UNITED THEY WERE NOT
The onion is peeling itself and the aroma wafting out is rather interesting.
From what one can glean from his resignation letter, the former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party no longer has any confidence in the current Leader of the Labour Party. The words "l-fiducja tieghi fil- konfront tieghek spiccat " mean, basically, that "my [Farrugia's] confidence in your [Muscat's] regard has finished".
This is damning in more ways than one.
It shoots down in flames the fanciful notion being floated by the Lil'Elves and Peculiar Pundits that Farrugia's resignation was a result of Labour discovering the principle of accountability. Farrugia resigned because he no longer has any confidence in Muscat.
It shoots down the equally fanciful notion that Farrugia resigned because he was man enough to admit his mistake. He resigned because he doesn't have faith in Muscat: in so doing, to be fair, he demonstrated a degree of manliness, unlike that Debono fellow who spent months insulting his Prime Minister but resigned from nowhere.
Not only did Farrugia not admit to any mistake, he even says that Muscat simply didn't get it, that Muscat understood nothing. Taking this to its logical conclusion, Farrugia is saying that the people who applauded the infamous speech on Sunday were right and that therefore it, by necessary implication, Muscat has gone against their sentiments by making him resign.
The only fly in the preceding paragraph's ointment from Farrugia's point of view is that Muscat, we're told by Farrugia, applauded too. Which can only mean, I suppose, that Muscat claps his hands gleefully when the rabble is being roused, knowing full well that when needs must, the knife will be plunged. Policies and principles being chopped and changed on the fly hardly does it justice.
With friends like that, who needs enemies, Farrugia must be feeling, and I can't say I blame him.
Think about it: Farrugia stuck with Labour all these years, side-kicking the Golden Youth all the while, to be dumped callously and without mercy as soon as the opportunity presented itself. And this a few days before Xmas and a few months before a General Election that he must have believed was his stepping stone to the Deputy Premiership.
Muscat the ex-journalist however spotted the looming PR danger of leaving Farrugia in position and then Muscat the wannabe-PM wielded his axe and lopped off Farrugia's head.
What evidence do I have for that statement?
None whatsoever, it's just a theory.
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Anthony Galea
Dec 27th 2012, 08:13
And what abiut telling us how united was PN "after beda jberraq wara biss 48 siegha"? Tell us also how many PN parliamentarians had lost faith in Gonzi. You are too biased to take your comments seriously
Richard Curmi
Dec 24th 2012, 10:02
I bet my bottom (Australian) dollar that JM had wished for some such occasion for a long time to get rid of AF.
And how come there is only one candidate to take his place? Was it does ordained from on high? I reckon there are others who would have liked to go for it be they of the same age or younger. Or is the PL so poor in leadership material?
Denis Pace
Dec 23rd 2012, 21:32
ABC
I must say that I'm impressed by the sheer persistence of Labour apologists flooding your blog.
You must really irk them!
Martin Saliba
Dec 24th 2012, 14:25
You read comedy because its funny not becaused you are irked. It never ceases to amaze me how people of a certain level of education and knowledge manage to completly distort a statement and believe what they write even though they know that they have done so .
Denis Pace
Dec 24th 2012, 17:18
@M.Saliba
The same reasoning can be applied to your comment!
I have lived through the dark Labour days of the 70-80's and I always try to imagine how it would have been then for anyone to freely express his thoughts and beliefs in any public forum.
It was unheard of and unimaginably risky, to say the least..
Ironically, this is being down in a paper that was burnt down by Labour thugs.
Eric Soames
Dec 24th 2012, 19:06
Denis Pace: ' ..apologists flooding your blog'. Same reason people slow down and look at the carnage at a car wreck, not pleasant but makes one look.
J Martinelli
Dec 23rd 2012, 15:39
How strong must the coffee be before lil'Labour elves smell it?
Giov DeMartino
Dec 23rd 2012, 11:01
Mario Scicluna Naccertak li jekk xi darba ma wegibtekx sinjal li ma rajtx il-kumment tieghek. Il-passat taghkom tant hu mahmug li jistghu jiktbu l-laburisti kollha inkluz il-mexxej GHAX INWIEGBU ZGUR.
Edmond Micallef
Dec 23rd 2012, 12:44
Don't you go worrying about Labour's dark past.
Worry about the corrupt PNs past, present and if the situation does not change, the future, forced upon the Maltese Nation by successive PN governments and GonziPN in particular.
As for you, dear ABC, keep on clutching.
Mario Scicluna
Dec 23rd 2012, 17:19
Giovann, ibqa cert li qatt mhux ser inhallik tippatronizzani, u tant tikteb bl-odju li nies bhalek zgur mhux denji li ikunu ikkunsidrati u emmnuti. Timmilita f'partit li tant jipprova jkasbar li min ghamilna poplu, u zgur bl-arroganza ta qisek xi paladin u oraklu, mintiex ser thammeg it tajjeb kollhu li ghamel Mintoff u l-Partit Laburista ghal Malta. Jekk trid ezempju ta' hmieg ftakar f'Terinu!
Eddy Privitera
Dec 23rd 2012, 17:52
Giov DeMartino: Jien ktibt nahseb mijiet ta' kummenti. Kemm irrispondejtni minnhom ?
Giov DeMartino
Dec 23rd 2012, 19:35
Jiddispjacini Ed, imma kellek holma kerha meta ghedt li int ktibt mijiet ta' kummenti u jien qatt am irrispondejtek. Kont qed tohlom: Int tibza' biza minni tal-genn. Mhux int biss, imma l-lejburisti kollha. Mhux ghax jien gharef, imma ghax jien xih bhalek Ed u naf hafna.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Dec 24th 2012, 06:23
@EdmondMicallef.
Have you any plausible reason why the electorate should not worry about Labour's dark past and worry instead about an NP whose performance has ensured for it a practically continuous popular mandate to govern since May 1987?
Giov DeMartino
Dec 24th 2012, 08:05
And my questions remain unanswered.
David Magro
Dec 24th 2012, 12:06
Sur demartino, ghadek marbut mal passat wisq...dnub li ma tridx tifhem li l-policies inbidlu bhal ma tal pn kinu nbidlu, bhal meta ma ridux jaghtu vot lin nisa, pensjoni lix-xjuh, kontra c-children allowance etc etc. zmien il -pn hu issa fl-oppozizjoni ha jitnaddaf mill-hmieg li gemgha mieghu specjalment taht Gonzipn. Il -milied it-tajjeb.
Cory Greenland
Dec 22nd 2012, 12:18
Andrew, bias reigns high in our political system. Me, you, and everyone else. Had the Labour Leader not taken the current stance, I wonder whether this blog (and others) be running as to how Joseph accepts everything and that the future for Malta is so dark with members of the executive attacking members of the judiciary. I just wonder....
saviour marquette
Dec 22nd 2012, 11:13
ABC what Dr Farrugia said was this , '" Il fiducija tieghek fil konfront tieghi spiccat. "' What do you call this Half truth or a blatant lie ?
John Chetcuti
Dec 22nd 2012, 12:09
Remove your blinkers and read again!!
Andrew Borg-Cardona
Dec 22nd 2012, 14:59
I simply cut and pasted his own words, you are the one who changed them. http://c256.r56.cf3.rackcdn.com/e196e0c7507d150f61e8d27ae23102204126465794.pdf
read them for yourself and see who is lying
Claudia Spiteri
Dec 22nd 2012, 20:38
QUOTE 'inhoss fic-cirkostanzi li ladarba l-fiducja tieghi filkonfronttieghek
spiccat, allura jkun ahjar fl-interess tal-
ParttiLaburista li jiena nirrizenja minn din il-kariga.
Il-materja li wasslet ghat-talba tieghek biex jien nirrizenja kienetdwar id'
Francis Saliba M.D.
Dec 23rd 2012, 17:26
@ClaudiaSpiteri
Min ghandu ghajn biex jara imma ma jridx jara anqas jista' jifhem il-Malti car tal-exDeputy Leader tieghu ga la darba ma jkunx jemmen dak li qed jara.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Dec 24th 2012, 06:28
@ Saviour Marquette
I would call it a shameless blatant lying distortion of Dr Farrugia's letter of resignation and you are its author, not ABC.
Eddy Privitera
Dec 22nd 2012, 10:21
ABC- Biex tittiehed bis-serjeta, ara ggibx dak kollu li ktibt INT dwar Dr. Anglu Farrugia fill-passat. Hemm malajr tindunaw kemm dak li kiteb hawn illum. ABC ried JGHADDI Z-ZMIEN bil-qarrejja tal-artiklu tieghu !
Denis Pace
Dec 23rd 2012, 21:30
Eddy...taqrax fejn ma joghgbokx.
Imbasta thallina fil-kwiet!
Giov DeMartino
Dec 21st 2012, 18:39
My political leanings are well known, but I have known Dr Farrugia all my life and I have always known him as a genuine labourite. Muscat himself mentioned Dr Farrugia's dedication towards the MLP. Now, like a bolt from the blue, on Christmas Eve and while Dr Farrugia was on holiday with his family, you ring him up to ask him to resign. If Muscat did that to his deputy, imagine what he'll do t
Guido Farrugia
Dec 21st 2012, 20:27
I have a strange feeling li qed jiddispjacik ghal Dr. Farrugia. A true bolt from the blue is Mr. Louis Grech's submission for Pl Deputy leadership and PN is panicking already. Ghandhom ghal xiex ta.
Andrew Borg-Cardona
Dec 21st 2012, 23:44
Bolt from the blue? It was obvious from day one: why do you think Labour's statute was amended?
Charles Vella
Dec 22nd 2012, 01:11
Not really Mr. Farrugia... they where all fiasco's during the time when Labour wasin power, circa 1996 - 1998 ...am not voting for an other fiasco with Labour. I'm happy with the devil I know! Especially with Cyprus being classified as a JUNK country!!! I don't want my Malta to become JUNK, under Labour. Sooo... I changed mind, and will vote PN this time round too. Thanks.
Eddy Privitera
Dec 22nd 2012, 10:42
Charles Vella. Have you forgotten what Dr. Fenech ASdami and Lawrence Gonzi had told you about Ireland ??? You said ONE THING RIGHT, that GOnziPN IS THE "DEVIL YOU KNOW". Not only you but the great majority of the Maltese people know this !
Francis Saliba M.D.
Dec 22nd 2012, 11:28
@Guido
Panic is when the LP leader substitutes his deputy by a NP reject for a TV interview, when he publicly applauds his deputy's eventual performance (such as it was), then peremptorily demands his resignation by telephone when he is abroad, but soon honours him as "very relevant" and acceptable as an election candidate. That, sir, is obvious panicking and it is the LP that is doing it!
Cory Greenland
Dec 22nd 2012, 12:19
Mr De Martino, it is now so easy to sing a different tune!
Eddy Privitera
Dec 22nd 2012, 13:09
Giov DeMartino: Dr. Muscat has proved that he can never be held hostage by anybody, even those closest to him ! I am not saying that Dr. Farrugia has tried to hold hostage Dr. Muscat. Indeed Dr. Mujscat thanked him for the sterling service he gave to the PL. I am confident Dr. Farrugia will contest the election.
Giov DeMartino
Dec 22nd 2012, 15:38
U ma wegibha hadd il-mistoqsija semplici tieghi. HADD.
Mario Scicluna
Dec 23rd 2012, 04:39
@Giov DeMartino
Daqs kemm wegibt int kull meta rrispondejtek!! QATT!
B'kuntrast, ftakar ftit kif Eddie Fenech Adami u l-PN qalbuwha lil Gorg Borg Olivier fis-satra tal-llejl fl-1977. Omoghda sew din Giovann.
Giov DeMartino
Dec 23rd 2012, 17:14
Ghala le Guid? Intom iddispjaciekom tant ghal Franco Debono biex qed tistghageb? Naccertak li politikament jien u Dr Farrugia ma naqblux, imma ilna nafu 'l xulxin snin twal anki familja ma' familja. U sincerament jiddispjacini li stmawh hekk biex jakkomodaw lil haddiehor.
Martin Saliba
Dec 24th 2012, 14:12
I dont know when AF was asked o resign but i have read that he did so during a phone call which is in no way cowardly as was gonzpn way of firing ministers by sms.
Philip Grech
Dec 25th 2012, 21:05
Jekk jitla il-PL kien sa jkollok habib fis-suq. u kont qed tahseb li ha tibqa ghaddej kif int issa bil-hbieb. Joseph Muscat qataghlek l-ghatx bil-perzut u int dan id-dispjacir kollu li ghandek ghal Anglu Farrugia.
Joseph Buttigieg Attard
Dec 21st 2012, 16:59
@ ABC ... I pray God will forgive you for the showering of so much hate and spite you been 'showering' in your scribblings for so the many years you been ...
I indeed pity you ... as I always did ..even so many years ago when you were here in Wonderful Gozo!!!
Antoine Vella
Dec 21st 2012, 21:39
@JBA . . . why don't you write to Father Christmas to bring coal to "ABC"?
If nothing else, this would be a foretaste of Labour's famous energy policy.
A Attard
Dec 21st 2012, 22:48
@ JBA... stick to the subject matter. A person who binds his time and waits for the other person to be abroad before telling him to resign can only be termed yellow.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Dec 22nd 2012, 11:39
Somehow I do not think that ABC would be losing any sleep because of your pitying him and your need to pray for him after sanctimoniously pronouncing him guilty of showering hate and spite when he is only saying a truth that is distressingly painful to LP diehards.
Mark Anthony Vassallo
Dec 22nd 2012, 14:47
Why did it take Joseph Muscat 4 days to ask Anglu Farrugia to resign?
Denis Pace
Dec 26th 2012, 15:09
Dawn mhux is-sebghinijiet.....Malta nbiddlet!
X'se taghmlu? fejn se tkissru jew taharqu?
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