It looks like Labour doesn't love Jeffrey anymore
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For 18 months, he’s been their hero and their man of the moment, the one they’d earmarked to help them bring down the government and install the Prince of Burmarrad in the prime minister’s seat.
Now it looks like Labour doesn’t love Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando anymore. Or rather – Labour’s gone back to the days when it didn’t love him at all.
How dare he pull a stunt like that on Dear Joseph? Dear Joseph had convinced half the electorate that you need to be a prime minister to bring a private member’s bill before the House. And now he’s been mortally embarrassed.
Labour’s news website Maltastar thinks that Pullicino Orlando did it because he wasn’t allowed to receive Holy Communion. Of course. That must be it.
It takes the brain of a large-headed midget to work that one out. And no, I didn’t mean Kurt Farrugia.
Maltastar LEADER
Orlando leading liberals by the nose?
09 July 2010
Hot on the heels of JPO reacting because he was officially told what he really already knew about who can receive Holy Communion came his, according to PM Gonzi, surprise bombshell about a private members bill on divorce.
Is this man, JPO, really representing liberal thought in Malta, or is he doing his usual?
If he did represent liberal thought why did he never say he would utterly support Joseph Muscat’s measure to present a private members’ Bill once the Labour Party, is elected to serve? And suggest the same to his own party leader Lawrence Gonzi if JPO really is such a liberal?
Predictably the initial reaction from the liberal camp and bloggers was well done Jeffrey. The reaction from the spin bloggers was to try to discredit the PL leader whose stance in this area cannot be democratically discredited however much reward there is for those who spin otherwise.
Now the dust is settling liberals and all Maltese may wonder about true motives and whether they are being led by the nose.
Malta undoubtedly needs coherent well planned legislation in this area. Marriages are breaking down. People are marrying again in all but name and creating new families.The Church has its rules on this whole subject which it makes clear to all,such as the cohabiting and communion ones which JPO objected to.
So if JPO really belongs to the civil rights club how does he sit under a PM who says he can never introduce divorce?
How can liberals vote for or support JPO if his first allegiance is to a party and a leader who is utterly against legislation in this area?
The inconsistencies in the PN camp are manifold and manifest. The stresses and strains of trying to do a conservative progressive duo via Jeffrey and Lawrence are clearly telling on a strained looking Lawrence Gonzi.
What will Lawrence Gonzi put first? His true beliefs? His country? Or the political survival of the PN? He has the assistance of most the media and others to try to shift this dilemma elsewhere but as an elected P.M. he may this time have to choose.
How can Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando “sit under a PM who says he can never introduce divorce”? I’ll put Maltastar out of its misery and answer that one: the same way that his wife, Marlene Pullicino Orlando, can “sit under a leader” who is pro-divorce when she is vociferously anti.
It takes a Maltastar brain to walk straight into that one.
And the prime minister didn’t say he will never introduce divorce. He is too smooth an operator to make that kind of paint-my-party-into-a-corner categorical statement. He said that he is against divorce, which is different – though still completely wrong-headed.
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Good news for Maltastar.com! Maltafly.com will soon be back to harass all charading monkeys… where ‘soon’ is sooner than much later. Ahleb Guz!
[Daphne – I’m guessing you’re at a loose end.]
Not just yet, Mrs Badger, sadly.
Se tibqa’ ” Fitta u bla rispetti”?
Good point, Daphne. I would suggest diarrhea.
The only way you can put Mlatatsar out of its misery is by proof-reading their drivel before it is published. But no one has that much time on their hands.
I do not interpret the article to be an attack on JPO at all. It is the usual attack on Lawrence Gonzi, this time again using JPO as a tool.
In substance, maltatarts’s leader is trying to claim that there is a crack in the government.
Is JPO a liberal, or is he a Christian Democrat? I do not remember that the PN ever presented itself as a Liberal party – surely not on the subject of divorce – even if, in actual fact, many of its supporters have a liberal view on key issues like divorce itself.
They have to find proof-readers who know elementary English first.
Aw sinjur, din qara bhalek.
I wish people would stop referring to the Malta Labour Party as a liberal party. It has an ignorant and conservative mentality.