It took a public opinion survey to focus Jeffrey’s mind – thank you, Malta Today
Jeffrey shows us his new cufflinks
So last Sunday we found out why Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando made his surprise announcement that he will not be standing for election again, and why he immediately ceased most of his Facebook tomfoolery – except for the recent upload of a photograph of his new cufflinks, one of which bears the legend OPEN WIDE, and which I suggest he dispatches to his friend Magistrate Herrera for Christmas.
Malta Today published the results of a poll which asked people how much they trust Jesmond Mugliett, Jeffrey and Franco Debono. High levels of mistrust were registered for all three, but Jeffrey took the prize, being mistrusted right across the board, including – one has to conclude given the figures – people who voted Yes to divorce.
The survey was held BEFORE Jeffrey made his announcement and, we assume, his decision. I can only conclude that his decision to withdraw from politics was provoked by hearing about the results before they were published. He has long been in cahoots with Saviour Balzan and there is no way on earth that he would not have heard about the result before publication.
Up until he made his ‘shock announcement’, Jeffrey was the epitome of vile arrogance and detachment from reality, strutting about cockily, speaking with that supercilious self-assurance, challenging the prime minister, picking crass fights with those who opposed him and criticised his behaviour (as I did) and going madly over the top on his Facebook wall.
He must have thought – crazily – that he had the backing of the electorate. Maybe he imagined that the vote for divorce was a vote for him and a validation of his behaviour, or that the 5000 ‘friends’ on his Facebook profile, most of them Labour voters and sub-literate, meant something significant.
They did mean something significant, but it was pointless telling him: that he had gone badly off the rails and that there was no turning back.
It took a poll of electors to focus his mind and get him to see the truth that had been staring the rest of us in the face for ages. It’s interesting to see, isn’t it, how he has become the past already. He won’t be challenging the prime minister any time soon between now and the general election, not without the popular support he thought he had.
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Reply to lulu Click here to cancel reply
What a self-destructive individual. He couldn’t care less about helping people as a member of parliament.
He was utterly disloyal to his party and ungrateful to the PM who stood by him.
JPO was become a verb now- He/She did a JPO.
Good riddance.
It really is a verb. We have come to use it often. The kids have come to use it as an insult; also when one of them sulks they call each other a Franco. Sad but true.
Sic transit gloria mundi – as they say on The Weakest lLnk – bye bye Jeff.
Il-borma fuq tlieta toqghod – hekk jghid il-Malti.
Mela Jeff, qis li tigbed lill Franco u lill Mugliett mieghek u b’hekk inkunu hlisna minn tlett problemi f’daqqa.
Hear Hear
Kif qallu xi hadd fuq it-Times, “strieh u serrah”.
u gab dawk il-voti kollha fl-ahhar elezzjoni se jserrahkom wahda sew nahseb.
Triduhx intom tal-Labour?
Xejn xejn, tkomplu timlew l-iskip biz-zibel.
Erm sorry … you have a couple of typo’s for a change … Magistreate…concude!