Joseph and Michelle are High Class
We've made it, Michelle! We're now High Class.
You know, Joseph and Michelle Muscat are the stuff of spoofs.
Just look at them, the ultimate pushy-chav couple with all the textbook pushy-chav trappings (expensive but bad clothes, children with white-trash names they think are sophisticated; the woman minces and simpers while the man acts like a (sort of) Regular Guy).
But what makes them really, really spoof-able is their quite obvious belief that they are a ‘high class’ couple (or shall we say, high KLESSSSS) leading the lower classes but describing them as ‘mittilkless’ because, heqq, if Joseph and Michelle are high class then it follows that Rollon, Bylon and Quinton are in the mittel.
But then who is at the bottom of the social heap?
Probably those people who have to eat pizza on Saturday night because they can’t afford steak, still less a cruise like high kless Joseph and Michelle.
Joseph Muscat should stop talking about class, especially when what he means is not class but income. When the Labour Party speaks about class, it triggers plenty of the wrong sort of Pavlovian reaction.
You never hear anybody in the Nationalist Party talk about class, about the middle class or the working class or the privileged class or the this class or the that class. The word just doesn’t exist in that party’s lexicon.
And I’d like to know what Muscat is trying to do with all this talk about Mintoff.Trying to attract my vote and the votes of people like me? Surely not.
I’m beginning to realise that he’s been a secret Mintuffjan for all these years, without really understanding what it means to those who hated the man because – a salient biographical point too many people overlook – he was raised in a family where Mintoff was adulated.
Muscat’s grandmother – mother of Mister Boom Boom Bang That Man Was My Father – was one of those screeching harridans at Mintoff rallies, who lit candles in front of the bogey-man’s image. And by Muscat’s own admission, it was she who taught him his earliest lessons in politics by taking him to listen to Mintoff.
Lessons learned that early die really hard, if they die at all. Muscat is probably one of those people who thinks that it is thanks to Mintoff that he and Michelle are now so very high class.
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Can’t believe how quickly they copied Ed Milliband’s cue.
Ed Milliband – groomed to serve, raised to obey, refined for taste…
Too much to the ‘right’ of the ‘left’?
Meet David Milliband – groomed to serve, raised to obey, refined for taste…
Nu Labour comes with a choice – a elitist choice to serve the global spider’s web, nested in London.
…or was it David that was too rightish within the left? I confuse the two look-alikes.
Their obsession with class – they even went as far as suggesting a new one, a reception class. Ah, but that was Alfred Sant’s time, and times have changed since.
They may aspire to be High Class, but they haven’t got any class. Our next prime minister and his ‘din’ are just two Burberry chavs.
Yes, I still remember Eddie Fenech Adami speaking at a mass meeting WAY back in 1992.
He never mentioned class but stated appropriately “Il-HADDIEM Malti qatt ma kellu daqshekk flus f’idejh”.
No nonsense about mittilkless.
That’s because Eddie Fenech Adami himself comes from a better background than Joseph Muscat. It is only people of a particular background who thinks that somebody is the bee’s knees simply because of WHAT they are, rather than WHO they are. The latter is probably one such person.
I really dislike when commentators, even when so minutely, link the English Labour Party with Partit Laburista. No person within the latter have any intellectual credentials to stand even remotely near the toes of the Milliband brothers or any other.
I find that inspite of all the woes that the party in government is presently experiencing I could not give Partit Laburista my floating vote if elections were to be held tomorrow. It would be just sheer irresponsibility on my part.
When Joseph and Michelle cruised on the Splendida they stayed in the Royal Club, which is the equivalent of first class.
The crew were told – no prizes for guessing by who – that they should be treated with care because he is the next prime minister. The crew were not impressed.
I find the prospect of his being prime minister to be frightening. A not-so-bright man with a little power is dangerous, so just imagine what a not-so-bright man can do with a lot of power and full control of the country (but no control of his party).
Dejjem naslu ghal konkluzjoni li partit immexxi mit-tfal b’vavati johrog.
“I’m beginning to realise that he’s been a secret Mintuffjan for all these years..”
It seems to me that while Joseph Muscat has been reconciling the party with the old guard, the ideology of that old guard is now starting to prevail.
Probably it was that old guard that pushed him to pay three or more visits to no one less than the Salvatur himself while at Mater Dei. Or else he wanted to please them.
We are now seeing signs of a return to the INSTINCTS of the Labour working class – political hate, class jealousy, the wish for wealth redistribution (call it living wage), and what I believe are threats of physical violence as posted on this blog.
As Joseph surrounds himself with the old Mintoffjani, their old socialist views are taking over.
And I suppose many of them must be pouring out their venom about the years of Alfred Sant.
No wonder Joseph Muscat is suggesting that his party must become a ‘movement’ – as it was in the Mintoff days.
I wonder how Sant can look on while his project of cleaning the party from the old and projecting a modern image vanishes into smoke in the glass building at Hamrun.
I wonder how he sleeps at night at the thought that the ones he “successfully” removed from the party have now returned, and that those who wrote against him are now taking over the party machine, while the ones he bred have been moved to the side.
Alfred Sant still holds a seat in Parliament. He may still hold a Parliamentary seat in 2013, when it may be possible that Labour is elected to government.
Would Alfred Sant do a “Mintoff bis” to his own party in government, calling Joseph Muscat a “Traditur”?
History repeats itself.
No he wouldn’t. Getting into power, and staying there, has become the one and only obsession of the Labour Party. This time round, they’ll make sure they’ll serve the full five years.
Welcome to post recession: class is an issue once more. Ignore it if you want but I bet a pair of old socks that it’s going to be an important platform come election.