Liberal and progressive Astrid lets rip on Facebook
Published:
August 8, 2012 at 4:33pm
Astrid Vella
This certainly is the case with building projects. People make a fuss about coloured emigrants who only take the jobs that no one else wants. It’s the hordes of Rumanian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Serb, Moldovian and Croatian plumbers, electricians and tilers that worry me.
Coloured people, eh? Just like in the 1950s. I know that older Sliema types still speak about “coloured” people (“he’s coloured”; “she’s coloured”; “they’re coloured too”), but surely Mrs Vella should have picked up by now that nobody in the real world uses the word.
As for her use of “hordes” to describe those plumbers, electricians and tilers who worry her….tsk tsk tsk.
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Why is she worried about Rumanians, Hungarians and Lithuanians? Doesn’t she hold a EU passport too?
RUmanians?
[Daphne – Yes, that’s how it used to be spelled when Astrid was at school. She hasn’t kept up, clearly. Back then it was Rumania.]
Roumania’s my favourite.
I like the even more dated Roumania and Serbia was spelt Servia in those halcyon days before World War One or to keep the theme going, “The Great War “.
the MLP and their supporters are still Euro-skeptics.
I didn’t know Eastern European “emigrants” were also working in farming, tilling our land.
Astrid should be happy that the agricultural land she works so hard to protect does not go uncultivated due to lack of home-grown tillers, so why is she worried?
I thought she was talking about tilers rather than tillers.
Hi Frankie – they do too.
But so what? In my opinion, as long as one does a decent job and gets a decent salary, good luck to all, be them coloured or monochromatic.
Three spelling mistakes in 1 paragraph .. immigrants, Romanian, tilers .
The venerable Astrid is unaware of the historical fact that the Berlin wall went down in 1989 and the ex-communist east Europeans that she is so scared of, are EU citizens with as much a right as her to live and work in Malta. And no amount of shrieking and sqwealling from her will change that fact of life.
“older Sliema types!” And there I thought you were at school around the same time. Not at the same school obviously. I mean I doubt if the Convent of the Sacred Heart School would have accepted the likes of you.
[Daphne – No, James. Astrid had left senior school by the time I went there. As for the second part of your comment, it’s quite obvious you’re a foreigner. Or pretend to be.]
I’m speechless! You’d think she’d have the decency to spell correctly whilst instilling hate, but alas…. viva la revolución!
She definitely likes the darker type…