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Manwel Cuschieri, the ex-president of the PL is the local version of a radical Muslim mullah. For him, Malta is divided into two tribes - Labourites and Nationalists, believers and non-believers. If
he had any say, he would probably require members of each to carry different passports and live in different parts of the country.
For years, when Alfred Sant was PL leader, is-Sur Manwel, as his listeners addressed him, preached his spiteful political religion on radio every day. It gave him a lot of power in the party and even the highest officials kowtowed to him.
But then he met the fate of most political zealots. His usefulness to the party was called into question and he very quickly fell from grace. He lost the presidency, was taken off the air and was left to twiddle his thumbs and sulk at his desk at the PL headquarters for years. The political zealot did not choose to walk the desert for 40 days, as it were. He was forced to.
Now he seems to be making a comeback of sorts. I do not see how a radical political mullah can be progressive and moderate but there you go. He got his radio programme back and the days in the desert sun seem to have made him more of a fundamentalist.
Here he is in all his mullah glory in today's l-orizzont calling for Bondiplus and Xarabank to be taken off the air - click here: Tal-WE? sodisfatti u aktar determinati and take a look at the second section.
Do I hear the distant rumblings of party boycott against Bondiplus and Xarabank, a replica of the one declared by Alfred Sant a decade ago? Interesting times ahead.
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May the plans become reality.....PBS has become full of mold each and every year repeating the same television program.... Time for some change
It is generally accepted that Sant's boycott did the MLP more harm than good so Muscat would be very foolish to go down that road.
Wait a minute . . . did I just say foolish? Well, he might do it then.
And how can you tell if labour supporters are not already boycotting the programme?
Antoine - Muscat ain't Sant, there won't be any boycott. Anyway Cuschieri didn't mention the word at all.
If I remember correctly .... Joseph Muscat called for Mr.Peppi Azzopardi to help his media or something like that?
And Mr.Cuschieri haven't given us a good reason why they should be banned from PBS!
And national debt is rising ... yet the labour party will reduce Bills and living wage and give the car tax back all shiny things!!!
Do I sense panic?
So now we have Jason, Marisa, Wenzu, Kurt, Emmanuel, Julia, Saviour, Nakita, Alex, Larson, Byon....ah yes and Krista.
Oops, forgot Charlon, wonder where he is, must be in the middle of something.
tghid bizejjed?
Silvio, because I read the surveys carefully, very carefully.
I am sure you do.As a matter of fact I admire the prfessional way you present your programms, one can tell the amount of reaserch you must do, for each programm.
But unfortunatly,I am not very keen on surveys,they can be missleading.
According to a survey,carried in Italy a couple of years before the fall of Mussolin,there were around 50000000 facists,6mths after the war there were again,about 50000000,who said they were never facists.
How times change. Funny how the term 'boycot' which was synonymous with the PN is now being associated with the PL.
The Master of Spin must be hard at work!
Boycotting is cheap, produce something better and let the people switch channels themselves!
@ Henry Mifsud, Can I sit you down for a quick history tutorial? Here we go. First, why did the PN in the 1980s ask its supporters to boycott the products of companies advertising on TVM? Becuase it was TVM which was boycotting the PN by turning its newsroom into a stalinist lying machine. The news did not even mention Eddie Fenech Adami by name. And if Labour thugs and the police violently attacked a PN meeting TVM reported that the violence went in the other direction.
Secondly, it was Alfred Sant who had declared a boycott against Where's Everybody not the other way round. And he never, ever, gave a reason for his decision. After the 2003 election, Charles Mangion, then deputy leader, said that the boycott was one of the main reasons why the PL lost. Clear now?
Nothing new in your tutorial. You simply elaborated what I have stated. What you failed to mention is that the word boycott even nowadays, for the Maltese means only DIVISION. So its the PN's boycott which people remember and not the WEE one. Why? Because never in Malta's history was there such a divide within its people. You conveniently attribute this only to Labour. I'd rather let those who are old enough to remember to decide.
Lou I am slightly older than you and rest assured that I do not need any history lessons from someone who came to Malta from Canada in the late 1980s with just one partisan aim. I don't blame you at looking at things from such a perspective. After all you are a fundamental part of WEE, which in turn would be nowhere near it is today if it wasn't for PBS. But again, if you give them a chance, I shall let the readers to decide whether they agree or not on this.
I really don't see what wrong there is in using boycotts when one feels that he/they are being wronged.
If I go to a shop and feel that I am not being served well,I just stop visiting that shop..Boycott..
If I feel I am being cheated by somebody,I just stop frequeting him...Boycott.
If the Labour party feels that WEE is too biased,they have all the right to Boycott their programms.
This is something that has been used since time immemorial,and I do not see why it should stop now.
I suppose the L.P feel so agrievd, is because these programms are aired with the people's money.
This is something that is easily understood. As for myself,it is very rear that I found these programms to be over biased.
The bottonm line is,Yes everybody has the right to boycott something that is not in his interest.
Henry Mifsud - "Because never in Malta's history was there such a divide within its people."
Oh my, were where you in the 1980s, 1990s and up to 2004? Surely you're not trying to tell us that Malta's people were one big happy family then? Entire families were broken up by politics. Neighbours did not talk to each other if they did not share the same political ideology.
The real misfortune of Malta's recent history is that people have forgotten those dark years very very quickly.
Silvio, I never questioned anyone's right to boycott Where's Everybody. I didn't even express an opinion on whether it would b politically expedient or harmful to the PL if they do declare one. All I did was to bring Manwel Cuschieri's insinuation to the attention of Bondiblog's readers. And the insinuation is that the PL should declare a boycott.
Tinnat the tone of your writing seems to indicate that you are disagreeing with me whilst at the same time you are reaffirming what I said only extending the period to 2004 as if implying that in that year a "Star" was born which united all Malta and that we all lived happily after under its direction.
May I humbly remind you that with the exception of a few months, the PN has been in power from 1987 to date. Perhaps that is why some people tend to forget because they simply don't know any better.
Henry Mifsud - I talk about '2004' as this was when the LAST major division among the people - Malta's EU membership or not - occurred.
Your second paragraph about people forgetting because the Nationalist Party has been in government too long is right in a way, except that I would change the last word to 'worse'.
It's been pulled - but Google got there in time:
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