Oh, I just love this headline: “National Security Minister to advance on Eurovision tomorrow”
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May 17, 2013 at 7:59pm
Manuel Mallia is taking it to the top, with an official delegation to Sweden.
I hope he remembered to pack his spangles.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-05-17/news/national-security-minister-hitting-eurovision-tomorrow-1618870272/
La tkun Ruma tara l-papa.
He’ll probably take along a couple of jerry cans. Swedish spring water is excellent.
Mind you don’t tarnish his reputation after 38 years service.
His wife will love it.
The Romanian entry is very, how shall we say it, esoteric.
I wonder whether he’d be more suited to an attack from the flanks.
Huge tank battles rage.
Do the Vikings still pose a national security threat in the Mediterranean?
What a fearless “advance”
Reminds me of Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”:
“Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred”
So spangles is the new word for Viagra.
[Daphne – No, spangles are sequins, sewn onto clothes.]
Where does he wear his spangles? Is it THERE?
Is his trophy wife and nannies/maids traveling with him at the state’s expense?
If yes, are they taking any jerry cans with them? The water in the Swedish fountains is of drinking quality.
The advance of the light brigade ! Army platoons advance and not people as far as I know.
[Daphne – Any fairly attractive woman will tell you that individual men do advance, etil, and sometimes, it takes a platoon to fight them off.]
Awesome remark
And sometimes a coalition of allies, if they haven’t all been bought off or disabled.
The Malta Independent’s headlines are anything but coincidental.
Good for them!
Who is paying for this trip? What sort of national security/justice/police policy concerns are there in Sweden that require the presence of a minister from Malta?
Not to put any spokes in any wheel, but his immediate Guido crowd had loads of Eurovision lobbying experience. Just a question of updating oneself I imagine, for which personal presence is the only thing that does the trick.
They are still on their honeymoon, aren’t they? And what a better destination for Dr Mallia than Sweden! Besides, given that 90% of the population will be watching Eurovision, it’s a good way of being close to the people!
Look at his master Joseph, there he was (with the VIPs) following the B’Kara-Hibernians decider match a week ago. Isn’t that also a way of being “qalb in-nies”?
The irony is that after all the moaning about our country’s dire circumstances created by GonziPN, they feel so cosy and comfortable to find the time to attend such inanities.
It is said that one can judge a government by its first 100 days. In our case these have so far been marked by electoral paybacks and the creation of committees and boards to study and propose changes to the previous government’s projects.
Meanwhile, judging by the Renzo Piano project, everything will eventually remain the same. But at least JM would be seen as having tackled the projects which he used to criticise while in Opposition.
To make myself clear about the Piano project: First Joseph said it was inadequate and changes had to be made. To show off his boldness he even visited Piano’s atelier while he was in Paris recently (to attend a Joseph Calleja concert btw. These people can be quite sophisticated, culturally speaking of course!)
A couple of weeks later we get a publicised presentation by one of Piano’s architects in which it is explained that (among other things) the project is in such an advanced state that it is next to impossible to make any changes…
So there you have it. Wasn’t it Evarist B himself that remarked about his own party that “the more I see change around me, the more things remain the same!”?
This farce of a government can’t go on forever. Not even Mintoff’s popular adulation lasted more than 10 years because by 1981 he was already rejected by the majority of the electorate!
Can Muscat, by any stretch of the imagination, be compared to Mintoff who reigned supreme in far different circumstances than today’s?
National Security Minister? Sounds like the Maltese equivalent of the KGB. What does security have in common with the Eurovision? And why wasn’t the Cultural Minister sent on this jaunt?