Comments on: Choo! Choo! All aboard the…..

By: Chris Ripard

Chris Ripard — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:51:46 +0000

In reply to Carmel.

There’s no decent fishing in Brussels, so that rules me out.

Any bets Bastjan Dalli will be spotted hitch-hiking in Brussels? Kumbinazzjoni dejjem.

[Daphne – Imagine what a lot of fun he’s going to have the next time he’s arrested for smuggling in Libya: “Don’t you know who I am? My brother’s an EU commissioner.”]

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:56:12 +0000

Daphne, I really doubt that Saviour is going to Brussels. I think you should be carrying out further research. There were signs that he might be leaving Malta for some months before Dalli was offered the job.
Well, if he does join Dalli’s cabinet, which I think is unlikely, I will be rather disappointed by Dalli’s choices. I’m thought that Dalli had the right qualities to be a good Commissioner, but if the type of person he wants to work with him is Saviour Balzan, then I’m afraid that he’ll give Malta a bad name.
So, I hope your calculations are wrong!!!!!!!!!!

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:01:46 +0000

In reply to Ian. Since he thinks the sun shines out of John Dalli's arse, it'll more than make up for the grey weather.

By: Tonio Farrugia

Tonio Farrugia — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:15:20 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella.

His mastery of the English language is astounding:
“And the phone simply cuts.”

By: Pazuzu

Pazuzu — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:51:57 +0000

Mr Balzan is not only a “third rate brain”, as Mr Bondi’ adroitly called him, but an incredibly unethical person.

One day perhaps we will get to know about certain photos of certain people in certain clubs and what use was made of them.

And if that happens when he is in Brussels – if he really goes there that is – then it will be very, very interesting to hear what Farage and the other Eurosceptics will have to say to Barroso! Will it be a repeat of the formidable speeches he delivered in the past, which embarrassed the Commission?

That would really be the day! When Saviour Balzan is used by Eurosceptics to embarrass the European Commission!

By: Bare-faced cheek

Bare-faced cheek — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:52:17 +0000

In reply to Matt.

Let’s hope his wife will treat herself to a handbag with some of the money. Going out bare-faced “bil-hwejjeg tad-dar”, with a wallet in her hand/tucked under her armpit may blend in in some Maltese villages; the same cannot be said when it’s an EU commissioner’s wife doing it; it already sticks out a mile at a Portomaso cafe …

By: Gianni Xuereb

Gianni Xuereb — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:34:32 +0000

In reply to taxpayer. And who pays the hotel room? [Daphne - I do. These days women earn their own money - yes, even in Malta.]

By: Paul Bonnici

Paul Bonnici — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:07:55 +0000

Why shouldn’t Saviour Balzan not accept the EU job? Who wouldn’t? Good for him if he is lucky to get one.

I don’t know Mr Balzan, I admired his guts to criticize the police force which seems above the law and they are accountable to no one. I rarely read anything critical of the police in The Times and even less so, in The Malta Independent.

By: Tal-Muzew

Tal-Muzew — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:25:39 +0000

In reply to P Shaw. Who are they? Tal-Maltatoday?

By: ASP

ASP — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:39:43 +0000

In reply to edgar gatt. pls edgar....two hunters with one shot