“We sett we were konsidrink all opshinSSSSS. We wanted Your-Ipp to wake up and zmell di coh-fee.”
Kill. Me. Now.
“I oll-wess get nightmerrs effry night durink de summerrr wicks when my Homm Efferrss Minsterrr collsss me to inform me watt our arrrmy hefff to dill witt out et sea.”
Is he for real? Today is the 10th of July. He has been prime minister for around two and a half summer weeks so far.
And why would anyone ring the prime minister at night to say that the army have brought a boat in – is he that much of a control freak? They shouldn’t even be ringing the national security minister.
If the army can’t ruddy well handle a boat with a hundred people aboard with getting a hand-hold from Tweedledum and Tweedledee, imagine them storming the beach at Iwo Jima.
Oh, and another thing: somebody please tell the prime minister that the verb in Maltese might be the same for sinking boats and drowning people (ghereq), but in English, people don’t SINK. They DROWN.
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I’m burning my Maltese passport.
I’m just going to become English.
Wait till you have a green passport, then burn it yes
Let’s all meet up and make a bonfire with everyone’s passport.
That’s a live broadcast recorded off an iPad.
So the coconut tipped off inews.com ha jaghmlu scoop. How unimaginative. With a communications adviser like that, no wonder Muscat’s PR management’s disastrous.
It is very clear that Joseph wasn’t bluffing. He would have gone ahead with the deportation.
He wants Europe to smell the coffee. He speaks as though we are not ‘Europe’ ourselves.
Can I have mine with milk and two sugars?
A couple of police officers will help with the delivery of that too.
Maybe he thought he should speak that way because he was on Al Jazeera.
Just spilt another glass of wine (red) on my Persian Kitty, upon reading his inane comments. He’s really pissed off. (my kitty, not the APM) ( APM?– first Asshole Prime Minister since Dr. Zero)
This joke of a PM has totally embarrassed and isolated the country. Part of his Plan– ‘Time for Totalarism.)
Check that. Used the Labour spell check again! Should read ‘totalitarianism’.
Doesn’t Labour ever check their spell check?
Check that, they never check anything.
Pleease next time speak in Maltese and let them get an interpretor. This was too painful to watch.
His Maltese isn’t any better either.
So the Navy phones him up in the middle of the night.
Who on earth does he think he is?
Maybe, The Admiral of the Fleet, the Right Honourable The Earl Jellicoe during the Battle of Jutland.
Kemm nifilhu naqghu ghan-nejk mal-barrannin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDNDQLP3bPI&list=TL3UBHWTwZl_U
Kill me too.
What a mess our prime minister has got us into.
I never realised that we have a Navy. ( 4:25)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw
What a colossal dickhead. A Prime Minister who doesn’t even know his own Armed Forces.
I think this boy who was born with the silver spoon in the mouth never did any voluntary work to help the deprived.
He’s heartless.
At present, many young people from all over Malta are spending their summer holidays doing voluntary work in Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Naples and Palermo helping the poorest among the poor.
I don’t think this wonderful experience will produce another prime minister like this spoiled only child we now have.
I feel ashamed and hurt.
Some young people in Zejtun are helping out to build a school in deep hinterland of Kenya.
Spot on.
“Look”. It shows that he is a close friend of the speaker. He used to use the expression “hares lejja”
Prosit Daphne….. b’kull kelma li jghid jirnexxilek tarblu sew. Great job…well done.
Somebody please tell him that people don’t sink. They drown.
Muscat on Al Jazeera was pathetic, to put it kindly.
Never mind the English, or even the pronunciation, his words were so void of substance that the interviewer lost hope of getting any meaningful answer out of him.
He thinks that he can handle the international media like he treats the Maltese version of journalists. What a peasant.
It seems that Joseph Muscat thinks he can use the foreign media in his favour, starting with Al Jazeera. But I suspect his plan will fail. I do not think that left wing media in Europe will support his views on immigration.
They don’t. And not just the left-wing media.
He makes me sick. I can’t remember Alfred Sant making me feel half as nauseous. What a horrible man.
He concluded mentioning something about Libya as a strategic partner in Europe.
I dunno, but sometimes the planets seem to align.
Yes I heard it and I really don’t know if I prefer that or his “il-lahwa” and “il-marelli” on interviews.
Meritocracy? No I’m sure he had really meant ‘Mediocrity’
High Class? I’m sure they mean ‘Highly crass’
Then he sits there with that “arani ma” complacent look about him.
Is it really possible that he fails to see that it all comes out so bad on air? Does no-one notice? Are they scared to tell him or are they sniggering behind the scenes and enjoying seeing him make a fool of himself?
How effective his teleprompter was during his Mass Meetings/Press conferences!
His English is terrible. We all know that he’s boring in Maltese, but boy, he’s unintelligible in English. It’s as if English is his fifth language not his second and his country’s official language.
Did Al Jazeera put subtitles when our PM spoke.
I get a feeling that joey is gonna come out tops on this on too,
if he manages to struck a deal with the EU and Libya,and the number of immigrants arriving start reducing,his popularity is going to be sky high.
PN have to start working on this situation quickly cos they could be in opposition for a longer time then expected.
Wrong Nico. He may be able to gloss over the details when talking to an interviewer from abroad, but the reality is that Muscat has just shown his hand and didn’t give the public any information as to what he was actually thinking, allowing the racists to rise up.
That interviewer, for example, didn’t ask him what he thought of the approval he got from Norman Lowell and what it means in terms of what sort of trick he was trying to pull
The PN had better sell off their TV station, their printing press and their headquarters, disband the party and start afresh. Because they cannot even find themselves on the political map. Unless they decide which side they stand on, and articulate their position, they’re not fit to be in Opposition, let alone in government.
I suppose this is what comes of decades of jobs-and-GDP politics. We’ve become the equivalent of the Gulf States: prosperous, but politically bankrupt. And would we please stop fawning over Lawrence Gonzi. He led the party during this slide to oblivion.
I agree with you Nico. Despite all that is being said to the contrary here, Joey is getting attention and that is precisely what is needed. As we all know winning ugly is still winning.
Smell the coffee, says the prime minister of a island which drinks Nescafe.
How exactly does one compare illegal entry into a country on the EU border with Germany and Belguim, that share land borders with other Schengen countries and can’t possibly detect illegal immigration “at the door”?
I am literally shaking. Boy am I glad I have two passports right now. And one’s to the other side of the world.
Ma tghallimx jitkellem sew bl-Ingliz mal-Gizwiti.
Ignorant peasant
Seems like everyone rings Joseph first …
The journalist is a breath of fresh air? I loved hearing Muscat stumble and stutter when pressed.
Managed to watch the first minute or so. He lies through his teeth when saying that “we are left alone..”. Who does he think paid for most of his “navy”? And he tries to make the arrival of a hundred odd migrants as some sort of cataclysm. But he sounds artificial and ridiculous.
When Joseph Muscat cannot string a sentence together, he speaks in sound bites. Ever heard any PM say “smell the coffee”; perhaps David Cameron retorting during PMQs?
It’s always so humiliating when the interviewer is clearly more ‘with it’ than her interviewee in such instances.
The latter comes across as seriously lacking in nous and ability – as did Muscat here, because he is.
Imagine him being ‘done’ by the likes of Paxman. Then there’s his voice and pronunciation – both are really awful.
And those pitiful cliches like the coffee one – which NOBODY has used since the 90s – and the endless stream of Labour buzzwords & phrases, repeated ad nauseum, and they really do make you sick, all over the comments boards.
A number of things made me cringe, but mostly his literal translation of ‘hares’ to ‘look’ as he began one of his replies. To the English speaking world it just made him sound so rude, considering the patient, non-antagonistic style of his interviewer.
What an embarrassment.
I know that it’s really just a case of bad English grammer, but maybe to him migrants really do SINK, like the objects he makes them out to be.
Hats off to the Al Jazeera journalist. Maltese journalists watch and learn. As for Muscat. He’s beyond comment.
Sink? People do not sink they DROWN.
Time to hide my maltese passport again.
“smell the coffee”?
Because theyre black? How racist!!
The David and Goliath syndrome.
How amateurish.
Unfortunately the PM in this interview thought he was speaking to Super 1 or Maltatoday.
At one point he says he gets phone calls daily. I must have missed these daily landings because this year I doubt there were more than 10 landings.
Wasn’t he supposed to have taken elocution lessons in English?
His diction is horrendous, “werrr” for “were” and a disaster all through. Why didn’t he speak Maltese and have an English interpreter?
But no, Muscat thinks he’s great in everything, so no need for that. Jackass.
Did you all realise how he used the expression ’empty words’ from a literal translation ‘paroli fil vojt’…..