Didn’t Mrs Michelle Muscat say she wants her daughters to live a normal life? This has now gone beyond the ridiculous.

Published: December 11, 2013 at 1:07am

soleil and etoile

Those two irresponsible parents should stop using their small daughters as tools and stuffing them in our faces all the time.

Quite apart from the fact that the poor things haven’t a clue what’s going on and have clearly lost touch with normality already because of all the absurd and abnormal situations they are forced into, the strategy of winning approval by using their daughters is now backfiring badly.

Their daughters are being projected as the spoiled, over-petted and over-privileged products of their father’s elected position and their mother’s temporary insanity brought on by overnight exposure to a world of sweetshops.

They will not end up loved. They will end up despised, and no helpless child subject to parental whims deserves that.

Soleil’s and Etoile’s mother appears to have confused their situation with that of the British royal family in the 1930s, and herself with the Queen Consort.

She is not unusual, among women who have had children fairly late and with great difficulty, in making the mistake of thinking that because of the great difficulties in creating them, they are somehow special in themselves and in general, rather than just being special to her. The difference is that Mrs Michelle Muscat is in a particular position, so the obsessive, child-fixated behaviour so many of us find insufferable in those we can avoid is in her case projected onto the national stage.

Mrs Michelle Muscat doesn’t need encouragement to carry on behaving like this. She needs help to see that having children is normal and unexceptional, that children themselves are normal and unexceptional to all but their own immediate family.

Here’s another ridiculous invitation to add to the rapidly increasing collection of ‘Michellati’: an invitation to the inauguration of Sliema’s Christmas festivities “by the daughters of The Prime Minister” (no names). The event is tomorrow and the invitation was emailed out tonight.




102 Comments Comment

  1. pablo says:

    What next, a pair of corgis maybe.

  2. Jozef says:

    Ferries Garden?

    • M & Ms says:

      The Ferries Garden – how very ridiculous. They mean that enlarged centre-strip on the main road, with a few plants on it. Pathetic.

      Who calls it the Ferries Garden? Nobody. Not anybody actually FROM Sliema anyway.

      Whose idea was this? That Laburista Marlene Seychell’s, married for so long to Mintoff’s curly-headed ‘friend’ Carlo and owner of the Promod and Miss Selfridge franchises? Those anti-PN campaigners at Monsoon and Accessorise?

      Tas-Sliema Taghna Lkoll – nowhere is safe from chav domination. To hell with them all.

      • Shopowner says:

        You forgot to mention Grace Borg of Exotique, or whatever her shop is now called. I am so glad we opted out of the Sliema Business Community three years ago.

      • Niku says:

        It was changed to House of Grace.

      • Jozef says:

        Ah yes, Grace Borg, who would have us buy her CDs if she could only enforce a ban on internet shopping and digital downloads.

        Her House of Grace, a mini market of cheap gadgets, overpriced oriental rubbish and ‘exclusive’ model cars. The wrong mix, selection and concept.

        I use her shop to access the realm of bad design and outdated business.

        Of course she’ll do anything to undermine competition.

      • Mattie says:

        Jozef – spot on!

        She doesn’t seem to be knowledgeable in the structures and principles of business. If she were she would have understood that life changes regularly and sometimes instantly – so does progress and business and most especially the line of business she’s in.

        Therefore, if she knew herself and business well, she would have diversified her business into a product that sells like hot cheese cakes and not take the easiest option: moan, groan and bore us with useless rants.

        Just saying for the sake of good business sense.

  3. T. Cassar says:

    This goes to prove that whatever the Muscats say or promise they mean exactly the opposite.

  4. eve says:

    Ta’ sitt snin dawn x’jifmhu b’inawgurazzjonijiet f’isem il-business community?

  5. Denis says:

    Mrs Michelle Muscat needs counselling. Her behaviour is beyond the ridiculous.

  6. Joey Tatu says:

    I put the blame for this Michellata on the Sliema Business Community. Have they lost it completely or are they so scared of Labour that they will do anything to get into Joseph’s good books?

    Are they aware of plans to open Bisazza Street to traffic? Are they aware of shelved parking plans, all intended to drive business away?

    If we now have reached this silly situation I very much doubt how much lower we can go. But again one never knows.

    • albona says:

      They don’t realise, or rather don’t want to acknowledge, that if the Sliema Business Community are in a state of crisis it is the result of the decades of over-pricing which drove away most potential customers, lost mostly to the internet.

      No amount of carpark reform can help now. They decided to burn bridges years ago. Now they can live with it.

  7. M. says:

    Apart from the ridiculousness of it all, including the ‘Sliema business community’s’ bad judgement on the matter, we can now say all the more that the chavs have well and truly invaded Sliema.

    The barbarians have long been over the gate and are now chomping chicken wings all over.

    Incidentally, perhaps Michelle ‘illum jien gejt’ Muscat thought that her daughters would be a suitable and acceptable stand-in for her husband, who may be jet-lagged after flying back from yesterday’s memorial service in South Africa.

  8. M. says:

    Mrs Michelle Muscat really is trying hard to steal Kate Gonzi’s thunder. I think Mrs Gonzi has a book-signing event on at The Point at the same time.

  9. Paul Vincenti says:

    Daphne may have a problem with the Muscat’s but involving their children is spiteful and beyond decent.
    Whilst thrusting their kids into her blog making them the target of her rage, she does this whilst accusing them of the same.

    Sorry but there are done things that are just not done.

    [Daphne – Paul, your thoughts have long been addled by the battle for foetuses which, as I suspect of most grown men who wage this particular war with a freakish intensity and obsessive compulsion, has its roots not in love of embryos but in deep-rooted misogyny which they cannot even admit to themselves. However, despite this addled thinking, for you to suggest that it is I who have dragged those children into the limelight is absurd beyond belief. It is their parents who are doing that, and most particularly their mother, as I have the oddest sensation that their father is largely indifferent to anything that involves them and might even be largely indifferent towards them as he is with their mother (the two emotions, you may have noticed, tend to run in tandem). If you read this post with a clear mind, rather than with prejudice against me because of my repeatedly declared views about you and your treatment of women as inanimate vehicles for the delivery of foetuses, you will see that it is in fact a defence of the rights of those children, with whom I sympathise, and an argument precisely against their being used as tools and foisted on the public. When Michelle Muscat involves her children in this manner, the correct response is NOT to say how sweet the children are, but to say how irresponsible and stupid she is. Children who started out sweet will end up monstrous after five years of this. In your position, you should be arguing against that, not defending it – but then your views on parenting are rather curious.]

    • Niku says:

      Well said, Daphne. It seems Paul will be attending this evening’s event.

      • One of Franco's birds says:

        No doubt carrying one of his plastic foetuses and a whole lot of rage that it’s plastic and outside him rather than real and inside him.

    • Last Post says:

      Coming from Paul Vincenti this type of warped thinking is totally unexpected.

      It’s (somehow) like Joseph Muscat blaming the Opposition for the bad publicity his IIP scheme has attracted in the foreign media.

    • Ferries Garden? says:

      Make a bet Mrs Michelle Muscat will be kitted out in a strange mix of The North Face and Bulgari.

      The only good things left in Sliema are the decent coffee shops and a couple of shops run and owned by principled people. Barring a few, Sliema has lost any allure it might have had.

      In barely nine months they have managed to take the place over.

      Oh how I wish Labour opens up Bisazza Street again and chokes the living daylights out of shops like Monsoon and Accessorize.

      I will most willingly sit opposite and watch them take in all the diesel especially if by then we would have reverted to the old buses.

    • Paul Vincenti says:

      Daphne, you seem to think that what you think matters to me. Good luck with that one.

      [Daphne – What I think obviously does matter to you, Paul, otherwise you wouldn’t be here in the first place. I have long experience in dealing with misogynists like you, so don’t push your luck.]

      • Paul Vincenti says:

        I care about what you say not what you think.

        Threatening me only shows you are afraid of truth. The truth is that nothing can ever justify the venom you throw at those who disagree with you.

        It takes character for one to say what they need to say without resorting to personal attacks and threats.

        So no, I don’t care what you think at all. I care about truth.

        [Daphne – Oh grow up. Men like you are essentially and fundamentally bullies who want to be in control of everything, including the reproductive processes of women they don’t even know. Your patronizing words about and behaviour towards women are the fruit of a far-right mindset that is rooted in misogyny and chauvinism. And that’s why men like you tend to marry women they can dominate and boss around, women who are too vulnerable to stand up to them and tell them where to stick it. Which is exactly what you did. But enough about that. In short, Paul, just mind your own business: stick to controlling your own woman and leave other women alone. Do you remember when once I wrote in response to something you said that you should stop banging on and on about the evils of abortion because 1. you never know what members of your own family have done or might do, and 2. you make it impossible for anyone close to you who is in trouble to speak out? Well, I was right. It really is about time you stopped interfering in women’s issues once and for all. You have absolutely no understanding of or empathy for women at all. Every woman knows that abortion is not a black and white issue; even those who would never dream of having one know that. The only reason you think it a black and white issue is because women, to you, are not human beings but animals of a higher order. And that is exactly why you don’t care what I think. Women like me are, to men like you, a red rag to a bull. You’re nothing new to my experience – just yet another one in a long, long line of small-island Mediterranean boors.]

      • Liberal says:

        Q. X’inhi id-differenza bejn tejologu u Paul Vincenti?

        A. Tejologu hu professur ta’ Alla u Paul Vincenti injorant tal-Madonna.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        Paul Vincenti, you’re enough to make any sane man hate Malta. You’re the one who should be aborted.

        Now take your self-righteous drivel and go lick some more politicians’ backsides so they can put up a few more hideous Monuments To The Unborn Child.

      • Mattie says:

        Paul, what Daphne says forms an integral part of how she thinks.

        You’re beating about the bush to avoid embarrassing your own self.

    • manum says:

      Paul Vincenti – laghqi mill-kbar.

      The place of those children should be clear away from politics. What is happening to those children is equivalent to gross abuse. Sitwazzjoni tal-misthija!

    • Manuel says:

      Touché, Daphne. The Muscats have been dragging their children into the limelight since Dr. Muscat became Leader of the Pseudo-Liberal Labour Party.

      They have been dragging their children ever since to garner public sympathy and projecting themselves as a “traditional Maltese family”. Have you ever seen Dr. Fenech Adami dragging his children into his politics? No sir, not even when his home was ransacked and his wife and children were terrorised by thugs.

      Or have you ever seen Dr. Lawrence Gonzi dragging his own into the scene? For the Muscats this “dragging about” of their children is just a PR exercise.

    • Caroline says:

      Paul, how you reached that conclusion is beyond everyone with an ounce of logic.

      The point is that if their parents are foisting these poor children on the public, then yes, the public can and should comment.

      The prime minister and his wife are deliberately and with intent putting their children into the public domain instead of shielding them from the public eye so as to ensure that they lead as normal a life as possible.

      Some people will say “ooh ara xi hleww marelli” – no prizes for guessing who this particular section is. The other more logical and sane people will simply say that it is disgraceful that these two 6 year old girls are being used by their parents in such a shameful manner.

      People with a minimum amount of foresight can see that this will have a damaging effect on these children and whatever anyone may think of their parents, those children have no fault and shouldn’t be subjected to this.

    • MARIA DEBONO says:

      What’s going to happen to them in five years’ time when their bubble bursts and mama is back to being “Mrs Muscat ta’ Burmarrad”? Because that’s where they’re heading for….gas down into the wall of shame.

  10. Manuel says:

    The Sliema Business Committee invites the daughters of the PM to “open” the Christmas activities. It is probably a Committee dominated by Sliema-Switchers.

    • La Redoute says:

      The PM’s daughters have names. They are presented as the PM’s daughter because they are being used as publicity props.

  11. Min Jaf says:

    Someone paving the way for route busses to again drive down Bisazza Street?

    • Manuel says:

      Well perceived, Min Jaf. Probably what you said there, is in the pipeline.

      • Mattie says:

        If they had to revert to the previous setting, meaning getting the Bisazza route back, then Malta can declare itself backwards.

        The shops on this road are few compared to the wonder (for Malta’s size) Tigne Point is.

        Shops apart, the child-friendly areas, facilities and parking facilities, have made Tigne Point, a place people want to go to because it makes sense.

        Personally, I don’t want to lounge around Bisazza Street – it’s been long outdated since it was the main road to the Ferries -therefore it’s not an area I look forward to, unfortunately.

        Nothing in particular takes me there and there’s nothing user-friendly to keep me there.

        So, please, let the people choose.

  12. L-iehor says:

    Thank heavens for online shopping. No custom to the Sliema business community this year. Laghqin kollha kemm intom!

    • Mattie says:

      Mhux ghax laghqin, imma ghax iddisprati biex jiehdu l-business taghhom lura fi zmien ghal xi 20 sena u jghixu l-passat bhallikieku qed nghidu jien ghandi 50 sena u irridha li ghandi – 20 -> impossibbli.

      Jekk kellhom jikkuntentaw il-kumitat tal-komunita, ibqghu certi li l-bizniz lura bhal granc jibqa jmur f’dawk ic-certi n-nahat li jgergru fuqhom tal-hwienet, ghax il-problema hi li l-erjas tax-xiri, li tant kienu popolari fid-90ijiet, saru skaduti.

      Mhux ghax il-prodott huwa skadut imma ghaliex il-mod kif jahsbu certu sidien tal-hwienet huwa skadut ikkumparat mentri maz-zminijet li qed nghixu fejn issib nies – konsumaturi li mohhom mhux skadut u ghalhekk ghazlu mezzijiet ohra biex jonfqu flushom kif, fejn u meta jidhrilhom.

      Ghalhekk huwa d-dover tas-sidien li johorgu bi prodotti jew incentivi godda sabiex ihajjru lin-nies – tipo irahhsu l-prezzijiet ghall-argument.

      Il-post tieghek innifisha tikkonferna dak li rrid nghid.

      • Mattie says:

        They have to concentrate on creating ideas which will adjust to the rapidly changing world – this itself brings with it the obvious change in mentality.

        If the business community ‘tries’ to go back in time and bring those times back, it would be suicidal. those times are gone. It doesn’t make sense.

        New concepts, new business ideas, structures and developments should have enabled the business community to develop the new structures into a new type of business to keep the people there with them.

        The world moves forwards not backwards.

    • Shopkeeper says:

      What you said above is extremelyuUnjust. Not all Sliema shop owners are Labour, switchers or laghqin as you are calling us.

      You are creating and causing great and unfounded damage to our businesses. Many shops are owned by individuals who invested personal funds to purchase stock, pay employees, pay electricity bills, etc.

      Again what are you trying to do: SABOTAGE our investments? Shame on you.

      In reply to Mattie you are also being unjust to Bisazza Street shop owners. No shopping mall, be it in Malta, or for example Westfield in London, ever ever makes up the atmosphere/ambience of downtown shopping.

      • The Nerd of Redhead says:

        But I would agree with the above people who explained the differences, Shopkeeper.

        Times have changed my friend.

      • The Nerd of Redhead laughing at the North Face on Gieh ir-Republic Day says:

        Downtown shopping?

        Give me Tigne Point anytime. Someone said: ‘Let the people choose’.

        Damn right.

  13. Calculator says:

    “Soleil’s and Etoile’s mother appears to have confused their situation with that of the British royal family in the 1930s, and herself with the Queen Consort.”

    Which brings to mind the fact that in recent years the British royal family has tried its best to raise its youngest as normally as possible. But, of course, what’s good for them isn’t good enough for Mrs Michelle Muscat.

  14. steve says:

    It would be interesting to get the views of the Commissioner for the Protection of Children.

    • carlos says:

      That’s right, Steve. We hope to hear from her about the exposition of the prime ministerial twins. If she dares open her mouth.

  15. M. Cassar says:

    Oh Lord, who are these most enlightened members of the committee? Do you think that someone can very gently inform them that when absurdities are planned, it is up to those that are sane to intervene?

    • Mandy says:

      Marlene Seychell owns one or two children’s clothes shops at The Plaza. What are the chances that Soleil Sophie and Etoile Ella will be kitted out in clothes ‘sponsored’ by one of her shops?

      Is she sponsoring their outfits regularly?

      Imn’alla kienu n-Nazzjonalisti, ghax kieku t-tewmin illejla liebsin pullover ta’ l-Amerikan, jeans tas-Spider, underwear ta’ l-Abanderado, u zraben tas-Sanga, u xi anorak tar-Red Devil.

  16. curious says:

    Sliema Business Community – licking Joseph’s boots.

  17. notimpressed says:

    There will be the usual crowd from the Lazy Corner.

  18. Sparky says:

    Half arsed invitation. I will avoid being anywhere near The Strand this evening.

  19. canon says:

    Are the children of the Prime Minister going to learn how to cut the ribbon?

    • One of Franco's birds says:

      Were they taken to see the nice ribbon round daddy’s Australia Hall? They could have practised on that.

  20. Niku says:

    So now, things are happening not in the presence of Mrs Michelle Muscat, wife of the prime minister, but in the presence of the (nameless) daughters of the prime minister.

    It’s all gone to their silly heads.

  21. RF says:

    Is the ‘Sliema business community’ planning to foist on us a Soloile Gardens in the spirit of Joanne Gardens in Tarxien, which was named after Mintoff’s daughters Joan (Yana’s real name) and Anne?

  22. islander in wonderland says:

    I pity the little ones. However I completely disagree with these “buffunati”, clearly the responsibility of their parents who are dragging them to these meaningless tasks, definately from the Business Community point of view.

    I do not understand what is being achieved unless there is something really cynical about the Prime Minister’s family.

  23. A montebello says:

    Do The North Face make outfits for six-year-olds? Or are they going to be modelling Marlene Seychell’s Pumpkin Patch?

  24. Lomax says:

    Excuse me for switching to Maltese but how am I to translate: ma jifilhux jaqghu aktar ghan-n***?

    Come on – the Sliema Business Committee must understand that children do not open Christmas activities anywhere. If its business is going downhill, it is because their prices are uncompetitive and their choice, sometimes, rather poor.

    Online shopping is, clearly, taking over and if they want their business to pick up, they are really short-sighted indeed to think that such a silly stunt will attract shoppers.

    I, for one, will stay clear of Sliema on this most august day and I can assure these erudite Sliema business owners that all my family members who are assiduous followers of this blog will do the same.

    Poor, poor children. They will grow into that utterly-spoilt totally-insufferable Verruca (or Verucka) of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

    Children opening activities indeed. How totally insane. What a nation of bird-brains.

    • Shopkeeper says:

      The Sliema Business Community has nothing to do with it. The girls were foisted on them by the Office of the Prime Minister.

      Sliema Business Community: will one of you please note all these comments and rebut before more damage is caused.

  25. charles cachia says:

    Hi,

    Forsi qed tistenna li tibqa d-dar taghmel il-borma u tfarrfar l-ghamara waqt li zewga jamministra il-pajjiz? forsi ghanda tinjora dak li issa sar zewga u tibqa, kif nghidu ahna, migbura d-dar ma t-tfat?

    Tieghek.

    [Daphne – No, I expect her to plough her own furrow and if she doesn’t want to stay home, she should get a job. If she doesn’t want to get a job or stay home, she should involve herself in charity or voluntary work, always minding the maxim that the right hand should not know what the left is doing, rather than using that charity work as a vehicle for publicity. What Mrs Muscat is doing is not better or more progressive than tending to a borma or dusting the furniture. It is worse: tagging on the coat-tails of your husband and living vicariously through his achievements, rather than forging your own path. Imagine if a man were to do that when his wife is prime minister. Enough said. If you are really ‘progressive and liberal’ you wouldn’t make a different case for a woman than you would for a man.]

    • M. Cassar says:

      Le, forsi bhali tistenna li ma ddoqx it-trumbetta bit-tfal!

    • Mattie says:

      And what’s wrong with ‘tibqa d-dar taghmel il-borma u tfarfar l-ghamara’?

      Those habits were practiced by our parents and grand parents.

      At least these people cooked good food off nobody’s taxes and as for ‘tfarfir’, at least these same people kept their houses spotlessly clean.

      You should put your focus on the state of the country at the moment – Malta, these last 8 months has become a big rubbish dump which has people at the helm interested in their own agenda rather than – ‘cleaner air’ and ‘enviromental cleanliness’ as has been promised in those ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ song slots which bored the life out of us before the elections.

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Kumment stupidu ghall-ahhar, Charles Cachia. Trid tkun taf ghaliex? Ghax meta “Michelle kienet id-dar mibura mat-tfal taghmel il-borma, anke hemmhekk dahhlet il-camera u l-gurnalisti. Ha tidher. Ha jidhru t-tfal ukoll. Ghax il-posers huma posers anke f’darhom stess.

  26. L'Etat, c'est moi says:

    Who’s in the Sliema Business Community committee?

  27. M. Cassar says:

    Can someone please explain why a Google search for the Sliema Business Community committee did not return any results for who they are and what they do? One does wonder who thinks that it is appropriate and wise to have a child (or a couple of them) open business Christmas activities.

    Such great minds deserve to be followed and should be emulated.

  28. Rita Camilleri says:

    Xi dwejjaq ta’ pajjzi – kulhadd jippoppa u jara x’jaghmel biex jidher. Qisu hadd qatt ma kellu tfal.

  29. dutchie says:

    If an adult’s work involves cutting ribbons and it is left to under-age children, why isn’t it seen as pure child labour?
    Who is getting paid here?

  30. L-iehor says:

    Small consolation – just showed this to a close colleague of mine, a staunch Laburist (ma jfiqx, as we say) and his comment: “PWERILI!”. Ah. I enjoyed that.

  31. Freedom5 says:

    The Ferries garden is none other than St Anne Square , where that abusive horrid restaurant once stood – Magic Kiosk.

    I suspect this is some initiative by Theresa Bartolo Parnis.

  32. manum says:

    Kien hemm zmien li konna nahsbu li l-abbuz kien sesswali jew vjolenza. Il-mod li dawn it-tfal qed jigu esposti f’ postijiet li mhumiex adatti ghalihom ser jiddisturba serjament it trobbija taghhom.

    Dawn it-tfal ser jikbru b’ mentalita mostruza u ghad jasal zmien li jkunu insopportabbli, u t-tort ta’ min hu?

  33. canon says:

    Illum hi jien gejt mat-tfal ghax il-Prim Ministru South Africa qieghed.

  34. Mikiel says:

    This event conveniently coincides with Mrs Kate Gonzi’s book launch. http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-12-02/news/kate-gonzi-what-they-say-about-her-3359047683/
    Today 11th at Radisson SAS.

    The difference between these events. One sent the invitations appropriately weeks ago together with a press release launching the event on our newspapers, the other just sent the invitation a day ago. (Besides enrolling underage children to commentate the event)

    Will His Excellency President Dr. George Abela attend both events?

  35. Mattie says:

    The Sliema Business Committee Community?

    Can the Committee of the Community get the invitation cards right?

    Something must be wrong – really.

  36. Mattie says:

    Ferries Garden?

    The only garden before the Ferries is ‘Gnien George Bonello Dupuis’ but that’s situated along the Qui-si-Sana seafront which is quite far from the Ferries.

  37. Darkwolf says:

    From what I understand, Mrs. Muscat believes that just because children aren’t born with a parenting guidebook it’s permissible to use them as a parent sees fit.

    I cannot even begin to fathom how these children must feel. Clearly Mrs Muscat’s idea of an education does not include humility and decent behaviour. I’ve just stepped into adulthood only months ago and I thank God to this day that our parents had been setting boundaries for us ever since we learned to walk.

    Perhaps Mrs. “I drag my 6 year old girls into political crap because I’m too busy posing for the camera to do it myself”, should give it a try.

  38. xifajk says:

    Tajba, mela l-Infantas jifthu l-bizniz avents, imbaghad l-istudenti jistiednuhom Kastlilja u jgeluhom ipoggu fuq cushion, ishom f’xi tinda ta’ Ghaddafi.
    pic.twitter.com/VgZTnWrXMD

  39. Ruth says:

    This is beyond ridiculous. It’s like saying the Duchess of Cambridge taking her baby Prince George to switch on the Oxford Street Christmas lights. But then I cannot imagine the umble Kate Middleton, who insists on giving her son a normal childhood as much as possible (isn’t that what Michelle said about her daughters?) doing so.

    I’d say let her enjoy it while it lasts…hopefully not very long.

  40. Niku says:

    Bet Reno Bugeja will see this as having news value.

  41. TROY says:

    Oh my God, what a little bit of indirect power can do to us mortals.

  42. Rumplestiltskin says:

    Has the Sliema Business Community gone mad?

  43. ron says:

    That is what happens when power is given into the hands of people with no brains. Tanto fumo e niente arrosto.

  44. John Cassar says:

    Sorry to correct your conclusion of this article: not Michellati but Mixellagni (hybrid of Michelle and hamallagni).

  45. Kukkurin says:

    Surely the Commissioner for Children should intervene.

  46. Sliema born and bred says:

    I disassociate myself from what is/has been happening in my home town this evening.

    How are these poor girls going to feel when their father is back to being the common man in the street?

  47. Aunt Hetty says:

    When will Mrs. Muscat come to her senses and realise that children that age should not be paraded about like prize show dogs? Why does she not let them have a normal childhood away from the limelight, for God’s sake?

  48. Joanna says:

    In her interview with The Sunday Circle, Mrs Michelle Muscat told us how she tries hard to give her daughters a normal life. She even took them with her to the UN gathering in New York so that they wouldn’t feel ‘abandoned’.

    That must have made them feel very normal, back in the classroom.

  49. Mattie says:

    Paul Vincenti’s line of reasoning is insufferable.

    He has ‘worked’ to defend the unborn child but comes here to say that there’s nothing wrong with putting children in the limelight where they really aren’t meant to be.

    Whilst high-profile people around the world work extremely hard to fight off the paparazzi, journalists, photographers who try to get pictures of their children, the Maltese prime minister and his wife encourage the opposite.

    We live in a dangerous world and Mrs Muscat is too daft to see it.

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