Saturday, 23rd May 2009
FLIPPIN' 'ELLE
In my Saturday column, I tossed what might be interpreted as something of a nod of approval in the general direction of Marlene Mizzi.
I'm not labouring under the impression (and yes, the God-awful pun was deliberate) that Ms Mizzi needs, wants or otherwise gives a monkey's about my approval on anything. This having been said, her competitor Louis Grech, who one trusts is going to give her a darn good run for her money, got himself an endorsement from a young chap of impeccable non-Labour and non-chav credentials (and that is not to be interpreted as classist, please, but merely a statement of fact) so perhaps an endorsement from me might do Ms Mizzi some good after all.
Well, consider any such endorsement withdrawn.
It's not anything she's done, just what she wrote on Saturday's paper, not a million pages from my own weekly masterpiece.
The dear lady thought she should, no doubt in concomitance with the relevant decrees issued from on high, go into "general election mode" and promote her cause by attacking the Nationalists on a broad front. This is a peculiar way of going for votes in an election which is based on votes for individuals and not for parties.
Ms Mizzi's effort was rendered more peculiar by the way she slanted her piece as an attack on the Government for not, erm, governing. Now, she has every right to demand this, and in fact, so say all of us, but what does Ms Mizzi think she's going to do from Brussels if (when?) she's elected?
Govern Malta?
I know the Euro-sceptics, one of whom is contesting Ms Mizzi in her own party (weird, I know) think Malta is, actually, governed from Brussels but let's get real here, for a bit, shall we?
There were other aspects to Ms Mizzi's bit that made me laugh and not fondly. She accuses the Nats of demonising Labour and its candidates, apparently fully oblivious of those ruddy great big bill-boards dumping on Gonzi all over the place. Last I checked, Gonzi wasn't actually contesting so, again, what gives?
The thing is, Labour's campaign leaves much to be desired. I imagine that they're taking it as a sort of dry run for the General Election, though since that's four years away, I'm not sure why.
Maybe they're trying to work the prestidigitation that plagues campaigning out of the way. For a definition of presti-what's it's name, refer to the respect for truth and fairness demonstrated in Labour's treatment of Dr Perici Calascione's remarks about hunting.
So there you have it, Marlene Mizzi wants to be elected.
It's up to you, Labour voter, whether to elect her or not. Given that she seems to be adhering to party policy and saying she’s pro-EU and pro-Sant and, for all I know, pro-apple pie and moms and Xmas, then she’s got the credentials.
None that I’m endorsing, however.
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5. Again the best one of all ‘All promises will be fulfilled by the end of its mandate which is four years from now. You just have to wait’….. as I said beforehand ‘the opposite has occurred so it is not a matter of waiting for the whole 5 years to pass by’.
6. I’m afraid you brought up the wrong example… go ask MHRA and GRTU whether they prefer a system similar to CET nowadays (different % as opposed to a flat rate on everything)… this is what they are currently asking from the present Government.
1. Do not try to add words which never existed within the letters I mentioned especially since I have one of the letters myself. You said ‘provided that the derogation applied for was granted’…. Please note that my father was a hunter and I have that letter in my possession so I do know what is and what is not written within it as opposed to you! The information you get is that which is fed to you through media, mine is black on white and signed.
2. Go tell that to the ATP, I guess they are a bunch of idiots like FKNK who cannot even read a letter.
3. Your reply actually substantiates my claim.
4. The following is an abstract from the times of 13th May 2009 ‘The Union of Maltacom Graduates (UGM) the Union Haddiema Maghqudin (UHM) and the General Workers' Union (GWU) complained that employees had received a letter from the company's CEO, David Kay, informing them of the scheme and warning them that if the scheme was not taken up by as many workers as expected, the company would have no other option but to resort to dismissals.’
In fact this is the first time I read 75% of your article. I cannot stick more than the first or two lines of your articles
5. Again the best one of all ‘All promises will be fulfilled by the end of its mandate which is four years from now. You just have to wait’….. as I said beforehand ‘the opposite has occurred so it is not a matter of waiting for the whole 5 years to pass by’.
6. I’m afraid you brought up the wrong example… go ask MHRA and GRTU whether they prefer a system similar to CET nowadays (different % as opposed to a flat rate on everything)… this is what they are currently asking from the present Government.
1. Do not try to add words which never existed within the letters I mentioned especially since I have one of the letters myself. You said ‘provided that the derogation applied for was granted’…. Please note that my father was a hunter and I have that letter in my possession so I do know what is and what is not written within it as opposed to you! The information you get is that which is fed to you through media, mine is black on white and signed.
2. Go tell that to the ATP, I guess they are a bunch of idiots like FKNK who cannot even read a letter.
3. Your reply actually substantiates my claim.
4. The following is an abstract from the times of 13th May 2009 ‘The Union of Maltacom Graduates (UGM) the Union Haddiema Maghqudin (UHM) and the General Workers' Union (GWU) complained that employees had received a letter from the company's CEO, David Kay, informing them of the scheme and warning them that if the scheme was not taken up by as many workers as expected, the company would have no other option but to resort to dismissals.’
1. The letter you talk about was indeed a promise of keeping hunting and trapping as before - provided that the derogation applied for was granted. Hunting stayed in place until the EU started proceedings against Malta, no doubt egged on by NGO's input, but which the government is defending with utmost rigour.
2. This is an outright untruth. The government never claimed that those services will not be liberalized. On the contrary.
3. The dock workers had seven years to get their act together and they did not. Lucky for them all but some 55 accepted a generous handshake and the majority of the rest have already found a job.
4. Which Maltacom employees had their job jeopardized? How many, if any lost their job?
5. Where, in the NP's manifesto are firm dates quoted? All promises will be fulfilled by the end of its mandate which is four years from now. You just have to wait.
When the 1996-1997 Labour government is criticized for its poor record, the LP apologists always have the same phrase ready at hand, "Miskin (Alfred Sant) ma kellux zmien bizzejjed"
He had enough time to scrap VAT and introduce CET!
You dare ask for examples when you follow the local scene more than what happens around in your neighbourhood back in Canada. I’m amazed how you recall facts that happened back in the 70s and 80s whilst things that happened in the past 6 years supposedly slipped through your mind!
Let start:-
Letters to FKNK prior to Malta’s accession to the EU stating that their hobby will not be hindered.
Letters to Hearses’ companies, Bus drivers, taxi drivers, mini bus drivers etc stating that their business will not be liberalized.
Letters to the dry-docks / ship building workers stating that their job is and will remain secure.
Letters to Maltacom employees stating again that their job will not be at risk.
And I left the best one for last, my dear friend, the biggest lie of all is the contents of the PN’s manifesto prior to the election of 2008...... within it you will find loads of examples of what was promised (black on white) but hasn’t materialised, moreover, the opposite has occurred so it is not a matter of waiting for the whole 5 years to pass by.
Give me examples.
You will not see me on June 6, but I will be watching.
You and your party will no doubt be celebrating one way or the other, whether you 'win' or lose. You cannot tell the difference, anyway.
Some declare their Damascan conversion to pro-EU, some still have no regrets to having been (and still are) anti-EU and others who in hindsight have relented and admitted that Labour had lost the Referendum.
What is galling is Joseph's recent pronouncement that 'the past is the past' hinting that we should put it all behind us and forget it.
Forget it, Joseph! Skond iz-zokk il-fergha and you are but a mere twig off the tree and seemingly proud of it.
No one will ever forget Labour's past even when this generation passes on because what is written is written and what is recorded will never be erased. No one in his right mind will ever trust the MLP or LP in its present form.
Intellghu wiehed jew sitta ma jaghmel differenza ta xejn hlief li Malta titlef jew tirbah u mhux il-PN.
Gvern Nazzjonalista hemm u gvern Nazzjonalista jibqa ghall inqas ghal erba' snin ohra. Imbaghad naraw, pero b'Joseph leader tal LP, x'aktarx l-istess siggu jibqa jsahhan!
@ Ivan Grech Mintoff
Your perception is 20-20 ( merely for humour's sake).
>I must be pushing the right buttons, after all!
What can one say....?
You definitely belong to the "league of learned gentlemen" .... not with us mere dumb mortals & dumber elves!
;)
Thanks li'l elves, keep on relishing in winning the wee battles.
It's the war that counts and that's four years away.
As what happened before, you must be working on a 15,000 vote majority! Jason must be already writing his speech. I wonder who he will leave out to dry at the counting hall should things not go according to his predictions.
With Joseph and Marlene, and sans George A, Michael F, etc., how can you go wrong?
Ah, Charles!
But are they not also seriously (sic!) considering " endorseming Ms Mizzi" doing her "some good after all." like other dyed-in-the-wool nats here have obviously considered (haha!)???
(they told us so, so it MUST be so, right??)
Don't elections (and worries thereto attached?) bring out the best (comedy lines) out of some of us ....?
;)
Is it a coincident that they all happen to be PN Supporters?
I do hope you made all necessary arrangements so that you can cast your vote on the 6th June 2009 :)
Marlene Mizzi's recent statement (see the Times online interview) is baffling. The LP needs, more than ever to sound trustworthy and now we have Marlene Mizzi telling us that Alfred Sant would have done the opposite of what he promised us, had he won the election.
Let`s put it in an another way, she takes my fancy over Vince Farrugia anytime.
I'd appreciate an explanation of what you meant above?
If my memory serves me right, Sant hasn't led this country since 1998?
Wasn't the PN in government for these past 11 years, circa 264 entire months?
Do you mean we also have 'pro-Sants', 'pro-Fenech Adamis', 'pro Borg Oliviers', 'pro-Mintoffs', 'pro-Enrico Mizzis' and 'pro-Boffas' etc nowadays? If so, on which reasonable bases is criticism for one's opinions as they had been 10, 20 or 30 years ago justifiable in today's circumstances?
Were we to give due to the goose what's deemed good for the gander, let's not forget this quote:
"IT IS NOT ADVISABLE TO IMPOSE ON THE FEMALE MASSES THE RESPONSIBILITY (OF VOTING) WHICH THE MAJORITY ARE NOT PREPARED TO ASSUME"
That had been the P.N.'s excuse when the MLP insisted for women's voting rights - that "the responsibility" is in some way (who knows what they meant?) 'too much' for the 'female masses' (duh?)...
Thankfully women got their due voting rights - having 145 MLP representatives voting in its favour and the rest - being the 137 PN representatives - voting against women's right to vote.
All Labour candidates and their capitano have to do is open their mouths and they do themselves in every time.
Editing audio tapes is another great help in getting a few extra votes from the naive.
Not knowing which button to push in a vital vote is a Labour sponsored MEPs' specialty.
Not knowing what important contribution Labour MEPs made in the last 5 years is quite revealing.
Presenting anti-EU candidates for the European Parliament is Labour's novel way of doing politics.
No, Marlene, the NP need not demonize the Labour Party and its candidates, they do a marvellous job themselves and we do not wish to disturb their incessant flight to the domain of euphoric illusion.
hahahahaha!!
Il-Bocca to a 'T', all in one sentence.
Ah, well!
What would Sunday morning be like without a good laugh first thing in the morning?
;)