They just don’t get it: as I always say, there are two Maltas out there, and they might as well be on different planets
Jaqq, what hamalli. So cheap and tacky and sleazy. Truly a suitable prime minister for an island which has been taken over by militant chavs. Mank ikollhom wiehed sura, jahasra.
The Times has run a story today about the prime minister’s remarks that the jury is still out on whether he made a mistake in nominating George Abela as president. He says he thinks it is the right decision despite everything, but couldn’t understand the actions of the president’s son in disparaging him at a Labour mass meeting.
The Times rang both the president and his son, Robert Abela, for their comments. They refused.
The comments posted beneath the story are just unbelievable. The vast majority of people giving their two cents’ worth haven’t a clue what the real issue is. They miss the point completely.
They think it’s about a president’s son being criticised for taking part in a public activity of the Opposition party. They say that the president and his son are two separate people and the son can do what he wants (as we all can, but there are consequences).
They say that it’s a free country and if the president’s son wants to speak at a Labour meeting he can.
Who and what are these people? They are culturally alien to me and yet there are so many of them and they seem to have taken Malta over.
This is not about what’s legal and permissible or not, you fools. This is not even about politics. This is about basic good manners, human decency, correct behaviour and not shaming the president in his role.
This is what it’s about. The prime minister, Lawrence Gonzi, sticks his neck out and nominates for the president’s position a former deputy leader of the Opposition party. He does so as a sign, though we are not quite sure of what. Malta Taghna Lkoll, perhaps?
In doing so, he upsets countless people in his own party and its supporters, not least the one who really should have been the nominee, and pleases nobody in the Labour Party because they are a bunch of grabbing, ungentlemanly bastards who never see their way through to being grateful for anything and, by their very political nature and character, take everything for granted as their God-given right and due.
Before long, the Abelas are running riot all over San Anton Palace and Verdala Castle, treating the places like their personal homes and leaving their baptismal plaques like spoor for posterity.
Then the president’s son, who has just scarred the garden of Verdala Castle with a fixed-down marble plaque to mark the baptism of his ‘who the hell is Giorgia-Mae Abela’ baptismal plaque, goes up on stage at a mass meeting of the Labour Party – when he is not an electoral candidate or party official and has no reason to be there – and begins running down the man who made all that possible for him and for his father.
He calls the man who made his father president GonziPN, draws laughs and boos from the crowd, mocks him, runs him down and worst of all, he shouts that the prime minister has created a clique which takes everything for itself.
This from the man whose father the prime minister had made president. This from the man who could baptise his daughter at Verdala Castle and leave a plaque there (so unutterably vulgar) only thanks to the man he disparaged.
This from the man who has been creaming it off from a monopoly on law services to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority for around nine years (that’s another matter, but it makes a mockery of his ‘klikka’ talk).
That’s what it’s about. Gross bad manners. Hamalli in suits. There, I’ve said. Too bad, and tough if you don’t like it. But that’s all it boils down to really. Chavs doesn’t cut it. They’re hamalli, pure and simple. And what’s more, they delight in being hamalli, and while they avidly pursue the trappings of materialism – cars, suits, clothes, houses, swimming-pools, wine-tasting holidays in Asti – they have no idea of the real codes of behaviour that immediately separate the wheat from the horrid chaff, none of which are material.
This campaign has drawn out the inherent hamallagni in the Labour Party, from the leader’s appalling manners and inability to do something even as straightforward as laying a wreath properly, to that crass woman’s ‘hello, orrajt, owkejs’, to Robert Abela’s horrendous churlishness.
They’re Godawful – one long, horrid parade of appalling taste, Hugo Chavez attitudes, indifference to protocol, and hideously bad manners. Damn right, the people get the government they deserve. The Joseph and Michelle JosephMuscat.com hamallagni combo is the manifestation of Maltese society today.
It’s pointless buying the suits, ties, cars and villas if you don’t bother with even the most basic good manners. You can wear the most wonderful suit in the world, but it’s the way you deal with situations like these which counts far, far more. ‘Hamalli’ has nothing to do with social background. Hamalli are people who never learned how to behave while growing up and who, once grown up, never bothered to find out for themselves. The Labour Party is riddled with spectacular examples, starting from the leader and his crass wife.
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“Kemm se jerdghu minn din iz-zejza ta’ Joseph dawk tal-Muviment tal-Gvern Gdid. Anqas dawk tal-pom pom ma kellhom wahda bhala.”
Thank you. You said it splendidly.
Not being a hamallu has nothing at all to do with money but everything to do with attitude basics.
Not all the gold in the world nor letters behind your name can buy you out of there if the basics are not in place.
I share with you the same feelings.
The Malta Labour Party not only attracts hamalli to it like a magnet. It breeds them, protects them, multiplies them, rewards them. And then it inflicts them on the rest of us.
Malta Labour Party: Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose – Evarist Bartolo tal-Iskandli.
As the old saying goes, manners maketh man.
Let’s have Labour’s take on immigrants.
It’s the litmus test.
About fekkin’ time! The directive from Imperium Europa, variously known as “Rightwing” (without the article) or “Nova Europa” is to vote Labour in order to defeat PN and their arch-nemesis Simon Busuttil (“burden sharing”, “Gizwita mnezza” etc.).
It is a giant contradiction in terms that Right Wing should support a party that’s been anti-European all along, and whose methods, discourse, people and leaders are so obviously non-European and – dare I say it – non-Europid.
So let us have this litmus test. Let PN turn the tables on Joseph Muscat and make HIM the Sarkozy here, forced to choose between the decent republic and the support of Imperium Europa.
You’ll always find contradictions in Maltese politics…..
What happened to Norman Lowell? I miss him, he was very amusing.
The National Socialist ethos of PL/MLP is deeprooted and evident to all – it is no surprise that they should willingly attract Lowell’s mob and any other floating rubbish – good riddance!
Let us win the election with words of reason, facts and beliefs..
Let us always tell the truth and let the ‘devils do their dance’.
If we are to lose this election, so be it, then we prepare for the next one – we must never give up!
We have a responsibility to pass Malta onto all our descendants in a healthier condition that we received it. For all the mistakes of the past 25 years, the Nationalist Party has achieved this – and we can do it again.
You remind me of Louis Galea and other PN veterans, who have yet to understand that a political party is not an end in itself. It is there to serve a purpose. That purpose is winning elections, and governing. Or the best manifesto may as well be literature.
I’m not talking about compromising any principles. I’m talking about forcing MLP to choose between principles and the “floating rubbish”.
So far, this campaign has been about trivialities, branding and marketing. If 1500 voters could swing the election last time round, then we need to bring Lowell’s supporters out into the open and have an open discussion about the issue of Lowell’s support for Joseph Muscat.
Sometimes I wonder if PN’s strategists even have internet acces.
What “disparaging remarks” did Robert Abela use? By calling the Prime Minister “GonziPN”. Since when has this expression become an insult? It was the PN’s battlecry for the last election. Heck, it even brought the PN victory! If the Prime Minister now feels uncomfortable with it, that is simply his problem. You cannot apply for work as a cook but then complain that its too hot in kitchen.
[Daphne – Robert Abela was crass and uncouth. He probably still is, but on that particular occasion, he definitely was.]
Albert,
you know exactly what inanimate description applied to a person is. Render him other than human.
During a mass meeting to boot.
Welcome to Malta! What’s new? It’s actually getting worse…..
One of the comments below the Abela and Gonzi article was by Emmy Bezzina, who wrote that Robert ABela can say what he likes because of freedom of speech.
May I remind Cosmic Emmy that it is the PN he needs to thank for freedom of speech and for the hdura he spews without restrain on Smash TV.
[Daphne – It is not a matter of freedom of speech, anyway. It is a matter of basic good manners.]
Well said Daphne. I agree with you 100%.
Your words bring to mind a photo of the President, years ago, during a GWU confrontation with the police. If I recall rightly, it had something to do with airport workers and busloads of union thugs returning from the airport being stopped by the police.
The photo is a closeup of George Abela screaming into the face of a police officer. The pure hatred depicted on his face said it all. If he had had a gun or a knife he would have surely used it.
Hamalli is a very apt description, one which lies just below the plastic surface of our President.
Too true Harry, that plastic surface. I’ve seen the baring of the teeth close up in a side comment, whilst presiding.
Forgetting the riff raff perched on the bottom rung, there is a considerable and growing group of people who have completely lost their focus on etiquette or who have never possessed it in the first place.
This group makes up a rude orchestra of un-tuned instruments and is partly the result of the present government’s success story.
The ‘finanzi fis-sod’ has effectively produced this residue and the more affluent Malta becomes the more by-product of this type may be expected unless a future government manages to instill a culture of sophistication and refinement in behavior.
Failing this, these ‘nouveau riche’ will slowly gnaw away at respectability and at the very soul of the Nation displacing a society blessed by generations of acceptable and respectful manners.
What they fail to understand, in their ignorance, is that culture cannot be bought but must be nurtured with patience. What they cannot comprehend is that this cancer will destroy everything around it and when it finds nothing else to wipe out, it will ultimately annihilate them.
These new rich pose the main challenge to the islands’ sustainable development.
Which is the only available form left to any future.
Development as in refining method.
The uncultured forma mentis inhibits style. In Malta, the effects are amplified, have to be tackled.
Labour as usual, is late.
Indeed, why did Piano’s concept horrify the usual suspects? They just couldn’t deconstruct meaning. The insecure followed.
If I say German SUV, which political manifesto comes to mind?
Blame Alternattiva, their ridiculous dress sense and the pitiful whining.
Blame this Curia, left leaning towards neomaterialism to make up for its zealots and their iconoclastic sugary pretence.
Nothing new, Daphne, because money seems be in the wrong hands in this country and you see it everyday.
It’s in your face. Good taste, manners and good ethics are virtues so rare they should protect the bloodlines in test-tubes.
You left one out: his boat. Pic 12.
http://www.loud-lime.com/chaudron/production28sport/default.htm
Nail hit on head. At least with old Dom you knew where you stood (even if it was in shite). This guy is way too unpredictable and is surrounded by sewer rats my 8.5kg cat would hesitate to tackle.
What does Mepa has to do with it?
Don’t tell me you are connecting Ian Stafrace (Mepa’s chief executive office) with George (l-ecellenza tieghu) and Robert Abela only because they own the law firm Abela Stafrace and Associates together?