Click here to download the manifesto adopted by the General Meeting of Repubblika last Saturday. repubblika-ram-final In subsequent posts I am going to upload English translations of the various sections in the document together with videos of various contributions made to the discussion. Here is the introduction to the session by the President-Elect of Repubblika, [...]
Everyone's wiser with hindsight, and with hindsight, we should have seen this result coming. The fact that many of us did not, or, more specifically, were duped into believing that this wouldn't happen, is yet another feather in the cap of Muscat's total control of the state of affairs both within his party and the [...]
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What will happen next? Joseph Muscat has planned this transition because he is not quite done yet serving a cold dish of revenge. In his small mind Joseph Muscat did not have to resign because of anything he did wrong or anything he was supposed to do and did not. His sense of entitlement tells [...]
It goes to show how this perversion of having card carrying members of political parties choose prime ministers for the entire nation is eroding democracy and destroying people’s confidence in public life. Consistently, the lesser candidate wins. It has happened time and time again in the UK. And the dynamics of Robert Abela’s election have [...]
Robert Abela became the prime minister of Malta by not saying anything to Malta for the past 4 weeks. He stuck to the policy of contempt that was central for Joseph Muscat to survive in Castille for as long as he did. The best way to do well in a tough interview is to refuse [...]
Robert Abela is replacing Joseph Muscat. Or rather Joseph Muscat replaced himself with Robert Abela. Let’s not now represent Chris Fearne as the good man who lost the battle. Chris Fearne is, or maybe was until yesterday, arrogant, self-important, completely unaware of how he comes across as someone for whom everyone else is a helpless [...]
Chris Fearne wondered how his party could have its voice if its TV station was taken away. Rather than clawing back on his party’s control of the media landscape he declares he wants to expand its share. English language media have an “agenda against the Labour Party” he said. He explained to his audience that [...]
The protest goes on until our objectives are met. That's justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia. And justice for Malta. We're too far from that when Keith Schembri has not started answering questions, when Konrad Mizzi and Chris Cardona continue undisturbed. We're too far from justice when Joseph Muscat acts as if he has no responsibility. [...]
Read this article from the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) blog that highlights the use of wrist watches for bribery and corruption. Over the last few weeks as news emerged of the sort of gifts Joseph Muscat got from Yorgen Fenech over time I tried to imagine putting myself in Joseph Muscat's position and wonder [...]
The European Parliament published the report of the delegation that visited Malta in the heat of the crisis when protesters were meeting almost every day in Valletta calling for Joseph Muscat’s immediate resignation. The report recalls the reasons why the EP delegation effectively joined those calls. It reports on meetings with lawyers, journalists and activists [...]
Let’s see what Konrad Mizzi is saying here, shall we? “You escaped from your country. We saved you from drowning. We sheltered you in our home. We clothed you. We fed you. But now learn to respect us. Us, our country, our culture, our religion and our people.” He’s addressing whoever has been causing trouble [...]
Chris Fearne and Robert Abela can both be described with the term that would count as a death sentence in a leadership campaign elsewhere. They are ‘continuity candidates’. The British press is busy hanging that ignominious label on the potential successor of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader they dislike most. Clearly the British Labour Party [...]
Repubblika sent 20 questions to Robert Abela and Chris Fearne. Needless to say they kept the Labour Party's policy of treating civil society with complete contempt. They seem to think this is the appropriate behaviour for someone who wants to be the chief executive of a western democracy. Well it isn't. Here are the questions [...]
Campaigners for the Labour Party’s leadership have been appealing for unity. Theirs is not the sort of unity that someone like the Archbishop, say, professes. It’s not about focusing on our shared and common interests, sacrificing our own needs for the benefit of the greater good. That’s unity that comes from commitment to others before [...]
Joseph Muscat's defence, such as he seems to believe it is, that he wasn't the only one to get expensive limited edition fuck-off white gold watches from Yorgen Fenech is no defence at all. 'Yes your honour I killed many Jews, but everyone was doing it those days'. Even in Nuremberg they were too embarrassed [...]
Joseph Muscat is looking forward to being left the fuck alone. He fully expects to become "a private person" after he retires graduating from the current bother of even having to dodge annoying questions. The questions should no longer be coming his way. There was some of that expectation in his response to questions today [...]
Read this report in today's Times of Malta of a chat I had with their Sarah Carabott about Repubblika's planned general meeting this Saturday. When we announced the meeting some people -- well Malta Today mostly -- assumed we were getting ready to launch a new political party. That's because we said we wanted to [...]
It is a fundamental of political discourse, especially in a close-minded tribalist society like ours, to justify burying one’s head in the sand (or justifying the antics of your own side, for that matter) by saying that “hey, they’re all the same, didn’t he do what you’re criticising the other guy for?” Many of the [...]
Just because an internal PN election in 2004 made the providentially correct choice of Lawrence Gonzi over John Dalli, it does not mean that we have to continue to live dangerously hoping card-carrying party fans choose sensibly who should be prime minister. And the Labour Party of 2020 is a million miles away from the [...]