It looks like Manuel Mallia is still at it

Published: July 28, 2012 at 9:48pm

A reader, A. Charles (known to me), has just sent in this comment:

I have to share this. At exactly 12 o’clock today, I saw a blonde lady of about 50 pushing towards St. George’s Square an empty double-buggy with three empty jerry-cans in the posterior shelf.

My friend (he reads this blog) told me that she is the Mallia household water collector.

A little while later, she passed us in the opposite direction with the jerry-cans full of water and two young children in the buggy seats. This means she was pushing the buggy with 15 kilos of water plus two young children. This is slave labour.




50 Comments Comment

  1. Riff Raff says:

    For me it qualifies as suspicious behaviour, even without Anglu’s elephant.

    http://www.securetransit.org/

  2. pocoyo says:

    Confirmed. Nanny entered Mallia house in front of Hastings Garden at 12.15 circa with buggy carrying jerry-cans plus kids.

  3. Interested Bystander says:

    Then she carries it to the roof to fill the tank.

  4. ciccio says:

    “This is slave labour.”

    It is also theft of water, by my standards. But that apart, if this incident happened at 12 o’clock sharp, then the lady must have filled the cans during the musical display.

  5. Gahan says:

    Tfakkarni f’Duminku Mintoff (habib ta’ Manuel) meta kien jibghat lil mara tieghu tbiegh il-laring minn tal-gnien taghhom.

  6. Gahan says:

    Daphne, A.Charles is a dentist from Zejtun.

    [Daphne – Yes, I know. Of course.]

    • Leo Said says:

      I had lost A.Charles for a good 40 years and I found him again at Daphne’s …. from his remarks on this site more or less the same old Tony.

    • DPatient says:

      Oh my God it must be him. The name Anthony Charles brings me shivers. Sorry but I’m terrified of dentists.

    • Fido says:

      I have also known Tony since his student days. With all the pain associated with his excellent service, I still pride myself of attending at his clinic deep in the ‘sawt’.

      He is a bulwark since the days when attacks on his clinic door were the order of the day.

      Keep it up, Tony.

  7. Harry Purdie says:

    What is it with these people? He makes a mint defending criminals and then he steals the people’s water?

    A fitting candidate for little Joey’s bowel ‘movement’.

  8. Stefan Agius says:

    Could it be that Mallia has no running water in his Valletta house to avoid paying for water meter?

    Maybe he is still using iron pipes which could have become clogged over the years? Or is he hoping for Muscat to win next election and have lower water tariffs?

  9. Angus Black says:

    Do the police allow this?

    • click of cliques says:

      Il-pulizija x’aktarx jithassruha. Jghidu “Ara dawk it-tfal. Povri. Miskin, min jaf missierhom kemm hu fqir. Jekk mhux xi wiehed diehel u hiereg il-qorti, ukoll.”

  10. Harry Purdie says:

    News Flash: ‘Muscat soars in polls after leaving country. Seventy five percent say ^good riddance’.’

  11. C.Portelli says:

    This should be front page news tomorrow.

  12. Ghoxrin Punt says:

    Water collector? Water collector? Is filtered tap water not good enough for our Manwel?

  13. Aunt Hetty says:

    Uncle Scrooge is alive and well and living in Valletta.

  14. Marie says:

    That poor woman must be having Ceauceascu recollections.

  15. Bob says:

    What are you on about? Please translate for those living in Malta.

    [Daphne – http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/07/attakk-fahxi-u-insensat-fuq-kandidat-stilla-tal-moviment-bla-isem/ ]

  16. elephant says:

    Qamel ma’ qamel.

  17. Joe pace says:

    He’s preparing himself for when Labour are in office. We’ll all be doing that when we start getting systematic water cuts. So be prepared.

  18. Jozef says:

    If it’s some symbolic protest a’ la Mahatma Gandhi and the salt tax, why doesn’t he go himself?

  19. ciccio says:

    With Emmanuel Mallia, you can.

  20. The saint says:

    But after all is this water fit for human consumption?

    This is not fresh running water but water stored in a cistern located underneath the fountain.

    So it is basically stagnant water neither fit for consumption not even to wash with. Only of use to flush the toilet.

  21. Francis Bonello says:

    I have lost Tony Charles since my childhood. We were in the same class at the Birkirkara Boys Primary School. Very long time no see.

  22. Manuel ta' Fawlty Towers says:

    Is this guy for real ? Just in case you’ve forgotten folks, this man is our future Minister of Justice. Sweet Jesus spare us.

  23. Not Tonight says:

    Can you imagine the fuss that would be kicked up if it was being done by some one from the other side of the political divide?

    Why is it that Labour can get away with anything?

    The injustice of it all just eats me up.

  24. George says:

    Dr Mallia publicly confessed during the last PL General Conference that he and Joey share the same values. Is this one of the shared values?

  25. Aunt Hetty says:

    Does he send his nanny to steal the toilet rolls from the ladies in nearby cafes whilst he’s at it?

  26. Village says:

    Petty theft when still in Opposition…

  27. sasha says:

    Well, he could advise the hard up to do the same. It would be a good Labour promo: ohorgu bil-kbir u igbru kemm tistaw taht Gonzipn….pathetic.

  28. Insolja says:

    Just a reminder: In St George’s Square there are water taps; their water is good for drinking.

  29. Sophia Borg says:

    Daphne,

    From my sources, it transpires that the blond lady is in her twenties, not her 50s, and she is in fact the mother of Emmanuel Mallia’s twins. She has been doing this for quite a long time.

  30. Michael Farrugia says:

    Hi Daphne,

    I am a regular reader of your comments and I wish to congratulate you and tell you keep it up. Hopefully the Nationalist Party will win this election too.

    Have you noticed that Joseph’s front door in Burmarrad has now been painted blue?

  31. Allo Allo says:

    Perhaps he’s brewing up some magic potions, in his role as the Sahhar of Hastings.

  32. Norwegian Wood says:

    Maybe The Times can have a closer look at this story

  33. Heru Nugroho says:

    Mannie Mallia found himself on the seat.

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