The Coconut follows up
Now that he’s got everyone snickering, Kurt Farrugia has sent round a follow-up email. ‘OOOPs, I did a PBO’.
PBO x’ikun? Oh yes, Paul Borg Olivier, who sent an email meant for Jason Azzopardi to Miss Jason Micallef instead.
I’d forgotten that in this country of lazy bastards, anyone with more than one surname gets to be known by his or her initials instead, because anything more than two words in a name and we’re wiped out with exhaustion.
Actually, Kurt – it isn’t at all similar.
I can understand how somebody might send an email to Jason X instead of Jason Y. It’s not the first time I’ve done it myself.
But I’ve spent the last half-hour trying to work out how an email meant for Marisa Micallef on your contacts list gets sent instead to ‘all media’.
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From: Kurt Farrugia [mailto:kurt.farrugia@mlp.org.mt]
Sent: 25 March 2010 15:10
To: Kurt Farrugia
Subject: Apologies
Dear all,
As you might have already guessed the email sent from press.releases@mlp.org.mt was not meant for public consumption but it is part of an ongoing internal exercise to hold the government accountable for its (in)action.
In short … we did a PBO.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
If you need any of the information we are collecting, please let us know.
Kurt Farrugia
Director of Communications
Partit Laburista (Labour Party – Malta)
Mob: 00356 7939 4380
Office: 00356 21249 900 / ext 622
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Forsi ghax ittajpja Me (Merisa?) press enter tab u dahlet media…tinsiex li dawn qabda kretini bla skola. And Merisa may be construed as a posh way of jazzing up a prosaic name (not!)
“We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”
The only inconvenience was caused to the Labour Party, and possibly to Marisa Micallef.
The Royal We – qisu jahdem ma’ xi mitt ruh. Ghamel il-froga hu u taparsi kien zball ta’ haddiehor.
He surely provided a lot of entertainment. Don’t see why he should apologise for that.
We’re “consumed” with laughter.
When is the Labour Party going to understand that it is not a lobby group but a government in waiting?
Their job is to plan policy and offer an alternative to the electorate. Now *that* would be a useful ongoing internal exercise to hold the government accountable (sic).
They are so accustomed to the role they seem to enjoy, that the mere thought of maybe one day being called to govern sends shivers down their spine which causes involuntary spasms explaining the reason why Kurt’s finger must have ‘fingered’ the wrong key. Poor bastards!
Miss Jason Micallef?
Yes
Imbasta ‘Director of Communications! What a joke.
Unless it was a so called “deliberate blunder”
Why exactly would he want to do that?
Like Daphne said, how can you make a mistake like that? He wanted to prove that Labour are really working hard as the Opposition and are surrounded by the right people.
When in government Kurt is aspiring to be appointed Chief of Information when Malta holds the EU Presidency.
Sharp idea, choosing somebody you can’t even see in a small crowd unless he borrows those parliament stilts Astrid keeps going on about.
Maltastar call them “stilits”.
Look how The Coconut is trying to give the impression that the mistake may have been done by someone else in the massive press office that he runs… he speaks in the plural, trying hard to share the blame with an imaginary colleague.
As if no-one knows it’s a one-man (sic) show.
The first message was sent by someone called ‘Ufficju Komunikazzjoni’.
The Queen speaks in the plural. Is he a queen as well?
“In short … we did a PBO.”
He should have said: “In short … we did a Kurt Farrugia.”.
That statement is redundant. Kurt Farrugia is short.
If he’s as short as Byon Jo, then his legs are still long enough to put up on the back of the seat of the bench in front of him during a court hearing.
Coconut barks the leader’s orders in Maltese …. and apologises in English?
My thoughts exactly. I’m inclined to think that the apology was drafted by one particular woman.
U leee, ara vera kollha qxur tal-gambli – lanqas email m`huma kapaci jibghatu.
What a bunch of imbeciles – jahasra ara minn jrid jmexxi dal-povru pajjiz. Lanqas jisthi jiffirma Director of Communications, ja z… go bott li hu.
Was the reply actually drafted by someone with a dingle-dangle? Although not quite perfect, the wording and language (apart from the “PBO bit) aren’t exactly Maltastar-speak.
Had the words been from Maltastar, they would have said something like “We promise that from now on we will do a PBO cease.”
What was the original email about?
Is it possible that Joseph Muscat has not yet realized that he is surrounded by has-beens and a lot of incompetent new-comers?
I think you mean “surrounded by have-never-beens-and-will-never-be.”
After all, to do a comeback, one must have been somewhere first.
I don’t really believe that this was a genuine mistake. I think that it gives us a glimpse of how the LP “thinks” and operates.
I always get the impression that the party is made up of a bunch of conniving individuals who seem to think that the strategies employed “behind the scenes” to gain and keep power are the same that should be used on a national level. This frame of mind seems to be typical of the younger generation of politicians, however. The dissenting backbenchers within the PN come to mind. Perhaps it’s the new way of doing politics? I wouldn’t know. Not my cup of tea.
To ciccio 2010 – you are right- I agree in part – I had in mind the has-beens i.e. ex-ministers. These are still full of hate and envy – voters beware come 2013.