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What If We stop Eurobitchin'?
As I browse through the local news portals in the early hours of the morning, I am getting the first taste of the umpteenth déjà vu. The first comments are being posted on The Times website and unsurprisingly, they’re recycled comments from the past. The loop I mentioned last Friday is already in motion. As the Italians aptly put it: “e` un film gia` visto”.
From what I heard, it seems that Chiara can take any form of criticism – except the slightest comment about her figure. So if anyone wants to pass any comments about Chiara, please don’t dare mention her figure (it reminds me of Basil Fawlty’s “don’t mention the war” warnings). Any other comment is welcome.
Let the bitching begin……………….

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The only thing he can offer is 'irritainment' - as a friend of mine put it
According to a report in today’s The Times, Norman submitted his nomination for the European Parliament elections to be held next month.
His name was included in the list of nominations issued yesterday evening by the Electoral Commission. He was convicted last year of inciting racial hatred and insulting the President, and was eventually given a two-year jail term suspended for four years and fined €500.
According to the Constitution, a person is disqualified from contesting elections “if he is serving a sentence of imprisonment exceeding 12 months… or is under such a sentence of imprisonment the execution of which has been suspended”.
Consequently, Norman Lowell is not qualified to take part in the EP elections. An appeal from the sentence was dismissed last October after it was found that his fundamental human rights had not been violated by a judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal and a Constitutional application where he argued that he was denied the right to a fair hearing by the appeals court was eventually dismissed.
So, if I understood correctly, he is not eligible to contest these elections. Therefore, I ask, why did he submit his nomination in the first place? Why was he allowed to submit it?
Does he want to give the impression that he’s a martyr? Does he expect us to pity him? Why am I not surprised that some people find him entertaining?
After all, that’s how it all started. Do you remember the guys at Maltafly posting his ‘interviews’ on their site? Do you remember hearing the ‘interviewer’ laughing at his incredulous assertions? It was only until some people started actually taking him seriously that they stopped uploading these ‘jokes’.
Why did the Electoral Commission publish his name if he’s not eligible? Couldn’t they just refuse it straight away?
This is truly the zone where normal things don’t happen very often.

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