The Minister of Homeland Security: controlling the household pursestrings at Scotts in Sliema this morning
Maybe King Scrooge of Hastings decided he had better no longer be seen at Lidl after photographs of him shopping there, wearing a pink and white striped T-shirt under the ‘chicken thighs for 50 cents’ signage, were published on this website.
So now he’s graduated to Scotts – in Sliema. These photographs were taken there today.
Perhaps we should send them to the European Commission, which has been told repeatedly that Malta is under siege, that the ‘Navy Minister’ spends the night awake ringing the prime minister, and that Malta is abandoned and cannot cope. But the Minister of Homeland Security has time to pick up the lettuce and give the fruit a good feel, picking out just enough to get the wife, children and household slaves through the days until he has the time and inclination to buy them some more food.
Here I must remind you of the comments that came in to this website from a young Romanian woman who was a household servant to Manuel and Codruta Mallia, who wrote (in Romanian translated into English) that she had fled back to Romania because there was “no food and water in the house”, and because she was sent “to get water” (we know where from – the fountain at the Mainguard) for baths and for washing clothes.
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Ma tantx jidher li ghaddej fuq il-hass, haxix u frott.
Surely, “bass, haxi u fottimenti?”
Ah, I see someone took his pictures in the fruit and vegetables section.
I managed to take this pic of him when he turned up at the counter.
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Maybe Manuel was one of the three lucky winners of the PN’s lotteries drawn during its Independence activities held on the Floriana Granaries last September.
Fuq hassa ghaddej, zgur.
He was disguised as a tomato. Give him two more weeks, and he’ll be wearing an orange top.
That red clad chubster needs to be placed on a strict leafy lettuce diet with plenty of Knights of Malta fountain water.
Why waste time on this sort of person?
Talking of Homeland Security one cannot fail to notice the crass hypocrisy inherent in the change in attitude of Labour’s media and apologists.
Whereas they used to flog the immigration issue to castigate the PN and the EU they are now lamenting the loss of immigrants’ lives and the Mediterranean becoming a cemetery.
The two attitudes are sometimes mixed together which betrays their short-sighted, self-centred, opportunistic mindset. As you put it: It’s-me-and-me-and-ME all round.
Certainly not the same elegant composure as one Tonio Borg who routinely would attend to the family’s shopping needs at Smart. Well dressed and mannered, a smile on his face, nothing like the navy minister. That’s Labour for you.
[Daphne – Actually, there is more to it than that, which is one of my points here. Mrs Mallia doesn’t work or have a busy schedule of pro bono initiatives, and has live-in household servants. So the only reason why her husband would be doing the shopping on a routine basis, and still be doing so when he is a cabinet minister, is because he doesn’t wish his wife to make any spending choices herself, and may even be denying her access to money which she can use to choose and buy the household provisions she wants.
Otherwise, commonsense division of labour would dictate that the one who is home all day should be doing the shopping, or at least getting it delivered to the door, a service which all the supermarkets now offer and would be especially keen to provide to a cabinet minister.
This situation is more common than you might realise, especially among men of that generation. They will either do all the household provisioning themselves so that their wife ‘doesn’t waste money or buy unnecessary things’, or – more commonly – if they don’t want the hassle of actually shopping, they will ask her for a list of what ‘she’ needs (as distinct from wants) and then give her the precise amount.
You would be surprised (if you are a man) just how many Maltese women work not because the household needs the money, or because they want job fulfillment and a more interesting life, but to be out of the financial control of husbands who earn a fair amount but consider it their personal income to which their wife has absolutely no access and has to ask for everything, often being denied her requests like a child.]
I agree 100% with your last paragraph. So they can spend the money on hobbies.
He needs to eat those fruit and vegetables, not just buy them.