Isn’t this photograph just crying out for a champion caption competition?
The Labour Party released this photograph earlier today, with the press release below, embargoed until 7pm. I would have ignored their rubbish embargo had I seen this earlier, but never mind.
Right click to enlarge it. It’s ridiculous – the angle shows that the Poison Dwarf took it, shooting from below as usual.
I notice with interest that, as keen readers of this website, they noticed my remark about their earlier reference to a ‘dhow boat’, which I said is like speaking about a ‘lorry motor vehicle’. Now it’s a dhow.
And we were right, dear readers: the dhow cruise was indeed organised by none other than Mister Norman Hamilton:
The Maltese residents then sailed on both sides of the creek on the dhow enabling them to savour the various projects launched on both sides of the creek over the years. Mr. Norman Hamilton and Mr. Joe Borg, logistics coordinators of Dr. Muscat’s meeting with the community expatriates in Dubai, were present.
Kellhom dikso abbord?
They go all the way there to organise the local version of Silvio Parnis’s ‘harga ghal-irgiel – dawra mal-portijiet mal-Captain Morgan’. Now the Labour Party is exporting naffness, I see, because we seem to have a surplus here in Malta.
Joseph Cuschieri, Joseph Muscat and Michael Farrugia look like three dolts listening to a teacher. God alone knows what that turnip Cuschieri is doing there – isn’t he an MEP now? – other than that he’s still being paid his pound of flesh.
And that Michael Farrugia looks like he’s wondering whether she’s worth a go.
They even LOOK hopeless.
English version
EMBARGO – SATURDAY 09 JUNE – 19.00HRS
Joseph Muscat in the UAE
Dr Joseph Muscat, Leader of Malta’s Labour Party is currently in the United Arab Emirates on a short visit. Dr. Muscat visited the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Palm Island, a living concept of land reclamation in Dubai, the Dubai International Financial Centre and the landmark seven star hotel Burj Al Arab.
Dr Muscat will have talks on Sunday with officials of TECOM at Dubai Internet City. TECOM have investments in Malta through GO and are also present through Smart City.
During a reception hosted by the Leader of the Opposition on a traditional dhow cruise, Dr. Muscat met Maltese residents in the UAE. The Maltese expatriates expressed their appreciation for his presence amongst them and for finding the time to meet them during his short visit to the Emirate of Dubai.
The Maltese residents then sailed on both sides of the creek on the dhow enabling them to savour the various projects launched on both sides of the creek over the years. Mr. Norman Hamilton and Mr. Joe Borg, logistics coordinators of Dr. Muscat’s meeting with the community expatriates in Dubai, were present.
Dr Muscat is accompanied by Dr. Michael Farrugia MP and Mr. Joseph Cuschieri MEP. Dr Muscat will return to Malta on Monday.
Communications Office
Partit Laburista
PIX – Dr. Joseph Muscat, accompanied by Dr. Michael Farrugia and Mr. Joseph Cuschieri MEP, welcomed at the landmark hotel Burj Al Hotel in Dubai by the Guest Relations Manager of this seven star hotel in the UAE.
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It’s usually the general manager who shows VIPs round a hotel. Maybe that’s the complaints manager.
would have been great to see some photos of the grand boat tour. Still waiting for my Facebook friends in UAE to upload them… if they went, that is.
If they can’t get a photograph right, what chance do they have of running the country?
JM: One of us HAS to act like he’s thinking with his brain….
Why didn’t they publish a photo of Joseph Muscat with the expats on that dhow (boat)? It would have been interesting to see how many actually went to meet him and to “express their appreciation”.
“I’m sorry gentlemen, but we apply a strict suit-and-tie policy beyond this point. There’s a public restroom just around the corner.”
If this were a fairy tale, it would be GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE KNOBS.
How does one savour a project, pray?
[Daphne – Maybe it’s made of Twistees.]
That paragraph there seems lifted from a major news report by the Korean Central News Agency.
The funny thing about all this is that we have come to the ridiculous point that if it is something done by Gonzi it’s OK,but when the same thing is done By Muscat we try and make fun of it.
If I were Muscat I would do nothing and make sure that the P.N wins the next election.
This will make sure that the next Gonzi government will reap the fruits of his bad administration and as they say, they laid the bad and now they have to lay in it.
[Daphne – Actually, Silvio, the saying is ‘You made your bed, now lie in it.’]
Thanks Daphne, even at my age I am always eager to learn.
1. The important group of politicians from Malta is received by just a guest relations manager, not even the general manager.
2. Muscat is completely uninterested in what she is saying.
Muscat seems to be lost in another one of those Benito postures.
But not upside down. (dare you Daphne)
Harry, we will have to wait until he’s been installed in Castille and has taken the first few important and unpopular decisions to see that.
Why do you have to bring HIM in the picture.
Don’t you realise that some might feel offended ?
” Hmmmmm, when will they bring in the belly dancers?”
What a cheek.
******* hotel. Do they realise that they come from a country that is in recession according to il-Wink ?
What about their compatriots who are on the poverty line ?
No one in Malta can afford to eat kobe beef and they stay at a seven star hotel.
Yes seven stars.
One for every dwarf.
Good point. Hardly a sensitive thing to do.
X’kapricc.
According to internet sites, room prices at the “landmark” Burg Al Arab Hotel vary from USD 1,000 to USD 27,000.
The Royal Suite comes with a price tag of about USD 19,000 every night.
One wonders what it cost the Blurred Prince Joseph Muscat of Malta to sleep in that hotel, assuming he did.
JM. Ghandi vizjoni! Il Gvern ser jaqa minn hemm fuq.
Hostess: Is the person on my left with you two?
Lovely shot.
Cuschieri doesn’t have a clue.
Muscat is in outer space.
Michael Farrugia? Well, he is a conoisseur. He can separate the wheat from the chaff.
He is putting his ‘occhio clinico’ to good use here.
Watch him.
“Kieku gejt hawn qabel, kont nithajjar u naghmel il-gallarija tac-centru gholja sa hemm fuq, halli nara lil kulhadd dubbien.”
Who is that lady showing them around?
”Qed tara bhali Guz? Hemm ghanqbuta.”
Did they just go for a short visit to see the Burj Al Arab or did they actually stay there? If they stayed there it would be very interesting to know who paid the bill.
“If they stayed there, it would be very interesting to know who paid the bill.”
Damn right. And I insist that they should publish the bill, too.
Did the EU office of the 6th MEP, I mean MEP 456, pay for this?
l-aqwa dik il-qmis Tommy Hilfiger. L-aqwa li ma nistghux nixtru kabocci ghas-soppa imma.
Good point. Why is it that both Josephs have a Tommy Hilfiger shirt, same style? Did they buy that in the Dubai airport?
Joseph MEP 456 Cuschieri did not even have the time to iron his, or so it seems.
Bet they made a poor show in shirt sleeves and one of them in a t-shirt! They should have worn smart suits. That should be standard attire outside Labour party clubs.
JM: Tghid fadalli chance nilhaq bhala l-izghar Prim Ministru ta’ Malta?
MF: X’naghmillek jekk tigi sal-kamra.
JC: Kan yu pliz spijk slowly so I understand?
Just to get the facts rights: Muscat can never be the youngest Maltese prime minister. That ship has sailed. The youngest was Ugo Mifsud (35), who was prime minister from 1924-1927. Muscat is already 38.
[Daphne – Perhaps he aims to become prime minister for the first time at 39, like his idol, Dom Mintoff, who was born in 1916 and become PM in 1955. But then so did George Borg Olivier, who was born in 1911 and became prime minister in 1950. I suppose only somebody born in the age of increased life expectancy would consider 38 or 39 “young”. Back when they became prime minister, it was late middle age.]
Nahseb marru sun-bathing.
They can’t string a couple of sentences together in grammatically-correct English, and yet they aim to run the country.
Oh Mulej, meta se jwaqqa’ l-gvern dan l-imbierek Franco?
Hotel rep: “If all Maltese men are this short, I think I’ll stay where I am.”
“They sailed on both sides of the creek”
Marvellous. I didn’t know they could bilocate.
[Daphne – Both sides of the creek, eh? Goodness, they really pushed the dhow-boat out there.]
Dhow would you like it if I take you up the creek? Like I am trying to do to Malta.
“We operate a minimum height policy here. I’m afraid you’ll have to use the children’s tent next door.”
Is that like “Taht it-tinda ma’ Joseph”?
Guz, ejja naraw dik il-lukanda, halli meta nkunu fil-gvern nigu b’xejn.
“Mmmmm….ara, dik il-linfa mihiex moghtija bil-plestik bhal tal-mummy.”
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’.
So these are the new policies which Labour is keeping secret.
“As a new government, it had to work for the promises which were made and not kept by this government to happen.” Joseph Muscat
Il-Prattikament Prim Ministru u l-Prattikament Nanu.
That place is air-conditioned, so there is simply no excuse for them looking as if they are visiting the local pizzeria.
Ties and jackets should be de rigueur for official visits, and anyway a well cut suite can conceal a middle-aged waistline.
“Hawn tant hu gholi li tista taghmel indoor competixin tal-murtali.”
It is a little known fact that to enter the Burj Al Arab you need to pay a visitor’s fee. The woman in the picture is the concierge who takes you around to see the hotel and explains how it was built.
“They even LOOK hopeless”.
It’s uncanny but as soon as I saw the photo – without actually reading what you had written – I thought exactly the same thing. Incredible. They LOOK hopeless.
Joseph Cuschieri ma jafx x’ qed tghid. He hasn’t got a clue. Joseph Muscat seems to be contemplating the construction but can’t quite grasp it and Michael Farrugia’s mind is clearly focused on how SHE (the concierge) is “constructed”.
How about:
“Kemm hi sabiha u għadha żgħira din. Kieku taraha Daphne tifferoċja”.
[Daphne – A typically stupid comment, Martin. It should occur to you that with three sons in their 20s, there are always beautiful young women around – and I can tell you for a fact that I find it a whole lot more pleasant than the company of gnarled, envious and bitter Laburisti like you. Given that you are, presumably, a man, you should be more concerned about HER reaction to YOU, unless you are also homosexual and too frightened to admit it: the chances of her finding you even remotely attractive are…what?]
Martin, seems that you like what you see there. Go for it, man. She’s a blonde, so I am sure that you can converse with her on a level playing field.