Why Gaddafi reminds me of Labour

j brincat

Sep 2nd 2011, 13:46

Why is it that when I think of Gaddafi the image of Dr Gonzi hugging Gaddafi last February immediately comes to mind!

(jb)

Neil Zammit

Aug 26th 2011, 13:11

DR busuttil zur wahda il-website please. Tal-gvern stess din ta xejn ta bara minn aw

https://opm.gov.mt/newsdetails?id=897&l=2

Mr Michael Galea

Aug 26th 2011, 13:10

1 Question for Mr Busuttil : If Labour was a regime after 16 years in Government , What do you call The PN after 25 years in Government? I know the Answer (DICTATORSHIP)

Mr David Bezzina

Aug 26th 2011, 07:19

I GUESS DR.BUSUTTIL FORGOT WHO WAS THE LAST POLITICAL LEADER TO SHAKE HANDS WITH GADDAFI.

R. Gauci

Aug 26th 2011, 00:09

Sur Busuttil meta ssejjah lil PL regim nahseb qed turi li ma studjajtx l-istorja sew jew ma smajtx lil persuni intelligenti bhal mibki Profs. Guido de Marco jitkellem. Jien ma naf bl-ebda mexxej ta' regim li jirranga ma l-Oppozizzjoni biex jirbhu l-elezzjoni ta` wara, meta flimkien kienu rrangaw il-kostituzzjoni. Kull PM Malti mar ibus lil Gaddafi, taht l-istess cirkostanzi INT KONT TAGHMEL L-ISTESS. Mbaghad wisq aktar kellu ghaliex imur Mintoff meta fis-snin 70 Gvern Nazzjonalista hlief ghaks ma hallix warajh meta nizel, xi haga ried jaghmel biex igib il-flus biex jibni lil Malta Gdida. Fl-1987 meta l-MLP tilef l-elezzjoni ma nahsibx li saru l-massakri li qed isiru l-LIbja anzi kellna transizzjoni ta` poter mill-aktar kwieta. Sur Busuttil int vera temmen li kieku ma kienx hawn il-PL fil-gvern kieku Malta ghadna bla moskea jew m'hawn l-ebda Musulman? Jekk vera temmen hekk allura ghadek ma tafx li d-DInja globalizzat ruhha, nsomma nies bhalek ghadhom jemmnu li kieku baqa Gvern Laburista kieku Malta llum la hawn internet, la hawn mobiles, la hawn cikkulata, nsomma s-soltu brainwash li nisimghu. Nsellimlek.

Charles Bugeja

Aug 25th 2011, 16:55

Tinsiex min kien dak il Prim Ministru li tah l-ahhar bewsa lil Gaddafi qabel ma inqala dan kollu biex forsi jixtri l Airmalta!!!!!!

Mr Colin Camilleri

Aug 25th 2011, 14:51

Why Gaddafi reminds me of the PN..... it will be annihilated at the coming polls by the people exactly the same way as Gaddafi was annihilated by its people after governing the country with a dictatorship for over 25 years.

If Dr. Busuttil wants to draw parallels, I am more than happy to do that exercise for him... given that he seems to be living in a different world .... ahh yes he is enjoying the cream pie income in Brussels while we maltese suffering under the dictatorship of his government.

Mark Scicluna

Aug 25th 2011, 13:39

What a selective memory Mr.Busuttil, if you check out thursday's(25/08) Maltatoday and check out article 'Snapshots of a special relationship' it will maybe jog your memory of what some of your own party said about Libya and Gaddafi up till very recently, namely foreign minister Tonio Borg, John Dalli, and, to top it all, Prime minister Dr.Lawrence Gonzi. Why, but why do you lot have to bring Labour into everything? If you think that by this kind of vomiting you are doing your party any favours come next election, keep it up , cause anyone with the slightest hint of what's going on around the globe knows that ALL the world leaders rubbed shoulders with Gaddafi, latest being Gonzi himself just a week before the uprisals. I used to think that working in Brussels, you were above partisan politics, but alas, I forgot that you'll always be a anti-labour at best.

Mr Lawrence Fenech

Aug 25th 2011, 13:37

Inthom in-nazzjonalisti politici ahjar ma tifthux halqkkom aktar ghax qed taqilghu ruxxmata ----.

Joseph Borg

Aug 25th 2011, 10:41

Kemm tiftakar li jaqbillek Dr Busuttil? xi kultant niskanta jekk tahdimx Brussles, jekk intix qieghed wahdek imsakkar DAR MALTA jew jekk ghandekx xi interess iehor.

Mela ha nfakkrek jiena...il gahan Maltin li ma ghandi l-ebda diploma jew certifikat fl EU studies.

Col Gaddafi was made honorary member of the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Reppublika on December 5, 1975 (veru fi zmien il labour) and later honorary companion of honour of the National Order of Merit on February 8, 2004. (ermmmm fi zmien il PN minghaliaj hux?)

Relations were subsequently restored and, when Malta joined the EU in 2004, Libya said it would be having a member of its own “family” within the Union. The island was being seen as a force to strengthen relations between Europe and Africa.

U aqra naqra dan l artiklu pls

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20040209/local/muammar-gaddafi-welcomes-maltas-eu-membership.130405

"The friendship between Malta and Libya can lead to Libya's friendship with the EU. The future of the two countries is bound together," Prof. de Marco said.

At the airport in Sirte, Prof. de Marco, who is accompanied by Mrs de Marco, was received by Mostafa Kharoubi, a member of the leadership.

Prof. de Marco said he felt very close to Libya and his visit was aimed at renewing and strengthening the friendship between the two countries.

Dan dejjem apparti li kein mistieden mil kap tieghek u il -kap tieghek kien l ahhar state leader li ltaqa mieghu taht idt-tinda ftit xhur ilu.

Ha niccara l affarijiet: minhix nghid li il PN ghamel hazin li kellu relazzjonijiet tajba ma Gaddafi ...pero tant iehor l anqas l MLP. Li jkollok relazzjonijiet tajba mal pajjizi girien tieghek huija importanti u hekk ghandu jkun u allahares ma jkunx hekk! Nixtieq infakkrek ukoll li Gaddafi gabarna min xaghrna meta telq l inglizi u shabek hallew mandra fil pajjiz....kieku ma kienx hekk kieku il bambin biss jaf min fejn konnha ha ngibu il flus dak iz-zmien u min fejn kien ser jiehu il paga tac civil missieri biex ikun jista jitma lili u lill familja tieghi.

Possibli ragel INTELLIGENTI bhalek tara biss li jaqbel lilek u titkellem u ssemmi biss dak li jidhirlek ha jaghmel deni lill PL.

Ghallijista jkun gejt taghmel xi promotion ghax ha ghandek xi "hidden agenda"

Edgar Azzopardi

Aug 25th 2011, 08:43

Dr Busuttil has stooped to a level which I never thought possible of him.

Evidently his time in Brussels taught him nothing because he is basically still a provincial village politician.

I'm disappointed in this man beyond belief...and to think I voted for him. Kemm kont stupidu!

Good to note that the PN bloggers and opinionists have gone into first gear with their visciousness against anything red , PL, or anything non-PN conformist. They are scared stiff of loosing power and their gravy train drying up - no doubt.

I am wondering what Busuttil thinks of his leader sucking up to Gaddafi last January and Gonzi's invitation for Gaddafi to visit Malta presumebly to honour the great man with some fancy medal or other.

And I wonder what Bustiil thinks of photos showing of his other leader -EFA practically hanging on to Gaddafii as if he were the Messiah. I am surprised that these two PN leaders where sucking up to this man who - according to the wise Dr Busttil himself- reminds the nationalsits of Labout so much !!

Chris J Vassallo

Aug 25th 2011, 08:40

Guess what reminds me of Gaddafi;

The way this government appoints its boards based on merit and not on family connections; just look at the MEPA board and the rest.

The other thing that reminds me of Gaddafi is the sheer distance between the concerns of the people and how this is interpreted by the people in power, this article being just one example.

Mr Martin Cassar

Aug 25th 2011, 03:32

Who was the last western PM to hug and kiss Gaddafi?

Mr Joseph Carmel Chetcuti

Aug 25th 2011, 02:58

Totally pathetic article. To think that someone like this author is representing Malta as he goes about confusing Libya with Colonel Gadafi is incredible. Small wonder the PN is losing its grip not only on reality but also its senses. I see it all. Churches are destroyed. Malta's prelates are executed. Muscat and his PL team become Malta's dictators the moment they get elected. And throw into the bargain a nice fancy hat for them to wear. Fear-mongering is all the PN has left as it continues to plunge Malta into greater economic uncertainity, turning the country into the beggar of the European Union. When will these PN clowns give the people of Malta the opportunity to throw them into the dustbin of political history?

Mr Paul Caruana

Aug 24th 2011, 21:31

People who live in glasshouses (or "glassy" political headquarters)............

The truth is that successive Maltese administrations have been bending over backwards to accommodate the colonel!

Admittedly this reprehensible attitude of political-economic convenience has been a feature of most world leaders, but for one MP to attempt a "holier than thou" attitude when it comes to our collective dealings with Gaddafi is really plumbing beyond the normal depths of sewer politics!

Peter Xuereb

Aug 24th 2011, 21:26

Here we go again; having PL and Gaddafi in the same sentence. Short of complete hypocrisy coming from someone where his party had continued the tradition of maintaining a friendly relationship with out neighbours.

Weren't you sent to the European parliament for many things other than partisan rubbish Mr Busuttil?

Mr Robert Calafato

Aug 24th 2011, 21:01

"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition"

Michael Korda

Carmel Cilia

Aug 24th 2011, 19:25

The same with me Mr. Busuttil: everytime I read or hear the name of Australia I remember the day to be exact l965 when I went to say goodbye to an aunt. You know what, she was not going on holiday but had to leave to join her husband in that continent to earn a living. Then they used to go accompanied by a band. As to 1971 if it were not for Gaddafi the newly elected government would not have had enough money to pay the civil sevice after years of a nationalist government. You do have a cheek Mr. Busuttil.

Charles J. Buttigieg

Aug 24th 2011, 18:25

Gaddafi was honored by a PL administraton as well as a PN's when they conferred upon him in 1976 and 2004, by a parliamentary resolution.

Charles J. Buttigieg

Aug 24th 2011, 18:03

Worst than a person going to bed with a prostitute is the other person’s repulsions but then going to the same bedroom with the same prostitute and lick at the left over

Mr J Xerri

Aug 24th 2011, 17:45

Probably Dr Bustuttil expected to get more brownie points for his article.

Philip Hili

Aug 24th 2011, 17:45

Why all this fuss for the heading of Dr Simond Busuttil contribution?

Isn't it true that Gaddafi remind us of Labour? What's wrong?. Isn't it true that the Labour Party brought for the first time in Malta Gaddafi and the leaders of that time hugged him at Birzebbugia?

Or when one recounts the Labour Party history, Labour party supporters are not happy at all?
Isn't it true that Gaddafi remind us of Labour especially these last few weeks when all readers of this paper witnessed the shameful advice given by KMB to the Maltese workers in Libya that they can return to Libya because according to KMB and others, Libya was safe???

Come on!! you R....(better stop addressing the way Gaddafi addressed his opposition). If the past of the Labour Party vis-a-vis Gaddafi is shameful stop pointing out at world leaders including dr. Gonzi because when he was in power, world leaders treated him as a leader of a nation.

Mr Clayton Gauci

Aug 24th 2011, 17:12

You should be ashamed for writing such a disgusting article Mr Simon Busuttil. But then again, you are not ashamed of anything....all the lies you told the maltese people in the EU campaign and that we were going to have heaven on earth.............half of this, if not more never came true.

Mr francis darmanin

Aug 24th 2011, 16:58

This article by SB is of such shallowness that I am suspecting that he has decided to contest elections in Malta (for local MP instead of MEP). He has brought forward arguments of the type relished in the village clubs, definitely not Brussels stuff. It's a pity because his knowledge of EU affairs would serve the country better. After what must have been a wonderful personal experience I'm surprised that he could fall for such parochialism.

Mr Paul Micallef

Aug 24th 2011, 16:38

Why are you taking SB so seriously? Have you forgotten how he took the hunting lobby for a ride with his promise that nothing will change after EU membership and that hunters and trappers will continue to pracitce their hobby. What a pity that in order to score cheap political points SB resorted to such drivel.

Mr michael catania

Aug 24th 2011, 16:32

What do you expect from a conservative. He has self interest could not care less about his place of birth. He left his criticism of Gaddafi a bit late, I remember his leader and the other emeritus (EFA) crawling to Gaddafi om the premise that they might obtain some grace from him,but he sent them back to Malta empty handed. Did this MEP critisized his leaders then.

Andrew Calleja

Aug 24th 2011, 16:29

Reading all the reactions below the first thing that comes to mind is the Italian saying - La Verita Offende.
However, one has to admit that the author has knowingly shied away from mentioning or taking into full consideration a couple of very valid points.

The first is the prevailing situation in the 70s. Malta was going to end up in dire straits due to the prospective loss of income arising from the closure of the British and NATO bases. The only alternative open to it at the time came from the Libyan regime.

The second point is that the PN in government have only recently taken an open stance against the Gaddafi regime, and that was done in a very guarded and cautious manner.

Let's say it in Maltese, hadd ma kien lest idardar l-ghajn li ried jixrob minnha.

Mr Paul Borg

Aug 24th 2011, 16:28

Simon Busuttil should stop short of reminding himself of Labour and instead go for the bigger picture. The truth is that before the uprising every western Government including The Maltese Government, were on their knees kissing Gaddafi's Donkey....get the drift. Young Simon sounds like PN old school, who, just like Gaddafi is surrounded by a few that make a lot of noise, but the majority knows better.

Mr ALBERT LEONE GANADO

Aug 24th 2011, 16:08

@JEB
Reading the comments on this blog it is clear that as expected the PL supporters as a reaction to this non warranted attack on their leader are resorting and casting doubts on John Dalli's Libyan connections, on the PM being the last European Head of state to pose with Muammar and to the fanfare with which the PN press announced Gaddafi's attendance at the 5+5 meeting in Malta. A real pity for where National interests are involved we should demonstrate National unity and not resort to cheap politics. From his previous writings it is clear that SB had hoped and encouraged government to shrug our neutrality clause and join in the Nato alliance of the warmongers. Fortunately our prudent Government adopted a responsible and successful tactical policy stance which kept NATO at bay. Would I be speculating or reading too much in that the attack on the PL by SB who always weighs carefully his actions was also a vicarious attack on the diagrammatically opposite policy adopted by the government leadership in the Libyan conflict to that proposed by SB.

Mr Joseph Grima

Aug 24th 2011, 16:02

is this the man being touted as the next PN leader? I can only describe his views on foreign affairs as incredibly naive and indeed myopic. Dr Busuttil has never heard of the adage that, in the same way that one cannot choose one's parents or one's siblings, one also cannot choose one' s geographical neighbours. That being the case, one has to maintain good relations with a neighbor especially if that neighbour is an unpredictable maverick as Ghaddafi was, Labour governments , and through those governments the maltese people, benefited from Libya. It was from revenues of Libyan oil that Malta could have some real social services such as the children's allowance, a service that. Maltese families enjoy to this day. Dr Busuttil had better dedicate himself to bettering the disastrous plight of this country due to his Party's gross mismangemt in the last quarter of a century and dedicate less effort to resuscitating a past which se sees only through blue-tinted glasses.

Ms Sabrina Borda

Aug 24th 2011, 16:00

Malta; is always under someones wing. A long history of colonizers-protectors- European members. They all gave. Malta shakes hands with all countries as other countries do too. There always seems to be a cold handshake of 'give or take' as long as it serves to help business....hopefully mostly for Malta even though it was always uncomfortable being under Gaddafi's unpredictable and very shifty shadow, many did good business in Libya.
What I hope now is that we could claim back our rightful boundaries in the mediterranean, put an end to any sharing ideas, without dispute, what is ours is unquestionably ours. Whoever is talking other than on these lines will be selling Malta short or out.

victor caruana

Aug 24th 2011, 15:58

This reminds me of Gonzi (mhux kumbinazzjoni) who stuck with Gaddafi to the bitter end...i.e. yesterday....bhahan

Mr Charles.C. Brown

Aug 24th 2011, 15:08

Well you would say that wouldnt you??????

Mr Victor Laiviera

Aug 24th 2011, 14:46

The fact that Simon Busuttil has started to produce this partisan, parochial, parish pump material can only mean one thing- or, rather two.

That he has decided to stand for election to the Maltese parliament and that the elections are closer than we think.

Adrian Gouder

Aug 24th 2011, 14:14

With half a smile, may I remind readers not only of green passports, but also of the green busses. No, we're not talking about ecologically sensitive busses, just our old busses literally painted green .

Mr Anthony Formosa

Aug 24th 2011, 13:30

I usually refrain to speak about politics, but the recent comments on the media excels hypocrisy and everyone is acting as Judas. Why such condemnations were not raised when the only hard currency and cheap oil price was coming from Gaddafi. It baffles me when I hear that the NATO and other countries including Malta are protecting the Libyans when the Libyans are killing their fellow Libyans. The PL like many other countries had a good relations with Gaddafi and its people and because of that a special relation was built over the years.

When commonwealth meeting was held in Malta, head of states didn't care much about the blood on the hands of some African head of states, where was Dr Busuttil to promote democracy, and condemn atrocities, wars, genocides, violations of human rights, in African countries?

Perhaps Gaddafi was not the ideal president to rule the country, but surely it was not the proper way to end this regime, and KMB was right to intermediate for a peaceful end.

Where were the politicians for the last two years when El Magrahi was released on the basis of terminal illness by the UK experts and two years after is still alive?

Mr Manwel Debattista

Aug 24th 2011, 13:09

Dr. Busuttil, what cheek!!

Not only has the PN (of which you are part) lost all sensitivity to the Maltese people's plight in today's harsh realities but it has obviously lost its sense of reason and thinks that manipulating the truth still has a place in its way of doing politics.

Thanks Dr. Busutiil for removing your mask to show your true colours.

Jimmy Magro

Aug 24th 2011, 13:01

The author has forgot to smell his own arm pit and it is a pity that a person in his position goes so low in political discourse.

Mr d. attard

Aug 24th 2011, 12:39

So is our MEP is resorting to Pavlovian association as a cheap way to do his politics? How low can one get?

Mary Mills

Aug 24th 2011, 12:11

Dr Busuttil: Now, you're supposed to be talking some substance about E u r o p e (remember?),not chewing the cud, mushing the passing away of Ghaddafi with PL (no voter, me, by the way - no, not living in the hinterland of Wales!).

Are you, in fact, trying to 'bury bad news' about the economic problems besetting the 'Big Project' / EU?

As yet here hasn't yet even been proper agreement amongst eurozone countries about handing over the cool 109 billion euro bailout to Greece - Finland has demanded collateral from Greece (latter even agreeing to it - in cash, if you please...!) others are jumping up and down wanting collateral - Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, and even the Nederlands, one of the founding members.

So, who knows Greece might even have to set up the Acropolis as collateral?! Or perhaps, Evangelos Venizelos, the Greek finance minister might go to Delphi to seek advice from the Oracle who would, presumably instruct him to remind the Greeks they ought to have gone on exporting currents and fighting the Persians!

Oh yes, we're all so weary of politicians...

Dane Cauchi

Aug 24th 2011, 11:53

Mr. Busuttil seems to have been living in a cuckoo land those last 20 years.

It has to be a politician who entertains us with such drivel . No wonder politics in Malta reached rock bottom

Kirill Micallef Stafrace

Aug 24th 2011, 11:19

Frankly this is an insulting article well below Dr. Simon Busuttil's standards especially when one considers PN John Dalli's stand on the whole issue.
With his same warped reasoning then we can state: 'why paedophilia reminds us of PN' or 'why mismanagement reminds us of PN' and the list can go on and on
Very disappointed in Dr Busuttil. Expected better from him.

Joe Micallef

Aug 24th 2011, 11:14

On Wednesday 9th February 2011, the Times of Malta reported the article with the following title: Gaddafi planning to attend Malta 5+5 meeting.

No matter how much the Nationalist Party tries to hide the truth, througout the years they have shied away from being the bronze Christian crusaders Simon Busuttil is trying to be.

Dear Simon, history does not end in 1987. The visits to Libya and hugs by Edward Fenech Adami and John Dalli are also part of our history. I don't blame them, everybody in the world did. I consider your reasoning pathetic and baseless, especially when a few month ago Lawrence Gonzi wanted to do the same thing that you are criticizing Labour of. He wanted to bring the tyrant here!

Besides, plural voting is the least thing you can associate with Labour. Nationalist Administrations used to defend the right of property owners to enjoy multiple votes. But that seems that it isn't history for you. Neither is the sorry state that Borg Olivier left Malta in, to the bad extent that the Libyan dictator had to give Malta suffcient money for the wages of the public sector!

Instead of wasting your time in such partisan bickering dating nearly fourty years, you may also bash some of your EU colleagues who also found it necessary to flirt with Gaddafi. Needless to say, the majority of these are found in your own People's Party!

Mr John Azzopoardi

Aug 24th 2011, 11:03

Mr. Busittil are you running for the party leadership or something. We already have Joseph from the EU parlament, we surely do not need another one. Still to the job you are doing in the EU, whatever that maybe, and stop your day dreaming. I hope the PN leadership does not fill your head with thoughts of the prime minister ship. Also, the PN prime minister was in libya just one week prior to the LIbyan uprising. It's has been a comment policy with both the PN and PL to keep their big brother Moammar GAddafi happy at all times. Short memory eh.

Nicholas Borg

Aug 24th 2011, 10:16

The Labour Party should come clean about their true relationship with Gaddafi particularly in the 70s and 80s. There have been so many stories of hidden agendas, back-room deals and undeclared funding that will remain as skeletons in their cupboard if they do not clean them out. Vain hope? Probably!
A little bit of advice to those who speak favourably of Gaddafi, if you want to really know what it was like to live under his tyranny talk to a Libyan, who wasn't linked to the regime. Only then will you able to post comments in sites such as this on him that make any sense.

Mrs Marlene Hills

Aug 24th 2011, 10:02

I think Simon Busuttil has to go back further in history and note that Malta and the language Maltese only started to become recognised as such with the British colonisation of the island after they drove out the French in 1800 circa. Maltese was just a colloquial language spoken to the uneducated in those days,and is a dialect of Arabic, another remnant of our Arab domination cenutries back. The left over citizens of European descent (and of whom many of us are descended )who served the Knights spoke European languages,Italian mostly,as Italy is our nearest neighbour after North Africa. These ruled Malta.There was an instance when some politicians in the 1920's wanted Malta to be part of Italy rather than of England and it is at this point that the Brtish started to promote Maltese as a national language and of course English because without it you could not get a job .This they did to oust Italian and its political implications. To go forward to the 1970's in the period when the British did not need Malta any more and wanted out and therefore the "7 year phase down" wnich caused loss of jobs and the need to find other means of survival. What was the Party in Power to do then? What needs must and since Gaddafi was willing to pay what the British refused to pay at that point they took up the offer in exchange for a tin medal as what else did we give gaddafi? what else can one say? of course there were unpleasant repercussions. Western Foreign Policy is brutal and acquisitional and nothing stands in its way to get its hands on assets under the guise of "protecting the citizens". I like the truth and I am a pacifist.

Mr Carmelo Micallef

Aug 24th 2011, 09:59

The PL apologists cannot, like Gaddafi, accept reality - you were bedfellows - you shouted triumphally about your closeness with the tyrant - you used his methods - you forced this tyrant upon Malta.

PL now coming out in support of the Libyan people is pathetic opportunism.

Mr ALBERT LEONE GANADO

Aug 24th 2011, 09:13

What a petty and pathetic article by the supposedly AAA rated MEP. There are more serious reflections of a truly national interest which SB could have raised at this critical time in the Libyan tragedy. Indeed he should have congratulated both the PN and PL for their prudent and successful approach to the Libyan crisis. By concentrating on humanitarian issues rather than joining the NATO military adventure as advocated by SB our country has achieved respect and gratitude in all countries who had citizens trapped in Libya and have defined a worth national mission. Finally I suggest that PN supporters compare his immature style in this Libyan crisis with the responsible, prudent, measured and staged style of the PM ,of Tonio Borg and Mario Demarco who as a team shoulder national responsibilities and fully comprehend what national interest is all about..

Mr Albert Dimech

Aug 24th 2011, 08:41

Dr Busuttil conveniently forgot to mention that all PN leaders found no problem in meeting Gaddafi, most recently in January Dr Gonzi was in his tent, the last country leader to be there. Not no mention that there are several nationalists that found no problem to do business with the Gaddafi regime, including relatives of high ranking PN officials.

Of course there is no corruption and nepotism now. Have you been to Dar Malta lately Dr Busuttil? And where were you during the divorce referendum campaign. You only seem to surface every now and than to try to score some very, very cheap points again Labour. Pathetic, so say the least.

Mark Piscopo

Aug 24th 2011, 08:24

Dear Dr Busuttil,

I do not agree with you regarding this article because Currently in Malta who did not respected the will of the people after the referendum result? Who is imposing heavy drastic taxes on the people and he himself and his minister had an increase of Eur500 a week while the people only got Eur1.16.? Who imposed a such drastic tax on the fuel leaving many families in Malta cannot make ends meet? It is very unfair comparing Gaddafi with the PL, honestly it reminds me of this administration where the government is introducing drastic measures and thousands of families coul not make ends meet with such low wages.