Tanya Bayona off to Paris as the new ambassador’s consort
Off to Paris: Malta’s new ambassador, 71-year-old Vincent Camilleri, with his consort, retired ballet teacher Tanya Bayona, who gave a testimonial for Joseph and Malta Taghna Lkoll during the election campaign..
Retired ballet teacher Tanya Bayona is off to Paris as consort to the new ambassador, Vincent Camilleri. Ms Bayona was one of the ‘creatives’ (not a word I would use myself) who gave a testimonial for Joseph and Malta Taghna Lkoll during the election campaign.
I took it for granted that she was there because her boyfriend of many years, Camilleri, would have inspired her with his fervent passion for Mintoffianism and Muscat. She was never one to stick her neck out in politics, and she’s no longer a spring chicken and inspired by the passion of youth into doing new things, so I just assumed he would have talked her into it.
But I never dreamt the two of them were still driven by rabid ambition and the desire for status at their age. Does it never go away? Apparently not.
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Damn billboards, wish I was on one of them.
Is it too late for us to put our own up?
Maybe a dozen of us club together with a group photo under the heading ‘We Voted For Joseph’.
Am I correct that there is a Maltese saying “Il – Bambin ilaqqa” ?
Meantime,
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-06-01/news/listen-pm-for-leaner-ministerial-code-of-ethics-1731166208/
‘Leaner’ code of ethics. A bit like the Protestant’s idea of the sacraments.
Our prime cabinet minister’s spokesman has been taken up with this mess far too long now. It seems the only thing he’s interested in is justifying his behaviour.
Too bad he’s got a country to lead, why doesn’t he just loan his office as well, another waiver?
The code of ethics for cabinet members is twenty years old, so it’s no good, for Joseph Muscat.
We can go back to the Mintoff years when a minister was caught entering with his yacht unloading merchandise at the MLP MP John Dalli’s restaurant Tunny Net in Mellieha bay and when the then prime minister (Mintoff) used to keep horses given to him by Gaddafi in the stables of the Police cavalry section.
Now we have the prime minister hiring his secondhand UK Vat-free car to the state while his wife takes the kids to ballet lessons in another chauffeur-driven car paid by the taxpayer.
In the Mintoff years we had the PM rubbing shoulders with businessmen and now after hardly ninety days in office, we’ve caught Joseph paying a visit to a businessman all alone.
We’re fast returning to the golden years.
Labour never changes its lack of ethics.
A “leaner” code of ethics?
A “code of antics” is more like it.
The leaner a code, the cleaner, ciccio. The less rules to break, the less are broken.
Moreover, ethics should be fun, not restrictive.
Consider a code of ethics with just one rule, say, ‘Make hay while the sun shines’.
Now that’s a code they can all abide by.
You can have the strictest code of ethics ever, but if you then start giving waivers to all and sundry, might just as well scrap it.
I assume il-Bundy will sing ‘il- pajjiz tal-laghqin’ now. By the way, did he get his iced bun/s?
L-aqwa li qal li jrid jara l-grandchildren tieghu jikbru fil-meritokrazija. Iharsu lejn l-istorja ta’ nannuhom Vincent Camilleri u jindunaw ezatt fhiex qed jghixu.
U le, x’ rabid ambition u desire for status.
Tanya is a born dancer and just wants a final chance to Ooh La La and wriggle her ample derrière at the Folies Bergere. Bon chance, Tanya!
Last Tango in Paris, eh? Now there’s an overrated crap movie if ever I saw one.
But it did a hell of good for the different uses of butter.
He’s peeking at the Asian girl in the mirror.
The news is out in Paris that Ms. Bayona has also been given a post as consultant to the Moulin Rouge.
On a slightly different topic.
Here is a link to the court online services. If one were to type “cyrus engerer” in the “text” space, the system returns the decision of 31 May 2013 in Il-Pulizija vs Engerer Cyrus.
This judgement is interesting not only for the sequence of spicy facts which are now public, but because it deals with the subject of “circumstantial evidence.” The court actually cites from the case Pulizija vs. Pierre Buttigieg to state that, subject to certain conditions, even one piece of circumstantial evidence can lead to conviction.
http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/courtservices/Judgements/search.aspx?func=pdftext
I suggest George Vella should seriously consider Cyrus for the job at the Holy See.
Where did you get this from? Is it official? What a shame!
Why? Vince is more than competent and has already occupied the post of Ambassador to Paris.
Yes, there has been corruption but not in this case. If you don’t know Vincent’s career, refrain from writing nonsense!
[Daphne – It is precisely because some people know his career that they say what they do. One doesn’t dispatch a Mintoffian to represent one’s government unless that government is…]
I can assure you that Vincent, despite the mud people are trying to sling, will make a better ambassador than many others who do nothing but party, go to international business fair trying desperately to sell tea biscuits and local fizz drinks, or go round telling business journals that “Labour costs are around 50% of what they are in mainland Europe” (alias, Maltese workers are paid peanuts!). Obvsiouly, ambassadors or ambassadorial financial services are more than useless to any Maltese person who has built solid business through hard work.
[Daphne – Your conception of what is required of an ambassador of one EU member state to another EU member state is outdated, Joe. I also suspect it is shared by Mr Camilleri, hence his enthusiasm. But as they say, u iva, mhux xorta.]
Re having been close to Mintoff: what do you expect when someone is 71?
[Daphne – My parents are Mr Camilleri’s age, Joe (and that should put things into perspective for you, given that I am not quite a spring chicken), but they were most definitely not close to Dom Mintoff. But I did not expect Muscat to weed out the old Mintoffians, which is why I was not taken in by his sham circus. I fully expected him to have them installed in his cabinet and heading key organisations, like Malta Enterprise, which he did – a full seven of them in his cabinet alone – and now he is also dispatching them as ambassadors. This is most definitely not the dawn of a new age.]
In the UK, the Tories are still full of people from Thatcher’s era (despite that we know how the relation between the Tories and Thatcher ended.
[Daphne – There is no comparison between Mintoff and Margaret Thatcher just as there is not between Britain in 1979 and Malta in 1971. An appropriate and closer comparison for Mintoff and the situation/society that brought him to power would be Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And you know it.]
http://www.the-report.net/16-features/malta/257-q-a-joseph-zammit-tabona-malta-s-high-commissioner-to-the-uk
[Daphne – This is a most unfortunate comparison you make here, Joe, and I will not be drawn into detailing how and in what way Joe Zammit Tabona is in a different league to Vincent Camilleri.]
These tirades against every Labour appointments are not constructive. One can’t put the likes of Louis Grech, Edward Sicicluna and Vincent Camilleri in the same bracket as Silvio Schembri, Sigmund Mifsud, Jose Errera, Ronnie Pellegrini, William Mangion and so forth.
[Daphne – Louis Grech, Edward Scicluna and Vincent Camilleri have put THEMSELVES in the same bracket as Silvio Schembri, Sigmund Mifsud, Jose Herrera, Ronnie Pellegrini and William Mangion. This has been my point all along. Anybody who would choose to ally himself which such a substandard group of individuals/party must b definition be substandard himself. They have no self-respect, and probably no great intelligence either, and in Mr Camilleri’s case, he is clearly the same sort.]
1. If the UK (and the west) is in crisis it’s thanks to the liberalism promoted by her and Reagan, and her disciples – Labour’s Tony Blair…
2. I have no problem with people from the Mintoff area . New Labour (to use the Blairite term) does not necessarily mean excluding people from the past (unless they were thugs, corrupt or criminals). It should mean ‘new mentality’ and that’s what Labour should be judged on.
3. What did you expect Louis Grech, Edward Scicluna and Vincent Camilleri to do? Form another party? We know that in Malta a non-bipartisan system is not conceivable. Their choice was either to accept the party as it is or else go for the exit door.
4. Labour’s conceptual programme is where it shot itself in the foot. It was short term planning – yes, you get voted in, but when you set the bar so high, you need to make sure you deliver. In Labour’s (or PN’s) case that would never happen.
As to meritocracy – that is not a concept that could ever be applied to Maltese society where the general level of education and professionalism is still very thin. People still need politics to fast-track their career or to compensate for incompetence.
Labour will undoubtedly end up running on a two-tier system which will lead to its implosion.
5. With regard to diplomats (in the traditional Maltese sense), I believe that they should not exist at all (all I said was that Vincent Camilleri is better than certain others). They are useless and, most of the time, make an ass of themselves and the country they represent (it is incredible the boll…. that comes out when they address professionals or write articles). The way things stand, diplomats bear no incidence on Malta’s prosperity or the Maltese people abroad except when organising some stupid religious or pastizzi gathering for the diehards
What Malta needs are small and efficient consular offices, cultural centres, business liaisons, and tourism offices in prominent areas (not is some back street!).
1. If the UK (and the west) is in crisis it’s thanks to the liberalism promoted by Thatcher and Reagan, and her disciples – Labour’s Tony Blair
[Daphne – Thatcher left office 22 years ago, Reagan 24 years ago.]
Yes, but their legacies are still very present.
[Daphne – Let’s leave aside the fact that I don’t share your view of Thatcher and that I think she was good for Britain. If, as you say, she caused the problems, then what have those who come after her been doing in the last two decades? Imagine crediting Mintoff, KMB or even Sant with the way Malta is today.]
1. DCG: ” Anybody who would choose to ally himself with such a substandard group of individuals/party must by definition be substandard himself.”
I’m totally with you on this, but it’s a big dilemma for the political species.
2. Re Thatcher:
Thatcher’s legacy thrives because the people after her were useless including Labour’s Blair and Milliband. Her choices have had an impact on society, be it human rights, education, home ownership… They had an impact on mentality too – the UK became a country that’s reliant on borrow (hence credit crunch decades later). People seems to admire her because she had guts, but then so had Hitler, Mussolini…
I do hope he remembers to pack a good stock of those little blue pills.
You never know what effect the Parisian atmosphere by night might have on Ambassador Vincent and his Dancing Consort.
Very intelligent comment!
Most honoured by your endorsement.
“The little blue pill that has perked up the sex lives of millions couples will shortly face a deluge of competition, with copycat tablets expected to be sold for far less than the price of a coffee” http://www.thetimes.co.uk.
Yes the patent has lapsed and the market will be flooded with generics at one-tenth of the present price.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/shortcuts/2013/jun/03/viagra-lose-patent-pfizer-generic
Well the diehard Laburisti will say – it is our turn now.
Joseph said ‘meritocracy’. But what we’re getting is a gerontocracy.
Now that the Labour government has managed to shatter the concept of ‘meritocracy’ in less than 100 days in office, it is the time for an assault on “liberte’,” “egalite” and “fraternite.” There are five years ahead to redefine those terms.
Have you noticed how nobody’s boasting any longer about having voted Labour – switchers, I mean?
The Malta taghna lkoll motto is haunting them now because the Labour government is doing exactly the opposite.
Labour doesn’t particularly care. They know that it’s their party, and there’s sod all anybody can do about it. The Lord of Burmurrad is happily dishing out fiefdoms to all his starry-eyed supporters, and everybody is busy doing a Lidl sale trying to grab something.
The tragedy is that the ‘switchers’ are not to be seen or heard, doubtless embarrassed by the rude excesses of their erstwhile pin-up heroes. Or maybe, they’re hoping for a turn to get a sniff at the trough.
But by now they should be aware that they haven’t a hope in hell, unless their tongue was publicly buried in the Fearless Leader’s nether regions before the elections.
We are now about to endure a government of malicious clowns.
Paris, eh? That should allow for plenty of fashionable soirees for the high society, under the patronage of You Know Who.
Now that the honeymoon is over, they haven’t got a clue what to do next. So they are pretending to be consulting with the public.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130602/local/ministers-in-series-of-public-consultations.472286
Have a feeling that it’s going to be another 5 years of electoral campaigning by Joseph Muscat and the moonies.
I believe that there should be a ‘best by’ date for ambassadors and politicians. Anyone hitting 70 should be put out to pasture.
Ambassador to Malta in Paris
Should we hip hip hooray?
This was a reply to charon.
@charon: No, we are supposed to say “Oh la la.”
Victor Meldrew, from One Foot in the Grave.
Labour and its Galapagos Islands tortoises…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JKvNoZzOEw
Apparently our new ambassador to France is already a tourist attraction, at least for the Japanese.
My question to people with such a hard core politically sided person like this fellow Mr Vincent Camilleri is whether or not they are mentally capable and responsible enough to work for Malta as a whole and use a fair judgement in any of the decisions he can make in any contacts his office receive.
To study law…. to get clients like these….what a waste of space.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130602/local/two-admit-stealing-car.472282
Franco Debono… irrelevanti.
“‘Social media is the worst menace to society,’ says Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan after thousands take control of Istanbul’s main square.
Tienanmen, Tahrir, now Taksim………
You forgot Tunisia.
1. If the UK (and the west) is in crisis it’s thanks to the liberalism promoted by Tchatcher and Reagan, and her disciples – Labour’s Tony Blair…
2. I have no problem with people from the Mintoff area . New Labour (to use the Blairite term) does not necessarily mean excluding people from the past (unless they were thugs, corrupt or criminals). It should mean ‘new mentality’ and that’s what Labour should be judged on.
3. What did you expect Louis Grech, Edward Scicluna and Vincent Camilleri to do? Form another party? We know that in Malta a non-bipartisan system is not conceivable. Their choice was either to accept the party as it is or else go for the exit door.
4. Labour’s conceptual programme is where it shot itself in the foot. It was short term planning – yes, you get voted in, but when you set the bar so high, you need to make sure you deliver. In Labour’s (or PN’s) case that would never happen.
As to meritocracy – that is not a concept that could ever be applied to Maltese society where the general level of education and professionalism is still very thin. People still need politics to fast-track their career or to compensate for incompetence.
Labour will undoubtedly end up running on a two-tier system which will lead to its implosion.
5. With regard to diplomats (in the traditional Maltese sense), I believe that they should not exist at all (all I said was that Vincent Camilleri is better than certain others). They are useless and, most of the time, make an ass of themselves and the country they represent (it is incredible the boll…. that comes out when they address professionals or write articles). The way things stand, diplomats bear no incidence on Malta’s prosperity or the Maltese people abroad except when organising some stupid religious or pastizzi gathering for the diehards.
What Malta needs are small and efficient consular offices, cultural centres, business liaisons, and tourism offices in prominent areas (not is some back street!).
Che figura! Couldn’t they have found someone better? Who remembers when Snoopy was at the Paris embassy?