Phyllis Muscat takes a break from selling face cream
Phyllis Muscat
Phyllis Muscat is a woman from Mellieha who is somehow related to Evarist Bartolo.
She sells facecream for a living, and does quite well out of it because lots of Maltese women have absolutely terrible skin due to a mixture of the sun, genetics, wearing thick make-up all day every day, constant smoking and eating and drinking rubbish.
Rather than make changes, they spend money on magic potions that they imagine will somehow rectify this situation.
So good on Phyllis, who’s making a killing.
But not so good on Labour, because using the same reasoning that goes ‘Marlene Mizzi sells toys and cat suits, so she can run Sea Malta’, Labour picked Phyllis to organise its first (and probably last) fair and exhibition of all things Maltese: a sort of Ixtri Malti for the year 2012.
And it was a total and utter fiasco.
You had everything under one roof, from Maltese stone to aluminium doors, to honey and lace. The common factor? Made in Malta. The point and the USP? Who knows.
Now Phyllis Muscat has been engaged as a Labour elf – a rather large, heavy and middle-aged elf, though obviously quite well creamed, and not the usual 20+ variety. But there you go. It’s all hands on deck now.
And older ladies like Phyllis are especially useful, because they tend to be more brazen and to have had a poorer education. So they either don’t give a damn if they are caught lying in public, or even better, they don’t even know they’re lying because they’re too daft (outside the field of face cream) to check the facts before repeating them.
The result is this kind of pants-on-fire tweet from Phyllis today.
Phyllis Muscat @pinamuscat
‘RCC jiehu 330,000 euro fis sena salarju’ josephmuscat#afairsociety
Retweeted by leo brincat
2:40 AM – 8 Jul 12 via Twitter for BlackBerry® • Details
But Leo Brincat, who retweets it, has no excuse. He doesn’t sell face cream for a living and he knows exactly what Richard Cachia Caruana’s salary is (was).
Why, he even knows the meaning of the word ‘salary’, and that it doesn’t include the rent paid for an ambassador’s residence and salaries for his staff, which will continue to be paid long after the present incumbent is gone, whoever the permanent representative to the EU is, and even while there is no permanent representative. It will continue to be paid even under Labour when, presumably, Leo Brincat hopes to be doing the job himself.
But really, what can you expect of somebody who sat in KMB’s corrupt and violent cabinet? Leo Brincat should have been ground underfoot in 1987, for being part of all that.
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Taking Leo Brincat’s reasoning to its natural conclusion, we can conclude that Joseph Cuschieri earns close to half a million euros per year.
But that’s all right, because it’s not ALL funded by the Maltese taxpayer.
It is rumoured that Barroso has commissioned a seismic survey of the Berlaymont building.
The commission is wary that upon Herr Flick’s arrival the entire construction will shudder.
How much does that twerp Joseph Cushieri MEP make for doing bugger all in Brussels?
[Daphne – A package of EUR400,000.]
She is from Siggiewi originally.
Leo Brincat – future permanent representative in Brussels?
He made a mess out of the introduction of CET, let alone coordinating EU affairs across different ministries in Malta and the various Commissioners and departments in Brussels.
What a joke – it is going to be worse than a nightmare.
If Leo Brincat does not earn Euro 330,000 in salary, it’s simply because he is not worth it.
This is definitely not progressive and moderate politics. It is the usual Labour cocktail of envy and hatred.
I was surprised to learn how relatively little Richard Cachia Caruana makes.
There are others who make more doing much less.
It will probably cost us more to replace Richard Cachia Caruana.
Little Leo should try some of her disappearing cream, not that he needs to use much, given his size.
Phyllis’s husband, Paul Muscat, and Evarist Bartolo’s mother are first cousins. Paul and Evarist are known as the ‘Communists of Mellieħa’.
They are the black sheep of the family as the rest (me included) are staunch Nationalists.
Watch out the Communists are coming lock your doors and hide your children.
Are you for real jew qed ti tmellah ghax mill mellieha siehbi.
Thank god you re a staunch nationalistttttttttttttttt
Get a life gbin
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Anna, why don’t you explain to the readers of this blog that you were not even able to run a few stores when you returned to Malta after living in Canada.
You are a typical example of those people who project their failed life onto others.
Thank Super One for giving you airtime to show off your ego.
Adrian is right.
Paul Muscat, Evarist Bartolo, and Saviour Vella (former Labour mayor 1996 – 1999) were known as ‘communists’ in Mellieha during the 70s.
While the European left has evolved over the last 30 years, Evarist’s clique from university remain stuck in the pre-Iron Curtain era. Evarist is not only lazy physically, but also intellectually.
Ironically, they all live very well today. Typical hypocritical ‘communists’.
No wonder, the PL does not see eye to eye with the European socialists.
Remember Alfred Sant threatening to bite the tongue of a fellow German socialist EU Commissioner in charge of EU enlargement during the referendum campaign in 2003?
Despite all the re-branding and blue ties, the Labour politicians remain the old school socialists of 30 years ago.
Alfred Sant is a regular at Phyllis’s and Paul’s house. Reportedly, he found refuge there for a couple of days after the 1998 election defeat.
Is she the Grace Borg replacement?
The comparison would actually be funny if it wasn t so stupid.
Anna, the comparison is actually real and to the point.
I can’t help but notice that you, Grace and Phyllis are actually of the same size. It’s a pity that your plus size store in Mosta went under. Otherwise, you could have supplied Phyllis with a proper gown for the inauguration of the Labour fiera.
Anyway, you can always charm her with your cooking programme on Super One.
Yes, Phyllis Muscat’s Mellieha villa hosts a lot of Labour will-bes and has-beens.
Pawlu Muscat, her hubby, is there ‘ghas-somma’ because she’s very much the boss. Her children drive expensive new cars GHAX HAWN HAFNA GHAKS TAHT GONZI U HADD MHU QED JIXRI FACE CREAM.
And yes, Adrian is spot on.
Funnily enough, Labour Phyllis’s villa is called ‘PiNa’.
In fact, with all the għaks around, her hubby (ex-Communist) Paul left his teaching career and of course he didn’t die of hunger.
And she was a nurse, but she has made good business selling creams. By the way, she is actually from Siġġiewi and not Mellieħa.
Have you read Arnold Cassola’s article in The Times’ today? He ends with a question as to who is going to be the next ambassador. Is he really promoting himself?
Phyllis Muscat’s daughter works for Edward Scicluna in Brussels.
They are putting the phrase ‘hbieb tal-hbieb’ into practice.