Comments on: I can’t help drawing comparisons with that embarrassing farce, Mintoff’s funeral https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H. Prynne https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967933 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:32:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967933 In reply to Siehbi.

Hey Sieħbi, I love it. Well done if it’s your work.

Something else you might want to talk about – how the Maltese can’t laugh at themselves – something along the lines of “How dare a foreigner criticise us!”

If you don’t know what I mean, just wait till your blog becomes popular.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967643 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:05:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967643 My admiration for Daphne has just gone off the scale.

That gun carriage.

And it took a “cookery writer” to notice it.

Yes, it looks horrible, and it is unspeakably perverse when the honour is accorded to leaders who built their political fortune on anti-militarism. Even then, a gun carriage should never be towed by a vehicle. It looks naff, and it breaks all rules of protocol.

Some funerals famously featured a coffin and a military vehicle, with no horses. De Gaulle’s comes to mind. But the coffin was placed ON the vehicle, which was an APC. No gun carriage in sight. And De Gaulle was a military man, so it all fitted in.

I don’t know who the senior NCO in the AFM is, but I’d like to see him face RSM Lauderdale.

]]> By: Beppe Grillo https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967583 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:43:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967583 Can you imagine Daphne attending the funeral? She is light years apart … Baroness Thatcher was a firm believer whilst Daphne passionately hates organised religion.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2013/04/religion-and-politics

[Daphne – I do not ‘passionately hate’ organised religion. I just have no wish to be part of it. This does not mean that I wish to see organised religion eradicated. Each to his own, and all that – and I actually think organised religion adds to life when one is free to accept or reject it and when it is not imposed. You don’t have to be a believer to go to a church funeral, just as you don’t have to be a believer to go to a church wedding. In any case, Margaret Thatcher’s was clearly not a Catholic ceremony, so with your reasoning, what was Leo Brincat doing there. More to the point, what were all those non-Christian ambassadors doing there, one of them even with his head covered in a Christian church.]

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967553 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:22:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967553 In reply to Jozef.

They’ve got John Bercow, though.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967477 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:28:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967477 I don’t think the Geri Halliwell comparison is appropriate at all. She is still fit to elicit hearty phwooarhs. Her Maltese counterpart, on the other hand, looks like a waxwork that’s been left next to the radiator.

]]> By: Siehbi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967460 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:17:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967460 Have a look at this. http://siehbi.wordpress.com/

]]> By: Jo https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967417 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:57:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967417 Pomp and circumstance and the observation of protocol down to the last detail. Such an uplifting experience.

Rest in peace, Mrs. Thatcher.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967309 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:56:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967309 http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130417/local/mepa-environment-protection-officer-offers-resignation.465861

She’s not one for turning either.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967298 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:55:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967298 In reply to Jozef.

If he’s the only specialist in his field, then why doesn’t he give up politics?

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/i-cant-help-drawing-comparisons-with-that-embarrassing-farce-mintoffs-funeral/#comment-967288 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:50:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31199#comment-967288 http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-04-17/news/franco-mercieca-granted-private-practice-waiver-1409843200/

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