Joseph’s Soleil
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May 3, 2012 at 8:05am
Now we know why Franco Mercieca is the new rising star in Joseph’s kitchen cabinet. He’s his secret twin.
They do say that twins run in families, but look at this. Isn’t it cute? Mummy’s even dressed them to match.
How najs.
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Oh God – there are two of them now…
Deep breath, tummy in….cheeeeeese.
Phew.
Imma fil-kaz ta’ Franco ommu qed tiffranka ghax glekk biss xtratlu u mha xtratlux qalziet parigg. Bil-qalziet tal-giens hallietu.
It really annoys me that Muscat wears blue ties all the time. Do Labour supporters not see he is trying to disassociate himself from them?
One’s trendier, in jeans.
At least their silly face fluff has gone.
Joseph’s jacket is too short,while Franco’s jacket sleeves are way too long.
Blue ties to match their blue eyes, but Torca red underneath the blue camouflage.
Truth be told Franco has better looks.
And sexier from a woman’s point of view, that is.
I was just reading your brilliant article in The Malta Independent. I must say that people still think that you have to beg to get a job ‘issa nkellem lil dak u lil iehor’.
My friend complained that she couldn’t find a job for her 16-year-old but when I told her to buy the newspaper or log on to the ETC website to find a job, she couldn’t believe that it was so easy.
So I got my laptop and showed her how easy it was to get a job in Malta.
Has it become that easy to find a job that once you log with the ETC website you are given that job?
BLA SENS
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120503/opinion/Where-Gozo-is-second-class.418074
Who is this guy’s employer anyway?
The very same people whose cause he’s championing.
I only hope that he’s genuinely concerned and not simply out on a vote fishing trip. I guess I’ll have my answer soon enough.
What are you getting at? Your comment cannot be benign let alone ‘najs’.
[Daphne – Here’s another one from the literal side of the village.]
What are YOU getting at, Farrugia?
Looks like Joseph is mummy’s favourite though. Franco is not wearing a full suit.
My understanding is that Franco Mercieca is pretty competent whether we like it or not! And there are a couple of other new faces who are equally switched on – the likes of Chris Fearne and Konrad Mizzi. I have never met Franco but can vouch for the competence of the latter two. I wonder what the relationship with their boss is away from the camera! Is there genuine respect? Is their boss, who does not particularly ooze confidence, an inspiration and motivator to them?! Boqq!
They might be competent in their full time job but that does not make them competent as politicians or strategists and planners.
My thoughts exactly.
Then again, neither are the many lawyer-ministers we have, or the psychiatrists concerned about dog poo.
And Joseph is the etoile of course.
Franco Mercieca is very switched on.
I don’t agree with his politics or his outburst about Gozo Channel’s queuing system at Mgarr, but the fact remains that he is an excellent eye surgeon.
He operated on my sister-in-law a couple of years ago after she developed an eye problem.
[Daphne – He is an excellent eye surgeon therefore he will make an excellent politician and member of parliament. Poor logic.]
Not at all, Daphne.
But he’ll definitely make a better MP than the one he’s meant to replace.
[Daphne – OK, FP, you like Franco Mercieca. We get it.]
Nah! Is it THAT obvious?
Very funny Def, come on, show some respect please.
This is the tragedy. These types of upcoming highly competent professionals should not get embroiled in politics at this stage of their career but should continue to concentrate on their professions and give their utmost to their patients.
They definitely cannot afford the luxury of wasting their time on politics otherwise their professional competence is bound to suffer.
Yes, Mr Mercieca is a highly competent ophthalmic surgeon.
[Daphne – I’m trying to follow this line of reasoning (and it would apply to any surgeon not just Mr Mercieca). A highly competent ophthalmic surgeon as distinct from what? A highly incompetent one? One who is merely competent? An amateur opthalmic surgeon? There is NO ALTERNATIVE to being highly competent when you are, of all things, an ophthalmic surgeon. It’s not like being a car mechanic or, say, a journalist.]
It makes me very sad that he is branching out into politics. Both his family and his profession are bound to suffer more so since he hails from Gozo as this entails the added disadvantage of further loss of time travelling to and from Malta.
How exactly does being an MP make you less competent in your profession?
So you’d rather not have professionals representing Gozitans in parliament just because they hail from Gozo. How’s that for a good line of reasoning?
[Daphne – Obviously, their professional competence is bound to suffer, FP. Not in terms of their actual operating or diagnostic skills, but certainly due to time and pressure constraints.One or the other is going to suffer. The reasons why parliament is empty most of the time and MPs tend to see their constituents when an election is approaching and never in between is precisely because they are trying to do too much. Usually it is is their parliamentary work which suffers. But quite frankly, I can’t see how a surgeon can spend half the day operating at the general hospital, half the day seeing private clients, three evenings a week in parliament, see constituents, go out on the hustings, campaign for votes and spend time with his nearest and dearest. It doesn’t add up and Franco Mercieca will not be the first one for whom it didn’t. If he really had the good of the country at heart, he’d dedicate his spare time to working extra hours on knocking down that waiting-list for catharact operations. And if he is made health minister, which appears to be the aim here, the general hospital loses an ophthalmic surgeon. I hardly think that Mercieca will be serving the country better as health minister than as an ophthalmic surgeon. But so few people actually do go into politics to serve.]
I appreciate all that, and I too would rather have Mercieca stay out of politics for the same reasons you speak of, reasons that apply to all professionals going into politics and not just Mercieca.
On the other hand, no arguments put forward here or anywhere else are going to make him change his mind.
But my point is that being Gozitan or not does not come into it.
I agree with Mrs Caruana Galizia. Either you are good as a surgeon or not. If not, you should be dumped.
Then there’s Chris Fearne, also a Labour Party candidate and a paediatric surgeon. Mr. Fearne performed surgery on a boy some years ago and in the UK it was considered as a huge success as it seemed that even the British surgeons couldn’t handle this case. Someone like him will be wasted in politics.
Who is your identical twin, Daphne dear? Your illusions are fertile freaks. Do not look in any mirror you frighten yourself meeting your illusory identical twin.
Franco, sexier? Do not think so. You clearly have not seen him in life. Last time I saw him he had such large hips typically seen on women.
I bet my bottom dollar that this page would not exist and that all of you would have no humour to share about Mercieca had he been running on the PN ticket.
I can visualise a Hail Mercieca page on which the collective call would be “Look at him go, sacrificing precious time with his family and a lucrative profession for the good of the country!”
[Daphne – Not in my case, no. I tend to be suspicious of surgeons etc who want to do something else like go into politics. I can’t help thinking that they’ve realised too late they’ve missed their calling, and I’m kind of unhappy with the idea of a surgeon or architect who doesn’t really want to be a surgeon or architect but wants to be a politician instead. So be a politician instead, but don’t imagine you can do both. Those who tried ended up messing up one or the other. Law is different. Law and politics go together because both involve arguing and bitching about laws.]
I think it’s different if we’re talking about improving health services. One has to be in the thick of things to know what needs to be done – a lawyer would certainly be less suited for the job.
[Daphne – Rubbish. You don’t engage a doctor to manage a hospital, FP. In any case, the best managers and people to run things are engineers or chemists. And we never seem to have any of those standing for election, do we. Can’t say I’m surprised.]
The health sector needs a good manager knowledgeable in the field, not a law maker. I would care less about someone capable of delivering a good bitching in parliament, and more about someone who truly knows what the sector needs.