My impromptu award for Headline of the Week must be split between two of today’s headlines
The award goes to The Malta Independent online just now, for its TV presenter throws toys out of pram for not making PN MEP list and to Times of Malta for its No bikini police on my watch: ex-chief.
It looks like the new PN candidate selection board and their Special Narcissist Detection Unit are doing their job thoroughly. Jean Claude Micallef’s reaction to the news that he has not been selected is the ultimate proof of how right they are not to select him.
He’s thrown a Franco-Jeffrey-Jesmond already. The Nationalist Party has said that its list is not final, and yet here Micallef is, reacting already.
If the PN is still considering his selection, let his reaction serve as a major warning. Men who throw tantrums when they don’t get what they want, and who think the world revolves around their navel, stay the same or get worse. They don’t get better and those are neither one-off incidents or transient phases.
The Malta Independent reports:
Jean Claude Micallef, an affable presenter on NET, the PN TV station, has expressed his disappointment at not being chosen as a candidate for next year’s MEP elections by the Nationalist Party.
Mr Micallef is also a member of the PN executive.
“I understand the deep regret of many that my name is not included in the list through which I can help the PN get the third seat (in the MEP election). I understand the hurt when a party that you love does not reflect the wants of the people who support it,” Mr Micallef said on the social network Facebook.
The PN announced a tentative list of eight candidates on Monday, but a spokesperson for the party confirmed that the list is not final, and more candidates can be accepted.
Mr Micallef lamented that he is “used to being side-lined,” but he took consolation in the fact that he has always found support from people, who he said he always kept “at the centre of his efforts.”
One former PN MP, Karl Gouder, gave Mr Micallef a scolding for airing his dirty laundry in public.
“Jean your loyalty would have told you not to put up a status like this. I’m sure the commission chose wisely and (in your) intent being a politician you have to learn to bow your head,” Mr Gouder said.
The exchange continued, with Mr Micallef insisting that “a politician is to stand tall always for his people in whatever circumstance and that is what I have always done and will continue doing. Not doing so will lead the people to put you aside and you know that more than anyone.”
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Jean Claude Micallef just did a Franco Debono – not a good start for an aspiring politician.
This shows that the selction committee/delegation chose wisely.
Regarding the Bikini Police, should this happened under the previous government, nahseb Eddy Priviteera ma kine nghid xejn hux? Yeah right.
Isma semmejt lil Eddie Privitera, ili ma nara xi post tieghu. X’sar minu jew issa kwiet ghax il-Gvern tieghu?
Nahseb Eddy Privitera imhabbat ifittex il-pilloli out of stock.
Probably
Ah, so now we have Jean Claude Micallef stamping his feet. Like Joseph Muscat, he probably thinks that he is standing up to be counted. Trying to make PN wake up and smell the coffee.
Jean Claude van Dumb
How very presumptuous of Jean Claude Micallef. Never liked the guy for various reasons and he never ceases to prove my gut feeling, right.
Well done Karl!
Spoken like a true leader. Not forgotten. PN take note.
Note to the PN’s SNDU, the more obnoxious the cuffs, the greater the risk.
What’s with all these cuffs, links, and chunky wrist watches lately?
Must be the law firms on Melita. Canali remains a mirage in this place.
The writing was on the wall … Mr. Micallef had already showed excerpts of his exhibitionist side during the divorce referendum campaign.
“I understand the hurt when a party that you love does not reflect the wants of the people who support it,” said Mr Micallef.
He has quite a high opinion of himself, doesn’t he, thinking that he is part of the “wants” of the prople supporting PN?
I support PN. I do not however support either Mr Micallef or his obviously over-inflated ego. We have already had enough of his type and they did enough damage. No more … please.
And airing his disagreements and disappointment with the party on Facebook is a no-no. That, if anything, shows that the Nationalist Party was right to refuse him as a candidate.
Micallef certainly fails the discretion and the loyalty tests. But maybe he’s simply angling for an iced bun from the government that is ladling them out already to his father Manuel Micallef.
‘He has quite a high opinion of himself, doesn’t he, thinking that he is part of the “wants” of the prople supporting PN?’
We’ve seen a lot of those, and the mentality seems somewhat accepted as a vote clinching method.
Simon needs to concentrate on what the people supporting the PN can offer. There were those undoubtedly had a vested interest, but then so did those who voted Labour.
What matters is why those who voted PN, ignored Labour’s promises. It’s not reflective, anti-Labour thus PN, it’s selective by default.
There’s loads of talent out there, in a way, starting from scratch will provide an opportunity. Even because most of labour’s method involves going back to the post ’87 phase.
It’s as if 25 years never existed, or better, they’re trying to repeat same. That’s why they’ll fail, In 1987 we didn’t have an airport or adequate power, progress was measurable, nowadays it’s weirdly different, finicky, ‘bureaucratic’.
Simon has a weak adversary, politically speaking, the agenda can be his.
Open Winchester collar, chest hair on show, and contrasting cuffs?
I DON’T THINK SO.
The European Parliament isn’t some bloody paid holiday.
Jean Claude Micallef, son of Super One chairman Manuel Micallef. Need we say more.
You’re kidding us right?
So that’s where he got that shirt.
Is his father going to be an MEP candidate with the MLP, by any chance?
What’s going on with Malta’s EP candidates? Why does it look like a popularity contest?
Jean Claude has just lost my admiration and respect.
I told him so in a reply I just sent to his rather nasty message.
Is it with these kind of people that we’re hoping to reverse a 36,000 vote defeat into a victory next time round?
http://www.inewsmalta.com/dart/20130729-attenti-li-ma-ji-olqux-fi-ejt
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I think both government and opposition finally match each other.
I had always admired the guy for his support for the Nationalist Party, in spite of his father’s loyalty to Labour. One may feel hurt if one thinks he is suitable for the post, but I think that Jean Claude should bide his time and trust the party to take the right decisions. Besides, if he had any grudges, he should have talked it over with the party leaders before jumping to conclusions.
There may not have been any bikini police on John Rizzo’s watch… but there was certainly a mad half baked Eileen Montesin on the steps outside St. Julian’s police station dressed in uniform with trousers rolled up to her knees, with sandals and eating McDonalds burgers on said steps.
Passers by didn’t know that she was an ‘Angli’ star and went to report the crazy looking officer to her superiors within the station….
Never quite trusted this guy. Over-inflated ego and his father’s antics….seems my hunch was correct.
Can I have your email address please?
[Daphne – dcg@proximuspr.com}
Here we go again!
A chip off the old block. Jean Claude, stick to TV.
How disappointing Jean Claude. What made you wash your dirty linen in public. Karl Gouder was right in his comments.
Alfred Sant held his first social activity in Gozo last Sunday to introduce himself to the locals.as a prospective MEP
Did one notice how people like Jean Claude Micallef speak of themselves in the third person, or in the name of the ‘people’ who want them to take that position.
Same thing goes for the leadership / deputy leadership position – people asked me to run for office, or people really wanted me to put in my nomination! Could they be honest, at least once?
Yet another Franco Debono. Thank God it’s showing at a very early stage in his not so promising political career. Send him home. PN needs people who know their place not big heads.