Glen to Joseph: “HAWN DIL-MARA TRID TIEHODLOK B’IDEJK. TMISSEK NAQA U IMORRU.”
Glen Bedingfield, Joseph Muscat’s former colleague in the Super One newsroom, now his minder
In Malta Today’s video (see below) of Muscat’s royal visit to Hamrun yesterday, he comes out of what I think is the San Gaetan Band Club and there’s a crowd of old ladies and unemployed bums waiting for him.
I wasn’t quite sure whether I’d heard right, but I played it back again. His minder, the increasingly voluminous Glen Bedingfield, is heard saying to Muscat:
“HAWN DIL-MARA TRID TIEHODLOK B’IDEJK. TMISSEK NAQA U IMORRU.”
The old lady is exactly beneath their noses as Bedingfield says this, with a brushing-off gesture of dismissiveness and contempt, as though there’s a mangy cur at his feet. Muscat allows himself to be touched and kissed, but doesn’t even look at her, still less engage in any way.
And he actually RECOILS, trying to avoid any actual physical contact with her lips.
It’s weird and disturbing. It reminds me of the days when Mintoff built up adulation only to enjoy himself treating those who adored him with utter disdain, even making fun of them while they laughed.
I am now at the stage where I’m lining up the votive candles and thinking of popping along to church. It is not so much the prospect of Malta getting this man as prime minister with his scary government.
It is that I don’t think I can confront the reality of what it says about the way the majority of Maltese people think and behave. I can see all too clearly that Joseph Muscat the prime minister will be the result of something deeply perverse in the Maltese mindset.
Let’s be fair. You can’t only look askance at Muscat but also at all the people who will have made him possible, who have made him possible.
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Glen Beddingfield and Kurt Farrugia instead of Richard Cachia Caruana and Gordon Pisani at OPM. God help us.
Daphne , and I say this with all seriousness, if you really meant what you said regarding the Church, today I see in you a lady with a great respect towards our Christian Faith.
There were times when I thought that you do not care a hoot, but I see that beneath your wild, naughty, bulldozer, hilarious character, you have a great reverence to the Sacred. I am in admiration.
manum, I hope you’re not serious about Daphne being serious (about the church bit).
[Daphne – I actually do go when in extremis of sorts, but not to mass. And I am a dedicated lighter of votive candles in churches on my travels.]
So spontaneous was the gathering that a number of persons are seen waving the PL flag. Are we to believe that they take the flag with them popping out to buy their groceries?
Missu naqa ha
What the hell is Rachel Tua doing behind Joseph? Ara vera m’ghandiex x’taghmel.
In his interview with The Sunday Times, Joseph Muscat said that he last cried at the funeral of Glen Bedingfield’s father-in-law?
But Glen and his wife have been separated for several years now, and he was never close to his father-in-law even before they split up.
How does someone cry at the funeral of someone else’s father-in-law?
Joseph, you’ve got brown on your nose.
He strikes me as being somebody incapable of the emotions which lead to crying.
But Glen knows things about Joseph.
Mela qed jaqla l-grazzi ukoll minbarra li jahmel il-magija….Jaqq
So people just want to touch him now. Seems like he plans to become Labour’s new ‘Salvatur.’
I paused it right when he says so and I couldn’t believe my eyes. The posterior of a woman appeared on the top left hand corner of the screen. Then I pressed play again and realised it was Badingfield’s double chin.
How I understand Glen! I often have to do his job when I’m out with Harry on a Saturday morning. Beat them off with a cattle prod, I have to. They all want a piece of Canadian bacon.
It’s approximately 43 seconds into the clip. Please note also at this point the striking resemblance between Joseph Muscat’s head and Glen Bedingfield’s chins.
Quite a hit with old ladies, isn’t he? Wonder what else he’s got in common with Liberace.
‘Taghna lkoll’ – what are they referring to? The shops in Hamrun?
Well, been there, done that. Sacking the law courts was a good excuse for looting the shops in Valletta.
And Reggie Fava making sure to shake el Capo’s hand whilst looking ‘up’ to him.
Jaqq, I can’t stand them. X’ hamallagni.
‘Trid tmissu naqa’ lil Messija.
Jaqq x’fidilizmu (jew fedelta’?) ta’ nies.
And Mr Reggie Fava of Chemimart waiting in the wings to get his permits for 3 new pharmacies
I too had to pause and rewind, because I simply couldn’t believe my ears. Jaqq! To think that that awful lot will be running the country in a few days’ time.
Did he only visit the St Cajetan club? The other club, St Joseph, has a connection with the Farrugia Sacco’s.