News flash: Mary Grace has it sorted
“Thank you for your personal loyalty, Mary. It was so nice of you to move out of the way for Jeffrey Curmi, when I asked you to. men of backbone and integrity like you are so hard to find, nowadays. Enjoy your new job in Brussels.”
And then men in general have the nerve to insult and disparage us women by saying that we are the ones who do this kind of thing routinely. Oh yes, indeed.
My experience is that certain Maltese men totally eclipse women in the art of stroking male egos and manipulating other men.
Joseph Muscat is an excellent example of that.
The man whose subordinates know him as Mary Grace seems to be pretty good at it, too.
Thanks to his “personal loyalty” to Manuel Mallia – when the Commander AFM should NEVER show personal loyalty to anyone, still less allow that individual to broadcast the fact in a government press release – the man whose subordinates call him Mary Grace is taking up a post at Dar Malta in Brussels (where he was before being appointed Commander AFM) a full month before the end of his retirement notice.
Times of Malta reports this morning:
Monday, October 7, 2013, 11:36
Brig Xuereb to be Malta’s security, defence coordinator in Brussels
Outgoing Armed Forces of Malta commander Martin Xuereb will become Malta’s Head Coordinator of Security and Defence in Brussels, a government spokesman said yesterday.
Although Brig. Xuereb’s last official day of service is November 14, he will start his terminal leave on October 18, handing over to the newly-appointed deputy commander, Jeffrey Curmi.
Brig. Xuereb will coordinate security and defence issues in the run-up to Malta’s European Union presidency in 2017. He will retain his current salary scale.
More details in The Times of Malta and timesofmalta.com Premium.
Well, quite frankly, what this saga proves beyond doubt is that this man was never fit for purpose. That is no leader; that is not even somebody with a backbone or any kind of integrity.
The tragedy is that he will be replaced by somebody even less so, and via dreadfully abusive means with which this particular invertebrate has cooperated fully and to his own advantage, to the detriment of the AFM and Malta itself.
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Nothing to do with Brig .Xuereb but I must write about it somewhere.During the Notte Bianca the band of the police force in the long balcony of the Casino Maltese played with vigour the tune of Viva l-lejber , viva l-lejber hej hej.ecc. My group just looked at each other in disbelief and silently walked out of the square.A group of youngsters had already started dancing to the tune when the tune was changed. This band is becoming “his master’s voice’ shame on whoever chose the repertoire
I do not know who wrote this comment, but for the sake of our country, and with all due respect to the writer, I hope and want to believe that this is either a blatant lie or a tasteless joke.
But if it is a fact, then it confirms that under Joe Muscat we are dipping deeper than we did under Mintoff.
The band master and all his men should, or rather must, be called before the Police Disciplinary Board and proper action taken against them.
Hear, hear.
From here on in, his (former) subordinates may well refer to him as Mary Disgrace.
It is weird that nobody is picking up on this except you Ms. Caruana Galizia. It is weirder still that nobody else in the media seems to fully appreciate the repercussions of all this.
A man who, openly and unashamedly, was “personally loyal” to Minister Mallia has been removed by the very person to whom he was loyal.
Hence, I must, perforce, assume that the person replacing him is even more loyal – not just to the Labour Party (which already in itself is disquieting) but also to Minister Mallia, to the exact extent and measure as his predecessor had been – if not even more. I would bet my last cent that if Minister Mallia wants him there, he is even MORE loyal than the predecessor.
Now, excuse me if I’m a tad archaic and nit-picky but isn’t the army supposed to be loyal to the people? Isn’t the army supposed to protect the people from foreign invasion? Or is it supposed to be loyal to the Minister? To the persons making up the government? Do we know what an extension of this type of loyalty is? Do we realise that such a loyalty could result in the army turning against the people because so ordered by the Minister?
Labour apologists accuse me of being too panicked, the army will not turn against us. Misguided fools. They would not recognise abuse if it stripped down naked and pranced before them in Republic Street in Valletta on a particularly deserted, cold and desolate evening.
The point is: it is wrong. The whole concept of having an army brigadier being personally loyal to the Minister is wrong. Even if the army does not attack us. It is wrong. And it scares me because this may easily be yet another brick taken out of the wall of democracy which the Nationalists built so painstakingly over the years.
I find it very consoling to see that I am not the only one who is ‘too panicked’.
You have expressed my exact thoughts and fears.
We should seriously consider the medium/longer-term implications of the highly abusive manoeuvres taking place.
An effective, silent coup d’état has taken place already in the Army/Police/state broadcaster. Next in line are the judiciary and the Constitution, and eventually all forms of power/influence including the education system/university, and the suppression of the Opposition and the media. Sounds familiar?
The only obstacle to all this is the EU. Eventually Muscat will realise his dream of taking Malta out of the EU, backed by a China firmly entrenched on this fair isle. Food for thought, n’est pas?
[Daphne – I agree with your initial statement, but your conclusion is illogical. Outside the European Union, Malta is of absolutely no value to China. It is China that will keep Labour from any attempt to withdraw Malta from the Union, given that China has more power over the Labour Party/Maltese government than the electorate does.]
I agree with your statement that Malta has no value to China outside the EU, but I disagree with your conclusion.
Ten or twenty years down the line, when Labour will still be in power, the geopolitical landscape will have changed, and China may very well have found another way to subvert the EU.
Then Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, in his fifties, will have no qualms about withdrawing Malta’s EU membership.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. This is Germany, 1933.
Who could have told that the Soviets would be raising the Red Banner over the Reichstag within twelve years, and Germany reduced to rubble?
Cynical, evil, manipulating leaders are dangerous precisely because their actions have repercussions that are hard to predict.
Mintoff was one such leader. There was nothing inevitable about Malta becoming a third-world anti-Western pariah state. It was his actions which brought it about.
Now just you wait and see what abyss his political son and heir will lead us to. Not now, not in a year’s time, but ten or twenty years hence.
Fibra morali per eccellenza
X’hasla qala Brigadier Xuereb minghand L-Orizzont [il-gazzetta independenti ta’ kuljum] dalghodu, ghax ma marx ghal ARMY OPEN DAY u qal li kien ma jiflahx.
Remember this report written by John Pisani? Mary Grace Xuereb never managed to get the EU post he wanted last year. But now, in view of his ‘personal loyalty’, he’s been sent to Brussels anyway in another capacity, by the Partit Laburista.
Way to go, Mary Grace.
http://johnpisani.net/kronaka/?p=11909
I heard, some time ago already, that Mary Grace was anything but happy to leave his job in Brussels to return to Malta in 2008.
Viva l-Labour.
Thank God Martin Xuereb was not around in 1942.
And what is to happen with the present Military Attache in Brussels?
Terrible reporting by Times of Malta – anyone who reads that article without knowing the context would think that there is nothing untoward about Brigadier Xuereb’s ‘retirement’ to a new post in Brussels.
Jeffrey Curmi’s rocketing up the ranks was relegated to the last two lines, almost as an afterthought, when it is the news peg.
i confirm that the band played the tune just before the MPO started its programme.