TYPICAL OLD LABOUR: ‘KONSULTENT TAL-HOUSING’. They just don’t get it, do they.
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January 30, 2012 at 2:06pm
Taking comfort in Joseph’s embracing of Mintoffianism and a bunch of old dinosaurs, star candidayt Stefan Buontempo is out popping flyers into the letterboxes of his constituency.
One of his constituents scanned it and emailed it to me. Left click on the image and take a look at the pure and utter shamelessness.
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Is that his office or home address?
His office. I believe he’s from around Stella Maris College in Gzira.
Well, the name of the building fits his new-found ‘profession’.
Not to mention the use of @yahoo.com and not a domain name.
To be fair, that’s his email address.
Yahoo.com is a domain name. I think what you mean is that he’s not using his own personalised domain name such as @mizzi.com.
The only technical advantage of using your own personalised domain name is only when the email address owner hosts the personal domain on his personal servers because he himself would be the single owner of his emails.
This contrasts to hosting your emails at Godaddy or Google with which you can you use your own personalised domain name but you’re still sharing the ownership of the mails with them. The operational costs of hosting your own Mail Server make it very unfeasible.
Note: Google and other hosting providers can apply bayesian methods and other artificial intelligence methods to scan through emails for particular words and help firms re-design their marketing strategies.
It doesnt matter if the emails are hosted on GoDaddy or any other company, the argument is that a professional should never use a yahoo email to advertise his services. It makes him look less professional.
Agreed :)
The point was (if it wasn’t obvious) that using @yahoo or @gmail is just very unprofessional.
I took it as just more evidence of the PL being mediocre in everything they do.
I remember 10 years ago speaking to companies who wouldn’t even bother to reply to emails from somebusiness@hotmail.com or newbusiness@yahoo.com for the simple fact the impression they gave were of being very unprofessional.
It takes less than an hour to have a personal domain, a basic web presence and an email account linked to it.
Is giving us a good time his promise?
“”Konsulent tal housing” x ikun ezattament?
Jaghmel il-water proofing tal-bejt?
Bihsiebu jati il-pariri kif il-partitarji tieghu jistaw ‘jiddubbaw’ artijiet tal-gvern bxejn? Partit Laburista, bidel ismu u il-logo, imma l-istess ghadu.
Wicc ta’ ferhan.
They will continue exactly where they left off. The sad part of it is that that is precisely what a lot of people want: a local politician to ‘look after’ his constituents, handing out ‘pjaciri’ to those ‘ta’ gewwa’. May God have mercy on us all.
God has given up on this little island due to exceeding our monthly quota of requests .
The housing consultant (whatever that means) lives in a house called “Xelter”?
You couldn’t make it up.
Ma narax kumment wiehed bis-sens.
Learn to read between the lines and get a sense of humour .
Probabbli li int wiehed minn dawk li motto tieghek hu ‘jew b’xejn jew xejn ‘. Dawn il-kummenti lanqas jirregistraw f’iskutella ta’ rasek, Renz! Mur fuq Maltastar forsi tifhem xi haga.
Jew fuq MaltaPark forsi issib xi sett roti ghall-Escort.
Mhux wahdek milli jidher.
Il-Laburisti kollha ghandhom il-problema li ma jgharfux ir-realta, w ma jafux b’umorizmu, imma d-dwejjaq biss li jitmahhom il-Partit ta Mintoff.
Can Dr.S. Buontempo enlighten us what he means by “konsulent tal-housing”?
Can Joseph Muscat tell us what his candidayt means by “konsulent tal-housing”?
Perhaps he means he’s the legal consultant at the Housing Authority at present?
Just stealing other people’s property and handing it out to Labour supporters. Simple, is it?
Cara daqs il-kristall: Kkonsulent tal-housing means that either he will be minister for housing if he’s elected or else chairman of the housing authority if he’s not elected.
You don’t have to be Franco Debono or Confucius to conclude that this would be a good example of meritocracy in an oligarchic state.
He’s an expert in giving advice on how to get the most points in social housing application.
Niffangaw jitla l-Lejber u Niffangaw
Niffangaw ghaliex b’Josef niffangaw
Il-hin kollu niffangaw,
plots u fletts b’xejn nniffangaw
Niffangaw, iva mal-lejber niffangaw
Sung to a popular church refrain.
Re-phrase “…..either he EXPECTS TO be minister for housing if he’s elected or else chairman of the housing authority if he’s not elected”
He’s an expert on the subject and merits to be made minister.Sounds familiar, now where did I hear that?
The same thaught has crossed my mind. “Nahseb li vvinta posizzjoni”.
He is being advised by moonlighting ex-Housing Authority Chairman (under the PN) Marisa Micallef Leyson.
Does he actually work with the Housing Authority in any position, including consulting?
As far as I am aware, he was Labour’s speaker on housing.
Whoops sorry, not legal consultant – he’s an architect, so I guess he’s a consultant at the Housing Authority. Either way, it’s an unfortunate translation. That, or we get knee-jerk reactions to anything that combines the word ‘Housing’ and the torca.
He’s not an architect, either. Nor is he a consultant at the Housing Authority.
I think that they had a Minister for Housing in the 80s
The notorious Patrick Holland.
Yes, that other scumbag.
I’m glad you have finally posted something about this imposter.
Can somebody enlighten me what Stefan Buontempo’s doctorate is in?
On the Parliament’s website he claims to be “an architect by profession” yet he is NOT on the list of those who have warrants to practise. http://www.resources.gov.mt/file.aspx?f=702
Does he know it is illegal to claim to be a ‘perit’ when he is not?
So what is he, exactly?
What does a housing consultant do exactly? Does he advise the Housing Authority? Or does he advise his constituents on whom to speak to within the Authority to get his application speeded up?
Another one for the skip, methinks.
Link to Parliament’s website is here: http://parlament.mt/buontempo-stefan
Photos of Dom Mintoff meeting Our Lady of Pompei (disguised as Mary Spiteri).
Charles Mallia
THIS IS A HISTORIC MOMENT THAT DOM MINTOFF VISIT M’XLOKK FOR THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF POMPEI ON THE 31st AUGUST 2011.COPIES OF THIS PHOTO ARE AVAILABLE 11ins x 7 1/2ins or visit my facebook for more photos.— with Cathrine Zammit, Joyce Aquilina Bartolo and Ron Cutajar.
http://www.facebook.com/DomMintoff#!/photo.php?fbid=260681267275461&set=o.114306255590&type=1&theater
Oh the irony! One of the lasting images of the Golden Years is the smashed face of a statue of a Madonna at the Curia.
Yikes
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=272007562809498&set=o.114306255590&type=1&theater
In all these recent photos, Mintoff looks like a man haunted.
I can’t help comparing him to Ċensu Tabone who’s 3 years older. Ċensu is always smiling and surrounded by the warmth of his wife and family. Mintoff . . . well, everyone can see for themselves.
Cleavage at eye level. Never was there a more poignant sic transit moment.
Dik Mary Spiteri li rajt ix-xebh bejn Mintoff u Muscat?
“misir malta u phalu mux ha jkun hawn hatt grazzi ta dak kollu li qamilt qal malta. :)”
Josette Sant, October 16, 2011
Veru qamel halla.
Another HISTORIC MOMENT. Ritratt ta’ Mintoff jaqta’ xewqet it-tfal billi jqassmilhom xi cekkijiet.
“hadt gost li intqajt ma il-perit u kellem lil familja tieghi, u it tifla qatet xewqita li intaqet ma dak li hafna jejdula fuqu u min kien dak li beda jibghat ic cekkijiet lit tfal”
http://www.facebook.com/DomMintoff#!/photo.php?fbid=387745677084&set=o.114306255590&type=1&theater
Sorry Daphne for posting these links but I could not help it.
Yes, sending cheques out to children. These jerks think it was Mintoff’s money, not taxpayers’ money (or for many years, Gaddafi’s money) that covered children’s allowances.
“Konsulent tal-Housing”, meaning that he will be dishing out plots and flats with a view, like those given to Jose’s father from Bormla in the 1980s and who worked at the dockyard earning 25k (liri) yearly?
For a good time, call Dr Stefan.
One word: pathetic.
Again, Labour’s fixation with housing. Not a lot is actually inspired or original with this newer version of Mintoff’s party, is it?
Thrown into power after the end of the construction boom of the late sixties in 1971, the Mintoffians began building housing estates like there was no tomorrow.
That eased off unemployment and met one of Mintoff’s promises. Housing may have been needed, but it’s not like Labour did not benefit from the whole shindig. Jobs for the boys, land profiteering…and houses.
Not only that, but appropriating themselves of stretches of lands and houses. In 1971 and later houses were being requisitioned with glee, especially in the St. Julians and Sliema area. How can one forget such things?
tal-hawsink
Why “Xelter” and not “Hawzing”? What a creep.
In the good old days this sort of person was selling magic potions to the gullible .
Hi Daphne, I don’t know if these links are of relevance, but here goes :
http://www.maltamedia.com/news/2005/bf/printer_11758.shtml
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dxVuUR2QA0gJ:www.maltarightnow.com/%3Fmodule%3Dnews%26at%3DStefan%2BBuontempo%2Bjabbu%2526%2523380%253Ba%2Bmill-email%2Bta'%2Bmembru%2Bparlamentari%2Bg%2526%2523295%253Ball-kumpanija%2Bprivata%2Btieg%2526%2523295%253Bu%26t%3Da%26aid%3D99816381%26cid%3D19+dr+stefan+buontempo+maltarightnow&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=mt
I do not have a clue whether this Stefan is an architect, a doctor, a consultant or what.
All I can say is that his late father was ‘styled’ His Excellency Professor Dr.
His job was to remove corns from old ladies’ deformed feet.
His presumed titles were the source of many jokes and innuendoes at social gatherings in my days.
[Daphne – Oh, OK. The famous ‘tabib tas-saqaj’ the older generation used to talk about when I was growing up.]
I thought it was him, the fake Professur Kavallier’s son.
If I remember well, Professur Buontempo was a candidate for elections with all the available political parties of that time. He finished his disappointing political career with MLP. He started calling himself “professur” when Mintoff arranged for him to be a lecturer in podology in one desert university in Libya.
Not the “famous tabib tas-saqaj” but “ll-professur “tal-kallijiet” and who was a source of great fun and merriment to medical students teasing him about his erudition in medicine and surgery.
[Daphne – That’s it! You’re right. I’ve been wondering and wondering, because ‘tabib tas-saqaj’ didn’t sound quite it. I remember it as a scornful name.]
I see. Is this Labour’s plan for tertiary education?
I imagine the wannabe professor must have been so proud of his son when he became a wannabe architect and received his wannabe doctorate. All that’s left is a wannabe prime minister to appoint him to Government.
‘Int semplici kallist’ he was informed by a grande dame in my presence.
Wasn’t Louis Buhagiar a Labour candidate or MP to until not very long ago? – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120201/local/hospital-administrator-claims-doctor-overcharged-for-his-services.404844