'Marisa is just another functionary like me' – Kurt Farrugia
Don't panic, Marisa - give me a minute and I'll pull you out
Marisa Micallef must be loving every minute of her time spent with the Mittilkless at Labour HQ.
What a culture clash. What gritted teeth. X’qabda nervi u pakketti tas-Syndol.
First she is humiliated on a nationwide scale as somebody with whom The Leader does not communicate directly, choosing instead to go through his ‘director of communications’ Kurt Farrugia, who then emails the entire country instead of her.
Then she is exposed as somebody who, after years of tantrums and foot-stamping for more and better jobs with GonziPN, throwing her weight around and sulking, is made to bow to The Will of The Leader as communicated to her through one of the court eunuchs.
And now – oh dear – Kurt Farrugia has dismissed her in a remark to The Times as just another functionary – like him.
“She is, like me, just a functionary,” he said. “We simply use everyone’s abilities.”
And lest we run away with the idea that she has been made housing consultant to The Leader (who doesn’t speak to her directly), he added, for good measure, that the same email and request for advice was sent to – wait for it – Roderick Galdes.
And this adds a new twist to the tale. When somebody emails two members of the same team for their input on something, he would ordinarily email them together, like this:
Marisa, Roderick –
Please see attached and revert soonest with your views.
It’s interesting that the two were emailed separately. It was almost certainly done to keep the involvement of each hidden from the other, rather than having them work together.
And it’s fascinating – though just a coincidence, I’m sure – that the Coconut pressed the right button for his buddy Roderick and the wrong one for Marisa.
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Not exactly the job of Maltese High Commissioner in London is it?
Not unless he thought that awful bearded owl was still High Commissioner there.
You mean Richard Matrenza, do you?
@Isard du Pont – Who else?
What the funk is a functionary?
Like a piece of machinery? You know … party machinery.
Just an operative sipping coffee, dressed as a housing consultant.
Functionary: “a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organisation (especially a political organization); “Democratic apparatchiks”
Or, “an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit.”
Apparatchick: 1. a member of a Communist apparat; 2. an unquestioningly loyal subordinate, especially of a political leader or organisation.
In this case, “Leader” (with a capital “L”).
After years reporting to a minister, she has now got to report to a coconut. Mhux ta b’xejn dejjem Cafe Cordina.
By the word ‘functionary’ I think he means ‘Robot’ or the unpolite word ‘arse licker’.
“Impolite”, otherwise we’ll begin to think that you’ve been trained by the brainless elves.
According to The Times, she has been promoted. Where did they get that idea?
Is-Syndol m’hawnx prezzu ghall- ugigh ta’ ras. Ixtrih bit-tarjola u l-imballagg ghax hawn Malta ha tigi bzonnu.
Verbum sapienti, pecorelle smarrite.
I bet that soon they will be calling Joseph the Great Leader.
She’ll soon be knocking on the PM’s door again, I think. Ah and I wouldn’t even be surprised if they actually take her back too. She seems to have gone from “chairwoman” to “char woman” in her “functionary” role.
No Bates, being called ‘Leader’ is only third division stuff. He still needs to be promoted to ‘Mexxej’ (second division). First Division is only for those who get promoted to ‘Missier in- Nazzjon’ while Premier is for those who are The Great Teacher (a la N Korea). So you see, this boy still has a long way to go. Sant only made it to 2nd Division while MIntoff, try as he might, only got to first.
Let’s see where this pseudo personality cult leads to. It’s little things like these that remind me that very little has changed in the MLP, sorry, PL
Daqt jibdew ibighu l-ilma imbierek go fliexken tal-plastik fil-forma tieghu, bin-nisa tad-dar iroxxuh fuq il-herza tal-bieb u fuq il-pitazzi tat-tifel ‘halli forsi jghaddi mill-ezami…’
X’kazz ta’ kult, x’dizastru ta’ pajjiz, x’injoranza varjoformi ta’ poplu sottozviluppat u kulturalment strangolat. Ghajb, misthija, u kazzi amari. Isserhuz mall-hajt ghax iz-zebgha ghada ma nixfitx.