Leo Brincat – his bio is blank
Leo Brincat’s website, leobrincat.com, has been given a new look with the words ‘ENVIRONMENT MINISTER’ blazed across the home page, even though this is not an official Maltese government site and he has no business doing that.
But this is Labour, so u ejja, mhux xorta, kollox jghaddi. Isn’t he the Environment Minister? Allura why not use that title across the top of his personal site? Jaqaw you’re jalliss? And so on.
Anyway, I went there looking for his year of birth and to confirm my suspicion that he’s around 70 (he must be about that, with a daughter of 40) and found the Biography section totally, but totally, blank.
Are we surprised? It’s kind of awkward telling your fans that you were born in the War when you’re painting yourself as young, fresh, liberal and progressive. And then there’s the long and illustrious history as a political slave to Prime Ministers Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici to worry about, to say nothing of his last brilliant stint in office as Prime Minister Alfred Sant’s Minister of Finance, who occupied himself with fulfilling Labour’s electoral promise that ‘this is your last chance to remove VAT’.
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Reply to Min Jaf Click here to cancel reply
Have to congratulate you on today’s column in The Malta Independent on Sunday.
What do you think is happening to journalists and the media in general? Why aren’t they asking the questions you bring up? What are they afraid of?
I have 2 theories:
1. They are scared of the knock on the door in the middle of the night and the men in coats come to whisk them off to a gulag
or
2. they’re a bunch of lazy c*nts.
Examine and discuss.
I should write a little Lonely Planet Guide to the Real Malta. You clearly don’t now the depths of shallowness (er) in which our press wallows.
It’s actually 3. They’re too busy discussing lost cats, human interest stories, and the fantastically humble new Pope.
PQ’s? What is it with these sub-literates?
No Daphne…he must be 64 or 65 years old. He used to attend the Lyceum at Hamrun with my brother.
[Daphne – So a spring chicken, then. Turns out you’re exactly right, and that I had it all along: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/habemus-papam-and-a-gvernasaurus-rex/ ]
It’s true that he seems to have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, but I think he’s closer to 60.
[Daphne – Yes, by a year.]
70+
I remember him living in the same street as us in Bormla. An only child with a very strict mother. From when he was a young tot, he always had great dreams and his mother always encouraged him to be better and greater than the rest of us children.
He had this notion when playing with the toy church that he had at home that one day he would be Pope. He was not happy with being an altar boy and becoming a measly priest. No, he wanted great things.
[Daphne – He had a toy church? Oh my. I recall Sandro Schembri Adami (my contemporary) had one of those. While the rest of us played doctors and nurses he played priests and pretended to say mass. He ended up in jail – still there.]
The last two figures on one’s identity card indicate the year of birth
Aged, not always.
Daphne I love your blog and I miss it when you are away for some time.
You make me laugh. But you also may me cry when what you report is something to worry about….tal-biża!
Nistennew u naraw.
Anyway – what are you expecting his bio to say?
The King of the Nerds