Doctor Joseph Muscat he meets Rad Ad, the kap tal-Oppozizzjoni of one of the 74 mamber states of the EU
Joseph Muscat has just been on a jaunt to ‘Brussel’, checking out the flat he appears to have bought there while an AMM EEE PEE.
Next stop Londra, where he met Red Ed, the British Labour leader.
We’re told that the two leaders (not remotely comparable between the ears) talked about ‘various issues’, but no mention was made of the living wage and other union-type matters, which have already led to an exodus of party donors for Ed Miliband.
And I trust that nothing was said about immigration, though how I would have loved to be a fly on that door-handle to hear Muscat go on about how Malta can’t take immigrants because they won’t integrate…to the son of an immigrant to Britain, born in Belgium to Polish Jews.
U ahna, il-Mexxej Taghna homegrown irid ikun, u jekk hu minn Burmarrad bl-accent kompjut, intant ahjar. Malta ghall-Maltin!
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Losers of the world unite.
Gotta love their body language …
Did anyone watch the Jackie Kennedy-wannabe on John Bundy’s bash tonight? Was she wearing some sort of hair piece at the back of her head?
It was news to me that she used to advise Dr Sant when he was PM (or so she claimed). Maybe it was her idea then for Renee Laiviera to organize the setting up of a day-care centre in the south of Malta in 1996/1998, which centre was a complete flop because no working mother in those days could afford the exorbitant fees that were being charged for its use.
[Daphne – Michelle Muscat (though she wasn’t called that back then) was Alfred Sant’s public relations adviser.]
I suppose Joseph Muscat must have told Ed Milliband, the son of Polish Jews, that Joseph’s policy on immigrants is so good that Norman Lowell has endorsed it.
Backstabber Meetings?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6kVdj2K5FhwJ:www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b2874ae-9db6-11e0-b30c-00144feabdc0.html+Australian+prime+minister+economy&cd=5&hl=mt&ct=clnk&gl=mt&source=www.google.com.mt#axzz1QG2koOxm
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/what-a-day-australia-gets-its-first-female-pm-20100624-z3p7.html. Watch the first video and ask your relatives from Down Under.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6kVdj2K5FhwJ:www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b2874ae-9db6-11e0-b30c-00144feabdc0.html+Australian+prime+minister+economy&cd=5&hl=mt&ct=clnk&gl=mt&source=www.google.com.mt#axzz1QG2koOxm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2002628/Ed-Miliband-wants-break-past-Ed-Balls-let-him.html
When I saw the news item above, Joseph’s meeting with former Australian PM Mr. Kevin Rudd, on 24 May 2010, came to mind.
The Labour communication coconuts were quick to publish a photo showing Mr. Muscat and Mr. Rudd, in which they carefully cropped out the lower section to hide an important element of Mr. Rudd’s body language – his left hand in his pocket.
Then, exactly one month from that date, Julia Gillard conducted a “coup” in the middle of the night and the next day she was sworn in as PM.
Maybe it’s time for another photo session in Canberra for Mr. Muscat. Hopefully, this time he will board that Emirates plane on time.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100524/local/muscat-meets-australian-pm-kevin-rudd.308790
What I’d like to comment about is not actually related to the article. It’s about Michelle’s participation on last night’s programme on One Tv presented by John Bundy.
In my opinion she was very insulting to everyone in the teaching profession. That’s right PROFESSION. This government, quite rightly, has done its utmost to have teachers, nurses etc be respected as they should be for the wonderful and, often, thankless work they perform in our society.
She was a good example of ‘how to make friends and influence people’ Maybe it was just a sign of immaturity, a quality she seems to share with her husband. They make a fine pair.
Daphne, I fear that your close mindedness is not allowing you to grasp fully the extent of the Opposition Leader’s wisdom and knowledge.
Only a few hours after meeting our (future) youngest (and possibly wisest) prime minister in history:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/24/labour-ed-miliband-reform
What’s this got to do with the dwarf?
I do not know if Rita is being sarcastic, but according to the Labour-leaning Guardian, Red Ed is proposing to undo what his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did to Britain.
I have to agree with him.
Red Ed and Ginger Jo
Red Ed and red-neck.
I know that you are not especially enamoured with the Demarcos but I do not think that I can vote for a PN with a leader other than Mario Demarco. There are others that I admire in the party but they are not leadership material. The thought of voting for PN and having the 2 Tonios, Carm Mifsud Bonnici et al.,is to put it mildly, off putting.
[Daphne – I didn’t know ‘the De Marcos’ are a package deal. Actually, Mario and I have been friends for around 30 years.]
What is with “of Marcos”? Wasn’t Marocs President of the Philippines.
It must be something to do with divorce.
To me Carm Mifsud Bonnici is a great asset. He handles sensitive issues very tactfully both on an international level as well as locally. On the other hand De Marco continues to give in every time the MHRA, particularly the hoteliers, decide they need a handout. Not leader material for sure.
But he cannot string an English sentence together…
I find the comments about English accent facetious at best. I have had the privilege to work with other Europeans who are CEOs of companies with a turnover comparable to Malta’s GDP – they are usually nice enough to use English with us Maltese because they know that we are comfortable with it. Compared to the English you (Daphne) and I use, their’s is sometimes primitive, let alone the accent. I have learned to understand what they are saying even when they use horrendous grammar. One common mistake that Germans make for example is that they use our most basic verb ‘to be’ in a very confusing way for us. It was, for me. extremely strange to hear a German man tell me “I become a coffee”. I’ll leave it up to the German speakers here to decipher what that means. :-)
YAWN. Do they have English as an official language in the German constitution?
Dery, such fatuous comments have been known to start wars.
I guess, that’s what you call a blooper!
German:”Ich bekomme…”
English:”I would like to…/ I want…”
Andrea, even though I don’t know who ‘Dery’ is ( pseudomyns are cowardly), he/she/it has stupidly overstepped the mark. Apologize on behalf of thinking people.
YAWN. Do they not read Maltastar in Germany?
@dery
It comes from “Ich bekomme einen Kaffee, bitte”, which can be very easily mistranslated.
Mind you, after my full morning dose of caffeine I really become coffee. And now for a literary interlude:
“The doctor–” I began.
But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble voice but heartily. “Doctors is all swabs,” he said; “and that doctor there, why, what do he know about [office life]? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes–what to the doctor know of lands like that?–and I lived on [coffee], I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to have my [coffee] now I’m a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood’ll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab”; and he ran on again for a while with curses. “Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges,” he continued in the pleading tone. “I can’t keep ’em still, not I. I haven’t had a drop this blessed day. That doctor’s a fool, I tell you. If I don’t have a drain o’ [coffee], Jim, I’ll have the horrors; I seen some on ’em already. I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I’m a man that has lived rough, and I’ll raise Cain. Your doctor hisself said one [cup] wouldn’t hurt me. I’ll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.”