Those who voted Joseph Cuschieri into the European Parliament ahead of Marlene Mizzi were right
This is the sort of person with whom Marlene Mizzi feels comfortable.
I’m a little tired of hearing people say that Marlene Mizzi would have made a better Labour MEP than Joseph Cuschieri.
Why – because she owns a toyshop and a boutique?
You only have to look at her Facebook page to understand just how terribly unsuitable she is.
It’s littered with exclamation marks, excitable statements, money-off offers for her boutique and toyshop, photographs of ‘occasional wear’ in polyester, which she sells, pictures of her kittens wearing hats and photographs of the new shoes she has bought, all mixed in with the sort of political observations I might hear at the petrol pump.
Of course, she doesn’t like the fact that I say these things. She would rather I participated in the general silly chorus of admiration of her as a sort of dog that walks on its hind legs: a woman who is regarded as a paladin of business because she owns two shops and is also a woman.
But I don’t do that sort of thing. It’s patronising and offensive, and only a fool would be unable to see that. Nobody admires men who own two shops, or hauls them before the public as business gurus, potential chairmen of shipping lines, or heads of the Labour Party’s business forum. Men with two shops are men with two shops.
In any case, Marlene Mizzi has now decided to embark on a spate of convent-school playground bullying, which, at the age of 60, is unbelievably ridiculous. I had no time for that sort of thing even when I actually was in the school playground (not at the same time as Mrs Mizzi), let alone now.
Some days ago I was standing near the bar at a party, talking to an old friend who was in the school playground at the same time I was, and catching up on her news. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a big woman in black, hair scraped back and with ample shoulders and arms, approach in our general direction, heading for the bar.
I didn’t recognise her because my eyesight isn’t that great – all I saw was an outline of a big lady. I assumed she was heading for the bar to get a drink, and not heading my way to knock me down.
I carried on talking. Then suddenly I was hit by a major blow which keeled me over onto my friend. The big woman, whoever she was, had dealt me the classic ‘shoulder barge’ of the playground bully.
I turned round and said to the woman, now crowding the bar, “For heaven’s sake, do you have to be so rude?” And then I saw that it was Marlene Mizzi.
Unbelievable.
I turned back to my friend and said to her, “Can you believe that used to be the Sea Malta chairman, going round knocking people over?” This because she had no idea who Mrs Antonio Mizzi is.
We carried on talking, but Mrs Antonio Mizzi was clearly looking to pick a fight. These Rabat girls, eh? Next thing I knew there was a heavy tap on my shoulder, like Mr Plod the Policeman (“Isma…”).
I looked over my shoulder – Mrs Antonio Mizzi again. “Isma, excuse me ta, I didn’t realise…”.
Oh, I said to myself, here’s a turn-up for the books. She’s apologising. Maybe she’s just as poor-sighted as I am and knocked me over by mistake.
But as I began my gracious acceptance speech, she continued: “I didn’t realise you are so delicate” (pronounced delli-kitt).
Then she marched off into the middle of the room, so that she was adequately positioned at centre stage among the guests, turned round, struck a pose and yelled: “YOU REALLY HEV A CHIP ON YOURRRR SHOULDERRRR.”
My God, I thought. How very ill-bred.
You see, what people like Marlene Mizzi fail to understand is that when they make such scenes at parties, they are rude not only to the fellow guest they choose to assault (and being rude to a fellow guest is unacceptable behaviour), but they are rude by default to the people who have invited them.
So, what are we to expect of Marlene Mizzi if she becomes a member of the European Parliament? Shoulder-barging of people who have rejected her lobbying efforts? Loud, rude statements in crowded rooms?
She was clearly still agitated about the whole thing the next day, by which time I had put it behind me already as just the sort of conduct you would expect when true colours begin to show at the approach of victory and the scent of power.
So she posted the following on Facebook, among the pictures of dolled-up kittens and insults levied at il-gvern ta’ Gonzi:
Yesterday a person’s unsolicted vulgar reaction made me realise how bitterness , envy and hatred leads to an urgent need for visits to a psychiatrist! A true case of ” Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad”. Witnesses to the incident were disgusted.
Notwithstanding the ‘pulikarja’ and snobbishness this person tries to hide behind , this reaction also betrayed a tendency for violence, as well as crass upbringing – not surprised at both!
I read this with astonishment. Isn’t it just typical Labour?
She floors me with a blow of her ample brawn, then comes back to tap me on the shoulder looking for a fight, and when she doesn’t get one, she marches into the middle of the room and shouts insults at me….AND I AM CAST IN THE ROLE OF AGGRESSOR.
A story of Labour thinking as far back as I can remember. How can I forget being arrested and interrogated by Anglu Farrugia for assaulting a police officer when he had, in full view of others, assaulted me?
And then, of course, you have the usual horrid class envy and resentment (“pulikarja, snobbishness, crass upbringing…”) from somebody who has made it her life’s mission to social climb and put on airs and graces, then sadly letting herself down with shoulder-barges and shouted insults at a quiet party where she even fails to notice that her fellow guests, just like me, were doing the decent thing in pretending not to notice her awful behaviour, so as to avoid a scene.
I can’t wait for the new Hugo Chavez government.
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This incident indicates that Mrs Antonio Mizzi was provoking you. And then it seems that she even tried to bring her friends into the attack on you when she started yelling. The typical behaviour of a socialist bully.
I’ve been on the receiving end of similar episodes.
Had it been an innocent accident, she would have asked whether you were hurt, and if yes, she would have offered to get her husband’s official driver to drive you to the nearest polyclinic in her husband’s official limousine, the one in which she dispatches toys from her shops to her clients.
[Daphne – Her husband wasn’t there. She was unaccompanied.]
I know you’ve gotta a lot more couth than me, however, if I hadda been you, I woulda floored her.
No – that is not the thing to do. Daphne did right in ignoring her which made Marlene see red and continue to try to provoke.
Tripping in your own tongue Harry? Been on scotch or what?
…and using the same chav language, not forgetting to add deli-kit at the end.
I have said this all my life; there are some people in this world (in fact, more than some on this island) that if they thought and spoke well of me, I would be seriously concerned that I must be doing something wrong.
Marlene would have made a batter Labour MEP.
Can you imagine her shoulder butting Barroso and Kessler at an EU reception for ganging up on innocent-whiter than white John Dalli, miskin, taf int, huBastjan.
As Helen of Troy was the face that launched a thousand ships, Mrs. Mizzi sank only one ship at defunct Sea Malta – she has quite a long way to go.
Not to detract anything from the rest of the article, but this bit is quite interesting:
“Nobody admires men who own two shops, or hauls them before the public as business gurus, potential chairmen of shipping lines, or heads of the Labour Party’s business forum. Men with two shops are men with two shops.”
Well, the men with shops might be made Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Self Employed, and suddenly become a paladin of social matters by chairing the Standing Committee on Social Affairs.
[Daphne – Ah, but that’s because they have a seat in parliament, and can make a fuss about the votes they bring in. It has nothing to do with the two shops and nobody is mistaking Edwin Vassallo for a captain of industry. In fact, I have myself made the direct comparison between Edwin Vassallo and Marlene Mizzi several times, and pointed out how absurd it is to suggest that Mrs Mizzi’s experience is in any way different.]
And you might even be touted all across Europe and the world as a dashing “Maltese entrepreneur” for owning a kiosk on the Sliema front, and peddling circus acts in a parking area in Naxxar.
With his sights on Eur 60 million you can’t say he isn’t enterprising.
Well done, Daphne, for having kept cool, calm and collected. She wanted a scene to boast about just before the elections and you didn’t oblige. Unless I’m wrong and she’s not contesting.
Out of context, but is Simone Cini reading law?
For sod’s sake, not another one!
Ghidlu x’inhu gej la tigi s-Siegha tal-Bodbod!
What are the odds that a couple of her friends were ready with their mobile phone cameras out to shoot the ensuing scene. Obviously, leaving out the part where she butted you.
They must have hoped you’d retaliate, at least verbally, but infinitely preferable, physically.
Ah! What a disappointment for her.
[Daphne – She didn’t have any friends with her, just a younger woman who might well have been her daughter. But the arrogance was just incredible.]
Daphne, I suspect it was deliberate provocation from her side. You are definitely the most liked woman amongst LP supporters. As long as you were not hurt, I would forget it altogether. In fact I would be polite and courteous to her, as they say in Maltese ‘halli tindannah’.
…please amend ‘You are definitely the most liked… ‘ to read ‘You are definitely NOT the most liked…’.
Since you mentioned Anglu Farrugia, here’s an interesting letter in Today’s Times:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121031/letters/Unwanted-birthday-wishes.443414
How about her side of the story?
[Daphne – There are no ‘sides’ to events. There are only facts. If I had been the one who accosted Mrs Mizzi, I wouldn’t have put this incident under the spotlight. Perhaps you are now going to suggest that I fell over and pretended that she hit me?]
Of handbags and catfights
When a person stoops so low as this toymonger did,and in the company of others,then she should be banned from such events.
An ill-bred person, is like an ill-bred animal, not fit to be with human beings.
She was definitely trying to pick a fight with you, no doubt about it. She might be good looking for her age, but the moment she opens her mouth to speak well she’s Labour all the way.
I hate to think what would have happened if Ms. Meritocracy was among the guests. She would have willingly lent a helping hand.
If I recall she was the ‘mara ta-success’ tal-Labour.
Hate to think what the rest of the chavs are like.
Hugo Chavez government indeed.
This is what the Most Feminist Government in Malta’s history will be made of.
Nisa ta’ Success. Laburisti.
How DARE they pick on OUR Daphne?! We’ll show ’em.
And since it’s Halloween and all that, here’s to our favourite witch.
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“You really have a chip on your shoulder!”
Is that the best she could come up with after seething with rage towards you for all this time. Can’t say the woman has much imagination. Typical Hugo Chavez supporter.
“Those who voted Joseph Cuschieri into the European Parliament ahead of Marlene Mizzi were right”
The headline is the biggest insult to Mizzi.
This Maltese saying fits perfectly. Il qahba milli ikollha ittik.
I think the worst part of it all, is the Facebook bit. It shows that there are people who try to impress with lies.
The typical bully – and on the other hand, she’s so childish.
Regarding her boutique, she caters for a certain quality of people which could make a big clientele: “ghall-massa”. Probably she would never dream of wearing those clothes herself.
Judging by the photos posted on Facebook by very many Maltese women of a certain type, she probably does have a big clientele.
Typical of hamalli. They lose the argument, they turn physical/violent. Will they ever change? It is a ‘small’ incident, but what an eye-opener it is.
Are you sure that Marlene did not barge into you to knock that chip she saw on your shoulder, and that her loud outburst was an exclamation of surprise that she had not managed to do that?
I am lucky to be out of the way.
It seems that this woman does not care for her husband’s dignity, being a magistrate.
Maybe she’d had one too many. Just no manners, no class.
One word: Imsieken.
By big woman, do you mean a fat one?
[Daphne – No. Mrs Mizzi is not fat. Big as in well-built, tall and solid, you know – hefty, with big arms. Useful when moving furniture, that kind of thing.]
Understood. Had a wrong impression of her – she never came across to me as being particularly built or tall.
Tesagerax Daphne ghax kulhadd jaf li Marlene Mizzi m’ghandiex din il-figura. Tall and solid yes but not hefty with big arms.
[Daphne – She is extremely hefty and has very big arms. She wasn’t like that, but she is now. Let’s put it this way, it would be kind of difficult for a size 8 woman to knock me over, given that I’m not exactly Miss Pixie. ]
I don’t think her size has anything to do with it.
Just because she may be built like a brick sh**house does not give her licence to go barging into other guests.
The fact that she starts her Facebook posts with “methinks” already says a lot about her. Not to mention that awful new Maltese expression “xejn sew”. What’s this Maltese Facebook language?
As they say in Maltese, kemm hi cercura.
Daphne, once the ex-Chairman of Sea Malta started moving in your direction, she could not avoid ramming you; you know how hard it is for a large vessel to change course.
But she could at least have given you warning because, as she later proved, her foghorn was working perfectly..
How typical of Labour individuals. I get a lot of that at my workplace, usually accompanied by crying and tantrums.
Oh and running to the manager, crying ‘I’m the victim’, when in reality they are the bullies. I cant stand this victim mentality.
She didn’t criticize the government for increasing magistrates salaries.