This must be Malta’s very first progressive, liberal, fresh and new bloated sexagenarian bullfrog
It’s interesting that the Labour Party is running one part of its election campaign like a criminal trial, with Manuel Mallia at the forefront, pontificating in out-of-date and fossilised legalese.
Is he really the best that Labour can do? The man is spectacularly unimpressive, and everything about him screams ‘stuffy old reactionary’.
Imagine fronting your progressive, liberal, fresh and new party with a stuffy old Valletta lawyer in his 60s, who talks with an accent and vocabulary like an escapee from a time capsule of the 1930s Partit Nazzjonalista.
He was at mass at the Nazzarenu in Sliema last Sunday – never seen there before by a member of my international network of spies – and when it was over, instead of going home like everyone else, he stood on the parvis and greeted people whether he knew them or not.
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Don’t you know? The Pope has resigned. He went to press the flesh instead of BXVI. Once an opportunist, always an opportunist.
It is interesting to note how everytime Labour is charging with accusations of corruption, Evarist Bartolo is quickly brought to the front in the role of the Inquisitor.
Manuel Mallia seems to be enjoying his new role with the Prosecutor, Judge and Jury.
Manuel Mallia issa qed ikellimna dwar il-kaz tax-xiri taz-zejt haseb li hu biss bravu. U qallilna missu gara hekk u missu ghamel hekk u hafna paroli fil-vojt.
Hallina Manuel u dur dawra madwarek! Mela in qed tahseb li kullhadd cuc jew?
Nahseb in-Nazzjonalisti m’ghandomx avukati bravi daqsek?
Imma kif kull min jithallat mal-Laboristi jahseb li kullhadd huwa injorant?
Ghax ihares madwaru u kull ma jara injoranza , allura jahseb li id dinja hija kolla injoranti bhal to madwaru.
Elementary dear Watson, elementary.
This morning Joseph set up his gentleman’s urinal in the Wignacourt museum, Rabat, where he delivered his daily party political spiel.
Had he parked his pissoir outside in the piazza, that would have been fine – though it is doubtful how entertained the caged birds and pigeons would have been with the proceedings.
But it is unacceptable that the performance was conducted in a church-owned and run museum.
Whatever possessed the church authorities to allow their premises to be fouled with partisan political business? Even Joseph accepts, I thought, that church and politics don’t mix.
Dun Gwann is always touting for donations. I’ll be buggered if I contribute anything to the Wignacourt Labour Party club.
Oh well. I told you they’d won absolutely everyone over. Labour is now il-Partit tal-Kultura.
Yep, Labour ‘culture’. Bats, thugs and clubs.
Bats, thugs and clubs.
Sounds like a carnival ball I read about somewhere.
Yes, my friend. A brand new carnival. Begins in March, on our ‘used to be’ wonderful rock.
Il-mara ta’ hija qaltli li fil-letter box taghha, ircevew il-leaflet tieghu bil-kulur ahdar, forsi biex iqarraq bihom.
Laqtitni ferm il-quote li gab fuq wara tal-leaflet. Din bis-serjeta… il-quote tghid hekk… “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.” Din qalha ‘Pope John Paul 11’, qalilna is-Sur Avukat, difensur tal-fidi. X’ipokresija.
Did he quote what Anglu Farrugia said about the family?
“A party leader has to be capable of keeping the family together. You need to work with the leadership, the administration and the rest of the party. He has to act like a father. If he’s incapable of keeping the family together he has a problem.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130203/interview/-Political-murder-.456016
Can Dr. Mallia tell us on Bondi+ that he did not give any advice to Toni Abela in the past couple of days about this case? He is acting like Toni’s defence lawyer in a court. He is even stating the facts of a case where he was not present.
A very apt description of Dottor Manuel Mallia (ex-President of Casino Maltese for 2 terms):
One “WHO TALKS WITH AN ACCENT AND VOCABULARY LIKE AN ESCAPEE FROM … the 1930s PARTITO NAZIONALISTA.”
And this one too:
“EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM SCREAMS ‘STUFFY OLD REACTIONARY’.
JosephMuscatDotCom huwa biss bahri tal-bnazzi.
“News that the PL’s event in Gzira was cancelled due to the inclement weather received a boisterous cheer from the chilly crowd.”
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/elections2013/PN-swieqi-20130212
Flash news: Toni Abela claims “I did not have sex with that rubber puppet.”
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/elections2013/I-did-nothing-wrong-Abela-defends-involvement-in-recording-20130212
“‘I did nothing wrong’ – Abela defends involvement in recording”
I think it’s stupid of you to make fun of Toni Abela. He’ll be in power in a few weeks. You won’t be laughing then.
Looks like Toni Abela is already in power. Hasn’t he been giving orders to the Labour police force already since 2010?
You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face on 10th March, sunshine.
It is an old Romanian custom to show up at strange churches and pretend to know the congregation.
Next thing you know he will be crashing wedding parties with his whole family in tow for free eats and drinks.
Eqq, kif qal Franco Debono darba – ”Kullhadd irid jiekol hux?”
Jiekol?
Manuel Mallia needs to go on a diet and spend his church-hopping Sundays on an exercise treadmill.
Mallia’s latest foray into Sliema households is in the form of a leaflet touting him as a champion of family values.
Mercifully, it does not include photographs of him in flagrate with his practice partner while both of them were married to others.
I thought his family values were related to the game of leap-frog as played in schools. Or Usa e Getta. Both valid.
Hadlu xoghlu mela lil fr Tabone…
Ghadni kemm smajtu jitkellem fuq Bondi+ u pprova jghedilna kemm Dr Toni Abela hu avukat bravu ghax jaf jidistingwi bejn kaz kriminali u kaz civili.
Imma nesa kemm jumejn ilu listess Dr Abela sahaq li l-politikant ghandi jerfa risponsabilita politika ta dak li jaghmel jew dak li jigri fil-Ministeru tieghu, u dan ghandu jghamlu ninkejja il legalitajiet imdawra mal kaz.
Imma issa ghax Dr Abela inqabad fdan il kaz, addio risponsabilita politika imma laktar importamti ghalih (u ghall haddiehor le) huma il-legalitajiet.
After years of riding the gravy train in his Porsche Boxter and putting criminals at large this old fart has the cheek to speak about corruption.
A Boxster at sixty is douchebag. Guaranteed.