It-testment tan-nanna ta' Marlene
No, actually I'm not Marlene's grandmother
Marlene Mizzi was on Xarabank the other night, chuntering on about how the Nationalist Party behaves as though it has a monopoly on the European Union.
‘It wasn’t a legacy from their grandmother,’ she said, feeling witty and using an expression heard on the streets of Rabat. (‘Tahseb li t-triq tieghek? Mela hallitielek in-nanna? Ha ha haj!’)
No, Marlene. The Nationalist Party didn’t ‘inherit’ European Union membership. The Nationalist Party went one better: it worked for it and got it. So yes, it does have moral ownership of the issue, if you wish to speak in those terms.
Your Labour Party, on the other hand, played absolutely no part in getting Malta into the European Union. On the contrary, it fought to keep Malta out. So now you and it can bloody well eff off.
I suppose that’s the only sort of language you understand.
And please, please, please stop boring on about your academic qualifications because you’re beginning to sound like a cross between Alfred Sant and Joseph Muscat, both of whom believe that degrees make up for real or perceived inadequacies. The islands are thick with people who have a master’s degree, and many of them are 30 years your junior. Reading for a doctorate at the grand old age of 54 is nothing to boast about. It’s something to keep under wraps. If you were going to do it at all, you should have done it two decades ago.
Now hop onto your gravy train and be a good bunny.
“I’m not going to gain. I’m going to serve.” – Marlene Mizzi, The Times
“I feel like a cross between a piece of chewing-gum and Padre Pio, expected to be in three places at the same time.” – Marlene Mizzi, The Times
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The PL candidates are always irritated by similar comments on their change of heart. But unfortunately for them, the truth is that they worked hard to keep us out of the EU. And even after the referendum result was out, they dragged on with the “Il-Partnership rebah” comedy.But these things are not funny, are they?
“you should have done it two decades ago.”
Two decades ago she was prancing about at racy Round Table parties.
[Daphne – Oh please, don’t remind us.]
AS MY FRIEND N ALWAYS TELLS ME, TWO DECADES AGO, SHE WAS A VERY VERY BUSY LADY. POOR WOMAN, HER EARLY MORNING DUTIES MUST HAVE BEEN SUCH A SHEER WEIGHT…… ON HER TIMETABLE. MIAOW
Am I missing something, or have I understood you correctly?
Ma’ jtihx lemha?
http://www.napier.ac.uk/business-school/OurStaff/BusinessSchoolStaff/PublishingImages/mariovella.jpg
Dazgur. Specjalment fl-ego massiv.
Absolutely. Here’s a younger one:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/YoungerMarx.JPG
She was on One radio last night saying that the PN never got us a good deal in the EU and it is now the PL’s turn. Did she forget that her party refused to participate in the negotiations? Did she forget that the PL has held a majority in the EU for the past five years? This woman is unbelievably ridiculous and patronising.
This woman has an attitude – does she think she is the only one with degrees, and can someone please tell her that the eye-shadow she uses is really passe’?
Degrees impress the ignorant. Why else did Frans Sammut publish a copy of Alfred Sant’s Harvard certificate in a book celebrating his vision for the future?
This morning Magistrate Mizzi was in Republic Street with two canvassers, shaking hands with people and showing them the posters attached to the Labour Party club balcony.
[Daphne – Is Magistrate Mizzi standing for election?]