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Labour leader proving to be weak on corruption - PN

People accused of corruption have found in Labour leader Joseph Muscat an agony aunt, the Nationalist Party said in a statement.

The PN said it was shocking that Dr Muscat found it normal to associate himself and his party’s media with a former mayor who declared he had taken a bribe, for cheap political gain.

Dr Muscat was proving to be weak on corruption when faced with the real thing. Dr Muscat, the party said, had declared he was comfortable that the former Sliema mayor was using his party’s media as his mouthpiece.

The Labour leader, the PN said, had also kept mum when criminal allegations against the Zebbug Labour deputy mayor surfaced in the media and when a Labour councillor in Attard was charged with damaging the church parvis to accommodate the Labour Party club in the vicinity.

In both cases it took Joseph Muscat’s Labour ages to sack both councillors.

He also felt it unnecessary to explain to the people of Fgura.

The PN said that Dr Muscat’s sole ambition was to become Prime Minister. However, he lacked substance and had no moral bearing where corruption was concerned.

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A.Attard

Oct 18th 2010, 13:18

He asked the Mlp to investigate if they wanted to prove anything...but as usual any reply?

C.Camilleri

Oct 17th 2010, 19:49

@ Pierre Borg

Would it have been ok for you had Nikki Dimech accepted to appear on Xarabank instead of Affari Taghna? Regarding Mr.Dalli I think you meant John not Bastjan. Does John Dalli also needs a permission from the PN to give interviews to speak his mind out? The problem is not Joseph being weak, its that people are deserting the PN. Period.

I Abela

Oct 16th 2010, 21:11

Mariella Borg - In many democratic countries, you are still innocent until PROVEN guilty. And admission (allegedly) doesn't automatically make you guilty, the court still has to declare you guilty. So for the time being Nikki Dimech is presumed innocent not the other way round. What I find absolutely shocking is that people who have your same line of reasoning still exist in this country. You should be living in far away places like Thailand, Iran, Cuba etc where people are guilty until proven innocent.

Frank Cassar

Oct 16th 2010, 19:45

Ezattament minhabba nies bhalek li l-PL ilu aktar minn 20 sena fl-oppozzizjoni.

joyce aquilina

Oct 16th 2010, 19:49

int qeda isemmi l`20 sena ta leadership taht Alfred Sant,b`hekk MIntoff ma Dahalx il HQ imma issa lil Joseph ghandna

axuereb

Oct 18th 2010, 03:40

@ Tracy: mhu veru xejn li qed tghid! Is super one dejjem ta spazju lil kulhadd, hu ta liema kulur hu. L-aqwa li min ikun jipproduci programm tajjeb. Nazzjonalist jew le is-Sur Bundy huwa prezentatur ta kalibru.

u ohra, ghalfejn zeffint il-kunsill ta Hal Luqa fin nofs? Ma nahsibx li ghandhom ghalfejn jigu jhabbtulek il bieb tal-PL ghal vot ghaz zgur qatt ma vvutajt Labour minn kliemek.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 20:13

What is really shockin is that the PN do not want to discuss the BWSC deal. A deal which is costing the taxpayer millions of euro, apart from the fact that this powerstation extention might casue cancers and other serious illnesses to people living in its locality.
That is what a young (or old) voter should be worrying about and not a silly programm on a private TV station.
Grow up, and use your brains.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:58

Now I quite believe you were zapping. John Bundy never said Mr Dimech turned up unexpectedly. In fact he said he had invited him. John Bundy said he was surprised Nikki Dimech had accepted his invitation, since the PN councillors were afraid to accept this invitation, maybe they had more to hide than Nikki Dimech.
You seemed not to have heard Nikki Dimech say that the present Sliema Mayor signed a contract losing a large educational programm and some 600 dustbins, from the original contract he was going to sign when very conviently he was removed from his position as Sliema Mayor.

p dimech

Oct 16th 2010, 17:00

Bundy issa jrid jilghabha tal unbiased meta ilbierah dam nofs siegha jintervista lil Nicky Dimech u lis-Sur Marmara miskin nesa jikkonfrontah mas Sur Camilleri li kien wiehed li ressaq mozzjoni ta sfiducja kontrih.
Jaqaw issa sirt inti il pupazz tal One TV Sur John Bundy u nahseb int ghandek programm tal Mickey Mouse u mhux dan il pajjiz !!

L.Bugeja

Oct 16th 2010, 17:25

Well done and well said ghaziz cittadin......

V Caruana

Oct 16th 2010, 18:51

Le Sur Lia mhux se ninsew. Dawn jibqgġu fl-istorja... mhux biex inpattuha. Mhux se ninsew li Lorry Sant biex ixandar mar l-Eġittu bħal Richard li mar Sqallija. Mhux se ninsew lill-kap ta' partit li fl-1977 ħajjar li jifforma armata tal-partit biex "jipprotegih". Mhux se ninsew li l-istess kap ħajjar li "disubbidjenza ċivili twaqqa' anke gvern leġittimu". Disubbidjenza saret bi strajkijiet minn ; tal-linja, tobba, għalliema, telemalta, etc. Niftakru li bombi ma postijiet sensittivi bħal ma l-computer centre fis-Swatar. U li fl-Imnarja ta' (1982?) immorru L-għadira taħt forma ta' protesta. DAN PASSAT. Dr. Gonzi jgħidilna biex inħarsu 'l quddiem lejn viżjoni 2015. U hekk nagħmlu.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 20:01

Is -Sindku ta tas-Sliema la gie akkuzat u wisq anqas ammetta li ha Bribe, hu gie akkuzat li talab bribe.

a. dalli

Oct 17th 2010, 08:43

And why not another much longer programme to cover 1987-1996 u 1998 - 2010.

C Gatt

Oct 16th 2010, 17:58

@E Micallef

I really don't understand your point. If the GWU wants to give the space free to One TV and/or John Bundy, what's to stop them? Its their premises. Surely they can decide who to give it to, and for how much?

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:46

Your so called actor friend must have been mistaken as far as I know that theater is leased to ZOO, I believe it is Zoo who hire it out. Affari Taghna is produced by 26th Frame productions, who buy the time on One TV - like Where's Everybody buy the time to produced many programms on PBS. So you see Jason Micallef and Joseph Muscat have nothing to do with yesterday's programm. Better get your facts right, and don 't believe anything your media tells you as God's Bible.

Stephanie Cassar

Oct 16th 2010, 20:21

Edith is probably the only person on the island not aware that City theatre has been let on long lease to Zoo. The directors of Zoo rented it to One. Can' t understand where Joseph Muscat is involved. I hope that after discovering this fact she will excuse herself

Stepanie Cassar

Oct 17th 2010, 15:04

Edith , swallowed a tennis ball ? , can't find your excuse. Apparently instead of yellow the ball is blue ;)

J. Mifsud

Oct 16th 2010, 15:57

" I Happened to be zapping yesterday night"............ Go tell it to the marines. Who are you kidding? I bet you were so curious to view the programme that you could'nt wait for the time to arrive!!!!!!!

I think that what hurt you most is that it is being presented by Mr John Bundy, an ex-PN activist, an ex-PN Electoral candidate and an ex-PN presenter on prime time on the PN's media.

Do I smell an aura of a boycott for Mr Bundy's programme?

Is this what your party's democracy stand for?

Eh....kemm hsibthom bciecen in-nies!!!!!!!!!

Guido Farrugia

Oct 16th 2010, 18:06

La verita offende Fleur!!!! Zapping?... i understand you watched the programme entirely... no problem at all,keep following, it might assist you to understand what the PN is made of.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:39

Funny you happened to be zapping and heard Nikki Dimech thanking Joseph Muscat, I watched the entire programme twice, yesterday and today and did not hear him. Can you please refer to the exact time when Nikki Dimech thanked JOSEPH MUSCAT. The capitals are not meant as screaming but for you to read clearly.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:36

Does One TV need Joseph's permission to invite someone on TV? I get the feeling it;s PN MPs and councilors who are puppets in Dr Gonzi's hands rather than One TV in Joseph Muscat's. All those who wished to attend yesterday's programm were stopped by some hidden hand, with excuses of being abroad, being sick or being otherwise occupied, It seems PN are the puppets on a string in a dictator's hands.

Gerard Cassar

Oct 16th 2010, 15:51

I do recall and everybody recalls that Mr.Joseph Fenech,"il-hafi" one must give him his title of Mister and il-hafi, was given time more than once on theNational Television and was described as having both good and less good qualities by nobody less than the President Emereitus then Prime Minister Dr Eddie Fenech Adami. who ointed the Hon. Dr Lawrence Gonzi as Prime Miister and vice versa as President of the Republic.

wally vella-zarb

Oct 16th 2010, 15:38

"Honi soit qui mal-y-pense!"

What is so 'disgusting' in hearing the other side of a story?


"It is a sign of intelligence when a man can entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it" (Aristotle)

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:29

I watched John Bundyu's programm twice and never heard Nikki Dimech thanking Joseph Muscat. After all Joseph Muscat has nothing to do with Budny''s programm. Which I must say is very good much better than Xarabank. But then John Bundy was always a much better showman than Joe Azzopardi.

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:20

s@ Monica Muscat it what you call the bad old days The PN gave as much if not more than it received. The then leader of the opposition enjoyed hearing his crowd shouting 'Salbu Salbu@ on the granaries. Many businessman were ruined with the famous boycott, and many workers lost their job.
Policeman who were accused of maltreating people were promoted as soon as the PN came into power. If you did not live those years I suggest you go look up the newspapers maybe you'll learn what the Bad days were all about.

Joseph Scicluna

Oct 16th 2010, 15:46

please can you start writing this book about corruption. as an introduction you can start with the years1971 to 1987. thank you

Monica Muscat

Oct 16th 2010, 15:55

I do not think the PN (or rather the people that form the policy) need rest assured that they can get away with murder. Just because murder is not their daily bread - as happened with the Old Labour during the "bad old days". Least anyone try to pin a libel action on me. - For me murder is not only the knife,gun or poisen business. Drivng a person to ruin or self distruction, slandering, mud-slinging etc., are all "murders". Those who kill the spirit are murderers... far worse than those that kill the body.

Michael Seychell

Oct 16th 2010, 16:00

You must be very young in age my friend.

In the past we have had Institutionalised Corruption which included a Corrupt Police Force.

We had aslo Ex Ministers who today comment or write on corruption, whilst in tjheir time they remaind mum. It suffice to mention a Thug who was importing Mars Choclate and selliing it at Citygate , and yet He was never stopped by rthe Police or the Minister of Trade, Commerce or whatever the name of the Ministry was at that time.

Not only that but this same person was given a Quasi State Funeral.

These last years the police have taken various persons to court on corruption, some were found guilty and were sentenced, others were not. Under Labour only one person - a Whistle Blower, a certain Mr. Cachia had accused an ex Minister with Corruption, yet Instead of the Minister, He himself was taken to Court and ended ended in prison.

Years later it was proved that his allegations on the Minister were right.

I hope Dr. Bountempo MP/MLP will not say that I am rewriting History, because these two incidfents are Historical Facts.


Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta

Philip Zahra

Oct 16th 2010, 19:06

@ Mike Seychell

BTW are you referring to the corrupt Police Officers who were promoted after May 1987?
Promoted instead of being suspended or sacked from the Police Force and taken to Court, as a sign of gratitude maybe? This was taken care of by A Sant in 1996.
Taf tisthi Sur Seychell jew illum ghandek l-interessi? It's a case of the pot calling the kettle black!! Are you another hypocrite who wants to teach us on what's right & ethical like PBO maybe?

G.Schembri

Oct 16th 2010, 19:25

@ Michael Sehchel We also had drug trafficers who were given a presidential pardo, and corrupt policemen who were later given a promotion. Ah no that was later, But then you are too politically presjudiced to remember.

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