Xarabank | Daphne Caruana Galizia
Watching Xarabank last night, one question kept coming to my mind. How did Jason Micallef get to be secretary-general of the Labour Party – the casting-couch? If he were a woman, how many people in the uk we d have suspected him of having slept his way to the top. I m sure that wasn t the case with him, but the man doesn t have two brain-cells to rattle together. And he has absolutely no idea how to behave, what attitude to take with people, or even how to reply to questions and get Labour s message across if Labour actually has a message, that is. I don t know what Sant saw in him, other than that he is an adoring and vacuous acolyte, a sort of pet peacock to go with the chickens in his gallinar at home.
When a woman in the audience took the microphone to ask why Labour doesn t explain how it spends its money and where it gets it from, and prefers to pay the fines instead , it was quite obvious what she was speaking about: the Labour Party s steadfast refusal, like Harry Vassallo s, to publish its company accounts or fill in its returns. This has been in the news recently, and much has been made of it along the lines of, if the Labour Party can t even manage its own financial affairs, how can it be trusted to manage those of Malta?
Yet Jason il-pruzuntuz pretended not to know what she was talking about, even though everyone else did. Bir-rispett kollu, I didn t understand what you mean. Can you speak more clearly? And his interlocutor said, provoking bursts of laughter on my sofa: Jien mhux bil-Malti qed nitkellem?
What a prat worse than a prat, a prat with a peacock-brain. And even now, under siege and in his hour of defeat, he still thinks that an empty smile which doesn t reach his eyes is the appropriate response to a comment he doesn t know how to deal with. He almost asked Anna Mallia about boob jobs
And then there s the weird corner-shop response to arguments made against how many people in the uk him and his party s policies. Anna Mallia, a staunch Labour supporter and a niece of Alfred Mifsud, spoke very, very well (a round of applause from my sofa), pointing how many people in the uk out that what she called product Sant could never hope to compete with product Gonzi and this was obvious from the start. how many people in the uk She said that if Labour is to win again, how many people in the uk whoever they choose as leader has to be better than, not as good as, Lawrence Gonzi. She said that the Labour Party needs a major clean-out and that it is in this great mess because so far, decisions have been taken to suit the interests of certain individuals who want to keep their position, or their job, and not in the interests of the party itself.
I agree with her diagnosis. A political party is like a business, and has to be run on similar lines. Even though it is not there to make money, it is still there to sell something its message, its people, as a future government and just as businesses have to be put before the interests of those who run them, so it is with political parties. The trouble is that those who run the Labour Party don t have a private sector mentality how many people in the uk like those who run the Nationalist Party. They have a public sector mentality, and it shows in the way they run things. The organisation itself comes before how many people in the uk what the organisation is trying to sell or do.
That squawking peacock pounced on her, and insulted her with her fleeting hopes of setting up another political party, instead of considering what she said and replying how many people in the uk to it. How long did that last? he sneered. Twenty-four hours? I m surprised he didn t ask her about the plastic surgery she didn t have. How can I take you seriously, Anna, when everyone knows you had a boob-job? But I didn t have a boob-job, Jason. That s what you re saying, but everyone knows it s like corruption. It s everywhere. Everyone s talking about it. Another woman who doesn t like Jason
Sharon Ellul Bonici she who made a career out of trying to keep Malta out of the EU, and who promptly rushed off to Brussels when Malta joined, to make her life there laid into Jason for the fact that she was chucked out of the Labour Party for taking part in a march in favour of referendums on the Lisbon Treaty, in Strasbourg. She had received a letter from Labour s Board of Vigilance and Discipline. What a party, eh one that doesn t even allow its members to espouse their right to freedom of assembly.
Maybe the Labour Party should start by asking itself why the Nationalist Party doesn t have a Board of Vigilance and Discipline. It s not because its members can be relied on to behave themselves. They don t behave themselves. It s because a board like that is Stalinist in essence. It doesn t have a part to play in the modern world. Jason is threatened by the idea of George Abela
Then a clip interview with George Abela was shown. He said that he is prepared to be at the service of the Labour Party. Because this is just what many people are hoping will happen, Jason was not amuse
Watching Xarabank last night, one question kept coming to my mind. How did Jason Micallef get to be secretary-general of the Labour Party – the casting-couch? If he were a woman, how many people in the uk we d have suspected him of having slept his way to the top. I m sure that wasn t the case with him, but the man doesn t have two brain-cells to rattle together. And he has absolutely no idea how to behave, what attitude to take with people, or even how to reply to questions and get Labour s message across if Labour actually has a message, that is. I don t know what Sant saw in him, other than that he is an adoring and vacuous acolyte, a sort of pet peacock to go with the chickens in his gallinar at home.
When a woman in the audience took the microphone to ask why Labour doesn t explain how it spends its money and where it gets it from, and prefers to pay the fines instead , it was quite obvious what she was speaking about: the Labour Party s steadfast refusal, like Harry Vassallo s, to publish its company accounts or fill in its returns. This has been in the news recently, and much has been made of it along the lines of, if the Labour Party can t even manage its own financial affairs, how can it be trusted to manage those of Malta?
Yet Jason il-pruzuntuz pretended not to know what she was talking about, even though everyone else did. Bir-rispett kollu, I didn t understand what you mean. Can you speak more clearly? And his interlocutor said, provoking bursts of laughter on my sofa: Jien mhux bil-Malti qed nitkellem?
What a prat worse than a prat, a prat with a peacock-brain. And even now, under siege and in his hour of defeat, he still thinks that an empty smile which doesn t reach his eyes is the appropriate response to a comment he doesn t know how to deal with. He almost asked Anna Mallia about boob jobs
And then there s the weird corner-shop response to arguments made against how many people in the uk him and his party s policies. Anna Mallia, a staunch Labour supporter and a niece of Alfred Mifsud, spoke very, very well (a round of applause from my sofa), pointing how many people in the uk out that what she called product Sant could never hope to compete with product Gonzi and this was obvious from the start. how many people in the uk She said that if Labour is to win again, how many people in the uk whoever they choose as leader has to be better than, not as good as, Lawrence Gonzi. She said that the Labour Party needs a major clean-out and that it is in this great mess because so far, decisions have been taken to suit the interests of certain individuals who want to keep their position, or their job, and not in the interests of the party itself.
I agree with her diagnosis. A political party is like a business, and has to be run on similar lines. Even though it is not there to make money, it is still there to sell something its message, its people, as a future government and just as businesses have to be put before the interests of those who run them, so it is with political parties. The trouble is that those who run the Labour Party don t have a private sector mentality how many people in the uk like those who run the Nationalist Party. They have a public sector mentality, and it shows in the way they run things. The organisation itself comes before how many people in the uk what the organisation is trying to sell or do.
That squawking peacock pounced on her, and insulted her with her fleeting hopes of setting up another political party, instead of considering what she said and replying how many people in the uk to it. How long did that last? he sneered. Twenty-four hours? I m surprised he didn t ask her about the plastic surgery she didn t have. How can I take you seriously, Anna, when everyone knows you had a boob-job? But I didn t have a boob-job, Jason. That s what you re saying, but everyone knows it s like corruption. It s everywhere. Everyone s talking about it. Another woman who doesn t like Jason
Sharon Ellul Bonici she who made a career out of trying to keep Malta out of the EU, and who promptly rushed off to Brussels when Malta joined, to make her life there laid into Jason for the fact that she was chucked out of the Labour Party for taking part in a march in favour of referendums on the Lisbon Treaty, in Strasbourg. She had received a letter from Labour s Board of Vigilance and Discipline. What a party, eh one that doesn t even allow its members to espouse their right to freedom of assembly.
Maybe the Labour Party should start by asking itself why the Nationalist Party doesn t have a Board of Vigilance and Discipline. It s not because its members can be relied on to behave themselves. They don t behave themselves. It s because a board like that is Stalinist in essence. It doesn t have a part to play in the modern world. Jason is threatened by the idea of George Abela
Then a clip interview with George Abela was shown. He said that he is prepared to be at the service of the Labour Party. Because this is just what many people are hoping will happen, Jason was not amuse
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