Category: Politics

We didn’t even get enough  time to digest the grappa and wish our readers a very prosperous recession-dodging new year that Inhobbkom-J gives us a charming regurgitation of baseless rhetoric on the second day of the new year (and decade – as he seems to be so prone to point out). Latching on to a change in decade in the hope to keep the “tidal wave” (more like squeak) of a revolution of change running is already pathetic as it is. That the attempt itself is couched in fruitless bla-bla and yada-yada only goes to show that we begin this new year (or decade) with much the same meagre prospects for real politics and real direction in leadership. It’s the 50-50-99 rule for us: there’s a fifty-fifty chance that one of the PLPN parties will be in power come next election and whoever it is has a 99% potential to screw the whole thing up.

A new decade has started. The time is now to plan for a better future and what we want Malta and Gozo to be-come. Great opportunities lie before us and there is a chance for everyone to play one’s part. We must welcome new ideas. We must listen to what people are saying. And we should open our doors to everyone who wants to make a contribution to the Labour Party, our new movement, your Malta and Gozo, as it will be in the coming decade. Labour has a record of solid achievement in Malta and Gozo. But it has been out of government for too long. The party at the core of the movement we are building must ensure it is proactive and answers the concerns of the voters of today. We will explain in no uncertain terms a plan that puts our vision into practice, that will be a win for all those who love this country and crave for a change in direction away from mediocrity, a vision that puts our children’s education and our environment at the heart of all we  do.

– Inhobbkom Joseph Muscat (A new decade has dawned)

– Times of Malta, 2nd Day of the 1st Month of the First Year of the Second Decade of the twenty-first century

There’s more where that came from. Frankly I got sick after the first two paragraphs. I also picked out this sentence further down since the “uproot ourselves” part struck me as rather prosaic: “Exciting times lie ahead. We can uproot ourselves from the deep malaise of our current government and build a society of enterprise, fairness and equality.”

I’m off to uproot myself away from the pc and watch some ESPN Classic football. Happy New Year folks, looks like there will be much more fodder for the columns of J’accuse for months to come.

Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.

We have it from the horse’s mouth. The PN spin-machine (or writers – they don’t spin it seems, just write) may have toyed with the twin theories of “Franco was asleep” and “Franco was sick” but they will have to come up with something very, very creative to spin (or write) this one away. Here is the Times summary of their interview with Dr Debono. It leaves little space for doubt – starting from the very title: “Franco Debono gives reasons for his parliamentary protest”. No need to rub your eyes. It was a protest after all.

Nationalist MP Franco Debono has revealed that he spoke on the reasons for his absence from Parliament on Monday to the Prime Minister (never mind the alarmclocks) and to the whip of the Nationalist parliamentary group, David Agius (never mind the doorknockers). In new comments to the press, he said that in the wider context (? – do note that the narrower context is still being kept between Franco, Lawrence and presumably David), he was complaining about the dignity of Parliament (hear, hear), problems in the South of Malta (their capital “S”) and fundamental problems in the justice sector. He said he had been considering his protest for some weeks (may I ask if it was on his mind after the Bondiplus episode – so Lou can take some credit?) and he felt his message had been conveyed (loud and clear Franco). The full interview is being published today in The Sunday Times.

Don’t miss out on J’accuse’s take on it all (Bad Romance – They’ve all gone Gaga this Christmas)  in today’s issue of The Malta Independent on Sunday.