PN congratulates Cuschieri

R ferriggi

Dec 2nd 2011, 09:05

what you are saying is warped logic.

in the sense that altough ''in a way'' you are right,,,, you are still wrong,,, in the sense that this is an extra advocate for malta.

if you cannot overcome THIS threshhold of thinking,,, boy you have problems.

Stephen Grech

Dec 2nd 2011, 10:57

Mark,
By the looks of it, I have a hunch that you will be contesting next MEP's election. All that salary, allowances, perks and so on would not hurt, mhux hekk!!.
Under which ticket would one find you listed Catholic, Democratic hobb lil-ghajrek bhallhekk inifshekk???

Joseph Camilleri

Dec 1st 2011, 20:11

A glimpse of the cons?

The PL conducted a whole campaign about how Malta would get only Lm1 million per year, how major companies would close down (remember Alfred Sant mentioning lists of companies such as Coke etc which would close down every week at mass meetings?), how Malta would be swallowed up by the EU, how Libya would be annoyed at us for joining, etc.. Remember Joseph Muscat telling us (as a Super One journalist) all this?

Vision is what differentiates the two parties and leaders. The PN has it while the PL has none.

Gordon Farrugia

Dec 1st 2011, 21:16

funny Joseph you mention that because the PN have always been promising that the EU is like a cash cow that will shower us with millions. Far from the cash cow we've already had to gulp on that having had to fork EUR700,000,000 to greece (and this after we had already guaranteed a substantial amount before) - all this is basically debt we can write off because Greece is unlikely to pay us back.

B Grech

Dec 2nd 2011, 06:55

@Joseph, I lost my first full time employment as a direct consequence of joining the EU so don t tell me there were no cons (Lowenbrau Malta). The removal of protective levies (aimed at protecting local industry) led to many a factory going under or having to lay off many an employee. Not only that but we were forced to introduce new levies to protect EU cow farmers and the like!

Gianninu Saliba

Dec 1st 2011, 19:58

No Mr. Mizzi, in all probability they were referring to the two seats Mintoff was hoping for, had he managed to integrate Malta with Britain. Thank God this never happened, thanks to the father of the nation, Dr. Borg Olivier. Instead of those two seats, we have a seat at the UN, which has the same vote as the seat of the UK or the USA. We have six seats in the EU with the right to Veto. But, most importantly, we have a Prime Minister who is managing our economy in a way that the rest of Europe are incapable of copying. All this is thanks to the Nationalist Party. No wonder, we are so proud of our Nationalist roots. Those that cannot see and understand our roots, must surely see the fruit of this glorious tree... independence, EU membership, strong economy, good health care, excellent education and true democracy.

Mary Ann Borg

Dec 1st 2011, 20:08

No, no dear Joseph Mizzi. PN did not 'probably got it wrong'. It was Labour that got it all wrong (again). You see, we are not getting €1million a year from the EU like your expert and MEP profs told the Maltese during the battle for joining the EU. Neither are we the 'makku' that Alfred Sant told us we will all be. And above all, none of what your dear leader Joseph, told us would happen in his 'Made in Brussels' programme on Super 1 ever materialised. Much less the advent of AIDS and the invasion by Sicilians as we were told by your other Lejber leader KMB. And now dear Joseph wants all his pics to depict the EU flag behind him, after the GWU actually burnt the EU flag during one of its 'popular' demonstrations against Malta joining the EU. Or perhaps you want to re-write history as Labour unsuccessful tries over and over again? Now who got it wrong Mr Mizzi?

l vella

Dec 1st 2011, 20:21

dear gianninu, i thank God the 'patria d'oltre mare' never happened.

people in glass houses etc etc etc

Jo Borg

Dec 1st 2011, 20:57

@ Ganninu Saliba.

Gann, you got it all wrong mate! Mintoff wanted the Maltese people to have exactly the same rights and benefits as the British people - including social services (unheard of at the time), NHS, pensions, decent wages etc - He would have achieved this, not in 1964 (when we got a piece of paper and little else), not in 1979 (when we got rid of military bases in a peaceful and civilised manner (ask our Cypriot friends what this means!), not in 2004 (when we traded what little freedom we had in exchange for a promise of heaven on earth), but in 1955. Can you imagine what it means to have wage parity with Britain 60 years ago? Having the same standards in our schools, access to British health and education services which were the envy of Europe, back then? Mintoff's only problem was that he was too forward looking and bold for his time, and those around him were either chickens or in bed with the Brits. Ganninu, study your history before you write.