He’s Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, you dolts
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October 30, 2013 at 1:00am
The political aides who run our prime minister’s official Facebook page don’t know who that man there with Joseph is, and can’t be arsed to find out. Who knows – they might have asked Joseph and he didn’t know either.
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Embarrassing, lazy, unprofessional idiots.
Must have been the Kastilja janitor who filled this in.
The rest were all preparing their luggage and shopping list for their training course at ‘BBC’.
Vera tal-biki
Precisely my expression when I cannot understand what others are saying.
Does Muscat still think he’s young?
Jigifieri qed ilablab u jxejjer idu ma’ mnieher prim ministru iehor minghajr ma introduca ruhu mieghu. L-injurant. Basta jehdulu r-ritratti d-DOI.
The Dutch PM recoils while the Maltese PM sits on the edge of his seat and waves his hands in Rutte’s face. And don’t you just love the woman’s expression? As if she’s thinking “who the f*** is that?”
Joey always waves his hands in foreign leaders’ faces. He does this as he knows that it is the only way he can force them to listen to him without giving away the fact that their diplomatic corps’ have advised to avoid him.
Have a good look at her expression (enlarging the photo will help). She is DEFINITELY saying just that – and certainly in more expressive verbiage.
They actually have it written out in the photo and still they are lost..
Also, why is Muscat occupying another prime minister’s chair?
Probably because he cannot even read!
Wow! There’s one unimpressed Dutchman
Did they really put dots in place of a foreign prime minister’s name because they had no idea who he was?
In public on the prime minister’s official Facebook wall?
Oh. My. God. I’m speechless.
Actually, the lady standing up is Alenka Bratušek, the prime minister of Slovenia. The blubbering idiot is sitting on HER chair while she waits impatiently.
Pastaz, mit-twelid. Just like all the others who are late for flights.
That accounts for her disgusted expression.
OMG! That makes it much, much worse than it seems.
You mean to say that the Ms Bratusek left her seat for some reason, little Joey went to sit in her seat to talk with Mr Rutte in her absence, and when she came back he didn’t stand up immediately, but left her standing there while he kept on with his conversation?
Pastaz mit-twelid is really putting it mildly.
Give him a break will you, he was just trying to sell him a Maltese passport.so we can have all the things we did not have under the Nationalists.
You’ve just got to love the unamused look on Cecilia Malstom’s face. Muscat must have thought that he was impressing her, discussing “blekkkkks”.
Cecilia : Joey’s “bête noire” !
Muscat’s balding scalp looks horrendously obvious in that picture.
And how on Earth could they have gotten that wrong?
The coordinator who does Photoshop must have gone to “BBC” as well.
The guy has lost control of his ministers
But that’s not Joseph. That’s the PM of Slovenia impersonating our honourable Noble Price winner.
L-aqwa that Joseph is prime minister. The rest if us are all …..
Hey guys without Kurt (he’s in London remember… with Ramona) the PM’s office are at a loss.
Joey getting all excited explaining in detail the coffee brewing process.
Look at the body language. I mean seriously, who does Labour employ at DOI? No wonder they sent a team of communication co-ordinators at BBC London Academy. Seriously, these people including the daft prime minister believe that the louder, the more extravagant and the bullier attitude would get you somewhere in life.
Do not take it from us Maltese ‘ghax dawk tan-naha l-ohra, Nazzjonalisti’, just look at the picture and try to figure it out.
The expression on the Dutch PM’s face says it all.
Why is Muscat sitting on the seat marked ‘Slovenska’ – probably he even moved from his seat to speak to the Dutch PM.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131030/local/malta-proposes-to-cut-eu-aid-to-african-countries-that-do-not-accept-migrants.492526#.UnC-Fmt5mSM
That explains it. He was trying to explain his brilliant push back theories.
Skont it-tikmix li ghandu fuq mohhu Mark Rutte jidher li ssorprenda ruhu b’ Joey taghna u bic-cucati li qed jghidlu
They filled it in. The Netherlands must have lost a few of their lands because they’re now just the Netherland.
But you must have realised why the ‘s’ disappeared. Simple. In their wisdom, they looked at the name plate and found that he is the prime minister of ‘NEDERLAND’ with no ‘s’. So majtezwell drop the ‘s’ from Netherlands. Idiots.
They read this blog, though still not properly so.
Taf xi tfisser hux? Li jsegwu l-website ta’ Daphne, mwerwrin x’tista’ tghid fuqhom.
On a completely different tack, but very interesting:
http://www.gasolplc.com/media-centre/qa.aspx
This is part of an interview with Gasol’s Chief Operating Officer
“Is LNG a long term solution?
In a word, no. Although it may be cheaper to run power plants on regasified LNG than liquid fuels, LNG is still more expensive than pipeline gas. But because we will not be able to supply natural gas from our own reserves until 2017 at the earliest, LNG allows Gasol to work with governments in West Africa that are short of gas to develop the gas market. Gasol envisages that having established these opportunities, it will be possible to migrate the fuel supply to pipeline delivered natural gas once it becomes available. Within the Company, we say that LNG is a “bridge” to the long-term solution which is natural gas from the Gulf of Guinea.”
How I wish Muscat was in the right seat, As prime minister of Slovakia.
How dare you wish such evil on the Slovaks? Konrad will certainly hurl a “Shame on you” (and, maybe, a few drops of spittle, as well) for saying that.
Your occasional references to ‘Eastenders’ have finally aroused my curiosity and made me go to the Soap. I must say I quite enjoy watching it and find it an academic relief (as opposed to comic relief in Shakespeare’s tragedies) to the inane utterances of the luminaries who are running our country – sorry, I meant ‘ruining’
Check out the place cards on the table, I think our great leader misread Slovensko/Slovakia for Malta. Or either worse was rude enough to sit in the place of the Slovensko PM. No wonder the confused looks of the Netherlands PM and aide.
This morning on TVAM we saw Edward Zammit Lewis in a sweat trying to defend the indefensible (as lawyers and pollies have to do) and then crack under Jason Azzopardi’s fire.
Edward said, no problem with the Sale of Passports law, if after a year it needs tightening and fixing, we will make amendments forcing them to actually invest something.
A red light went on. “After a year”? Why not now Edward?
We all know why.
Labour have fine people to inspire them … or to dictate to them what to do. This is hilarious … http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/30/chinese-officials-new-photoshop-fail?CMP=fb_gu
Muscat: “I went to Hollent wahns, ta. I tink de place was callt Bulldokk or Bullfrokk. I can’t remember. It was najs ta’. No immigrunts insajt and everyone heppy. Post bis-sens”
Josef Bonello, now on Super One: https://www.facebook.com/bin61
Daphne, is Josef Bonello one of those who passed to the other side as well ? I’ll be damned if it is so .
Un-effing-believable!
The blurred right hand of P.M. Joseph Muscat when the rest of the picture is more sharply focussed indicates that, Mediterranean fashion, our prime minister must have been shaking his right hand in Mark Rutte’s face very fast and excitedly indeed, if not impressively and persuasively.
[Daphne – ‘In Mediterranean fashion’. No. Only the lower orders do that. There are millions of people in the Mediterranean who would never wave their hands in anyone’s face and who keep their hands still while speaking. I assume you are one of them.]
I am with Daphne on this. He does not do it for cultural reasons. In fact, surprisingly, the Maltese do not gesticulate half as much as other Mediterranean peoples.
Muscat does not gesticulate, he physically controls the other person by obstructing them, blocking any possibility of a polite exit. He knows this all to well. People well-versed in diplomatic protocol do not do this, be they Greek, Sicilian or Andalusian.
Ara vera qabda injoranti, psatass u tal misthija. Nisthi nghid li jien Malta. Basta qed ixxejjer idu Mr. Pozi u Xeni. Lanqas ghac cirklu ma huma tajba. Hu go fik ja poplu bahnan!
They actually edited the caption to that photo 7 hours ago, which means after reading your post.
Give him a break for f…’s sake. He needed some Dutch courage before making his intentions clear on the veto.
All for Malta’s sake, of course.
Amateurism, not meritocracy, is the word.