The Movement of Progressives and Moderates attracts 'priza ohra'
Get a load of Labour's Business Forum: Marlene and Manuel
Joseph Muscat is thrilled because he’s attracting ‘people who never voted Labour before’.
Among his prizes are – ahem – Marisa Micallef and now, Manuel Mallia.
Mallia made the news earlier this week when he took up a position on Labour’s new Business Forum.
I don’t know why it was news at all.
You could have seen it coming a mile off.
Mallia gave one of the testimonials in Marlene Mizzi’s ‘vote for me’ video in the EP campaign last spring.
They’ve been friends for a long time. When Manuel used to date, for want of a better word, Giannella Caruana Curran, they used to go out in a foursome, Giannella and Manuel, Marlene and her husband Magistrate Mizzi.
Now Marlene heads up this Business Forum – though I must say I’m more than a little bit tired of hearing her described as a businesswoman, as though she runs half an empire rather than a couple of rundown shops selling baby clothes.
And I’m not saying that to be mean, either, but merely to illustrate just how hard up Labour is when picking from the crop of captains of industry. The Nationalists get the services of the chairman of Farsons. The Labour Party gets the owner of Mother & Child, or whatever.
Anyway, I thought you might be amused on a Friday night by this photograph of the two arch exponents of the Labour Business Forum, Marlene and Manuel. It fills me with so much confidence.
If I recall correctly, Manuel Mallia was also Joseph Muscat’s legal adviser on that ‘mass law suit’ for VAT back on car registration tax. Perhaps it’s time we had an update on what’s happening with that case.
Now Joseph Muscat has asked him to contest the general election as a Labour candidate. Is it my imagination, or is the line-up of candidates in both parties becoming ever more depressing?
When Labour speaks of bringing new and progressive people on board, I don’t expect the party to mean washed-up 60-year-olds who have had twins in their near-dotage with a lady from overseas.
It’s bad enough they have candidates who ring the police when the men who’ve tied them up run off and leave them there.
I know that candidates are meant to be representative of Maltese society, but really. Exactly how desperate are the political parties?
The political scene is beginning to come across as not so much progressive as downright creepy.
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M & M’s anyone?
Bingo! Incredible, but I said exactly the same thing about the run-down children’s shops to my mother on the phone 15 minutes before you uploaded this. EXACTLY.
U mamma mia, Manwel Mallia is as ridiculous as ever. Dak xi jkun – RED DEVIL with double chin and a belly reaching his knees? Maybe Joseph should buy him a mirror.
Imbaghad hemm Marly, bid-“dominatrix-type” band fuq ida.
Dak x’inhu liebes?
[Daphne – Ghandu wahda tigi t-tifla tieghu, ghalhekk. When old men try to dress young they get it really wrong, jahasra.]
Nahseb il-wahda li ghandu ma’ tantx kellha ghazla.
Daphne, are you going to tell us the story of the picnic-cooler tonight before we go to bed? Can’t find anything interesting on tv.
How much did that jacket cost? Or was it given for free by the Labour Party?
I was amused when this business forum thing was launched, instead of a packed room filled with Penzas, Camilleris, Gatts Dallis and other well known PL business people, there was a bunch of bored reporters.
In a few years’ time you wouldn’t pass a cigarette paper between PN and PL. And our parliament might as well be called the ‘Maltese Administrative Council’, empowered to manage Malta’s infrastructure and tax revenues… or what’s left of them after paying our dues to the EU budget.
Our dues are paying your salary, Kev. And don’t tell me that the Euroloonies who employ you get their money from fund-raising marathons on television.
That must have come from a eureka moment, Antoine. Is that all you have to say? If you only knew how sickeningly naive you sound you’d prefer to go play bowling instead.
I’ll just remind you that just like the Champagne Socialists and the European People’s Cronies, our MEPs represent European taxpayers too. It’s called ‘democracy’. But you seem to want the EU Supreme Soviet all to yourselves.
Kev
If you knew how sickeningly hyprocritical you sound you’d prefer to go play with your wife’s “sexy toys”,
You should feel very much at home in the Supreme Soviet. No wonder you gave up your glamorous life in Malta to offer your services in Brussels.
U Louis tal-Mexico Garage warajh jipprova jlaqqat xi farka.
Was this picture taken during some carnival activity?
High School Musical. I saw a costume exactly like it (but in white) in a B’Kara shop this afternoon.
Probably the Nadur one – it’s so… hekk, barra minn hawn.
Hi Daphne, I’m addicted to your blog. I keep checking this site every hour hoping that you have posted something new! And when you’re taking a break I read the older posts to a relative or friend. Brilliant entertainment!
So are you going to tell us the picnic cooler story? We’re very curious!
Dr Manuel, isn’t it enough that you made all your money (ok, most of it) defending scumbags?
Now we have to watch you in that ludicrous outfit, with the awful prospect of possibly seeing you in the House of Representatives.
cant you see dear baby girl that you are doing more harm than good with your venim.
Which soon you will be ending up in jail in a cell with a hammalla from sliema.
You are so desperate that know you are attacking honest people who are seeing that GONZIPN milli ghedna ma hemm xejn is destroying the PN and you are for sure hammering nails in the coffin baby, you are doing great helping destroying the party most hated in this island and for sure you are responsable for all that with your hubby GONZI oops night night lol
[Daphne – Tony, you make our day.]
Well at least he is using full stops and I could find one comma. Is this the product of the best education of the 70s and 80s?
If the saying that the past is a reflection of the future is true, then I shudder at the thought of what would happen in 2013 with our education system.
Venim? It sounds like you’ve got the wrong skirt.
Dying to know whether he was wearing a red G string.
Please do spare us the – ahem – image.
“When Manuel used to date, for want of a better word, Giannella Caruana Curran, they used to go out in a foursome, Giannella and Manuel, Marlene and her husband Magistrate Mizzi.”
Daphne, be careful. You could deteriorate your position in view of the upcoming court case when faced with charges for defamation. Such allegations of yours should be duly substantiated with evidence.
[Daphne – WHAT allegations? That Manuel Mallia and Giannella Caruana Curran were once and for a considerable time an item is an established fact. It wasn’t a clandestine relationship. It was a proper relationship. Both were long since separated from their spouses. I know whereof I speak. Also, a couple going out with another couple is not an ‘allegation’, unless you think it wrong for anyone at all to go out with Marlene Mizzi and her husband.]
The allegation is clearly the foursome intended. No one of the four persons involved would like to be associated with ‘foursome’ as defined in Wikipedia, for example.
I know you are intelligent enough to have understood my point in the first place.
[Daphne – I’m afraid you’re wrong there. A foursome is exactly that: a foursome. This means a group of four people, in whatever situation. In the same way, a threesome is one thing, but troilism is another. I recommend that you don’t go to Wikipedia for your definitions. I certainly don’t think the people being discussed did anything you suggest. They’re just not the sort.]
Ok then it’s good to have cleared that issue. Having said that, I still have my doubts regarding your intention on describing the four people as such; and it surely could be misunderstood just the way as I did.
[Daphne – If some people have dirty minds, it’s not my problem, but theirs.]
@K Farrugia – Daphne DID state “GO OUT in a foursome”, which has no “dirty” implications.
If you are saying that she implied anything untoward, then she would have worded it differently. If there’s one thing you can’t fault Daphne on, it’s her English.
I didn’t know that Manwel was a Troy wannabe
http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgfp2026+zac-efron-is-troy-bolton-high-school-musical-2-poster.jpg
The way this affair is developing there soon won’t be a single magistrate/judge left able to hear your case.
[Daphne – Which just about illustrates my essential point.]
“The Nationalists get the services of the chairman of Farsons. The Labour Party gets the owner of Mother & Child, or whatever.”
Zlaqt fin-niexef on this one my dear: the Nasty Nats employed Marlene on the basis of her alleged business prowess way before the ‘Movement of Progressives and Liberals, their Grandmothers, Butch Aunts and Fairy Uncles’ did…
[Daphne – No, they didn’t, sugar. Marlene Mizzi was appointed chairman of Sea Malta by Prime Minister Sant. The incoming government (well, two new governments, actually) kept her on not to make a martyr out of her by removing her. Then they got their thanks in a wild polemic and a law suit, after she ‘resigned voluntarily’.]
It appears that there were some that wanted to impress by wearing something red. Is he looking for a sparring partner?
http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/5/20/633784162539572850-boxing.jpg
I suggest that they should now launch the Moviment ta’ Disinjaturi u Fashionistas Progessivi, Moderati u Zmagati
What is he wearing underneath?
http://www.eatsleepcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/412430-bradconra_super.jpg