Skip to main content

It's back to the "soldiers of steel"

I managed to see some clips from Muscat's speech at Bormla yesterday.

Far from the "united Malta" and "let's forget the past" of his pre-election speeches, he's now back to calling the "suldati tal-azzar" (soldiers of steel) to prove their mettle. Emotions are the only thing he can bank on as a year of gaffes and rising unemployment has done little to show where his supposed "positive energy" is being used, except in finding ways to fill-up the inner circle's and the Labour Party's pockets. I amaze myself at how Muscat has the gall to accuse others of being "stuck in the past" when he has been doing all his best to take us back to it. Thank God that membership of the European Union holds him back from further excesses.



The European Union membership. Yesterday, the same Muscat who 10 years ago was urging us to vote against it, who warned us it would doom our country, ruin our economy and lead to - horror-of-horrors - same-sex unions, was actually saying that it has essential for us to now have "better qualified teachers, technological tools, well-equipped schools".  "This is the European sense the people chose ten years ago and which we celebrated yesterday and tomorrow."

Yes Joseph Muscat. We did choose it and we did celebrate it. But certainly not thanks to you. You were fighting tooth-and-nail to ruin our aspiration for this "European sense". With hindsight you seem to be admitting you were wrong. But it's foresight which we needed then, and it's foresight which we need now. And it's this foresight and pre-emption which this government seems to be severely lacking. From the sale-of-citizenship-scheme to Chris Packham's arrest.

Yet Joseph is calling for "the soldiers of steel" to vote for Labour in the MEP elections to show how grateful they are for his government's work. Go on soldiers of steel. Show Joseph how grateful you are that you can now collect your free medicines with priority thanks to the new Labour Club of Your Choice scheme. Show Joseph how grateful you are for the very big surprise, the much expected good news, that he is going to decrease the price of petrol he himself had increased just a few weeks ago.

After all, that's what the MEP election is all about, isn't it?


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Who's the real monster?

I usually hate comparisons, but some very different reactions from the 'great unthinking' rabble do merit some analysis. In May this year, the notorious dog Star was found buried alive . A prima facie , this looked liked the most horrific case of animal cruelty, and is still considered so by some. The perpetrator was described by the sensitive and caring animal-lovers as a villain, a heartless monster, deserving of death, stoning, or even to be 'buried alive in the same manner'. But what did Mr. Vella actually do, according to the testimony heard in Court? Star was sick. It was shedding fur, and quite old already, and its owner did not afford the treatment. In trying to save some money from paying for the dog to be put to sleep and killed properly by vets, she gave it to Mr. Vella to have it killed himself. Nothing much to make people angry till now. Mercy-killing of very sick and suffering animals is widely done and usually acceptable. You may

Shema Yisrael, the cries of the Palestinian people

You live a peaceful life in a modest home. You've never bothered anyone and you've never caused trouble. Out of the blues, a group of people claim that they should live in your house. Why? Because they have been persecuted in a war, and they claim that some 5,000 years ago, their God had told them your home was their promised land. Somehow, the whole community agrees with their wishes, and asks you to grant them your spare-bedroom. You oblige. After a few months, they take the whole top-floor. In a few year's time, they take over your kitchen. After a few more years, they own your house and keep you and your family locked in the bathroom. They don't even allow you to get out, while they strip-search you the few times they do. Even if it's a medical emergency. Sometimes not even medical personnel and ambulances are allowed to see to your needs while your children die in your hands. Desperation starts hitting you. Life seems to offer no hopes. In moments

Why I am dropping out of the Anti-ACTA protest

Like many avid internet users, I have followed with interest the debate about ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). After reading numerous articles, watched sensational videos, and discussed ad nauseam with friends, I have realized that what I have come across is a campaign hi-jacked by lies, myths and misconceptions as to rival Malta's misinformed divorce referendum campaign. I have to say that the videos on Youtube   got me worried. I quickly signed the petition, joined the Anti-ACTA groups, and prepared myself for a full-blown fight against the big-governments who want to intrude on our privacy and freedom of expression. Like our MEP Edward Scicluna invited us to do in the University debate last Wednesday, I did not try to understand the details of ACTA but rather saw who the players behind it were. But as usual, my logical instincts took over, and his call to not try to understand ACTA actually pushed me to read the text. And here's what I now know: ACTA is