BREAKING NEWS: those liars are not at the BBC Academy at all. They’re at the PAI, a private business in Russell Square.
NB – This post, like all the others today and yesterday, was uploaded before the site settings were switched to the correct time (UTC-1). My apologies for the time discrepancy, which can’t be corrected post facto.
The BBC Academy is in Worcestershire. The Maltese political aides junket is in London. I noticed when I spoke to the woman at the BBC Academy this morning that she seemed a little perplexed by the nature of the enquiry, and that it was the second one that morning about the same subject – in other words, she didn’t seem to know about any such group from Malta but didn’t want to say so in case there was something she didn’t know about.
And guess what, but I’ve found the liars. They are in Russell Square (London), at a very run-of-the-mill private communications consultancy, Public Administration International, which specialises in public affairs training. It’s run by two people called Claire Cameron and Slava Gromlyuk.
My international worldwide network of spies has come up trumps again (thank you, my dears).
The course they are on started today and ends on 1 November. It is part of the standard schedule and is called ‘Government: Image and Communication – the UK experience’. This is, in fact, the course title which a couple of the ex Super One crowd mentioned when overheard in discussion, except that they said – and probably even thought, being total dunderheads from the sticks – that they were headed for the BBC.
Some of them, knowing their intelligence quotient, probably still think they are at the BBC even as they sit in some dull flat in Russell Square.
The course fee is GBP1,780 per person.
So now what we have to ask ourselves is how Claire Cameron and Slava Gromlyuk sold this course to the Malta government, and who is whose friend in this equation.
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http://www.public-admin.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.public-admin.co.uk/brochures/pai_2013_schedule.pdf
I simply wonder what journalism would have looked like had you chosen to divert your energy to some totally different field of activity altogether.
Simply great of you Daphne. Keep it up and thanks for keeping us informed with that which matters.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to bring the lecturer to Malta?
[Daphne – I imagine that the primary motive was to give business to PAI rather than to train these political aides. Quite frankly, the priority for them should be a course in English as a foreign language and another one in basic written communication, before we move on to the UK experience in government image and communications.]
There is a course in November ‘Integrity in Public Life’. Any takers from the government ministers?
They would do well to take some lessons in English while they’re at it. They will only get 50% of the GBP1780, and by the time they’re hara mejtin in the evening, a further 50% of what they got during the day is gone as well.
I’d like to see Kert il-coconut order a pint at a pub. He’d be lucky to make it through the door in the first instance, but he’d better keep his ID handy.
In this case it would be a pint having a kert.
Kurt to bartender in London pub: “I’d like a pint please”
Bartender to Kurt: “yes, you really look like you need some company down there”
One of the main areas of competence of PAI is:
Good governance: Democracy, transparency, accountability, ethics, anti-corruption, public service delivery, elections.
These Co-ordinators bloody well need some intensive training re the above.
We should send the whole cabinet and make them start from the very basic.
Thank you, Daphne. At least you make life in Malta bearable.
Thumbs up Daphne – no wonder they hate you for exposing their stupidity. Thing is the PL is getting away with ‘murder’ so to speak. It is only you who gives us the real ‘news’. Thanks we are all very much obliged.
Now, finally I know what PL stands for – Pathological Liars.
Insew kemm ghajruhom li xorbulna demmna lil-inglizi?
“BAC accredited” – there’s your confusion point right there. Could they be any thicker?
Hey, it’s just one letter away… u iwa, mhux xorta?!
http://www.public-admin.co.uk/seminars/imageinfo/imageinfo13b.htm
Day 3 – a visit to the BBC World Service
Day 4 – a visit to Reuters
The programme will be conducted in English. Participants will be expected to have a good working knowledge of the language.
Sorry, but from what is by now public knowledge, they would all fail on the last prerequisite.
Daphne, you’re uniquely unique. Thank you.
Thumbs up for you Daphne and your international network of spies.
A junket to London, paid for by the suckers who voted them in.
Stand to be corrected.
The worst part of it is that even though I did not vote for them, i shall still be compelled to contribute through my taxes.
perhaps the PM and whole cabinet should attend the November course entitled: Integrity in public life. Core values, codes of conduct, and conflicts of interest…
‘Shame on you’ shouted at Lawrence Gonzi is still reverberating in my ears. What should we shout at these koċċ ħamalli?
And to our Prime Minister and the rest of the cabinet?
Bring back Gonzi any time. We need a Nationalist Party leader with balls to rubbish this lot.
Meta konna tfal, waqt xi logħba football bejnietna jekk xi naħa fil-logħba kienet tipprofitta ruħha, konna inkantaw,
“Ħallelin, ħallelin, tal-….. ħallelin!”
Min jaf għaliex qed tgħaddi minn moħħi?
PL – Pathological Liar.
‘BAC accredited’ – that’s how the morons thought it was the BBC.
BUSTED !
Thanks Daphne!
Daphne, thanks for your excellent work.
It would have been much cheaper to bring the lecturer to Malta, but it looks like they see this kind of thing as a paid holiday.
Thank you for exposing these leeches.
You are one in a million, Daphne.
Thank you.
The one and only.
There is a gale warning heading for England. Hope Kurt is well anchored.
Kurt should keep his boots on…..
or drown in cocunut milk…..
Clifford Galea ahjar jerga jmur sagristan in Naxxar. Jaghmel aktar gid lis-socjeta b’ dak il-mod.
Dawk hawwdu l-BAC mal-BBC – Mhux xorta…
Shit I’m flying back from Heathrow on the 1st.
Hope they planned a shopping spree minn fuq it-taxxi taghna so that I won’t have them on same flight.
Careful how you wave your mobile phone around ghax jugzak lil MI6 Kert.
Kudos to you, Daphne.