Those slitty-eyed corporations all look the same to Evarist

Published: January 31, 2011 at 11:16pm

For a moment back there, Maria l-Maws was no longer cool and relaxed.

You know how all those Chinks look the same to the Duke of Edinburgh?

Apparently, it’s the same with all those slitty-eyed corporations and the shadow minister for education.

Evarist Bartolo, the former KullHadd columnist who went by the name of Maria l-Maws, has asked the Auditor-General to investigate a loan which Enemalta took from ‘the SumiMoto Bank’.

The Nationalist Party has released a press statement saying that SumiMoto is not a bank but a Vietnamese canned foods corporation.

The press statement includes information from SumiMoto’s website about the variety of canned fruits and vegetables which it makes for export. Unusually for the Nationalist Party, this press statement also includes illustrations – of SumiMoto’s canned produce.

The bank which loaned Enemalta the money is called Sumitomo MItsui Banking Corporation. This was explained carefully to Maria l-Maws, who continued to insist that he was right, because what’s in a name – Sumi Moto, Sumitomo, Tomosui, petlor….

The issue had to be settled by submitting the loan contract with the correct name to the Public Accounts Committee.




16 Comments Comment

  1. Reporter says:

    Cool and relaxed, Varist? Ma quando mai?

    Varist has many pent-up frustrations. These have percolated to his progeny. But I don’t think it’s fair to say much about them, even though one of them is a PA to Louis Grech. Cronyism? Of course not.

    Anyway, the man who proselytized about fratricide (referring, ad nauseam, to Nikos Kazantzakis) went on to carry out not fraternism (see Webster again) or nepotism… It’s something else… but can’t find the word and Webster ain’t helpin’ either …

  2. Bob says:

    Do SUMIMOTO do bulk buying deals?

  3. C Falzon says:

    Sumimoto’s English is almost as bad as Maltarats’.

    I just love the ‘construction and manufacture’ of food and the ‘wild-ranged’ bread crumbs.

  4. chavsRus says:

    Oh dear, they made a typo!

    When you have to resort to that kind of nitpicking …..

  5. J Abela says:

    I giggled when I read about this on The Times. The PN can really do sarcasm sometimes.

  6. Joe Micallef says:

    Doesn’t that picture say it all about his credentials to speak about education?

    • maryanne says:

      Sometimes it is good to be reminded of what they look like and what we had to endure in the past. Varist – the wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  7. Godfrey A Grima says:

    Pictures speak a thousand words.

    http://www.sumimoto-vn.com/

  8. TROY says:

    ”Another fine mess you got me into, Evarist”
    The village idiot has done it again.

    • Kukkudrill says:

      Yes, and would somebody at the Labour Party please tell him to stop qualifying his statements on divorce with the reminder to the general public that he is happily married. We’re not going to run away with the idea that he plans to divorce Gillian, don’t worry.

  9. Angus Black says:

    “SUMIMOTO CORP emphasizes “Quality Management”

    Ah, well, Varist and Jpseph can learn a thing or two and so can Joe and his brother Godfrey.

    With statesmen like Varist ‘Wrong Bank’ Bartolo and Joseph ‘Let’s Take Their Tourists’ Muscat, how can we go wrong electing them in 2013? Watch ‘Inkontri’ on Super One and you’ll know exactly what I mean.

  10. H.P. Baxxter says:

    You’d better not take the piss out of the man. I hear through ze vigne that he’s in line for an Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, if Kouchner’s buddies can push their luck on last time.

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