This is no longer funny – he represents Malta now
So will his aides please get the prime minister some training in how to sit, stand and hold himself generally. This is the training that some people get when growing up. Obviously, he didn’t have that advantage.
Forty is a bit late, but with a bit of work, it can be done.
This sort of thing is embarrassing. It embarrasses him and because he stands for Malta, it embarrasses Malta.
Yes, I get that lots of people in Malta don’t see anything wrong with this. That’s because they’re like him. They’re not the ones who count, and they’re not the only ones who are watching.
When political and business leaders (forget Malta) meet a man who sits like this and get their first impression, it’s the one that forms their opinion of him. He looks unschooled, uncouth and out of his depth. And they will not respect him and will seek to take advantage of him. It appears to be happening already.
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It only goes to show that you can just about take a horse to the water, but even then you can’t make it drink.
I bet he would love to cross his legs and dangle his foot with grace – but not with those thighs, he can’t.
Hopefully, he’ll stand with some dignity today, whilst addressing the UN General Assembly. Let’s hope that the Mrs. will remind him to do so before he leaves his seat to take his place on the podium.
So inept … you’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
His body language speaks volumes.
Has he only got the one blue tie? He seems to be wearing the same one at every possible opportunity.
Do you notice the mic? All speakers have the mic in front of them, all in one line. His is pointing down the other way. I read it as if he has nothing to say.
What a mess. He looks like the badly-manufactured string-puppet who got all the leftover stuffing packed in, and is now discarded on the toyshop shelf because nobody wants to buy it.
Our problem is that the puppet is not going to be obsolete soon enough, his manipulators are worse than he is, and we’re all going down with them in an orgy of flash photography, ambiguous agreements and that Homer Simpsonesque expression of confusion he carries so expertly when trying to follow any argument of depth.
And one other thing. Look at that microphone of his. He hasn’t even bothered to swing it across.
Our Prime Minister’s comfort zone consists of a house in Burmarrad, an Alfa 156 and the bubble of bitchiness afforded to him by our media. Beyond it, he’s as nondescript as a splinter in a lumber factory.
Oh, he spoke, all right. And he even told us – without a trace of irony – that ‘the king is naked’, when what he meant was that the emperor has no clothes (I couldn’t agree more, especially since he was in China).
See the full horror story here:
http://www.weforum.org/sessions/summary/future-europe
Scroll to 29’56” where you can see Mario Vella typing furiously on his smart phone. I suspect he was messaging The Great Leader who was floundering on stage.
Look at Muscat’s posture and behaviour throughout, especially in the first part when the other speakers are the focus of attention. Dizastru totali.
@12’50” Muscat flounders without his teleprompter
@27′ onwards – look at the moderator’s face as muscat waffles on about prowjekts and tjurists.
@29’56”, mid left, Mario Vella furiously typing on his smart phone.
@39′ Muscat cracks a joke in response to a scientist’s question: “I hope you didn’t patent that or we’ll have to steal your patent”
Send him to finishing school.
Those legs are meant to convey the message that Malta is literally open for business.
Of course we are – we have the lady ambassador who has already taken concrete action on that front.
Anzi m’ghandux il-qalziet bit-toqba u jidher il-kulur tal-panty.
It is not merely the way he sits, or what he wears, or whether he is getting fatter/balder by the day. it’s what he says that is important, or the way he expresses himself, and/or whether anybody understands what he is trying to say. The risk of being misunderstood can have very serious consequences.
And I agree that is no longer funny.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Europe-lacks-leadership-Joseph-Muscat-tells-Davos-20130912
Fast forward to 25 minutes and he utters the following works: “I do believe that it’s about leadership”. Is he really hinting that “EU lacks leadership” as Maltatoday quoted him as saying ? Or did he intend to say something completely different ?,
Immediately afterwards he gives the following definition of the European Union : “the EU is an exceptional ….. super national …… I wouldn’t call experiment but …… an innovative structure”. What on earth does that mean ?
Yes, he said that the EU lacks leadership. The quote was in a press release issued by the meeting’s organisers.
http://www.weforum.org/news/eurozone-here-stay-insist-three-european-pms?news=page
Ideally, a more integrated Europe would be able to lead on the global stage, a quality at least one of the participants found wanting. “Europe lacks leadership,” said Joseph Muscat, the Prime Minister of Malta.
He looks unschooled, uncouth and out of his depth because he is unschooled, uncouth and out of his depth. His supreme confidence is not that of someone who knows his own power, but of someone who is acutely unaware of his own limitations.
Loved that second sentence.
You should have an “email to a friend” icon under each blog post. I would email this to my best friend and we’d have a good half-hour laugh at this. I almost choked on my post-lunch coffee.
By the way, his body language screams: “I’m totally out of my depth here – what the hell am I going to say and do?”
He is actually thinking “Wot the heck?”