Anglu Farrugia: “Hemm bzonn bidla fid-direzzjoni ta’ pajjizna.” Is the man INSANE?
Here’s Anglu Farrugia giving his dramatic keynote speech at the Labour Party annual general conference earlier tonight, in which he says that Malta ‘needs a change of direction’.
Is the former police inspector and jacksh*t lawyer INSANE? We’d doing fine considering the horrible odds. The last thing we need is a change of direction.
And before this blethering idiot tells us that Labour is going to change Malta’s direction, hadn’t he ruddy well tell us what that direction is going to be?
Because we’re practically on the eve of a general election, even if that election takes place at the standard interval, and we still don’t know yet.
It’s going to be a lucky dip: vote Labour and see what happens, because not even they know what direction they’re going to take yet. They only know that they’re going to tilt the wheel.
The highlight of this video is actually the bit where the old fraud gives his audience a tearful, emotive pause as he is unable to carry on talking about the dreadful time when he was away from home – in that frightening place called ‘abroad’ – with his daughter (camera homes in on chunky daughter in audience), when he was ‘personally attacked’. My God, by what and who? A mugger?
The audience begin clapping, encouraging him to carry on, to force out the difficult words despite the trauma. It doesn’t occur to those other blethering idiots, all 818 of them, that a man who sailed blithely through working life as a police inspector at the Floriana depot in the bad old 1980s can sail through pretty much anything, including a personal attack meta jkun imsiefer bic-chunky daughter.
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That brink-of-tears look on an audience member at 2:00 is priceless.
Change direction? This is Malta, not a Concordia cruise liner, Dr Farrugia.
Oh they will do better than ‘us’ according to Edward of the underdog party. Please do not worry Daphne. Like hell, we won’t!
“chunky daughter”- can’t believe you go to such extent? Realising the problems you are causing to this guy and you still pursue your aims, irrelevant of other’s interests. May, for the love of god, every political party disassociate itself from you.
Chunky is a non-offensive adjective, as in Kit-Kat Chunky. Actually, seeing the clip, I can say that Daphne selected a very light (not in terms of mass, though) description.
“L-istatista qieghed maghna” – oh no, that’s a big word, honey, for an ocean of 818 inferiority complexes.
And did he speak about hatred? What a nerve, from a Labour policeman.
What is non-offensive for one may be for others. Light words? huh, whatever floats your boat, more like trying to prove her case.
Gino, you’re absolutely right. She’s not a chunky daughter. She’s an overfed, fat as f**k, “tank h*ra” from the German Panzer Division.
[Daphne – If this were anyone other than Anglu Farrugia, I wouldn’t allow such a comment. But I make a special case of him, and underscore the fact that he deserves much worse but fortunately for him, I wasn’t bred in the gutter as he and his friends were.]
Gino. How about ‘You’re not fat at all, just very easy to see’.
She is not chunky. Ghanda “ghadam kbir”, bhal ta’ missiera miskina.
Dear Gino, describing Anglu’s daughter as ‘chunky’ is not in anyway a personal attack.
It’s a fact that she is chunky and no amount of pretending she isn’t will make it go away.
Daphne could have easily used a more offensive description, but chose to be relatively kind.
They will do anything to distract from the political debate.
At the end of it all, the only thing they’re managing to get through, is another promise that they’ve changed.
It took them four years to settle for it, burdened with the same faces that caused this stalemate. Joseph wasn’t enough.
Quite a feat, when one considers all the chances they screwed. I haven’t decided whether it’s cheek or a sorry measure of their ability. Personally, I find it rather embarrassing.
The final idea, closest to prototype in the amount of time left, is to recycle elements discarded by the PN to create a diorama of the political spectrum. This, according to them, should hopefully provide a satisfactory compensation. What they haven’t done, is to follow with the PN’s political evolution. It would have saved them from plagiarism.
Their ‘PLPN’ then, becomes a ‘labour of love’, a second chance. The PLPN however, will be a victim of circumstance and fallacious timing. The rejects, inside and out, happen to be those who got stuck in 2004, when EU standards and regulations weren’t a part of Malta, nor comfortable with Gonzi’s rigour. Do they understand the risks in taking on such baggage?
The others, a necessary liability, keep holding on for dear life to this pact, out of blind faith in an electorate which has, in the meantime, moved on. At least I did.
Given the early date envisaged, they face a novel test: What have they really been up to? Only their electoral programme will tell.
Call it prejudice, but with all due respect, I prefer GonziPN.
He was unable to carry on talking for the simple reason that he didn’t know what to say next.
Words don’ t come easy to those who have a deficiency of grey matter.
Go to 1:42 and you will notice that he actually wanted to say ‘ragunijiet personali’ but ended up saying ‘ragunat ragunijiet privati’.
The chunky daughter has been eating well under a PN government, it seems.
What a frigging hypocrite, talking about hatred! This is the instigater of hate himself. Or have we forgotten all his past crusades and actions, like his ‘bought and stolen votes’ circus after the last general election, in which he put pressure on his old friends in the police force to have a man prosecuted all the way through the courts for an innocent remark made to an employee?
And then the crocodile cries.
Please, someone shoot me.
Crocodile tears which show a weak political maturity, and that’s the last thing we need from a Labour deputy prime minister (prattikament).
What would he do if he were the Deputy Prime Minister and the press is against him? Lie down and sob?
Surely he would not be in a position to turn to Gonzi and ask for the help which in his position as a politician he is not entitled to get.
Would he send the police, or would he call the Labour marmalja?
@ Gino ““chunky daughter”- can’t believe you go to such extent?”
Well Gino, perhaps then you can believe the extent the same Angelo Farrugia went to when he arrested Daphne, and she was years younger than Miss Chunky at the time.
Mur ghamel lil Miss Chunky dak li kien ghamel hu lil Daphne. Mur ara kieku.
I hope he meant ‘dirigenti’ and not ‘direzzjoni’ .
As long as the new ‘dirigenti’ do not tamper with the current ‘direzzjoni’ the country should be safe.
That is what we should all be looking forward to after all.
The moment they start fiddling with the running of Malta, we will all be on our way to the Acropolis.
Chunky? That’s mild. They have destroyed so many people’s reputations. What an idiot this guy is.
Oh poor Anglu… how ruthless of the PN government which allowed him, when he was still a police superintendent in the 1990s, to go to university on full pay while retaining his position in the police force with no loss of income or pension rights.
Such hatred. How could they do it?
I suppose it is time to emigrate, just like Franco. If these guys get into power Malta is heading for a “Concordia”.
Anglu qal li kien imsiefer barra minn Malta; forsi jaf xi mod iehor kief wiehed isiefer u fl-istess hin jibqa Malta.
Anzi wiehed jikkonsla, ma r-referiex ghal Joseph bhala statistika.
Anglu Farrugia’s remark on the “need of change in direction” contrasts deeply with what business people are saying – ” I am honestly shocked by the number of business owners who express their ingrained fear of change” (Paul Abela, Times of Malta, 18.1.2012).
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120118/opinion/Give-business-its-due-weight.402801
I love it when you use language like a rapier ……. but I fail to see any finesse in the use of the adjective “chunky” in this piece. Was it really necessary?
On a different note …the number of blue ties in the clip is impressive. Is blue the new red?
[Daphne – Was it really necessary? Yes. I could also ask why, at her age, she was travelling with her father.]
Calling Joseph Muscat “statista” seems like something out of Catch-22.
It is maddening and exasperating. All this makes me want to sit in a corner and cry.
Surely there must be more hope for the country than calling this ocean of mediocrity such grandiose names.
OMG,what a night. Couldn’t stop tossing and turning. Lejl shih nibki u nigdem dufrejja ghal dak li gralu Inspector Gadget.
Oh God, you nearly made Anglu l-Ispettur cry. Poor thing.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Labour-deputy-leader-makes-call-for-end-to-personal-attacks-20120120
Car daqs il kristall li ha ghalih ghax ghedtlu li it-tifla tieghy daqxejn chunky.
Miskin, all the suffering! He never talks about how well he and his family are doing under GonziPN though, does he?
How well?
So well that when his dear Caroline was a law student (saret avukat bhad-daddy) she would travel abroad and nearly clear out the shops.
Good luck to her and all that, but please stop whining about suffering. These people don’t know the meaning of the word.
@ Lilla
”These people don’t know the meaning of the word”. Oh yes they do, but they still ride roughshod.
Sometimes I tend to agree with Dom Mintoff – some university students turn out to be rebels like the brigate rosse. In Malta they became rebels of another kind. Instead of acknowledging that it was a Nationalist government that made it possible for ‘mature students’ to attend university and for policemen to become undergraduates on full pay and with no loss of benefits (on the contrary, with incentives to study) they bite the hand that fed them.
One of them was a Commissioner of Police who ended in prison and we all know what Inspector Gadget is capable of.
For those still hankering after the Golden Years, please note that you would have remained the proletariat, with no hope of going to university or even getting a proper job, still less embarking on a full-blown career.
Here’s the irony: if Labour had stayed in government, Anglu Farrugia would have had to stay in the police force. He would never have been able to go to university (not only because he wouldn’t have got in, but because he wouldn’t have had the income to do it on). He would never have become a lawyer and he would never have gone into politics, because police officers are not permitted to take part in political life. And so he would never have become deputy party leader and possibly, deputy prime minister.
Anglu is going to become deputy prime minister for the same reason that he was able to become a lawyer: because the party to which he is so committed was booted out of power in 1987.
@M.Bormann – ustja kif fqajtni, int haqqek il-medalja gieh ir-repubblika. Din fejn hlomta tal-Panzer Division?
What was he doing abroad with his daughter anyway? Getting her stomach stapled?
Maybe they went to Sicily to buy hairclips from the market – http://www.frigintini.it/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=79 (Caroline Farrugia being Anglu’s daughter.)
“What impressed me in Marina di Ragusa is the amount of make-shift tents which were erected where street hawkers displayed all their wares and where we bought quite a few things with very cheap prices, including, fancy hair clips.”
Ghax taht il-PN ma ssibx hair clips..
Madonna, il-veru ghandu mutetti ta’ cercur.