Comments on: Leo goes to Thatcher’s funeral – and the DOI press release in mainly concerned with dropping the names of who he rubbed shoulders with at a reception afterwards https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Macduff https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968697 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:13:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968697 We were represented by a relic from a government Thatcher herself confronted a number of times.

And I’m sure that on telling her his title, she would have squawked, “Minister of what?”

It’s a funny old world.

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968473 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:11:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968473 In reply to ACD.

So is it seks that I’ve been having all these years?

]]> By: Galian https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968398 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:43:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968398 U ahna morna bil-ministru tal-ambjent!

]]> By: Min Jaf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968363 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:27:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968363 In reply to maryanne.

Ghal tal-labour, kullimkien palk, jew ahjar, cirklu.

]]> By: Min Jaf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968358 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:25:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968358 In reply to Antoine Vella.

Simple.
Leo said “Hello”.
All the others mentioned immediately said “Goodbye”.
Hence the long list of names in the media release.

]]> By: maryanne https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968318 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:10:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968318 “….ċerimonja li ttellgħat fil-Katidral ta’ San Pawl, f’Londra.”

Cerminonja ma tittellghax imma issir jew issehh. Jittellgha xi dramm jew kummiedja. Iva lanqas bil-Malti ma jghiduha tajba.

]]> By: WOW https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968258 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:36:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968258 Leo forgot to take a stool to stand on. The camera panned right over his head.

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968237 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:26:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968237 I’m waiting for the British government to issue a press release informing the world that the Prime Minister met Leo Brincat. And the Italian government, and the Kuwaiti government, and the EU Commission. And various European ministers who also met Leo Brincat.

So, how long was the reception? All these meetings . . .

]]> By: just me https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968182 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:53:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968182 “iltaqa” simply means they were at the same reception… Probably, they all just ignored him and were even unaware of his presence or who he was.

]]> By: Neil Dent https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/04/leo-goes-to-thatchers-funeral-and-the-doi-press-release-in-mainly-concerned-with-dropping-the-names-of-who-he-rubbed-shoulders-with-at-a-reception-afterwards/#comment-968128 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:16:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=31232#comment-968128 Fortunately for those of the Maltese delegation who may have been detained at the reception, Primark in Oxford Street closes at 9pm.

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