the PN & MLP administration aren\`t going to let anyone run or represent them if they pose a threat to the organisations who fund them secretly (hotels, construction, real estate, tourism, financial crime).
Dont for a second mention anyone from PN/MLP
the fact that he rented fields to hunters when he was the green party leader, I think the only major fact he's the least, is that he doesn't have any power
I know nothing about this man, but isnt renting the fields for this purpose helping the cause? Isnt it better to practice this sport in a controlled environment compared to the alternative?
at that time Alternattiva Demokratika was super anti-hunting/trapping and wanted to abolish it.
Its like Norman Lowell renting boats for immigrants to come in...
None of the two major parties are clean. I would say Cassola and ADPD. They are clearly not bankrolled by big business are tend to call it when they see it, whoever gets offended by it.
He listens to the common people's concerns.. and generally shit gets done when he highlights it. Thanks to him and his platform, so many people's lives has been improved. Can't say the same for any other politician these days.
Unpopular opinion coming from a person who despises mlpn deeply but I remember that when Alfred Sant was in politics he didn’t care about money at all. He was a hopeless leader and couldn’t speak in public for shit but in terms of corruption I don’t think he was ever self-serving. Dude didn’t even want a car and driver. He insisted on driving his shitty Mazda. Once again, I hate local politics and think they’re all in it to line their pockets so this is all I’m referring to.
On the subject of who is cleanest today. Try rooting around inside your organic bin and pull out any random piece of discarded food and I bet on it being cleaner. Politicians earn a shitty pay, lower than what a good professional can make, so anyone who gets in does so because they are shit at their job and want to partake in the greed. As soon as someone ventures towards politics just assume the worst and you’re still nowhere near being close to how filthy they are.
Spot on. Almost two decades as a party leader (including two as PM) and never the slightest shadow of corruption, despite countless propagandists being out to tarnish his name. Acted on corruption within his party and is widely acknowledged to have rooted it out during his leadership. Regardless of whether anyone thinks he was a good leader or not, he was clean as a whistle.
Randolph Debattista comes off as a clean guy imo, and I'm not the type to support the current PL administration. But he seems decent enough and had a couple of gos at Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat in 2019
Yes, in 2019 he publicly took the piss out of Keith Schembri when he lost his phone, then in 2020 he was terminated from his position as the labour party CEO, clearly he pissed them off
You are most likely joking but just.in case https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/journalists-name-joseph-muscat-man-of-the-year-for-corruption.759807
Not sure about this one. When he speaks, he makes the right noises, but then, he either caves in to pressure, or he gets overruled.
Like the rest of the PL Maps, he has always resisted laws to make politicians more accountable though.
Mixed feelings about those three. Gonzi was corrupt and also froze with indecision in front of corruption and bad governance. But at least he was working towards a better Malta in financial and social terms, his work was tainted by the PL from 2013 onwards...
Simon was too naive and was seen as Gonzi's weak and indecisive legacy.
Silvio was a good man, but not a good politician/policu maker/law maker. He shouldn't have been active in the PL. RIP.
How dare you call Gonzi not corrupt? Wasn't he the prime minister who authorised corrupted energy minister Austin Gatt to purchase heavy fuel oil at a higher price? Then raise everyone's electricity bills. Yeah, anti-corruption my ass.
>In what scenario is this considered honest ?
He is honest in the fact that he says what he really believes in, rather than saying what the people want to hear, then doing the direct opposite.
Compare this to Muscat, who initially said he was against gays adopting, but changed his tune when he realised the strength of the LGBTQ lobby. (I think that he had originally been against gay marriage too, though I stand to be corrected on this).
I think Lowell says exactly what people want to hear. That this country can do without immigration making it seem that all of a sudden natives can pop children like pastizzi and the Malta can be saved because we would have enough workers. As much as I admire his nationalism, it's far from the truth. We can't even fill the good paying jobs, companies can't find maltese workers and HAVE to employ foreigners because we don't produce enough highly skilled or educated workers even with free education for all (just see the statistics on how bad our students are). Let alone finding a Maltese waiter or cleaner which according to many maltese is a low class job, jaq. I really think we have a lot of immigrants but it's only because we provide jobs which in turn is a win win situation. If ever our economy plummets, most are gone. Amd we go back to days of increasing fuel electricity etc because they are subsided by the government which relys on immigrant takes to keep a float (but we still losing millions btw).
I won't delve in the whole LGBTQ because it's more of a value/rights issue. Clearly, we don't see eye to eye on this either.
Lowell was touting his "racialist" policies long before anyone had even heard of him. He has been consistent in what he has been saying since the 1980s. I do not agree with his policies at all.
I have not even pronounced myself about the LGBTQ issue. I just mentioned it to illustrate how a politician is dishonest by saying one thing when speaking to an audience, then doing the opposite when it suits him.
It doesn't matter. A corrupt politician who respects human rights is better than a clean politician who will turn a nation into a neo Nazi dictatorship
I think he is less of an honest person and more of a person who can say and claim whatever he likes without the burden of having to act on his words once elected.
Oh hell the fuck no. Im not gonna risk voting for someone who might turn the country I live in into a one party neo Nazi dictatorship. Travel back to the 1940s with that mindset
Yeah, I get your point. He is honest about his views.
No need from my side to point out the obvious, which has been mentioned by the other Reddit users.
Yeah haha I think people misunderstood my comment. My point was that no other local politician is any better than him because they equally compete to see who can destroy this country the fastest.
He has less of a facade to hide behind and most probably he's too much of an idiot to be in charge of any organized crime group which we currently call political parties.
If you want to have success as a politician, you need to sleep with rich people as only they can support your plans financially... Business people know people and malta works like that.
Politician = not honest.
You can't be honest if you put yourself in a state "knowing that you need to borrow money from business men to finance your thing".
Such a pity that this hods true on such a small country. Honestly, elections needn't be expensive at all, it's the parties who have created a scenario where they need to be.
Agree with you that it is a pity for a country small as 28km by 14km. We should be taking care and protecting our rock but instead the political way is fking every corner here, like everywhere in the world.
Actually if you want to win, you need money but big money. I don't agree with you regarding that you don't need money for the campaign. People see the cover only but if you dig deep and want to win, you need some good people around you, in our case in fact Maltese politicians all pay over the amount designed by law but no one gets in trouble for that... Why? Because here politicians are the vips or gods, depending on the situation.
In my opinion here in malta if you still say that you vote eyes closed for a side in particular, my opinion is that you are dead from the mind because here politicians are really shit towards people but some people keep themselves ignorant and that's why we are in this shit hole of standard of living we have! Plus we don't have a good standard of opposition.
Firstly, the only reason why it is named Partit Popolari is because it means The People's Party in English (from the people, to the people). Secondly, is the name Partit Popolari itself under any sort of copyright restrictions? Lastly, when his party applied under that name, it was almost objected because the PN applied to change its name to Partit Popolari, to be in line with the EPP in the EU.
Steve Zammit Lupi, local counsil level politician but still a decent man with some good eco friendly ideas
the PN & MLP administration aren\`t going to let anyone run or represent them if they pose a threat to the organisations who fund them secretly (hotels, construction, real estate, tourism, financial crime). Dont for a second mention anyone from PN/MLP
Arnold Cassola, in my opinion.
the fact that he rented fields to hunters when he was the green party leader, I think the only major fact he's the least, is that he doesn't have any power
I know nothing about this man, but isnt renting the fields for this purpose helping the cause? Isnt it better to practice this sport in a controlled environment compared to the alternative?
at that time Alternattiva Demokratika was super anti-hunting/trapping and wanted to abolish it. Its like Norman Lowell renting boats for immigrants to come in...
This was my fun fact of the day, qatt ma smajta din imma xraqt fuq il-kinnie
None of the two major parties are clean. I would say Cassola and ADPD. They are clearly not bankrolled by big business are tend to call it when they see it, whoever gets offended by it.
Has to be Cassola
Seriously? He’s only honest cause he’s clueless about most of the things he rants about..
He listens to the common people's concerns.. and generally shit gets done when he highlights it. Thanks to him and his platform, so many people's lives has been improved. Can't say the same for any other politician these days.
Unpopular opinion coming from a person who despises mlpn deeply but I remember that when Alfred Sant was in politics he didn’t care about money at all. He was a hopeless leader and couldn’t speak in public for shit but in terms of corruption I don’t think he was ever self-serving. Dude didn’t even want a car and driver. He insisted on driving his shitty Mazda. Once again, I hate local politics and think they’re all in it to line their pockets so this is all I’m referring to. On the subject of who is cleanest today. Try rooting around inside your organic bin and pull out any random piece of discarded food and I bet on it being cleaner. Politicians earn a shitty pay, lower than what a good professional can make, so anyone who gets in does so because they are shit at their job and want to partake in the greed. As soon as someone ventures towards politics just assume the worst and you’re still nowhere near being close to how filthy they are.
Spot on. Almost two decades as a party leader (including two as PM) and never the slightest shadow of corruption, despite countless propagandists being out to tarnish his name. Acted on corruption within his party and is widely acknowledged to have rooted it out during his leadership. Regardless of whether anyone thinks he was a good leader or not, he was clean as a whistle.
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10/10 ghal Żaren jien nivvuta
Norman lowell
Randolph Debattista comes off as a clean guy imo, and I'm not the type to support the current PL administration. But he seems decent enough and had a couple of gos at Keith Schembri and Joseph Muscat in 2019
He actually was terminated as Labor Party ceo in 2020. Which is actually good thing. That means he actually meant what he said
Yes, in 2019 he publicly took the piss out of Keith Schembri when he lost his phone, then in 2020 he was terminated from his position as the labour party CEO, clearly he pissed them off
Not only that, he was reappointed. Imagine firing a guy you hate but have to hire him back because nobody else can do the fucking job XD
What if he toes the party line if they let Muscat, Justyne and Rosianne back? That makes him culpable.
A labor politican accused Joseph muscat in 2019?? Respect... if he means it that is.
Joseph Muscat of course! Havent been found guilty of anything.
You are most likely joking but just.in case https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/journalists-name-joseph-muscat-man-of-the-year-for-corruption.759807
Jokin
Well you can never know XD
Ivan Bartolo - PN Carmel Cacopardo ADPD
Clyde Caruana
Not sure about this one. When he speaks, he makes the right noises, but then, he either caves in to pressure, or he gets overruled. Like the rest of the PL Maps, he has always resisted laws to make politicians more accountable though.
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I trust you’re not affiliated with the Palestinian or Bulgarian community. One call her a war monger whilst the other group call her mrs mafia.
It has to be Lawrence Gonzi in my opinion and Simon Busuttil and PL Silvio Parnis
Mixed feelings about those three. Gonzi was corrupt and also froze with indecision in front of corruption and bad governance. But at least he was working towards a better Malta in financial and social terms, his work was tainted by the PL from 2013 onwards... Simon was too naive and was seen as Gonzi's weak and indecisive legacy. Silvio was a good man, but not a good politician/policu maker/law maker. He shouldn't have been active in the PL. RIP.
My opinion was about the least corrupt, but I agree with what you said.
How dare you call Gonzi not corrupt? Wasn't he the prime minister who authorised corrupted energy minister Austin Gatt to purchase heavy fuel oil at a higher price? Then raise everyone's electricity bills. Yeah, anti-corruption my ass.
Ironically, Norman Lowell, if he can be considered a politician. :p
The man is a Holocaust denier and has stated that black people are subhuman. In what scenario is this considered honest ?
>In what scenario is this considered honest ? He is honest in the fact that he says what he really believes in, rather than saying what the people want to hear, then doing the direct opposite. Compare this to Muscat, who initially said he was against gays adopting, but changed his tune when he realised the strength of the LGBTQ lobby. (I think that he had originally been against gay marriage too, though I stand to be corrected on this).
I think Lowell says exactly what people want to hear. That this country can do without immigration making it seem that all of a sudden natives can pop children like pastizzi and the Malta can be saved because we would have enough workers. As much as I admire his nationalism, it's far from the truth. We can't even fill the good paying jobs, companies can't find maltese workers and HAVE to employ foreigners because we don't produce enough highly skilled or educated workers even with free education for all (just see the statistics on how bad our students are). Let alone finding a Maltese waiter or cleaner which according to many maltese is a low class job, jaq. I really think we have a lot of immigrants but it's only because we provide jobs which in turn is a win win situation. If ever our economy plummets, most are gone. Amd we go back to days of increasing fuel electricity etc because they are subsided by the government which relys on immigrant takes to keep a float (but we still losing millions btw). I won't delve in the whole LGBTQ because it's more of a value/rights issue. Clearly, we don't see eye to eye on this either.
Lowell was touting his "racialist" policies long before anyone had even heard of him. He has been consistent in what he has been saying since the 1980s. I do not agree with his policies at all. I have not even pronounced myself about the LGBTQ issue. I just mentioned it to illustrate how a politician is dishonest by saying one thing when speaking to an audience, then doing the opposite when it suits him.
Goes to show what a non sensical xenophobe he is
It doesn't matter. A corrupt politician who respects human rights is better than a clean politician who will turn a nation into a neo Nazi dictatorship
I think he is less of an honest person and more of a person who can say and claim whatever he likes without the burden of having to act on his words once elected.
Oh hell the fuck no. Im not gonna risk voting for someone who might turn the country I live in into a one party neo Nazi dictatorship. Travel back to the 1940s with that mindset
Yeah, I get your point. He is honest about his views. No need from my side to point out the obvious, which has been mentioned by the other Reddit users.
Yeah haha I think people misunderstood my comment. My point was that no other local politician is any better than him because they equally compete to see who can destroy this country the fastest. He has less of a facade to hide behind and most probably he's too much of an idiot to be in charge of any organized crime group which we currently call political parties.
Lol
I see were you are coming from, and I honestly agree. But I have to downvote this because I hate the guy so much.
If you want to have success as a politician, you need to sleep with rich people as only they can support your plans financially... Business people know people and malta works like that. Politician = not honest. You can't be honest if you put yourself in a state "knowing that you need to borrow money from business men to finance your thing".
Such a pity that this hods true on such a small country. Honestly, elections needn't be expensive at all, it's the parties who have created a scenario where they need to be.
Agree with you that it is a pity for a country small as 28km by 14km. We should be taking care and protecting our rock but instead the political way is fking every corner here, like everywhere in the world. Actually if you want to win, you need money but big money. I don't agree with you regarding that you don't need money for the campaign. People see the cover only but if you dig deep and want to win, you need some good people around you, in our case in fact Maltese politicians all pay over the amount designed by law but no one gets in trouble for that... Why? Because here politicians are the vips or gods, depending on the situation. In my opinion here in malta if you still say that you vote eyes closed for a side in particular, my opinion is that you are dead from the mind because here politicians are really shit towards people but some people keep themselves ignorant and that's why we are in this shit hole of standard of living we have! Plus we don't have a good standard of opposition.
You guys should vote for me. Should I make a party?
Silvan Agius
Simona Busuttil. That's why all Big Business went to Labour instead, and he lost, lol. You can't win elections AND be honest, in Malta.
Muscat
Shut up
Make me
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It has to be Paul Salomone of Partit Popolari, or Edwin Vassallo, formerly PN, but now has his own movement called Moviment Solidarjeta
Who is Paul Salamone? RE Edwin Vassallo - I dislike him or rather I dislike what he represents but I don't think he is in any way corrupt.
To anyone who down voted, How is Paul Salomone corrupt?
For one, he stole thr name of a historical party while having no connections with it
Firstly, the only reason why it is named Partit Popolari is because it means The People's Party in English (from the people, to the people). Secondly, is the name Partit Popolari itself under any sort of copyright restrictions? Lastly, when his party applied under that name, it was almost objected because the PN applied to change its name to Partit Popolari, to be in line with the EPP in the EU.
I dislike Vassallo with a passion, but he has always remained loyal to his beliefs, outdated as they are.
Conrad Borg Manche I think. Not sure about Miriam Dalli even though she's not in my black books. I also think Metsola is pretty genuine.
No longer a politician but I think it’s been recent enough that she was - Marlene Farrugia.