Front row glamour
Just look at this. I mean, look at it. The prime minister, parliamentary secretary Edward Zammit Lewis, the prime minister’s chief of staff, businessman and equipment/supplies broker Keith ‘Kasco’ Schembri, and Identity Malta chief Joe Vella Bonnici – all in the front row at the ‘sale of passports’ presentation in London. Left click on the photograph to enlarge it.
They look TERRIBLE. Sloppy, ill-bred, undisciplined and untrained posture and carriage like that BROADCAST TO THE WORLD just where a person is coming from.
It is pointless working on your image, your clothes and your contacts if you are not also going to undo years of damage wrought by growing up in a certain kind of household where nobody trained you to sit properly in public, where sitting badly was so normal that even at the age of 50 (or 60+, as in Vella Bonnici’s case) you’re not aware that there’s something wrong or that your posture sends out messages to people who didn’t grow up in the sticks.
The prime minister is slumped down in his chair with his feet any old how, like a child bored at Sunday mass. Keith Schembri has shrunk into seat like a fish out of water who’s feeling lost and nervous, or who is about to get a good lashing from the headmaster. Edward Zammit Lewis has his hands clasped between his knees and is wearing BROWN SHOES. And Joe Vella Bonnici…it’s enough to make one pass out.
Then there’s that Englishman, who’s probably from Henley & Partners. You have to guess, because the current DOI system is not to caption the photographs. What is he doing, twisting himself like that?
There’s something else: was Edward Zammit Lewis there because his superior, Minister Chris Cardona, was in Rome for the Mega Summit On Oil And Gas (the one they couldn’t sell)? Or was he there because he’s going to be taking charge of this scheme along with that vulgar chap Vella Bonnici?
And why wasn’t Manuel Mallia there too, given that Joe Vulgar Bonnici answers directly to him and he’s the minister in charge of this scam?
And please don’t tell me that’s really John Huber there in the second row, behind the empty chair. Some people really define the meaning of monkeys not letting go one branch before they’ve got hold of another.
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There were quite a few Maltese there whose are involved in financial services – notably in the second row.
You would have thought that the people there would be the sort interested in buying a passport for themselves, not Maltese businessmen trying to see how to get a piece of the cake – or, as with one or two individuals, trying to get an even bigger piece.
Nobody looks particularly dignified this picture.
One man is doing nothing to hide his boredom and is letting out a massive yawn.
The guy sitting directly behind Zammit lewis is having a snooze.
The English man in the front row is either counting the money or has a bad case of piles.
John Huber and the other guy behind Vella Bonici look look like they’re hating every minute of being there.
And Vulgar Bonnici sits like he’s crapping into a bucket.
Exactly where is Mr Hamilton Travel Bla Agenda, our high commissioner in ‘Luntinn’?
They look like a bunch of Sicilian spivs in a bad movie about the Mafia in America.
This also means that for the supposed socialist party, the poor or those less rich then the PM don’t matter at all. That explains the stoppage to a new government school each year, the number of medicines out of stock and Scicluna knows what else is going to hit us on Monday.
Tony Maltova Zarb must be suffering from an acute attack of laryngitis because his vocal cords have been silent for so long that they’re acting up.
You are wrong. Maltova Baby is busy giving a helping hand to Joe Mizzi to put Arriva with its back to the wall.
Somebody should have handed the prime minister a bag of popcorn.
2nd row: former Malta Higher Commissioner in London and current Joseph Muscat ‘envoy’, Joe Zammit Tabona with the yellow tie. And yes, that does look like John Huber and next to him Ian Casolani of Belair Estates.
Now all we are waiting for is the “kien hemm interess qawwi… ” solemn decleration through a DOI press release
Actually, it is more likely to be “kien hemm interess qawwi, hafna izjed milli anticipajna.”
Joe Vella Bonnici looks like a bag of shite, with his button-down shirt and big Las Vegas 1970s racketeer tie, topped off with an Italian mobster hairdo.
By all means get a Maltese passport, but avoid Maltese genes.
Qisu qed isajjar stuffat tal-fenek fuq spiritiera. Please don’t be rude about Maltese genes. Some of us know how to sit properly.
Spot Kurt Farrugia skiving his expensive course. You need to zoom in verrrry close. He’s about the size of the fire extinguisher behind which he’s seated.
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Kollha jidhru qishom imxawta u ma sabux terra.
How very sad.
No spine. No backbone. No pride.
The New Malta. The change they wanted.
“The New Malta. The change they wanted.”
You can see the difference, can’t you?
I spot three fast asleep and one yawning without even bothering to cover his mouth.
Who’s the guy on the left, with the retro wide tie and the Bronka hairstyle?
[Daphne – On the right, you mean. Joe Vella Bonnici, ‘ekonomista’, failed Labour candidate, really rough, dull-witted, uneducated and vulgar person, and now chief of the new set-up called Identity Malta.]
Looks like Manuel Mallia was expected to be there. How else could one explain the two vacant front row adjacent chairs bearing ‘Reserved’ notice ?
Apparently John Huber must have turned up at one of those Labour meetings where he was allowed to change his PN flag for one of those new Labour flags. It’s very good to know where these opportunistic turncoats stand.
This afternoon at around 13:30, I was walking in Melita Street in Valletta. Walking in front of me, in the same direction to Merchant Street, were Joe Vella Bonnici and two other men, chatting.
I heard Vella Bonnici say: “Aghmilha care of Identity Malta u nirrangalek.”