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Published: November 21, 2014 at 7:55pm

Posted by John S on the subject of Manuel Mallia’s driver:

Kien bin-nervi miskin ghax il-gvern tah 58c biss u rahaslu l-fuel 2c. Ried jara ma’ min kien se jisfoga ghax tal-Playmobil ha jiffrankaw 900,000 euro minn fuq id-dawl u l-ilma u s-Sur Sheehan baqa bis-senter fidu bhalna.




38 Comments Comment

  1. ciccio says:

    Jew forsi miskin hassu eskluz mill-access ghal-gurnalisti tas-Super One ghax dawk lahqu haduhomlu il-Ministri.

  2. CrookedTimber says:

    Amazing Daph! Writing 57 times about the shooting; clearly a matter of national importance!

    Much more than, say, the budget which you only saw fit to write about a grand total of… 8 times.

    • rb says:

      I see. You’re probably one of those whose ambition in life is to wait for the annual budget handouts.

      Please do forgive us layabouts who are more concerned with petty matters such as being shot at, multiple times in densely populated areas, by those who are meant to protect us – and being furthermore detained.

    • ciccio says:

      Please, go ahead, do tell us how you plan to spend your 58 cents in 49 posts.

      • Rover says:

        Perhaps we should all have a heated debate about the footpath they are building somewhere in Zurrieq. These are the matters Profs Whatever included in the budget.

        He could have said in 20 minutes what took him 4 hours of boring reading from a script.

    • rosie says:

      57 times – so you can count.

      Now count for us how many times you’ve had the piss taken out of you by this government.

    • Candy says:

      Wazza bags a brace against the Jocks … 0 lines.

    • Arnold Layne says:

      Of course the shooting is more important! The rule of law is under threat and that’s far more important than Edward Castro’s marathon speech about nothing.

      How can anybody try to defend this behaviour?

    • thealley says:

      Actually this accident was a sort of ‘blessing’ for Muscat as people immediately stopped talking about the bad budget.

    • Joe Micallef says:

      With trigger-happy people around ministers, few will dare badmouth the budget, which required four hours of sugar to go down.

    • Beingpressed says:

      ‘Crooked timber’ or ‘thick as two planks’

    • Kevin says:

      Isn’t police protection of all citizens a matter of national importance? Not wonder you’re nick is “crooked”. You simply cannot think straight.

    • mf says:

      Just one figure less than the cents handed to the workers.

  3. Bartolo says:

    He shoots at someone 3 times for a mirror, what should I do someone wrote off my car and drove off ?

  4. Anthony Pace says:

    Have a look at the picture tweeted by Labour’s shadow attorney general in the UK.

    Emily Thornberry has resigned from Labour’s front bench because her tweet showing a white van parked outside a home with England flags has been considered offensive. Now keep in mind that there’s a by-election at the moment so nerves may be a bit strained the fact remains that this picture and the lack of political correctness presumed to be behind it led to the resignation of a shadow minister.

    The standards of Malta’s Labour Party are different. Here we have the minister responsible for keeping the public order covering up for his driver who fired shots at an unarmed person. Then the Prime Minister says he is indignant but does nothing about it.

    Muscat does not realise that he has no choice but to remove Mallia. His inaction has already shown very clearly that Labour are way out of their depth, that Labour have not made the transition from political party to government. What they are really doing is taking care of their own narrow interests.

  5. Trabokk says:

    Anzi inti bqajt bis-senter f’idek, habib, ghax lili anke s-senter u z-zewgt scratac li ghandi hadli.

  6. Karlu Manju says:

    Perhaps Morrison Smith had just shown Paul Sheehan how to compare his personal wage to Sai Mizzi’s on http://www.saimizzi.com.

  7. Paul B says:

    Xi hadd staqsa jekk l-arma gietx moghtija lil Sheehan mill-ministru stess, forsi ghax qied jibza minn xi hadd.

    Tinsewx li l-ministru jaf x’inhu isir fl-underworld ta’ Malta kollha. Dak kien xoghlu.

  8. Joe Fenech says:

    This is starting to sound like the Shooter character in Basic Instinct without Sharon Stone’s attributes replaced by a bunch of Labour pastizzi.

  9. bob-a-job says:

    Paul Sheehan threatened Steve Morrison Smith with a gun after Morrison Smith accidently hit the ministerial car’s side mirror. Morrison Smith fled for his life and was shot at in cold blood.

    Steve Morrison Smith was arrested and a potential killer was allowed to walk away.

    In defending Paul Sheehan, Manwel Mallia is doing what Manwel Mallia does best. Mallia is defending a criminal and a potential murderer as one of those bullets was clearly aimed at Morrison Smith’s head.

    Now that Manwel Mallia has retaken his role as criminal lawyer he has no option but to relinquish his ministerial post.

    • anthony says:

      Exactly.

      Mallia’s place is defence counsel to Sheehan when the latter is charged with attempted murder.

    • Qeghdin Sew says:

      “In defending Paul Sheehan, Manwel Mallia is doing what Manwel Mallia does best. Mallia is defending a criminal and a potential murderer as one of those bullets was clearly aimed at Morrison Smith’s head.”

      You hit the nail on the head.

  10. Harry Worth says:

    Guess what?

    I have been told by a Labour-leaning supporter that Malta Taghna Lkoll isn’t working.

    How can you trust a Nationalist-leaning driver (Paul Sheehan) to be a Labour Minister’s driver?

    What bull!

    This is what they are spinning.

  11. The Statement, at last (an excerpt) says:

    I was cuddling grannie when I heard the crash. So I quickly covered her and dashed out to see what happened, and “Ohoy”, I says, as I see the side mirror hanging loosely and this man reaching for my gun in my minister’s car’s dashboard.

    “Ohoy,” I says again, louder, at which point he shoots three times at his own car, throws my gun as far away as possible, and drives off with a zoom and a splash.

  12. ta wied is sewda. says:

    Dalwaqt naraw xi ziemel ghaddej bil-GM14 ma’ denbu halli nkunu bhal John Wayne.

  13. Wilson says:

    A prime minister who needs little Kurt next to him every time he farts doesn’t look like a strong prime minister at all.

    Every little interview, picture and what not, little Kurt is there in the background. The prime minister cannot talk or make a speech on his own?

  14. Joe Micallef says:

    Where is Carmelo Abela? For what is he being paid nearly €600 a week?

  15. missejna il- qiegh says:

    I am watching the song festival on PBS right now.

    Many of the songs seem to have been written by Tony Zarb’s son, Elton Zarb. Is it a happy coincidence or what?

  16. Vincent says:

    I just realised you’ve uploaded the above already. Apologies and I should have known you’d be there before anyone else.

  17. R Camilleri says:

    Most probably, to add insult to injury, it will be the tax payer who will have to fund the repairs to Smith’s car.

  18. Vincent says:

    Who’s prepared to bet that Mr Smith spent 40 hours in the chip being coerced to admit total fault in this whole drama?

    A cover up to beat all cover ups.

    It’s disgraceful that this cowboy got away with endangering lives of innocent people and not just Mr Smith’s.

    Has the magisterial inquiry considered how absolutely dangerous to innocent people the possibility of a ricochet was, and why is John Wayne still on the streets?

  19. me says:

    Posted on Facebook by somebody obviously bored (and wanting to shoot the singers) while watching Eurovision on TVM:

    Where is Manuel Mallia’s driver when you need him?

  20. Plutarch says:

    In under two years we are already witnessing what in military terms would be Snafu, progressing steadily towards Tarfun, and ending up totally Fubar well before the five years are up. Go figure, switchers et al…

  21. Qeghdin Sew says:

    This is a classic case of the value of perfect information.

    You have the victim phoning up his lawyer and giving him a true account of the events as they unfolded.

    In the hands of a seasoned criminal lawyer and someone who has a vested interest in defending the accused, this is gold dust to come up with the perfect defence.

    Which highlights precisely why Manuel Mallia should never have been given the role.

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