PM tweets about “first batch” of Labour candidates for EP elections
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August 22, 2013 at 7:06pm
A nice warm batch of Labour EP candidates. Spot the one in a wikk.
The prime minister has tweeted to the world about his party’s “first batch” of candidates for the European Parliament elections. If he’s going to insist on tweeting, and then again in a language he doesn’t really know how to speak, will he please get some proper advice?
His wife bakes batches of biscuits. His party does not approve batches of candidates.
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Why’s he tweeting anyway? Is he hoping Dear Barack will notice and retweet? Joseph follows Barack Obama but the honour is not reciprocated.
Labour’s first batch: all men. The women will come in Batch 2.
http://www.createdby-diane.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gingerbread-men-cookies.jpg
Labour’s first batch: just one woman. The others will come in Batch 2
http://www.createdby-diane.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/gingerbread-men-cookies.jpg
Reminds me of a human production line Pink Floyd would feature in a movie.
Makes it easier to label them as rejects.
Sounds like they’re about to hatch soon.
Remember all the fuss and misleading accusation about the Chinese guy catching stray cats to feed his friend’s restaurant.Now it transpired from inewsmalta web portal that ‘ you know who I am ‘ brother is the culprit.
In this is case, though he might have not obtained the necessary permits, Charles really adores cats and goes out of his ways to feed and take care of them. So I am sure that he was taking care of these stray cats in the way he states to Inewsmalta.
Well can you say a batch of goons?
Batch is a number of exactly similiar products that are repeated from time to time.
Joseph Muscat has defined the Labour MEP candidates properly.
They are no better than mass-produced products made from the same ingredients and packed in the same packing.
They have a use by date after which they are disposed off and forgotten.
He could have said first group at least
It can also mean a group of persons:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/batch
[Daphne – No, believe me, it’s never for people precisely because it’s used for the production line, and so is considered demeaning and insulting in a way that objectifies the individuals involved. You have to look beyond the dictionary meanings of words to their USAGE if you wish to speak a language properly.]
In other words It can be used to describe a group of people from a perceived position of superiority or disdain over a faceless and/or soulless group. Eg. A batch of prisoners, or in the case of sadly many Maltese people, a batch of immigrants. Joseph Muscat is an idiot.
According to the Corriere della Sera tweeting is on the way out anyway.
Great quote from the article:
http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2013/agosto/17/Fini_Casaleggio_chi_Twitter_ora_co_0_20130817_e737a4b6-06fe-11e3-b94f-9c4206d8238b.shtml
“Come dire, insomma, che gli uccellini blu sono roba da adolescenti annoiati. E non per chi governa i destini del mondo”
“What can one say, basically the tiny birds are for bored adolescents, not for those who govern / control the destinies of the world”
The tiny blue birds
Thanks ;-)
Hot tweet by Prime Twat:
#Gd luck 1st batch. pastizzi@is-serkin. @JPO @Law Commissioner#
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The hatching of the first batch. Bhal flieles.
We talk about “a batch of chicks”.
Does he realise that he is tweeting in his capacity as prime minister?
Why is he wishing a particular group of candidates good luck? The prime minister shouldn’t be tweeting about party affairs.
Shouldn’t he be hoping for a competent group of candidates that will represent the whole Maltese population? This country, already embarrassing through its own effort, is being run by a bunch of amateurs.
Simple. He’s not very sure they will do a good job. It’s like he’s sending them off into the unknown and hoping that one day maybe he will hear from them again.
Laugh Out Loud. And still laughing. Sometimes I don’t believe my eyes.
“Gd luck”?
Good Lord he could’ve actually spelt that properly. Surely he wouldn’t have reached the character limit by properly writing the word “good.”
You’re wrong here. Short of Louis Grech Labour MEPs do come in batches.
Il-Membru Parlamentari Ewropew Laburista li ippoza ta’ difensur tal-ilsien Malti fil-Parlament Ewropew billi tkellem bil-Malti fejn hadd ma’ kien jaf kelma bil-Malti, huwa l-istess bniedem illum il-hin kollu jzellaq kliem bl-Ingliz li mhux f’postu u issa qed ‘jitwitja’ bl-Ingliz biex ikellem lil-Maltin.
Seta’ qalilna li l-Labour hareg l-ewwel boton ta’ kandidati ghal-elezzjoni tal-Parlamentari Ewropew.
He thinks that he’s ‘cool’.
His contributors who used to meet on the 4th floor, the developers, mix batches of cement.
One of them whispers in the ears of the world’s despots.
If one of the candidates is found to be defective will the whole batch be withdrawn?
Bitches of candidates, I reckon, what with the names on that list.
Malta’s Prime Twit of Tweets.
Make that a Twat.
Speechless. It is like he is referring to sacks of potatoes.
Gd luck @Malta. Ghax ghandna team ta’ #ejja mill-kbar.
Who cares? He is neither English, nor was he voted in to teach the language.
[Daphne – Typically disgraceful Labour attitude. U ejja mhux xorta. I’m not English either, nor was I voted in to teach the language.]
Ah, but don’t forget he says his humour’s British.
Then why is he tweeting in English? To sound ‘middle class’?
That is a bad attitude but admittedly this is incredibly minor, especially since its technically a correct way to use the word.
It is not incredibly minor that a prime minister uses his Twitter account to promote a political party, and by using language incorrectly too.
An uncle once told me that the most important books in life were the Bible and Shakespeare. We won’t push you that far.
Away you go and buy a couple of Ladybird books and start your education. I highly recommend “The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen”.
Your inability of appreciate standards and what they mean shows an appalling lack of education, which obviously goes way back. No-one who has read books can be so laissez-faire about language.
The ignorance is shocking.
One mistake. I am not Labour or Nationalist for that matter.
[Daphne – That usually means Labour. Correction: it usually means somebody raised in a Labour household who’s likes to think he’s making his own political choices, which means the choice of ‘nothing’.]
You are free to assume what you like.
[Daphne – I know that. And your answer is another dead-giveaway from which I am free to assume that I was right.]
Has the PM been disenvowelled?
No, he’s going back to the basis of our language – Arabic.
The first BOTCH of candidates would be more appropriate.
What about Marlene Mizzi?
He might not be English Brimbu, but he still uses what he thinks is ‘British humour’ on the international stage.
If MEPs are considered “batches”, I wonder what the Maltese population means to him.
Spot on Matz. If he really knows his English grammar well, we have a problem, if not, who cares.
[Daphne – You have a problem either way, Brimbu. It’s not his inability to speak/write English that’s the problem here, but his inability to understand that he needs to have it checked to the required standard for a prime minister. Seeing that he doesn’t bother, you can assume that he doesn’t bother with standards in other areas, too. But the bigger concern, of course, is that he’s poorly educated.]
SantAlfred. All the others name first.
Interesting.
He had better run the country rather than twatting about on Twitter.
He wasn’t voted in to speak English like an Englishman but he was voted in to represent my country. So he had better speak/write proper English.
He was voted in as a Maltese citizen, i.e. someone for whom English is an official language.
But Maltese is the national language. Besides there are varoius types of English as UK English, US English, Australian English, Irish English and so on. We should have Maltese English.
[Daphne – Go away, David. Please. For your own sake.]
Let’s face it though, that’s one of the biggest jokes in Malta. Half the population does not know how to speak the language and completely rejects it, while nine-tenths of the other half speak it badly but think they speak it well.
You’d just hope someone would have the nous to seek out that tiny fraction.
Instead, we have this idiot as a PM thinking English is in fact his official language and that he has the skills necessary to use it, journalists on MaltaToday and The Malta Independent and Times of Malta making my eyes burn first thing every morning, Michelle Muscat talking about chincherbret and subliterate idiots referring to blokks.
Sorry, long rant, but they have broken my little English-language heart.
David, I sincerely hope your comment about Maltese English is sarcastic. Although mind you, I also believe that Maltese English exists..
Alfred Sant’s candidature for EP election raises serious questions, given his vehement opposition to Malta membership of the EU.
Self-serving interests are ‘a given’, and who among us would honestly refuse a similar opportunity?
But whose interests beyond his own is he serving?
It cannot be the Maltese electorate, because he fought tooth and nail to keep Malta out of the EU. Is it perhaps that he and his ilk, having warned the people that membership would reduce their ‘sovereignty’, create unemployment and more, are now intent on a ‘Quisling’ action to thwart EU ambition and success?
What other explanation can there be?
We know that member-states with domestic opposition to the EU concept do not commit their finest talents to Brussels, and this was never better exemplified than by the British nomination of Neil Kinnock (later Lord Kinnock) as an EU Commissioner.
Alfred Sant is not a fool. Alfred Sant was/is a vehement opposer of Malta EU membership.
So why would Joseph Muscat support him, if not to work towards Malta’s exclusion from EU membership and thus release the restraints and restrictions it imposes on Labour Party political ambitions?
Beware the spectre of a return to the worst practices of Dom Mintoff.