tabib Etienne Grech mizzeweg iz-Zejtun, Helena Dalli toqghod fit-tarf taz-Zejtun, il-partner ta’ Michael Farrugia miz-Zejtun, Ramona Frendo miz-Zejtun, omm Lara Boffa miz-Zejtun, Joe u Godfrey Grima miz-Zejtun, George Vella u Karmenu Abela joqghodu fil-qalba taz-Zejtun, Owen Bonnici miz-Zejtun, u il-percimes, capo dei capi, Silvio Scerri, joqghod ukoll ftit il-fuq minn Helena. Dan juri bic-car li ahna is-Zwieten huma forza biex inkomplu nkissru lill-Malta.
Minn f’ommok ghal ghand Alla, Marlene.
Panic station in the Labour camp.
Dear Marlene, you reap what you sow. You’re part of it, but never had the gall to stand up when it counts. Now enjoy the ride.
Exactly. First they allow themselves to be led by crooks and then they protest when they find they have been had big time.
“Early next year?”
“To discuss the situation?”
Action, Marlene, action.
We’ve had enough of words.
Yes, colleague, more action expected from you but somehow you are the token dissident voice being used to falsely illustrate that the Malta Labour Party accepts open discussion.
I have this nagging suspicion that our dear Marlene is on a campaign to avenge herself on her ex-.
They both started out with the PN and when they fell apart he was high on the PN bandwagon, so she moved on to Lejber where she slowly but surely moved to the highest echelons.
During the discussion on the divorce bill which he presented in Parliament, she came out against the bill, even though Lejber was promoting it. Later she had second thoughts in a clear move to tow the (un)official party line.
When he was left an orphan (on the ballot list) she got elected. That was her moment of glory. But he was now equally at home with Joseph. Then followed the ups and downs of the two protagonists.
In a JPO-JM move, she and her partner, were ‘offered’ the Health Ministry, but only one of them could get the job! I suppose it didn’t make much difference to Jeffrey who got the job. Sure enough the Health ministry was vacant after a few months.
Completely confined to the backbench, while he was publicly enjoying his iced bun from the government and still behaving his old foolish self, she starts being outspoken in criticising the government. Meanwhile, the woman for whom he presented his divorce bill has left him after less than a year.
She gets more and more outspoken, but we cannot expect her to turn off the tables — she’s still in a minority, and I doubt she’ll win enough support from the Lejber stable.
As things turn from bad to worse, she will continue to make it bloody obvious to see Lejber unseated, sooner rather than later, and with it her ex-.
So all the repackaging of Labour, despite a change of logo, the ditching of the boiler suit and bokla in favour of a suit and a pale blue tie, the cosying up to the middle class is beginning to be too much of an effort for the people who still consider the Macina as home?
The Civil War in The Other Malta doubting the Great Leader’s Allegiances.
Surely you mean leadership race.
A party defined by deceit, lack of transparency, back handedness, lies, crime and corruption can’t survive the digital age, unless like the Chinese government it censors the internet very heavily.
The orgy is over and really will catch up with them rapidly.
Why did Marlene Farrugia leave the PN?
why did she join Labour?
Why is she always talking on Facebook and then she does nothing about it in parliament?
What are her real intentions? Vendetta maybe?
Why is she still with the Labour Party if she is not comfortable working with Muscat?
It may not have occurred to Marlene Farrugia, but you can sit as an independent in parliament. It’s been done before, and it’s no big deal.
It may not have occurred to her too that sitting with a party means you support it. If the “situation” has deteriorated to this point, then she needs to make up her mind. Which is the higher imperative, the party ticket, or the common good?
It is not the situation which has deteriorated, but public morals, good governance, accountability, transparency, truth and the common good. In other words, all those things which should be common to all political parties.
Marlene, this is NOT about the Labour Party. It is about the nation under the hands of a morally corrupt and criminal government.
Please stop lamenting the fall of the party. It never changed and you always have been part of it. The Labour Party will not change and the scandals will be getting bigger and having a far greater negative effect to the detriment of our democratic rights.
Put your money where your mouth seems to be and do something very constructive about it – save the nation not the party from doom.
There was never a Labour movement. There was a campaign which promoted a Labour movement, but a movement was never created. It is abundantly clear that talk of a ‘movement’ was a ploy to rope in voters.
Muscat is still around three years away from an election. The electorate has a short memory – Labour still stands a better chance of winning the next election than the Nationalists do.
If, however, more events like the recent one happen, that would of course ruin substantially Labour’s chances for re-election. But, at the moment, they’re far from being prospective losers the next time round.
Luckily for Muscat, the Mallia catastrophe happened relatively early on for this government. We could argue, of course, that it is likely, given what has already taken place in less than two years, that we will see many more events of this kind.
‘None of us are left in cabinet’.
Quite a statement, considering Louis Grech and Owen Bonnici, but it does provide the perimeters; cabinet remains Muscat’s, and it isn’t taghnalkoll.
‘The party itself is doing nothing’.
Someone needs to get hold of the party and save the movement right?
Love that ‘maybe’.
As in Mannuel Mallia’s own words: We’ve had enough of this nonsense.
Is-sewwa jirbah zgur u l-giddieb ghomru qasir.
Marlene I do like you but. . . .I fear your efforts are too little too late.
You can fool some of the people some of the time
You can fool some of the people all of the time
But you can’t fool all the people all of the time
If you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem, Marlene.
It takes more than words on the social media to force changes on Malta’s greatest liar’s attitude.
By next year, what will be left of Joseph’s Movement of Liberal Progressives will be a skipful of well-past-the-best-by-date suldati tal-azzar ta’ zmien Mimtoff, like Eddy Privitera and Victor Laiviera and a condomful of sleazebags, perverts and shady characters with a bad past.
This is the blogpost Marlene Farrugia shared this morning describing it as “Malta Tagħna Lkoll: requiem?”:
http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/12/iridu-iktar-vendikazzjonijiet.html
Thank you, Norman.
Well done for all your work.
Marlene Farrugia is a decent person, and I respect her for speaking up.
She represents the many people in this country who gave a chance to Joseph Muscat but now realise that they were used and fooled.
People like Marlene did not do it to spite this country but because they genuinely believed that things could be better.
They now realise that they made a blunder. They are coming to terms that we were much better off when we were led to believe (because Labour is the master of perception) that we were worse off, and that the PN with all its defects and mistakes was poles apart from this inept, incompetent, and corrupt lot.
The time will come when many people will admit that they made a genuine mistake and that they were deceived.
At that point, they need to find a credible and realistic alternative.
The quicker the better.
Perhaps this is the much awaited earthquake that Joseph promised six years ago?
The most angered are the hard core Laburisti. When you ask them what they think about all this, most of them reply that it’s Joseph Muscat’s fault for welcoming into the party the rubbish thrown out by the PN.
Can Marlene and all other Lejber spokesmen and apologists stop referring to the Labour Party (PL) as the Labour Movement?
The term was coined by Dom Mintoff after the statutory GWU-MLP fusion. In today’s context it simply doesn’t make sense.
There is only a Labour Party with the political objective of winning the right to govern the country. Only paid-up members and delegates have access to the decision-making process of the Party.
Any reference or calls to a Labour Movement only serve to obfuscate the real meaning and nature of today’s Labour Party.
Twenty four months and the house of cards will start crumbling down. The question that remains in my mind is how they are going to keep it together.
Which side is Polidano on at the moment?
And the others just like him?
Marlene, mara ta’ veru. Dnub li qieghda mal-labour.
Well, if you got nothing but incompetent clowns in the cabinet, then wanting them all out is a natural thing that should be embraced and actually accomplished.