THEY’VE LOCKED TONI ABELA IN THE BASEMENT. Had you noticed?
It’s getting really heavy. They can’t force Toni Abela to resign, apparently, so instead they’ve shoved him into the basement and put him in leg-irons to stop him getting out and chasing the leader around.
For the last four and a half years, Joseph Muscat has only ever appeared wedged between his two deputy leaders, Anglu and Toni. But since Simon Busuttil was elected PN deputy leader, he’s felt the need to up the ante.
We know what happened to Anglu. But now even Toni has been ‘disappeared’. Joseph Muscat now only ever appears in public as a simple twosome with Louis Grech, which sort of makes it look like he’s brought his father along for reassurance.
It happened again this morning, with that press call in the Valletta Palace courtyard.
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Which one is the leader exactly here?
Every time I watch the press conferences with Joseph and Louis on the TV news, it is clear that Louis Grech gets very anxious at the stupid things uttered by Joseph Muscat, but unfortunately he is not in a position to contradict him.
This marriage will not last for long.
[Daphne – It will last just as long as Louis needs it to. He hasn’t only just got to know Muscat. He knew what he is when he accepted the leadership position, but it suits his purposes.]
Louis Grech is putting at stake his political (and maybe personal) credibility at a point in his life when it may be too late to recover it.
The thing with Labour is that due to the lack of brains around, it’s easy to rise to the top.
People who have the nous and the willingness to become Very Important People very quickly do so, even if they have to suffer embarrassment and humiliation along the way.
He chose the wrong casket long ago!
EC Commissioner being the ultimate target, not the current shitty Partit Laburista Deputat Mexxej post.
Joseph and our very own DSK?
Maybe one of the travelling circuses we had recently took Toni Abela away with them.
You may be 100% right. He may even get to meet the ‘elephant man’ himself and renew the acquaintance.
I observed, from the relative news item on TV, that Louis occasionally takes a peep into the papers in his hand and looks back into Muscat’s face.
Why? Is it to ensure that, by way of censorship perhaps, Muscat is correctly following the prepared script? It does not appear that he is making use of the usual teleprompter this time.
Future commissioner?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130113/opinion/Numbers-on-tap-and-no-politics.452977
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130114/elections-news/time-for-another-breakthrough-in-gay-rights-muscat.453227
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“In-nies, pero ma jridux politiku rowboat..”
Ara lanqas jaf jitkellem, irid jilhaq Prim Ministru
I’ve just heard Konrad Mizzi again stating that he would keep fuel oil as a contingency.
All well and good but does he know that he won’t have a chimney for its smoke because Marlene and Toni will demolish it. They said it on Friday on Xarabank and I think I heard ‘Muscat’ say it as well some days earlier.
On another note, I’ve no idea what KMB looked like when he was younger but watching Konrad Mizzi I somehow think that is what he must have looked like, hand gestures, facial expressions and all.
He hasn’t changed much. Only the hair is less upturned-broom-like.
This is what he looked like in 1984, prompting many teenagers protesting at the closure of their schools to use upturned brooms – rather than poles – on which to hang their posters during protest marches.
No more threesomes! And I thought they said they’re progressive!
Oh my – now he said it himself. So he’s going to remove the chimney but still burn fuel oil in the boilers.
Does he even know why that chimney is so tall? How will he burn the fuel oil safely without it?
The BWSC plant can today burn it safely enough to exhaust from short chimneys but it won’t be any more once converted to run on gas (it cannot easily be converted back to run on oil), so the only option would be to use the two boilers at Marsaxlokk and the only way to exhaust safely for them is to do it from a very tall chimney.
I cannot understand why no one has questioned this craziness yet.
The idea is to use gasoil not heavy fuel oil. Presumably, gasoil produces less emissions so won’t need such a large chimney.
There isn’t one testicle among all of Malta’s inginiera and xjenzati. What a bunch of spineless jellyfish.
Louis Grech does not look at all happy by the side of his leader and I am not surprised.
Judging by what happened to Anglu Farrugia and to Toni Abela one gains the strong impression that it is much safer to be a wife of Henry VIII than a deputy leader to Joseph Muscat.
All this talk about gays has made me realise that, to an outsider, they do look like a gay couple coming out.
More like ‘The Odd Couple.
The party has a place called purgatory where wrong doers like Mintoff, Anglu and now Toni are sent before being disposed off and later on recycled.
The next place in the waiting room is reserved for Konrad.
Louis Grech is no fool. He knows where to spread the butter; and I am more than certain that on no account would he relinquish his post in Brussels.
He will always consider the best options for himself. Who can blame him? I am sure he is keenly observing the shambles going on within his Labour Party.
Grech was looking mighty uncomfortable next to his young boss.
Yes. He’s gone. Very strange. Same with Astrid and the FFA. Not one comment on the proposed PL project.
Not even one iota of defence on behalf of the people of Marsaxlokk. Where is that FAA lady?
‘Louis Grech does not look at all happy by the side of his leader and I am not surprised.’
He is already seriously worried as he will be the second person in parliament to explain to the people all these gimmicks presented by Labour if the PL is in government.