Discussing breast surgery with the prime minister’s wife on One TV.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JM5OT-kbAY&feature=relmfu

She is now sitting on the Street-Naming Committee, together with Marion Mizzi.

Daphne those of us not blessed with your height cannot get away with not wearing heels all the time. Wish I could.

[Daphne – Height is relative. I’m really not that tall. Also, wearing heels doesn’t make any difference, because they just raise everyone to the same height, instead of making heel-wearers taller than the rest. What you need is unilateral disarmament. Maltese women wearing heels are all the same height. Maltese women without heels will also all be the same height. Of course that isn’t going to happen. So what we have is a lot of miserable faces instead, and crowds of ladies sitting it out in the loo. I used to wear heels, have a cupboard full of redundant ones, and sometimes still do, depending on the situation. But it’s like given up smoking. You wonder why you ever smoked and how you ever did it, because the alternative is so much better.]

Roadmap jew landing strip?

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I say she would’nt let politics interfere with her profession because that’s what there is to it. What her family’s beliefs are is simply irrelevant to this issue. Is it the attire or the political belief?

[Daphne – ‘What her family’s beliefs are is simply irrelevant to this issue’. We’ve moved on from talking about Mrs Delia’s clothes to discussing Mrs Delia’s penchant for hiding her true political beliefs – Mintoffian, not Labour. In the normal course of events I would say that one’s family’s political beliefs are irrelevant, but this is never the case with Mintoffians. Mintoffianism defies logic, education, social advancement, material improvement, travel, acquisition, the works…hence our prime minister. And Moira Delia.]

Yes, I read your reply to another comment re. Sicily etc – I agree….but the article is either on pointing out the way women of a certain age dress or on ‘labour ladies’ or your worries about Malta being a different world – not the three at once and you can’t use one point to highlight the other.

[Daphne – They are all interlinked. Politics shape society and society shapes politics. The result of the last general election is directly linked to and rooted in the ‘clubbing at 50’ and ‘let’s not evolve beyond 25’ mentality. You will see from the level of conversation at these social gatherings that people are poorly informed and can’t think rationally, and that the general social environment does not put pressure on them to develop intellectually, but rather the opposite. They will and do apply these poor thinking skills and low information levels to forming political opinions and choosing the government. The result, because such people are now by far the majority, is disaster. Moronic, vacuous behaviour and moronic, vacuous thought processes are obviously intertwined. You can’t separate the two.]

The fundamental difference between Moira and Ms Law is that one is a politician whilst the other entertains her own views (as is her right [just like yours and mine]). She has her right to opinion and we are not obliged to agree.

[Daphne – Politicians, too, have their own views. They choose their political party according to their views, and not the other way round. I have never disputed Mrs Delia’s right to a political opinion. What I dispute is the way she makes a point of courting the social attention of those who don’t share that opinion at all (presumably because she considers them a better class of person – she is the sort who thinks in those terms – to those who do share her political views and more useful to her ends), while working for a different result to the one they want and pretending not to bother or to be apolitical. I have no time for false people or for those who invent a persona and work at it relentlessly. Fakes, the lot of them.]

Knowing Moira, I find it hard to believe she’d take an outright political stance as it would interfere with her profession.

[Daphne – My point, exactly, Luke, so thank you. She’s the rabid Mintoffjana from hell, from a family of rabid Mintoffjani, but she takes great care to conceal this fact lest it interfere with her social and career advancement. What would you think of me if I suddenly decided to turn quiet about politics so as to suck up to Labour and ‘help my career’? Well, that’s what I think about Mrs Delia.]

You are right in saying that peoples’ ages have stopped dictating the way they act. Not only when older but also when in teenage years. The problem lies in those that are in a ‘serious’ situation but act silly – still believing they’re decent.

Occasionally nothing wrong in letting your hair down though. One thing is for sure, I’ve had conversations with Moira and it was far more than banter.

It was lovely having a conversation with you ;)

[Daphne – I agree with you about the silliness, but certainly not with your observation that there is nothing wrong with letting your hair down beyond a certain age/when you’re in a certain position. There is nothing WRONG, but plenty that’s risky in these days of instant recording and photographing and filming. Not even the bedroom is safe unless you trust the person 100%. I once had the misfortune of sitting next to a complete loser at a party who, when completely in his cups, decided it would be a really good idea to show me that he ISN’T the loser I think he is, by bringing out his phone and scrolling through pictures of the naked, sleeping women he’d had sex with. They had no idea he was busy collecting their pictures.]

I obviously don’t know what she sent to you in the past [Daphne – No, and I never made it public, nor will I, because that’s wholly unnecessary] and am not disputing her political beliefs (although we do in private).

My point is Moira does not sit on any board or possess any role that is disrespected by her attending this party. She attended voluntarily and put this photo up voluntarily (rather than having her photo taken by a happy snapper).

[Daphne – Oh, I never said that she brought her public role into disrepute, but something else entirely: that it really isn’t a good idea for a woman of any age to dress that way, and that it is especially not a good idea for a woman with a teenage son to do so. With this, you may agree. When you were in your teens, would you have wanted your mother uploading photographs of herself dressed like that, on public view, whether for a fancy dress party or not? I used the picture to illustrate my wider view that Malta really has a problem. In another reply to a comment on this thread, I mentioned a very smart party in south-west Sicily. Try as I might, I cannot, for the life of me, imagine the people there going to a birthday party dressed as sailors and prostitutes. It just wouldn’t happen. You go to a party as yourself, and you make conversation. The pressure is not on looking ‘sexy’ or even ‘good’ but on being well informed, eloquent, entertaining and civilised in conversation. Here, it’s a different world and it’s actually quite worrying.]

Yes, I agree with you in saying that certain people should act accordingly when occupying certain positions but in this case there is no post or position other than an individual at a themed bday party.

So… is it the past email or her attire that inspired your post?

Still not with you on this one…..

[Daphne – How could a five-year-old email have been the reason for this post? I only brought it up to show you that beneath the facile charm she’s really just another Rita Law in her political views, speech and attitude. No, it’s the constant, relentless silliness and empty-brained behaviour of middle-aged Maltese people that gets me. You rarely have a conversation here. You have banter. That picture sort of summed it up. A woman of around 40, still playing cute ‘n’ bubbly and with nothing much to talk about? Who would be like an alien from another planet if transplanted to a properly sophisticated environment outside Malta and expected to make informed conversation and talk and behave like a grown-up? It’s not just me saying this, Luke. People in Malta just don’t know what the expected codes of behaviour and conversation are after the age of 30/40/50. You’re expected to have a lot of added value beyond ‘cute ‘n’ fun’ by that stage.]

[Daphne – What a childish remark. Try harder. You might be out of your league here.]