Cue the sound of merriment
Published:
March 14, 2013 at 10:57pm
Luciano Busuttil – MHUX ELETT
Jason Micallef – MHUX ELETT
Gino Cauchi – MHUX ELETT
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Where’s Mrs. Mintoff?
Yes, what has happened to her?
She’s at the UBS in Zurich, counting her millions.
Harry, surely you meant “her late father’s millions”?
Oh Daphne, thank you for your hard work and dedication. I wouldn’t have been able to get through the week without this blog.
What happened to Silvio Parnis, il-Ministru tas-Sawt?
Went further south.
Silvio struggled through on the 3 millionth count, but got no reward for his third term. Just imagine Franco Debono eh?
I’m sorry to be the harbinger of doom, but:
Luciano Busuttil: Chairman tal-Foundation for Tomorrow’s Schools
Jason Micallef: Chairman tal-PBS
Gino Cauchi: Chairman tal-Environment and Planning Commission
Lawrence Gonzi created a horrific precedent when he appointed an MP (JPO) as chairman of a government agency (MCST).
… um … the whole point of this post, as I understood it, is that none of the above is an MP (hence the canned laughter)
I meant appointing politicians (as opposed to mere “nies tal-fiducja”) to chairmanships.
But canned laughter all round anyway. Especially for that sad sack JPO.
Lawrence Gonzi’s worst trait was that he was diplomatic with the people he had to be hard with.
His worst trait was his infatuation with some very incompetent people of very dubious integrity. He propelled them to the top, regardless of anything else.
And they proceeded to build their own personal fiefdoms at his expense. Some of them were even rabid Labourites.
It is said that a great leader is one who can recognise talent. I say that an even greater leader is one who can recognise incompetence.
The most exceptional one to miss out was definitely Jason Micallef who some claims to be an important if not the most important puppeteer of the party. I guess Labour voters did not quite digest Anglu Farrugia’s dishonourable discharge to make way for him.
If Joseph Muscat really has good time-management but always arrives late, it can only mean that he does it on purpose.
You can get noticed continuously if you arrive always late.
Being a nonentity, this is one way of becoming an entity of sorts. It’s like the way many short men buy big cars and use seat pillows so that they can see bove the steering wheel and hopefully be seen.
As they say in Italy: “I grandi si fanno aspettare”. Is this the case here?
One of my relatives from Mosta told me that there was a persistent whispering campaign against Jason Micallef by people close to a few officials of the Labour Party.
Muscat arrives late you know why, to avoid having chats with other leaders before the meetings start, because he is not up to it.
I presume the first question that the protocol people asked on meeting him at the door was “Where’s your mummy?”
When asked that, naughty boys usually burst into tears.
You forgot the ‘Honourable’ Joe Debono Grech.
That big-mouth Toni Abela went on TVHemm and told everyone how he found him crying alone in his car after the results came out. He didn’t mention him by name, but everyone could tell who he was talking about after mentioning ‘kemm kienet ħasra li wara tletin sena fil-politika u ħadem tant, ma telgħax miskin.’
With friends like these to humiliate on national television while you are down, who needs enemies?
And he used to say that the Nationalists are his enemies, jaħasra.
[Daphne – If he said ’30 years’ then he wasn’t talking about Joe Debono Grech but about Charlie Mangion. Debono Grech has been in parliament for about 50 years.]
Okay, thanks for clearing that up for me.
So instead of humiliating Debono Grech, he humiliated Mangion.
Good heavens, fifty years and he still wanted another chance.
[Daphne – Debono Grech is 76. Had he been elected, he would have been in parliament until the age of 81.]