Well, well, well – what do you know, eh?
Jeffrey and Jesmond - both their 'wives' are in with the Labour Party, so no surprises there.
So it turns out that Carmen Camilleri Ciantar, who Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has been living with for the last decade or so, and who was originally heavily involved with the Labour Party and comes from a really Labour background, is back in with the Labour Party again.
Well, we could have seen this one coming when she was selected by Super One’s John Bundy as one of his Nisa ta’ Success along with Jesmond Mugliett’s wife, Karen, who is also Labour and being touted as a potential candidate.
Ms Camilleri Ciantar was at the Labour Party’s annual general conference this weekend, clapping and waving.
She has also been seen in an around Joseph Muscat’s office at Mile End.
If she is selected as a Labour candidate, and makes it through, meetings of the Labour parliamentary group, which will include Jeffrey’s ex wife Marlene Farrugia, should be interesting unless everybody can control themselves and be civilised.
One word of advice, Carmen – Marisa Micallef has the mentality of a schoolgirl and can’t stand that level of competition. So watch your back. If there are any openings for token women chairmen a la Marlene Mizzi, she’s going to want them first.
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I have been told that Astrid Vella of FAA will be contesting the elections with Labour.
Bring on the foghorns.
That would be a positive development actually: she wouldn’t get elected but would have to stop saying she’s independent.
And calling herself ‘the people’.
Wasn’t she marketing a couple of highrise towers next to Mistra at some point before 2008?
Proposed by those who tried to implicate Tonio Fenech?
I believe they have interests in Zejtun.
They went bankrupt. Now Carmen CC is the marketing person at Yellow Pages.
Ghax mara ta’ success.
Always by his side.
JPO is looking sharp, xtahseb def?
[Daphne – I thought the reverse when I last saw him (in court, when I gave him a hasla for his bad manners, disloyalty and appalling behaviour, and said how much I regret voting for him). I’d actually never noticed before just what a tiny man he is. Because he claims so much attention in the news, you think he’s bigger than he is, but he’s minuscule and now looks more shrunken than ever. It helps that he’s stopped dyeing his hair that false shade of brown, but unfortunately, his nervous tension and tendency to repeat himself are getting worse. He strikes me as being a bit of a lost soul, or what the poets used to call a soul in despair. Not attractive at all. Quite frightening, actually, to those looking for a mate. His mate, on the other hand, is very good-looking, but then she always was.]
Ironically, small men tend to have big personalities.
No. Cuffs should be showing a trifle, and only the middle button of a three-button jacket should be fastened. Not sharp enough.
I predict that his days with Carmen are numbered because, removed from power, he will no longer have his uses. Carmen was raised inside the Macina and developed her ‘ethics’ there.
Carmen started her career at the National Tourism Organisation of Malta (now the Malta Tourism Authority) and was quickly promoted under Karmenu Vella once Labour won the election in 1996.
In a way the Nationalists are getting what they deserve – they reward and appease suckers and flatterers or those who merely have plenty of pester-power, such as Marisa Micallef, Franco Debono and Carmen, while hard working and decent people who stick to the rules are repeatedly taken for granted and ignored.
This is some kind of telenovela.
For the second time Dr. Pullicino Orlando is destined to have his other half devoted to the opposite party.
Ex wife and actual companion candidates for the same party? An unusal situation I would say.
Telenovela? No, it’s Maltese village life.
It would be an interesting situation should there be another papal visit.
Maybe that’s why they were invited on a very late Thursday night in July at Consuelo’s house. Ma tafx int, tghaddilha kelma .
I don’t know if you have enough education to understand that in Malta (unlike N. Korea, Cuba, etc) there is nothing wrong that partners are member in a different party!
[Daphne – That wasn’t my point, and you know it. People rarely choose partners who are fundamentally different from them in their attitudes and choices. If you are a politician or heavily involved in politics, then politics and political choices are a fundamental part of your life. If you choose somebody whose political choices are different on paper, it’s generally because they’re not different in fact. Political views are not a hobby like stamp-collecting. They are the sum expression of what you are all about: whether you are for free expression, EU membership, initiative and opportunity, or say, think that the world owes you a living and that others are taking something which is yours by right.]
There are no different parties in North Korea and in Cuba. Each has only one.
I think m.morg was thinking of all parties encompassed into one movement.
Partners.
La Redoute, were you responsible for the naked man in the picture showing the toddlers on the beach?
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/228/841/Homme-nu-La-redoute.jpg
[Daphne – How very unsurprising that you should also turn out to be a pervert, Richard Borg.]
The fact that you hate PL supporters does not mean that all PL supporters hate PN supporters of vice versa.
[Daphne – I don’t hate Labour supporters. I despise the Labour Party. There’s a difference. Apparently you think that, like Labour’s TV station, You Are One.]
I have many friends who are PN, PL, AD supporters or just don’t give a damn.
[Daphne – Me, too, except that I don’t trust the Labour supporters too much because I never know where they’re going to leak. Also, I suspect that our definitions of friendship are probaby different. My friends are the very few people I can ring at night when my house has been set on fire, for instance, and not the people I socialise with. Those are my acquaintances.]
When you discuss politics with an open mind you realise there is not much difference. Both have their corrupt members, both have their hamalli and both in their way want to make a success in government.
[Daphne – There is a great deal of difference, Jacky. Your mistake is to think that politics = party = supporters. Politics = policies. There is no comparison between the policies of the Labour Party and those of the Nationalist Party. They part company dramatically. I chose to vote Nationalist on the basis of policy. I don’t give a damn whether its supporters are ‘hamalli’ or not. I care whether its politicians are ‘hamalli’ or not, not in terms of background but certainly in terms of attitude. AST, for example, is what passes for nobility on this rock. But he is the most spectacular ‘hamallu’.]
Both parties have people who are for free expression, EU membership, Divorce, and opportunities ( some are for equal opportunities, other believe that their side should have all the opportunities).
[Daphne – You make the same mistake again, Jacky. It’s party policy that counts, not what supporters think. It’s pretty useless knowing that some Labour Party supporters are for EU membership when the party itself wasn’t and fought against membership. Opportunities are not given to ‘sides’. This is not a civil war. Nor are opportunities given at all. They are taken. You can get a job in London or Munich irrespective of who is in government. You can get a private sector job, ditto. The trouble with Labour supporters, and yes, here I do have to generalise, is you tend to think of opportunities as seats on a gravy train, where no effort is required on your part. You still have the mindset that all opportunities are the gift of the state. You do realise that there is something called a private sector, I trust, and that this is where the real opportunities lie?]
Many people believe the world owes them a living, and they don’t necessary come from one political side. Some don’t only believe the world owes them a living, some believe the world has the duty of making them millionaires.
[Daphne – It is generally Labour supporters who think that way, Jacky. Part of their hatred towards me is that they cannot believe I work entirely in the private sector. I must be bumming something off the government. Like I would want to.]
The Labour Party famously fielded MEP candidates like Marlene Mizzi who claimed to be in favour of EU membership but who voted for Alfred Sant’s ‘Parnership’ fiasco.
Marlene Mizzi – mara ohra ta’ success.
‘others believe that their side should have all the opportunities’
Which side?
The one under constant attack for promoting rigorous individual responsibility, or the one which has kept its intentions under wraps?
Labour is pushing for a regression in standards, calling it family. It may have accepted the EU as reality, but won’t accept what it entails in spirit.
It will be back to navel-gazing and the use of superlatives.
How anti-democratic of you to convenientely erase my comment!?!
[Daphne – Which one? The one where you dragged in third parties?]
I consider people I can talk freely to as friends, acquaintances would be those people I meet at work or in parties and share some pleasantries with. Since none of my friends are firefighters I wouldn’t call them if my house was on fire be it night or day.
[Daphne – Friends are not the people you talk to freely, but the people you trust. Are they responding in kind by talking freely back? No, I would imagine that nobody is going to set your house on fire. You’re not in my line of work.]
Getting millions in commissions for lumping Malta with a Power Station extention, which will need revamping in a few years time, can hardly be called private sector.
[Daphne – Commission is always paid on sales, Josephine. It’s standard. And when the sale runs into many tens of millions, then the commission is going to run into millions too.]
Neither is winning a contract to provide cleaners for Mater Dei Hospital, then paying them with less than the minimum wage or providing speed cameras and wardens and pocketing a good percentage of the income.
[Daphne – If you have the facts on this, then the correct place to report it is the police. Not a blog. Facts, not gossip. If you were to believe Labour gossip, then I’m a transsexual who’s paid by gONziPN to write about events and people I would have written about anyway.]
Some calls for contracts are custom made for certain companies. This is why Franco Debono was talking about cliques. I can name some companies, who were getting on very well under Dr Fenech Adami and now under Gonzi are nearly bankrupt, because they are winning no contracts now.
[Daphne – Go ahead. Name them. But be careful, because if you look carefully among the shareholders, you might find somebody like Karmenu Vella or Charlie Mangion.]
As regards to Party Policies, how can one trust a party who quote Religious beliefs when discussing a civil law? I’m afraid, the way the PN handled the divorce issue, lost them any trust I had in them.
[Daphne – Luckily for me, I am not that silly. I shared your views on the divorce subject, but I know that when you stop voting for one party, you have to start voting for a better one. If you’ve found a better one, drop me a line. And please don’t tell me that it’s the party of Anglu, Joseph and Silvio.]
Daphne – Go ahead. Name them. But be careful, because if you look carefully among the shareholders, you might find somebody like Karmenu Vella or Charlie Mangion –
Please eleborate, does this mean that if a company has Karmenu Vella or Charlie Mangion as shareholder it will get no contracts, I thought contracts were supposed to be given to the best company and not to a company with no PL shareholders.
[Daphne – Not at all. It means that those two straddle the political divide where business is concerned.]
What sort of company depends solely on government contracts?
I can’t help thinking how lucky Joseph Muscat is – so close to an easy victory compared to the sacifices and hardship the PN had to go through until 1987. Muscat was also lucky to have been elected as an MEP – although he worked so hard against EU membership.
Lucky in beating the more popular and charismatic George Abela and now lucky that Franco Debono has flipped and is handing him this final victory too.
Ha ha ha! That burst his/her bubble!
I meant for my previous comment to go beneath La Redoute’s comment about there being only one party in North Korea and Cuba.
Don’t you think it’s actually very clever to have a couple made up of one Pn and one PL. Like that, igawdu dejjem jitla min jitla.
[Daphne – Ghaliex, trid bilfors tivvota Labour biex tgawdi taht gvern Laburista? Ma tantx nara nies Laburisti ghadhom jghixu bhalma niftakarhom jghixu fl-1987.]
imma int kif ma tisthix li int maltija kemm ghandek hdura ghall hutek maltin int tahseb li int xi alla tghid fuq kullhadd u dejjem int ghandek ragun kif ma tohrog ghall politika ha naraw xi sarraf ha kun bhallek ta alla zobbi kemm nixtieq nitaqa mieghek forsi tigbidni lejk sex
[Daphne – Here come the Labour voters straight from Fejsbuk. Jaqaw xi hadd ghamel xi links?]
Ha naghmillek ftit cultural translation ghax jien veru working class, Daphne. Iriduk. Meta full-blooded ragel Malti bhal hubert isejjahlek ‘sex’, ikun attratt lejk.
I’m talking about JPO and Mugliett. Having a foot on both sides of the fence is useful.
Have you tried walking with a foot on either side of the fence and then lost your balance?