Has Alfred Sant absolutely no self-respect?

Published: April 26, 2014 at 9:44pm

Labour May candidates

Joseph Muscat took his party’s European Parliament candidates for an outing to Gozo in the wind today, and lined them up at Fort Chambray like renegades about to face his firing squad.

Look at Marlene Mizzi, outblinging Miriam Dalli tal-Guy. Miriam tal-Guy wears an orange-red ‘jekit’ so Marlene tal-Early Learning Centre wears a sunshine yellow one paired with trousers made from fabric salvaged from the Miami deckchair industry. They stand in front in a sea of black and grey that includes another two women – LNG Tanker Debbie and another fat one who’s new to me, who are clad like Greek island widows because black is ‘slimming’. Even Miriam tal-Guy is dressed in imaginative black. The orange-red ‘jekit’ is just a cunning ruse to make you think she isn’t.

And my God, Alfred Sant! Oh, the humiliation. Standing in a competitive line-up of fellow candidates all out to knife each other in a sea of blood, while his former poodle and suck-up, who married his personal assistant Michelle Tanti, lords it about like a class A thing that begins with P and ends with K.

Can he go any lower than swapping places with his ex lapdog at a time when he should be retiring? Sant was once the prime minister and Muscat was once the MEP. Now Muscat is the prime minister and Sant is about to crawl into an EP seat.

Loser – no dignity at all.

And what’s all this about a more social Europe? Would that be a Europe where people are squeezed for taxes so that the Prime Minister can pay himself a higher-than-value rental fee for using his own car?

Or one where the prime minister’s wife deputises for her husband as in that other great socialist republic led by Chairman Mao?

Or one where government minister’s wives are paid a salarju fenomenali to escape back home to China, while the newspapers roll over and play dead?

Or where a woman who is in business with the prime minister’s wife is paid Eur60,000 a year by the government run by her business partner’s husband, plus perks and expenses, to represent Malta in New York where she lives and works already?




22 Comments Comment

  1. ciccio says:

    Black is definitely not the right colour for LNG tankers. White is recommended.

    Alfred Sant looks very concerned. He must be worrying that the wind might ‘unsettle’ his hair.

    And Cuschieri is too close to the prime minister for comfort. It must be that he believes in the old adage: keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

  2. Harry Purdie says:

    Your description of the Labour MEP candidates just broke me up. but it hurt, since I broke my collar bone spring skiing in Switzerland today. You gotta go easy on that humour. So funny.

  3. P Bonnici says:

    They will soon be carrying note books when the Dear Leader addresses them, like they do in North Korea. I read this yesterday:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/25/dear-leader-is-always-worthy-of-note-lots-and-lots-of-notes/

  4. Chris Ripard says:

    Note to Elves: The title question is rhetorical – no need to answer.

  5. Gahan says:

    And what’s all this about a more social Europe?

    According to Labour’s holy book : Dom Mintoff in 1978 said “Today there are two Europes: The Europe of Cain and the Europe of Abel.”
    Now Joseph is rephrasing what Mintoff said.

  6. anthony says:

    A load of clowns with Sant as the compere.

  7. Crockett says:

    None of them have any self-respect as far as I’m concerned. They’ve always hated the EU since day one. No matter how much they try to appear otherwise, their party was and still is anti-EU. But now they’re content to lap up the ice-cream on the kitchen floor.

    • Calculator says:

      Even if they don’t admit they’re anti-EU in actual words, their attitude and actions are definitely anti-EU. They are anti-democratic and hate work at the community level resulting in both input into and output from Maltese political life, which they see only as ‘foreign interference’.

  8. Dissident says:

    What exactly is Marlene Mizzi wearing? A nappy-changing mat?

  9. Min Jaf says:

    All dutifully looking at The Leader ghar-ritratt. Alfred Sant looks away, evidently it was just too much for him to do like the rest.

    • Spock says:

      No – it’s because he doesn’t have faith in superglue any more , and is contending to the wind’s direction

  10. P Shaw says:

    The Hunger Games start right now.

  11. Matt says:

    I can’ t understand why half of the population think that these people should be worthy of a MEP seat to represent us in EU.
    No way will I give them my vote.

  12. Albert Bonnici says:

    Why is the podium required? And then for a small crowd of idiots?

  13. Mister says:

    Muscat seems to be enjoying this humiliation of Alfred Sant.

  14. Nik says:

    Social Europe indeed: Malta is the only place in Europe where the Labour Party and the largest trade union (GWU) have always been adamantly against the working time directive.

  15. P Bonnici says:

    Qisom qabda pulcinelli u boloh.

  16. Gaetano Pace says:

    Did the national coffers fork out their lunch bill ? I presume so.

  17. Tabatha White says:

    Let’s not forget the Muscat measure of spite.

  18. ajeje says:

    Cuschieri must be happy, he was allowed in the front row with the labour MEPs-in-waiting, instead of being relegated to second row

  19. H.P. Baxxter says:

    You’re all mistaken. The real Alfred Sant stayed home in Malta, writing his latest never-ending bore-fest.

    That’s just his waxwork in the photo.

    Oh and does my bum look big in this podium?

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