Reno Schembri Wismayer, Buġibba
Labour's earthquake in a teacup
If the re-election of Jason Micallef as general secretary of the MLP and the by-passing of George Abela and Michael Falzon in preference for Toni Abela and Anġlu Farrugia as deputy leaders, are any indication of the inevitable promised earthquake within the MLP as part and parcel of a new beginning, then I am afraid that the earthquake has already been downgraded to a storm in a teacup.
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Alex Ellul
Aug 9th 2008, 22:17
@Albert Spiteri: Keep on commenting. You are doing a great service to the PN with your inane comments.
Karl Consiglio
Aug 9th 2008, 20:33
You are a very boring man Mr A Spiteri. A bit of a Demi-Alfred Sant too for that matter. You search for happiness in them dusty pages, it won't work. Take a look around you, under this government we have come a long way. Me I like to count my blessings rather than look a gift horse in the mouth.
albert spiteri
Aug 9th 2008, 19:30
To win an election, two or three elections is absolutely nothing to a country's history. To learn not to win at all costs is the biggest lesson of life. Winning is fine, as long as it is done the right way, according to stipulated rules. The NP has, so far, almost never done that. History, going even further back than the Roman Empire, teaches that eventually, in the long run, some time or other, paytime does arrive! But, it also shows that when it does, the consequences tally very much with the debts incurred plus interests accrued. Only the corrupt and misguided provincial partisan gullibles would insist that winning an election at all cost is better than loosing honourably. As for your par regarding the election inquiry. It did put the blame on gross incompetence at administrative level, that is because administration failed to verify the electoral register. For your kind information NP government has removed all means of doing such verifying and the consequence is that there are 8,832 voters whose names should never have been included therein. That is jerrymendering, dishonesty and downright anti-constitutional.
Karl Consiglio
Aug 9th 2008, 19:02
The MLP keep in mind their angst towards the PN and not the future of the Maltese people. It would only be the MLP's fault now should the PN ever turn into the Big Brother of Mr Albert Spiteri's nightmare's.
Charles Camilleri
Aug 9th 2008, 18:37
@ Albert Spiteri. The difference between us is that i prefer my party to be in Government while you prefer your party to stay in opposition. As for your excuses, the party inquiry has put the blame squarely on the leadership of the party with Jason getting the biggest slice. So please stop being a bad loser. Read the inquiry. Maybe you might learn something.
J. Mifsud
Aug 9th 2008, 17:48
@ Albert Spieri
"I prefer my own bad choices and learn from the experience"
but the question is do you ever learn?
Joe Saliba always on the winning team gracefully resigned. Jason Micallef on the other hand managed to cling on with the blessing of the 900, even though he is such an arrogant loser. I thought there would be a change in the Labour party when Joseph Muscat was made leader,but with his two side kicks and Jason Micallef , everthing seems to be the same. You might as well bring back Alfred Sant!
albert spiteri
Aug 9th 2008, 17:03
I rather do my own choosing. You rather have others do your choosing for you. What won the election was no wizboy joe saliba, but the np super capacity for jerrymendering and manipulating. Whatever the case, win or loose, I prefer my own bad choices and learn from the experience rather than allow others treating me like a nincompoop and do the choosing for me.
Charles Camilleri
Aug 9th 2008, 15:47
@ Albert Spiteri. Time and again the MLP delegates have proved that they are not capable of choosing the right persons for Administrative posts. Jason was blamed for the lose of the election by the inquiry set up by the L Party. On the other hand the Nationalist knows who to put in the right place . John Saliba won them the election. See the difference albert. Now who lump what.?
Michael Gatt
Aug 9th 2008, 14:49
Just wait and see what the New Leader is capable of doing. We already started to see the differnce between his reasoning and that of the nationalist on matters of national interest.
albert spiteri
Aug 9th 2008, 14:28
Jason Micallef was elected by party delegates, not chosen. NP delegates (or whatever they are called) never elect. Like bleating sheep they get bundled with whoever it is that the dozen or so owners of NP decides to choose. And they, happily, lump it.
George Abela and Michael Falzon were never contenders for any post except that of top MLP leadership. Not for deputy leaders! The earthquake may arrive, and it may not. But Joseph Muscat says it will. I see no reason to disbelieve Joe Muscat.
Gonzi promised a change, new young, fresh, clean faces! New ideas. Then we had an election! The only old faces out are the two or three left out by the electorate. Gonzi (or whoever pulls the strings) decided that all the other old miserable, defunct faces are to be put back in Cabinet. And put in they got, and to hell with whatever Gonzi said on national TV before last election!!
The Gonzi pre-election new ideas are old hogwash. Llike always, with an NP government, demigods and oligarchs pulls the string!