The national flag should be on the left

Published: April 5, 2013 at 10:01pm

And this is the foreign ministry, for crying out loud. All together now: U EJJA, MHUX XORTA?

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  1. H.P. Baxxter says:
    April 5, 2013 at 10:04 pm

    L-aqwa li ghandna podium armat bis-subwoofers.

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    • Janneke Pis says:
      April 6, 2013 at 7:02 pm

      The woman on the left is actually the foreign minister’s niece, Vanessa Frazier. Well, hello Washington.

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      • H.P. Baxxter says:
        April 7, 2013 at 1:35 am

        Hello indeed. Now do you understand why I wish we’d never been independent? We wouldn’t have jacked-up nieces living it up and doing sweet FA at our expense.

  2. Min Jaf says:
    April 5, 2013 at 10:07 pm

    Gorg Vella ma nahsibx li jifhem hafna dwar il-protocol tal ‘flugs’

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  3. La Redoute says:
    April 5, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    Are this lot congenitally unable to address any sort of audience without using a podium as a prop?

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  4. Mario Mercieca says:
    April 5, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    Gvern tad-dilettanti

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  5. WhoamI? says:
    April 5, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    U ejja, mhux xorta.

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  6. Spick says:
    April 5, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    You are mistaken, the flag should be on the right.

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    • Jericho says:
      April 6, 2013 at 8:25 am

      No, it should be on the left. That is the protocol with national flags of EU member states in respect of the EU flag.

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  7. the saint says:
    April 6, 2013 at 12:00 am

    Today Mr Matrenza wrote a pompous letter to the Times hoping to make his presence felt, thus enabling him to be reappointed as Maltese High Commissioner in UK, with the added perks of going on another shopping spree from Harrods to furnish his London apartment.

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    • Jericho says:
      April 6, 2013 at 8:26 am

      imma ser jibqa bil-ghatx ghax ghal Londra hemm Norman Hamilton lest bil-bagalji ppreparati.

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    • Ta sapienza says:
      April 6, 2013 at 10:09 am

      Yes, he was scandalized at the looting of stationery from government offices. He never squeaked about the looting of the Maltese high commission in London including priceless Caruana Dingli watercolors. Wonder where they ended up.

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  8. Kevin says:
    April 6, 2013 at 7:45 am

    In the US, the flag is flown on the right while foreign flags on the left. Do we follow the opposite protocol?

    [Daphne – The EU flag is not a ‘foreign flag’. We are a member state of the European Union. The EU is not foreign to Malta. Malta is part of it. The protocol for displaying the flag of an EU member state with the EU flag is as described, and not as done by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which got it wrong. This is not Maltese protocol, but EU protocol.]

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    • La Redoute says:
      April 6, 2013 at 9:58 am

      At Joseph Muscat’s Bagit2013 press conference the flag positions were reversed. I don’t think he’d take too kindly to being criticised by Mr Sharon Ellul Bonici.

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  9. BP says:
    April 6, 2013 at 8:28 am

    That post has been promised to Norman and Josette Hamilton.

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      April 6, 2013 at 1:04 pm

      Washington then. Or one of the other holiday postings: Belgium, Paris, Rome.

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      • Janneke Pis says:
        April 7, 2013 at 9:47 am

        Belgium is already promised to that relic of 80s Labour presenters, who can’t stammer a decent word in Maltese or English let alone administrative French. Le Palais du Roi will have a fit when he turns up to formally meet the Belgian sovereign.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:
        April 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm

        Who? Norman Hamilton? Charles Xuereb?

  10. Ian Caruana says:
    April 6, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    Mur ara Josette kemm se taghmel xopping.

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  11. Maltyser says:
    April 6, 2013 at 4:04 pm

    OMG will Norman still wear his gold bracelet at the Malta High Commission………very Del Boy

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