Drop the make-up, Joseph
When men wear make-up, I can’t concentrate on what they’re saying. I’m too busy looking at where the foundation begins and ends.
It’s way too distracting. It’s like men in wigs. You’re so busy assessing the hairline and whether it’s a good rug or a bad one that you don’t focus on the words.
I’ve just watched the rerun of Muscat’s press conference, now on Bondiplus. When women wear foundation – and it’s normal for women to wear foundation – it’s the same shade as their skin and they usually don’t have their ears on display like men do.
So you don’t get women sporting a pair of pink ears like book-ends to a brown face, as Muscat did yesterday.
And women don’t wear white shirt with tight collars and ties, either, so sticking to the essential rule of applying foundation to your throat/neck as well as your face does not create a conundrum:
shirt collar smears or two-tone neck and face effect?
Muscat’s make-up artist – I suspect it’s Michelle because the foundation is the same colour she likes to wear – went for the ‘stop at the chin’ look that all make-up guides for girls warn against.
But there you go.
Meanwhile, the numbers have been crunched, but I’m too tired to write about them tonight, so I’ll give you the facts (and what they mean) tomorrow morning.
I hope you don’t mind.
I’ll just leave you with this for now: it was PN voters in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th districts who carried the day.
Labour be damned. The party’s number-crunching MEP Edward Scicluna worked that one out immediately as he does in every election. Already in The Times this morning he was quoted as saying that Labour voters stayed home in large numbers because of religious pressure.
Religious pressure? Labour voters? He couldn’t bring himself to say that they stayed home because they wanted to vote No but didn’t want to vote against Dear Joseph.
So he spun it by saying that they wanted to vote Yes but stayed home because of the Catholic Church.
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I’ve seen the numbers on Bondi+. It was the ‘South’ PL supporters who didn’t go to vote who tipped the scales in favour of the YES. I think PL supporters are already tired of Joseph and many of them are already feeling sorry they have him as their leader. Not that the PN followers are crazy about Gonzi.
I am amused by people who are pro divorce. When they say they voted according to their conscience while they describe the anti divorce voters as being afraid of the Church.
[Daphne – I don’t think anyone over the age of 12 is ‘afraid of the Church’ and I have never said anything similar. My view is that those who voted No for religious reasons either genuinely believe that Catholics shouldn’t separate church and state and had a duty to vote No, or use religion as a convenient excuse for other (less altruistic) reasons. The Labour voters who stayed home in the working-class districts you mention did not do so, as Edward Scicluna claims, because they were afraid of the church, but because – as I have said all along – the Labour-leaning Maltese working-class tends to be right wing and conservative and those people are almost certainly against divorce. It is not that fear of the church made them abstain rather than vote Yes, but that a desire not to go against the party made them abstain rather than vote No.]
Joseph Muscat would like us to forget that, before the EU referendum, Labour used to scare voters that if Malta joined the EU we would have to introduce divorce. It would be interesting to find out if there was a Made in Brussels programme about divorce.
le ma dahlitc politica fir raba distrett il marsa u rahal gdid membri tal partit laburista u canvasers zaru id djar biex nivotaw iva b’sfiducja ghal gonzi u naghmlu bhal joseph
“Muscat’s make-up artist – I suspect it’s Michelle because the foundation is the same colour she likes to wear – went for the ‘stop at the chin’ look that all make-up guides for girls warn against.”
Which chin did it stop at? Last time I looked, there were at least two.
Drop the personal insults, Daphne, I can’t concentrate on what you’re saying (are you actually saying something meaningful?) …
[Daphne – A personal insult, sweetheart, would be mocking somebody for having a bent leg. If a wouldbe prime minister puts on brown foundation and uses dark hair volumiser at an important press conference, then he’s just asking for criticism of his SENSE OF JUDGEMENT.]
D attard will never get it because he doesn’t have the same sense of humour as us.
“He couldn’t bring himself to say that they stayed home because they wanted to vote No but didn’t want to vote against Dear Joseph.”
So you do agree with what Saviour Balzan said, namely that Joseph Muscat’s influence in keeping the religious Labour vote home was highly instrumental towards the Yes victory.
There are many ways to argue this, of course. Yours is a one-sided, cheesed argument.
[Daphne – Marelli santa, Kevin. If I had been a teacher I would have been in real trouble for bawling at the thick kids. Joseph Muscat did not use his influence to get Labour voters to stay home. He used his influence to get them to vote Yes. If they stayed home, then he failed in his aim. Saviour Balzan thinks out his arse, always has and always will. Now that he has got his hands on a newspaper thanks to the Gianpula money put in by Roger de Giorgio, he can give his arse-thinking a much wider audience.]
And still, you’re stretching it. Let me put it in another way, forsi tifhem: had Joseph remained mute, many of the thousands who stayed home would have voted No – enough for the No side to win.
Now, tell me, was Joseph instrumental or not?
[Daphne – Hmmm, that’s nice. Chaos theory as applied to politics.]
Daphne, you had some strange bedfellows this time round! Thankfully they did not claim that ‘il-Le rebah’.
[Daphne – I had no bedfellows because the Yes voters were not a ‘camp’. Divorce legislation is normal. It is those who opposed it who held the odd view, and so were a ‘camp’.]
‘And women don’t wear white shirt (sic) with tight collars and ties’. As I’ve always maintained, women are sartorially privileged. Tight collars and ties are an abomination in a hot country.
[Daphne – Thanks for pointing out the missing S.]
Those who wanted to vote Yes but preferred not to vote because it was too liberal an act for them, are essentially PN voters. But mind you these are the same people who can’t be bothered with keeping within party lines and felt no pressure from the church.
[Daphne – How do you know?]