Comments on: The Minister of Homeland Security: controlling the household pursestrings at Scotts in Sliema this morning https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1323698 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:23:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1323698 In reply to curious.

Surely, “bass, haxi u fottimenti?”

]]> By: Evelyn https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1323039 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:10:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1323039 In reply to Sparky.

I agree 100% with your last paragraph. So they can spend the money on hobbies.

]]> By: Evelyn https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1323034 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:05:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1323034 He needs to eat those fruit and vegetables, not just buy them.

]]> By: Sparky https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322829 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:09:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322829 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.]

]]> By: Last Post https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322775 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:46:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322775 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.

]]> By: bull's eye https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322740 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:03:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322740 Why waste time on this sort of person?

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322514 Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:11:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322514 That red clad chubster needs to be placed on a strict leafy lettuce diet with plenty of Knights of Malta fountain water.

]]> By: Grezz https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322493 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 23:46:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322493 He was disguised as a tomato. Give him two more weeks, and he’ll be wearing an orange top.

]]> By: Paul Bonnici https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322476 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 23:26:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322476 Fuq hassa ghaddej, zgur.

]]> By: George https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/the-minister-of-homeland-security-controlling-the-household-pursestrings-at-scotts-in-sliema-this-morning/#comment-1322451 Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:40:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=39003#comment-1322451 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.

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