Oh look, Carmen has wound up her clockwork toy again
The Earl Grey is taking its toll. Somebody is hitting the teacup a little too often.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has given an interview to The Malta Independent, saying that the Nationalist Party must lose this general election.
And why must it do that?
So that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando can feel comfortable with it.
Yes, really.
This, of course, is taking egocentricity to unprecedented levels.
Funny that the interviewer found it unnecessary to ask Pullicino Orlando how he squares his desire to change the Nationalist Party, by having it lose the election, with his wife’s now rabid activism for Labour and Joseph Muscat.
The Super One cameras homed in yesterday on Mrs Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando II in a prominent place in the Labour mass meeting crowd at Rabat, clapping passionately and laughing with pleasure as she listened to Joseph Muscat read words off a foot-operated teleprompter.
Pullicino Orlando is the object of piteous contempt and he doesn’t know it. He has been reduced to soliciting attention from the same two or three Labour wasters and losers on his Facebook wall, wondering where the hundreds who used to encourage him just a few months ago have gone.
“Nice day at the clinic! Lovely sunshine!”
Yes, thank you – like we give a damn.
I suppose he will now seek to exorcise his multifarious demons by spending the next six weeks on Super One television, helping to achieve his objective of having the Nationalist Party lose the election.
He doesn’t seem to understand that his credibility ship has long since sailed and is wrecked somewhere off the South Pole.
At least he can be sure that he’s one chairman that Helena Dalli won’t be removing any time soon – not that she would be able to do anyway, even if she wants to. Jeffrey and Carmen and Joseph and Michelle are a lovin’ foursome, ‘bast’ friends.
So basically, to paraphrase a notorious 1960s British whore, when it comes to declaring that the PN should lose the election, Jeffrey would say that, wouldn’t he.
As a side note: it’s never a good idea to be utterly contemptible when you are also physically insignificant. Small and nasty is not a good look.
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He looks haggard.
What makes Pullicino Orlando think that the Nationalist rank and file will ever want him back?
Hopefully they won’t. Rats remain rats in spite of all the botox you inject them with.
If I were Louis Grech or Edward Scicluna, I would really be offended. These two gave up their prestigious posts with a decent pay packet at the European Parliament, only to be sidelined by the likes of Robert Abela who is not even a candidate for this election.
[Daphne – They haven’t given up anything. They are still members of the European Parliament and still being paid by the European Parliament.]
I am noticing that little by little they are being pushed into oblivion by the Labour Party.
[Daphne – What oblivion? Louis Grech has been there just over a month. Basically, he was a good idea that failed immediately, turning out to be not such a great idea after all. He can’t function in mainstream politics, and the much vaunted charisma he has at the supper table just doesn’t translate to the mass meeting stage or television interview.]
On what basis are these choices being made? I honestly feel sorry for these guys sometimes, especially when Joseph continually claims that he will not be raising the wage of his prospective Ministers and MPs.
A contrast to this is Simon, who has been given the space and time by the Nationalist Party. I wonder how these two feel, especially when thinking about the financial losses they are going to incur for having made this choice.
[Daphne – They are men in their 60s. They are well past retirement age. They are old enough and seasoned enough to know what they’re doing. It was their choice and they had their eye on the main chance when they made it. There is no scope for sympathy. If they were 35 instead of 65 it might be different. By the end of JosephMuscat.com’s term of office they’ll be 70. Yes, 70. Ridiculous.]
You should have shown JPO with his fairy tea cup behind the rubble wall.
The only regret I have in voting for the Nationalist Party in 2008 is for giving JPO my no. 3 – and he even paid a house visit back then.
JPO was on my ballot paper in 2008. I did not give him a vote. With hindsight, I think I had a good foresight.
Yes, he does indeed look tormented – precisely what I thought.
It looks like these demons are going their full ravaging circle. Is it praepropere, acedia, ira, invidia and superbia that are eating away at him? Why is it so transparent to some and others seem blind or oblivious to it?
If you are raised without the discipline of values, where is the backbone ever going to be? A backbone is formed after years of discipline. This can’t be conjured out of a hat.
How will he ever be taken seriously by anyone ever again? I think people like him are self-condemned.
There would be more honour to his actions, even at this late stage, were he to go into retreat and observe a rule of silence. I’m certain that some respect generally would be found by both sides for at least that.
Whose ego is best served by what he’s doing? His own? Joseph & Co.s?
One thing that comes to mind: Hadd m’hu ser jahsel wiccek biex inti tkun ahjar minnu.
Why am I convinced that Joseph – the Co. conveniently relegated – only stands to deliver this quality of justice and fairness?
Let’s take it slightly further: why am I convinced that on the same pivotal concept, but for entirely different reasons, Louis will also be ignored and shunned once he’s served his purpose of seemingly raising the standard of the Labour Party from its intellectual (but not its cultural) abyss?
The photo of Joseph fawning over Louis gives me the shivers: Sets me thinking, again, about Yellow Stars and 1994.
Why did I find it strange that when Louis was ushered in, there was a big fuss made about his past as Air Malta Chairman and other positions held but none whatsoever about the, to me, more evident Mintoff parallel?
I have a feeling that as much as Joseph needs Louis as a step-up, there are stirrings of more than invidia in that generation of vipers.
Should the PN be re-elected I hope JPO is given the sack as chairman.
I have had it up to here with these so called ‘disgruntled Nationalists’. Let’s look at the facts – you are disgruntled if you expect something personal and don’t get it. If you expect nothing personal then you can’t be disgruntled.
The so-called disgruntled Nationalists are those who expected hand-outs and didn’t get them. Those who prefer the fish to the rod and the knowledge to use it.
In direct reference to JPO and Mugliett – an employee in the private industry who does not perform, or who completely screws up his/her job, is asked to leave.
If they’re capable, they find a job elsewhere and life goes on. They do not hang around and taunt their employer until they make the company they work for bankrupt.
Yes Jeffrey, yes Mugliett – you both screwed up in your positions yet you expected to be given important roles again. How did you work that one out?
I chose the rod and the knowledge of how to use it. I never expected anything apart from an environment where I could learn and better myself.
I graduated from a univeristy that actually paid me to study there. I followed a career because there was an enviroment which enabled me to do so.
When I took an opportunity to work and live abroad I did so because the party in government had a vision to enter Malta into the EU and therefore created an environment where I could.
I never expected hand-outs, I never expected to have my cake and eat it, and I never asked a politician for a cushy job. That is why I am not a digruntled Nationalist and that is why, although Air Malta do not operate in the country where I live, I will drive for six hours to catch a Ryanair flight to Malta to exercise my duty to vote (and take note JPO – it is a duty to vote) for the only party that can create that environment.
Jeffrey’s credibility has sailed off course long ago five years ago less a couple of weeks. The PN would do well if it commemorates him shedding crocodile tears.
Labour should be airing what they said about him exactly five years ago.
Would make delightful viewing.
Ghandu ghalfejn jghid hekk JPO meta kienu in-Nazzjonalisti li iddefendewh tant dwar il-kaz tal-Mistra meta kienet bicca korruzzjoni papali u irnexxielu jbellaha lil kullhadd li kien innocenti.
Missu jisthi.
Dan haseb li hu xi genju u kapaci jaghddi iz-zmien b’kullhadd ghax jaqbad jibki quddiem il-folla?
Hallina JPO u mur inheba. Nies korrotti bhalek fil-Partit Laburista biss isibu refugju ghax dawk dejjem iddefendew lil nies korrotti.
Pero’ int qatt ma’ xoft xejn u ghadek zghir ghax dawk juzawk u jarmuk. U nies korrotti u bla principju bhalekk hekk biss jixraqilhom.