Who is this billboard woman kidding?
Ramona Frendo is currently on Facebook posting links to news sites and updates of her activities, but then claims she doesn’t know that Wenzu Mintoff has been made a judge because she is ‘abroad’
The Malta Independent rang Ramona Frendo, former Labour Party Zejtun Councillor and one of the poster-women for the Labour Party’s general election campaign (in which she, the former Zejtun MLP councillor, pretended to be a ‘switcher’) for her views on the appointment of Judge Wenzu Mintoff.
What did the newspaper expect her to say? To criticise the appointment? She’s one of them – not a Taghna Lkoller, but a dyed-in-the-wool Mintoffjana from childhood, with a 100% manufactured pseudo-tal-pepe image that must have taken lots of work and practice.
The newspaper rang her because the government for which she campaigned put her on the Justice Reform Commission in one of its very first acts of cronyism. Since then, she has also been put on retainer as the lawyer for the Lotteries & Gaming Authority, in yet another Taghna Lkoll move.
The Malta Independent reports:
Fellow Justice Reform Commission member Ramona Frendo said that she was unaware of Judge Mintoff’s appointment as she is currently abroad.
Kemm hi ridikola u antipatika, miskina. All that fake accent and pretensions and then her working-class ta’ wara l-muntanji roots emerge in something like this: ABROAD – a place where you can’t follow the news. ABROAD – a distinct and separate part of the globe in which all contact with Malta is severed, you have no internet, no smart phone, no mobile phone even, nobody rings you to discuss the news, and you stop following the news because you are ABROAD.
A member of the Justice Reform Commission who claims she doesn’t know that Wenzu Mintoff has been made a judge, and to whom nobody has thought to mention it, because she is ABROAD.
Another liar: Ramona Frendo is famously always on Facebook. We are expected to believe that a woman in her position logs onto the internet obsessively for Facebook but doesn’t bother to check the news – or that she doesn’t even get the news through Facebook.
She doesn’t know that Wenzu Mintoff has been made a judge, but then last night she posted a link to a euthanasia story on the BBC site.
This lying is now chronic, and is led from the top.
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Ramona Frendo is in Malta.
Perhaps the Malta Independent could ring her again once she’s had tome to catch with the news the old-fashioned way.
This is a person who I just cant stand. She’s a fake.
Ramona Frendo is definitely wrong about one thing. Mintoff did NOT introduce free education.
Free (and compulsory) education came into effect because of the British colonial administration. University fees were abolished during Dr Borg Olivier’s last tenure in government in the late 1960s.
And there she was, ‘mhux lil min taf, imma x’taf’
Sad how they came across quasi Jacobean, when all they wanted was serf status, perks and all.
You can take the woman out of Zejtun, but you’ll never manage to take Zejtun out of the woman.
Abroad? I went there once – I’m pretty sure they had internet. Even WiFi and colour TVs in some areas.
Not as a comment:
What is Saviour tweeting about:
Saviour Balzan @saviourbalzan · 16m
Our government wants to play soccer without the goalposts and no referee. If that is the case then we should think of changing the game.
https://twitter.com/saviourbalzan
Dear Daphne,
In case you have been following the ongoing dispute between government and the university entities, lecturers are not correcting exam papers. However the fun thing is this, the Taghna Lkoll powered student organisations Pulse is reporting that they have received information from government while KSU the national students body, and Europeans oldest Council, is being rejected by the Government.
Some links below;
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/41356/students_cannot_start_their_summer_due_to_results_delay__ksu#.U8kiP4kazCQ
http://insiteronline.com/news/pulse-essential-strengthen-channels-negotiation-umasa/
http://insiteronline.com/news/breaking-earlier-umasa-press-release-contradicts-pulse-statement/
http://insiteronline.com/news/breaking-unions-reveal-official-information-pulse/
Ramona Frendo needs to be told that free university education was kickstarted in Malta in 1969, during the last Borg Olivier (PN) administration and that no-strings-attached student stipends became the norm in 1987/88 under the first Fenech Adami administration.
What precious Dom did for education was close a huge chunk of the university courses, sack most of the teaching staff except for the boot-lickers, set up the infamous points system that negatively discriminated against those applicants from private schools and force university students to work for their piddly stipends in an environment that was totally alien to the nature of their studies.
University education was so bad during Dom Mintoff’s premiership that his own daughters went to university in England.
I’ve never liked her. Especially since seeing her for the first time on some TV programme where she was meant to be giving her opinion as a criminal lawyer but was being emotional and hysterical.
The very, very top I would say. For example read the wisdom from Marie Louise Colerio Preca:
”Obesity, she said, was not only a result of overeating and lack of exercise but also stemmed from social and financial problems.
There are people who can’t afford to eat healthily because healthy food is more expensive. If you add the fact that people might lack an education and therefore are unable to budget their everyday expenses, you’ll end up with people who find themselves at great risk.”
She was standing there obese, according to the BMI, and yet she wanted a political spin on the cause of obesity to hammer in the poverty and lack of education angle. Is she saying that she cannot afford to buy healthy food or that she could not afford an education? What about Manuel Malia? Does not anyone call a sade a spade any more?
Fees at The Royal University of Malta were abolished for Maltese students by the Borg Olivier government in 1969 when I was a student there.
And, I could very easily be this twit’s father.
“Dignity and peace of mind” in Dom Mintoff’s days? I presume the lady was not yet born when every Christmas we expected a bombshell from him rather than the peace that the feast should bring with it. History will not be changed by such opinions as penned by this lady.
No, she was not yet born.
It would have been much better if she had never been.
She’s awaiting instructions about what ‘her’ opinion will be
Define ABROAD, Ms.Frendo. I am definitely not abroad here in The Netherlands since, unlike you, I was aware about this appointment.
You manage to make a fool of yourself every time you appear in the press.
So it looks like your next progressive and liberal hot topic (read: distraction manoeuvre) will be euthanasia.
Bring it on. Joseph Muscat said he was totally against it (not that it means anything) on the eve of the elections when asked by Herman Grech for the Times of Malta ¨Big Debate¨ http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130226/news/livestream.459175
Or maybe you missed it then since you might have been ABROAD.
Frendo is wrong in stating that Mintoff (Duminku, I presume) brought in free university education. I started my course in 1969, under a PN government, and it was free.
Peace of mind under Dom? Quite obviously Ramona Frendo did not have any near relative who was a medical student in 1977 who was unable to sit for his/her final year qualifying exams in Malta because Dom had ordered the gates of the medical school chained up and the lecturers sacked and forcibly thrown out of the St.Luke’s hospital grounds.
[Daphne – In those years and beyond, Ramona Frendo’s mother ran the Malta Labour Party club in Zejtun. So really, what do you expect.]
Does she know that Brazil nearly won the World Cup?
Ramona Frendo is not abroad. I saw her yesterday morning in Valletta.
Hilarious.
I was once behind her in a queue at the airport and didn’t recognize her since she looks very different in real life.
Anyway we exchanged a few words because she was fretting about her son and she was telling me how she takes him abroad on cultural holidays and to spend quality time with him since she works all the hours God gives her and feels guilty.
I was wish I knew who she was back then because I would have told her she would be better off directing a bit more of her energy to her son instead of to the Labour Party.
I must admit my first unbiased opinion of her was no amount of travelling will broaden this woman’s horizons because she has a deep-rooted village mentality and a ghastly accent.
Frendo, like Muscat, probably thinks that “sometimes one has to say the truth”.
Someone please call Ramona Frendo and inform her that a plane crashed with 298 loss of lives.
She may not know as she is abroad.
From the official liar’s definition of contract of exclusivity:
“You had it first. It’s a big world out there.”
To justify the discovery of a second contract of exclusivity granted to a different competing party with identical terms over the same period.
That’s when backtrack meets attempt at renegotiation.
Liars are perforce experts at renegotiation.
And specific term memory loss, selectively applied.
It goes with the territory.
Decorative hearing aids become an aesthetic “bonus” during renegotiation procedures.
Some people counter the discovery of a lie with an instinctive: “I don’t know what you are referring to.”
“I never said that.”
Accompanied by facial expressions which are never totally in control.
Muscat has the furrow.
Others have a pursing of the mouth accompanied by a prior intake of breath to precede the lie.
Recognition means that behavioural pattern is effectively set.
Recognition means that it’s already far too late.
The professional liar = the professional conman.