PN accuses Muscat of avoiding important issues

Mario Nichia

Jul 9th 2008, 01:39

How can PN accuse opposition of avoiding important issues?
It is ironic to hear this from the same goverment that after 4 months has not taken any action against JPO. I think Maltese ought some respect, and have to perceive that their leader punishes abuses not hides it. I cannot comment if JPO's saga is legal, but it surely is unethichal. The prime minister should be the first citizen to condemn these facts from happening in your country and not use tactics to hide the story, as if nothing ever happened. A charismatic leader should have taken action long time before writing a letter claiming opposition is avoiding important issues!!

Alexander A Farrugia

Jul 8th 2008, 19:38

It seems that Dr Joseph Muscat is following the same line of thought of his predecessors, namely Dom Mintoff, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and Alfred Sant, viz., he prefers his party than his country. Are we going to have a haggling five years between Dr Gonzi and Dr Muscat or are we going to have some fruitful decisions for the best of our beloverd Malta? Come on Dr Muscat, please use dialogue instead of just expressing yourself to the MLP supporters!!!

M.Buhagiar

Jul 8th 2008, 19:21

First, the PAR IDEJN SODI , has to satisfy our needs ( eg Party Financing ) and after we`ll play BALL ( Pairing )

NOT BEFORE ........COMPRENDE ?!!!

Apparently , the KID , as some BLUE eyed wise guy is calling him , slowly , slowly , is moving towards a CHECK MATE !!

Joe Martinelli

Jul 8th 2008, 19:17

These Sunday club meetings are nothing but a photo opportunity for cute Joseph. Why doesn't he cut it out, print a few thousand colour pictures of himself in the most endearing pose he could fake and send them to his loyal followers and save the trouble and the expense of having to travel to MLP clubs all over the place and deliver the same message each time?

With Alfred, it took us some time to size him up, but Joseph is making our task that much easier.

Look at them jumping all over me warning that Joseph will get better in time. Oh yes. I often hear that in connection with wine making, but what the vintners don't tell you, is that even the best and the most careful ones find out that sometimes the marvelous wine they had expected to draw from the aging barrels, turnes out to be less valuable vinegar!

g.c.Forte

Jul 8th 2008, 19:16

One of the most important issue that Dr. Gonzi is trying to avoid to take responsibility is the case of J.PO. It is not the person that matters, but the position, this leads to dictatorship,because the government must be careful of how to deal with this situation,one wrong step and off we go. So I believe that the wheel of GonziP.N. is in the hands of J.P.O. This issue should have been tackled from the beginning . Now troppo tardi.

J Zammit

Jul 8th 2008, 19:03

@ Jonathan Borg: Well said!
Someone told me that while Joe Muscat was speaking at Luqa on constitutional and parliamentary reforms, there was a band march playing outside as it was the feast of Saint Andrew. Joseph Muscat cannot see the difference between a festa, a political banter in Labour clubs and politics of substance.


@ A. Attard: Your comment shows Labour arrogance in defeat. I cannot imagine how even more arrogant Labour would have been had they won.

F Spiteri

Jul 8th 2008, 18:50

GonziPN must be really upset to issue a statement like this!! More than upset, I guess. Joseph Muscat is resulting to be tougher than expected, ey! The PN, as always, is playing with words. Joseph is not playing to the gallery. He is not avoiding to take decisions ... anzi!! He even wants to meet social partners to take better decisions than those taken currently by the government, Dr. Gonzi! And the PN wants Joseph Muscat to "discuss the reforms which the country needed" ... heqqhemm, what does Joseph's letter include, if I may ask? Could GonziPN read it once again??? Maybe he was so upset he misunderstood it, miskin.

Joe Vella

Jul 8th 2008, 18:01

@ A. Attard, Raphael Vassallo & M. Vella

Reading your comments below, one doesn't take long to conclude why the MLP is doomed to be in Opposition for a long time.

@ A. Attard

Pairing or no pairing, it doesn't matter, Gonzi is capable of Governing unlike the forgotten Alfred Sant.

ethelbert schembri

Jul 8th 2008, 17:55

WOW !! That is a good piece of advice coming from the PN on how to be a serious opposition !!! The party that when in opposition will in every possibility sabotage each and every move of the Government , that is how the PN used to workfrom the opposition in the 50s, 70s, 80s and 90s . Just look in the history books !!
And what are these new words from the PN ‘fence , balcony etc ‘ did they go in the building industry ??? Or they are still in the vogue of their new ship, Ho! Sorry house of characters !!!

Jonathan Borg

Jul 8th 2008, 17:14

Someone needs to tell Joe Muscat that an opposition party leader doesn't go to party clubs on Sunday mornings telling people what he's going to write to the Prime Minister on the morrow and expect to be taken seriously.

Such important political matters are discussed by gentlemen around a table in an institution of the state not used as part of a partisan slanging match in a Sunday morning political party club tirade.

Needless to say, what Joe Muscat did on Monday was bedevilled by the kind of mistakes only shallow politicians make. A political leader doesn't ask the Prime Minister to reply back on proposals the PM himself made weeks ago and on which the Opposition seemed to be fast asleep.

And Joe Muscat's comment on excise duty on fuels showed, furthermore, that he does not know excise duty on fuel in Malta is a fixed amount and not a percentage.

Joe Muscat is emerging as the ultimate political ditherer; if he does not want to pair with the government, he should just say so. Unfortunately, it's all too clear that even on pairing, he does not want to decide.

A. Attard

Jul 8th 2008, 16:53

I am sorry Dr. Gonzi but now you have to listen to us or elso no pairing. Stop the discrimination against labourists and do the other list Muscat presented you. Thanks Dr. Muscat you are the right leader for all the Maltese citizens.

Raphael Vassallo

Jul 8th 2008, 16:52

"PN accuses Muscat of avoiding important issues."

Hmm. For accuracy's sake, that should really read: "PN accuses Muscat of avoiding issues it has unilaterally decided are important, while at the same time itself avoiding all those issues which Joseph Muscat has decided, equally unilaterally, are more important than the PN's. Meanwhile, neither the PN nor the MLP is addressing any of the issues considered to be important by others, because they're too damn busy telling us all what they think we should consider to be important, without actually telling us why"

But I admit it's kinda long for a headline...

M.Vella

Jul 8th 2008, 16:40

No amount of Government rhetoric will make the Democracy issue go away. The goings on throughout the election campaign (too long to list) show that Government may want to hold on to power at all costs. Now it has an opportunity to show that it is willing to play 'the game' within reasonable democratic parameters. If it continues with the rhetoric it has displayed so far it will show this Government values power over democracy. In whichever circumstance, chickens always come home to roost.