Does this look to you like a meeting to discuss changes to our marriage law?
What a bunch of freeloaders. Ara, trid tkun veru Laburist Malti. Maybe this was one of the new Labour government’s cost-cutting exercises.
We were told that Muscat went to the Vatican to discuss changes to our marriage law. I thought that was strange, because that is the remit of senior public servants and diplomats, not the prime minister.
Now we see they’d wangled an audience with the new Pope (God knows why, not very liberal and progressive, after all, or maybe Muscat thinks he’s Bono) and needed justification for a trip in which they were planning to include as many people as possible.
We should be grateful that Manuel Mallia has had justice removed from his portfolio, as he would otherwise have been there with his two-generations-younger imported wife and their three children, too, and the scene would have looked even weirder.
Something else – can those children be kept in school, for their sakes as well as everyone else’s? If they are going to keep right on being pulled out for one, two, three, four days during term-time, I’d expect the Education Department and certainly San Anton School to have something stiff to say about it.
Or do we have one set of laws for the prime minister and his wife, and another set of laws for all other parents (and children)?
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And where is Malta’s Ambassador to the Holy See ? Has Tonio Ganado been left conveniently behind in Malta?
On such visits in the past the Ambassador to the Holy See was always present.
Tonio Ganado might not have looked good in a Labour propaganda video which this photo-op was evidently created for.
I’m sure the Pope is far from stupid or uninformed. He will have seen through the mask.
Not so sure about this Pope. Seems like another chav to me. Look how he left a whole audience waiting at that concert in Rome, and then did not turn up, because of “important meetings which could not be postponed”.
The difference between the Pope and Joseph Muscat couldn’t be bigger.
In his first 100 days, Pope Francis set a leading example to the whole world by endorsing poverty as his guiding principle.
In his first 100 days, Joseph Muscat & Co chose to live the life of The High Society, organising soirees at the Auberge de Castille and at Girgenti.
Of course, I mean the first 100 days in office.
Muscat is really taking the mickey out of the nation. He seems to think he’s on a 5 year vacation paid by the tax-payer.
He is copying Obama to a tee in that respect.
In true Christian spirit we have cabinet ministers kissing the Pope’s hand/ring (a sign of submission to the Church) while at the same time believing that there’s nothing wrong with adoption in a gay marriage.
Why didn’t they just shake hands with Bergoglio ,to show that they truly believe in the separation between the Church and the State?They look so false.
http://papafamilias.stblogs.org/PP.jpg
http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Pope+Benedict+XVI+Conducts+Vespers+Notre+Dame+2xzPb4JT3mDl.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Pope+Benedict+XI+Meets+Spanish+Prime+Minister+_ioWr7OwrsJl.jpg
Trying to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.
Have a gander at Muscat @ approx. 0:39.
He looks like an overstuffed salami
Why the hell does he keep his right arm that way? Why can’t anyone of his so called advisers advise him on how to stand up properly?
Qisa gita ta’ Hamilton Tours.
Silvio Parnis biss kien jonqos f’dak il-grupp Malti.
Nahseb li Silvio Parnis qed jipprepara biex ikun ic-Cermen tal-Kumitat Konsultattiv dwar in-Nofsinhar ta’ Malta. Kien qal li hemm kollox lest, min se jidhol ‘l hawn, min se jidhol ‘l hemm.
So this was a family event. Wives and children, too.
Are the children specially exempt from school?
Children that age should not not be holding their mother’s hand on such an occasion. They should have been taught to behave appropriately, and to stand without swinging their legs about at the Pope – or at anyone else.
Something tells me that within a few years, those girls are going to be completely insufferable. By the time they’re old enough to understand that their father is the prime minister and they begin throwing their weight around as they no doubt will, given the manner in which they are being raised, he will no longer be prime minister, they’ll still be throwing their weight around, and what then?
In her excitement at raiding the sweet-shop, their mother had better take care.
At around 0.29′ on the video.
It’s clear to me that Muscat’s main motivation is taking the piss out of the PN.
Whenever I read about what Muscat’s up to or what he’s had to say about something, I ask myself if he’s taking the piss out of the PN and most times I reckon the answer is yes.
It’s a bizarre one-upmanship, taking your wife and kids to meet the pope. “Hey Gonzi, look who we met?”
How scary is it that an immature hack, whose raison d’etre is taking the piss out of the Nationalists, gets to be prime minister. Never a dull moment.
‘Dobbiamo incontriamo questa settimana o la prossima u ‘ntella in-nahha Nazzjonalista della famiglia per il meeting, perche` noi cari amici u Malta taghna lkoll’.
“Il Primo Ministro della Repubblica di Malta.”
Republlica di what?
Pope meets Britain’s political leaders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWLGNayGbE
Weren’t these the people who ransacked the Curia some years ago?
Oh, the hypocrisy and contradictions that come out glaringly whenever religion is involved. This is all the more evident within the Labour ranks.
As if it’s not enough that the visit was a purely propaganda exercise, they even told us that the Vatican anticipated the planned visit by a couple of weeks. As if to say how anxious the Vatican authorities were to see this New Phenomenon called Joseph Muscat!
U halluna, tridux?! Kemm tahsbu li l-poplu ghadu daqshekk babbu?!
It’s like watching a nerdy teenage schoolboy receiving some irrelevant prize and thinking to himself how great he is, and how lucky.
No wonder he thinks the Code of Ethics is like a briksa – it is so blatantly obvious that he and his lot have no idea of how to behave and that it is the first time in their life that they have to conduct themselves with some decorum.
Who knows why Joseph wanted to meet personally with the pope?
The way they are seated looks like maybe he wanted to confess something.
@ Alexander Ball
It is one way of looking at it. But I think that this bunch do not know anything about protocol, or else they couldn’t give a f**k.
May I remind you that during the Sant era the same foreign minister (correct me if I’m wrong ), forgot to go to Mother Teresa’s funeral, and didn’t send anyone else either.
Not all Catholics are devout and perfect Catholics. Even Popes go to confession. This applies also to Protestants and other religions. This does not mean that they are not Catholic, Proestant, Jewish and so on.
[Daphne – Jewish is an ethnicity, David. The religion is associated with it. Practising Catholicism and sometimes breaking the rules is not the same thing as not believing in the rules or abiding by them at all, which is how the vast majority of Maltese below the age of 50 live. Catholicism is not an ethnicity.]