Come fly with me, Phyllis
Did face-cream entrepreneur Phyllis Muscat fly out to northern Italy for Easter with the prime minister’s party, or did she just happen to be sitting behind him in Club Class by some terribly amazing coincidence?
She’s the mature blonde looking at the camera suspiciously.
Here she is, telling Queen of Bile Saviour Balzan about the ‘Kwalita Malta’ exhibition project that she and Joseph Muscat, then leader of the Opposition, hatched together.
That exhibition, held around 18 months ago, was a conceptual nightmare: it featured everything from home-packed honey to quarried stone to machinery to Gozo lace. The only common factor was that the product had to be Made in Malta.
“It was never done before,” said our Phyllis from Mellieha (how is she related to Education Minister Bartolo, exactly?).
Oh yes, it was, Ms Muscat. The Mintoff and Karmenu years were all about Made in Malta and il-prodott Malti. They even chucked the food market stalls out of the covered market in Valletta, and sent them to the newly baptised ‘Belt Is-Sebh’ (Town of the Dawn – a real Pyongyang name) so that they could revamp the building in hideous Public Works style and use it to house an exhibition of Made in Malta products.
It was called….IXTRI MALTI.
There’s a long and tedious intro to this video. To skip it, go straight to 3’40.
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She’s not from Mellieha originally.
[Daphne – Yes, I know. She lives on the Santa Maria Estate near the prime minister’s chief of staff, Keith Schembri, who was also on that Easter holiday with the PM. Quite a clique. Shame they left Jeffrey and Carmen out of the fun, though I can’t say I blame them. The company of a drunk given to ranting monologues can quite ruin things.]
I do not think she is related to Evarist Bartolo. Her husband is very close to Evarist and Alfred Sant, which means that she is a sort of mentor to Joseph Muscat together with all the elders.
Alfred Sant stayed in their house after the 1998 election defeat.
It seems that Jeffrey and Carmen are holidaying in Scotland at the moment..
Isn’t that where they store Earl Grey in casks?
Oh, she’s a Santa Marija Estate Socialist then. There are quite a few.
She lives on the heights, Villa Pina, Triq l-Etna.
She wears the pants in the family, while her husband Paul just washes dishes while she entertains the Labour elite.
She set up her business in 1998, made her money under a Nationalist government, and carries on supporting the defunct policies of the Labour Party. Amazing. And then they say that real Laburisti are not tribal…
Yes these people made it big during a PN administration.
I don’t think she’s related to Evarist. Evarist is a Melliehi and comes from a well-known Nationalist family (or at least it was) while Phyllis isn’t.
She is related to Evarist through her husband, ex communist turned capitalist (as you do) Paul Muscat. He is Evarist’s cousin and also comes from a staunch Nationalist family.
They fell out when his chum Mario Vella asked them to endorse Joseph Muscat whom they have been behind all the way. They are inseparable both politically and socially and their reward will be mega big.
“ex communist turned capitalist (as you do)”
He should follow in fellow converts’ steps and set up a TV production company.
[Daphne – If you are talking about Lou Bondi, I think he made it quite clear he was a ‘communist’ as a university student aged around 20. That’s a little bit different, don’t you think, to making a commitment to the cause and keeping right at it well into adulthood.]
During the campaign, Phyllis Muscat used to accompany Joseph Muscat as part of his entourage.
I saw her when Muscat went to the Xarabank debate.
I don’t blame her.
She’s expecting her business to flourish under the ‘new administration’.
I feel sorry in a way. I stopped believing in fairies, Father Christmas and magicians forty years ago. It’s strange how people still believe in them. The real world is so real. There’s no excuse.
Another “Dame” in the making?
12.14 to 12.40 bottom left hand corner.
Saviour has evidently heard enough of Phyllis’s crap ideology.
Watch Saviour’s foot flipping away like mad in utter frustration while he asks Phyllis yet another question.
Maybe Phyllis Muscat sponsored the face cream before the election so that Joseph Muscat and his candidates would look nice.
Phyllis and Joseph did it at the Fairs and Conventions Centre in Ta’ Qali and Lawrence did it at Harrods:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120313/local/malta-harrods.410974
Anke dak in-nhar tal-gurament ta’ Muscat, Phyllis u r-ragel taghha dehru fil-palazz tal-President.
Phyllis & Co. ma tantx jghinuhom wisq lin-negozjanti Maltin ghax biex taghtik tester biex thajjar lin-nies u tbigh prodott…l-owner tal-hanut trid thallas ghalih.
Some points re. Reporter video:
The interview focussed on business and how the woman’s business developed over the years and how it definitely will be better under a ‘new’ administration.
1) As far as I know, it is up to the individual to develop a business, the Government does not decide or dictate how one conducts his business as long as everything conforms with the law.
The woman in the video above, answering questions, is one of many business people in Malta, who decided to open shop to give a service and serve people. How the Government entered her scene is beyond me. The role of a person in business is to conduct his own business and not to involve ‘external’ people in it. People in business are not civil servants meaning they do not depend on the state, but on their own selves to operate freely, a business that conforms with the laws of Malta.
2) I get the impression that the scope of the interview was to a) obviously promote PL and b) to encourage people to believe that business and people in business will definitely improve their business under ‘a new government’.
Let’s get things straight once and for all: If I sold chickens ten years ago, and business has now slowed down because more people are selling chickens with me or people are tired of buying chickens so much that I no longer have a good chicken business, that does not mean that the Government is to blame. The fact that my business has slowed down shows that the market has changed, people have changed as everyone normally does, and that my product does not necessarily need to be in demand or perhaps I need to change my attitude towards my business and perhaps it is my fault things aren’t working as smoothly as I’d like my chicken business to work.
3) People are STUCK in time and expect things to remain as good as they were. Does anyone remember the Sony Walkman? It was one of the best things to have in the 80’s. Who on earth wants a Sony walkman nowadays. Now it’s all about the Iphone, Ipad and Ipod and Apple seem to have taken over the electronics industry. Ten years from now, it will be about music loaded on a chip the size of a button, which will be selling like hotcakes and pastizzi and we’ll be laughing at the present Iphones and Ipads. The world moves on, so Technology moves on, people move on.
Once upon a time, Sony generated most of it’s profits through the electronics market. It no longer does. Sony now reaps profits through it’s financial services, music and films sectors. Link: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/593f47c0-9f64-11e1-a255-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2PNiLLBy6. Who would have ever believed that other brands and electronic industries would have taken over Sony to create such good competition.
Back to Malta. The business mindset does not work according to the guy and the lady in the interview above. To be frank, they’ve got no business mindset at all. The business world changes, evolves, diversifies, slows down, picks up. It is up to the person behind the business to think about his business, to improve, diversify or close shop. It is not up to the Government to do business decisions for you.
Personally, I never would have thought that Sony would face such heavy competition as I always regarded Sony to be the best. This is how the world operates and people change, circumstances change but people around the world learn how to adapt to the changes.
In Malta, things don’t work like that. People don’t change, don’t like to change, don’t welcome change, people in Malta have grown but they have not grown up.
The video above only shows that people are Stuck, people want to be stuck, prefer to remain stuck and opt to remain stuck till death parts them from this world – surely, that is not good for business. That surely is a business’ death sentence.
It’s ok for some people like the above to want to remain stuck in time. She can do what she likes for all I care. The sad part is that these sort chose to keep 400,000 people stuck with them.
People who have a good business mindset don’t go moaning on TV to plead for room for improvement. Room for improvement is one’s responsibility.
‘Ixtri Malti’ is irrelevant – people do what they like with their money. The market creates choices. That is why it is called a market. What now? Stagnate the market Mrs.?
Therefore as much as the lady is in business, I also do business, if i have money, because I am a consumer and I have a right to trade my money, how I like. I shop for what I like, from where I like and how I like. No Government is going to make people alter their wishes once they have the money which gives them the power to decide what to buy, where to buy, how to buy. The gov’s role is to create jobs.
What the lady in the video needs is some books, the internet or a training course which can set her off to innovate for her business to grow. She needs to create.
Customers and consumers are just as powerful as the people in business are, because it’s them who dictate to whom their money goes to.
The role of the businessman is to create and innovate and to look after his staff, his customers, his consumers, and to strive to give a better service and with a smile, not to go chasing the gov for help.
Jaqaw go Santa Maria Estate hemm speci ta’ Primrose Hill set?
Beverly Hills
They did so badly under the PN that they bought a brand new sailing boat about 9 years ago and 3 years ago bought yet another much bigger brand-new boat in the Eur100,000 range.
Il-vera qatilhom bil guh il-PN fil-gvern.
U minkejja l-flus xorta bla grazzja.
Every business decision you make today affects your business today, tomorrow, and in the future – so become a good strategist.
A good strategist looks at all facets of their business today in context of where they are trying to go.
A good strategist reacts to problems positively instead of negatively.
A good strategist also welcomes change and turns it into an opportunity.
A good strategist can react quickly with the unexpected.
Take this advice so your business will flourish.
She is from Siggiewi.
Good one. H.P. Baxxter.
You should know, because you run a fashion store.
She also owns a film production company with Keith Allen Schembri, the prime minister’s chief of staff, and Pierre Sladden – called Grigal Films.
Labour should change their logo again and this time make it an octopus.
She’s a terrible advert for her own products. It doesn’t look like she uses them. If she does, then it’s even worse.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, stay out of the limelight if you’re peddling snake oil.
It would be interesting to know how many in this klikka paid the full KM business class return fare to Milan.
Move over Grace Borg.
Yep. Loud women with bleached hair and big bodies. Every Maltese stud’s dream.
I digress….but looking closely at the photo above, I can`t help commenting that our Prime Minister has big boobies.
Kellna bzonn l-employers Maltin kolla japprezzaw lil l-impjegati tahom kif tapprezza din il mara lill impjegati taghha
kieku zgur li ma jkunx hawn bzonn ta xi azzjoni ndustriali
ghax kolla tistahom qiesa bhalhom
Sinjura Muscat proset tas successi li ghamilt ,kompli sejra hekk biex thadem aktar nies
Good luck u tatix kas l-ghira li hawn ghal minn jirnexxi
Int qed tghir?