Robert pokes Roderick

Published: February 24, 2010 at 12:22am

Ours is a professional relationship

Robert Musumeci is a Facebook friend of Labour’s spokesman on the MEPA, Roberick Galdes.

Roderick Galdes, more pointedly, is the Labour Party’s representative on the MEPA board.

Here’s Robert, expressing his admiration for Roderick Galdes’ images of Roderick Galdes ‘having a life’:

Robert likes Roderick Galdes’s album Roderick Gallery.

It is accompanied, of course, by the standard Facebook thumbs-up symbol.

How inane. And these are the people to whom we entrust serious decisions that affect our lives. What happened to the days when men drank whisky, played poker and talked about women?

Now they’re ‘poking’ each other on Facebook and sending each other virtual Valentines and bouquets. Maybe it’s all those hormones in the chicken.




22 Comments Comment

  1. John Schembri says:

    Why do Robert and Roderick need to meet on Facebook when they can easily meet at MEPA. Or is this unethical?

  2. Grezz says:

    It must be Malta’s limited gene pool.

  3. PhiliP says:

    Robert,
    You ruined your political career. How can you be trusted in future? Il-Partit Nazzjonalista ghandu bzonn nies bhal mibki Dr George Bonnello du Puis u mhux bhal xi erba carlatani li mohhom hu biss x’ser jakkwistaw.

  4. Ciccio2010 says:

    Daphne, men do not “talk about” women any more. And, is that the same Roderick who is a MEPA employee, Labour spokesman on MEPA and MEPA board member?

    [Daphne – Of course. Haven’t you just read what I wrote here?]

  5. Bovril says:

    It’s a conspiracy! We all know it! They’re turning the women into men and the men into poofters!

  6. Bernard says:

    Today’s generation is lousy and freakish. Friends of friends and hokkli dahri u nhokklok dahrek.

  7. Snice says:

    I certainly do hope that grown men and women have better things to do than virtual farming or looking for new friends on Facebook.

    • MMU says:

      Ever heard of the 40-something lawyer who was unavailable – only to be “caught” on Farmville milking a cow at the precise time he was … unavailable?

  8. Angel says:

    Are you seriously saying that no PN can be facebook friends with a MPL? How narrowminded are you? i have friends from most political parties in Malta on my facebook. It is called a democracy – the right to vote what you want in life without any prejudice. I know couples where one is nationalist, the other is labour. Why do you want to fuel this Maltese sandpit mentality of not not who you are but what party you vote for? Very very sad…

    [Daphne – All right, who’s going to explain to this lady that we’re talking about a controversial architect/MEPA relationship here, and that politics is just a side issue?]

    • Hmmm says:

      “Some of my best friends are gay…”

    • Ciccio2010 says:

      Perhaps Astrid can…

    • Tony Muscat says:

      Dear Angel, I do not pretend to be in a better position than Daphne to answer you, but like you I am a Maltese citizen and I have an opinion, which is: of course there is nothing wrong in being friends, whether on Facebook or anywhere, across party affiliations.

      I am a Nationalist supporter and was even highly active in the party, doing my bit for a number of years. I not only had and have numerous friends from the Labour Party, but even tried to help whenever and wherever it was necessary.

      This is not what Daphne is highlighting. Whenever you vote in an election, you give your vote to whom you think serves best the interests you deem important, and whom you see credible enough to pursue those interests.

      But, if you see a pretender is so close to the opposing party, to the extent that he even sleeps with somebody intimately involved with the opposition, now that is something totally different.

      Daphne has not just exposed Musumeci’s friendship with Roderick Galdes. She has exposed a series of friendships with the opposition and its media, not only on Facebook, but socially in real life. What are the implications of these friendships? We can only speculate at this point in time, But you should ask yourself why there were so many Labour Party agents at the counting hall when Musumeci contested John Dalli’s seat. What was their interest in having him elected?

  9. Hot Mama says:

    The title of this blogpost put me off my lunch Daph.

  10. Stephen borg Cardona says:

    Amusing I`m sure but just a tad homophobic.

    [Daphne – How so?]

    • B Borg says:

      “What happened to the days when men drank whisky, played poker and talked about women?”

      They’re long gone, and good riddance. It’s all very well to lodge your tongue firmly in your cheek, but Maltese politics is chauvinistic enough as it is. And I say that as a full-blooded male.

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