If it’s Thursday, it must be Sri Lanka

Published: November 14, 2013 at 8:39pm

The globe-trotting goes on, while no real governing gets done. After this it’s off to Miami to sell Maltese citizenship at a conference sponsored by the Malta government.

But anyway, the point of this post is to please ask – nay, beg – one of his minders or image consultants to teach the prime minister how to sit. He looks terrible, always slumped or sinking down into the sofa/chair with his legs splayed and his feet turned in. Really shabby, slob-like and scruffy.

PM in Sri Lanka




26 Comments Comment

  1. ciccio says:

    The article in the Times is more like a footnote. Who is that man sitting to the right of the Prime Minister – is that Clive Waters?

  2. AG says:

    And why is he not wearing the suit jacket?

  3. Manuel says:

    Qisu salvagg libes hazin. Veru bagollu.

  4. Alexander Ball says:

    Really shabby, slob-like and scruffy.

    He should have a cracked cup for people to put their spare change in at his feet with a note saying ‘give generously’.

  5. Nik says:

    Norman Hamilton’s there too, since it’s the Commonwealth Summit. But why can’t the PM be arsed to wear a jacket?

  6. bookworm says:

    He must really feel at home in Sri Lanka, due to its human rights record.

    Oddly enough this morning I was watching BBC news and the BBC cameraman was being withheld from filming, with the reporter asking, ‘Why are you going against the freedom of press?’

  7. La Redoute says:

    He’s the only one who tieless in shirtsleeves.

    Dizgrazzjat.

  8. P Shaw says:

    Shouldn’t Kitten be engaged as his posture consultant, now that he’s lost his column at Times of Malta?

  9. Ta'Sapienza says:

    Does this man not have a jacket and tie?

  10. Giovanni says:

    I would like to see how our prime minister sits on a roller coaster while in Miami and enjoying Disneyland with his Misses and children.

  11. JH says:

    Mr Muscat has enormous feet. Perhaps to stop him toppling over.

  12. Edward says:

    This is what serious PMs do when they are in Sri Lanka.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24934768

    Is Muscat giving certain Sri lankans a fast track to EU passports?

    My God, what an idiot.

  13. doris says:

    Oh and he’s the only one without jacket and tie. Maybe he saw a business opportunity and sold them to some Sri Lankan on the way from the airport.

  14. Grezz says:

    And why is he in an open-necked shirt, when all the other men are in suits?

  15. H.P. Baxxter says:

    Clive Waters is wearing his suit. And he’s almost 80.

    Our Joseph has adopted the “Darling, you don’t say!” pose-in-the-drawing-room typical of many a Kitten postcard.

    Everyone in our government looks so – how shall I put it – OLD. The election campaign must have sucked the life right out of them.

  16. Nik says:

    The Commonwealth Summit is being boycotted by the leaders of Canada, India and Mauritius in protest at Sri Lanka’s human rights record.

    The Australian and New Zealand PMs may also back out, while David Cameron is making a point by visiting the Tamil north.

    In the meantime, the PM of Malta is taking advantage of the presence of a motley crew of African despots to hawk a passport or two.

  17. ken mercieca says:

    Tista ME SHALL tixtrilu suit naqa suret in-nies? Kull darba li jpoggi tider dejjem inkaxxata u ingarzata mieghu. X’ pastazata.

  18. The Observer says:

    And The Prime Minister is not even wearing a suit jacket. He’s dragging Malta’s name right down to the drain even with his attire. And is that sleek mane of golden hair, on the Prime Minister’s right, Norman Hamilton’s? And if it is, has he been confirmed High Commissioner to be there?

    • ciccio says:

      No. He has not been confirmed High Commissioner.

      If he had been confirmed, then The Times report (which is probably based on some DOI press release which I will not bother to look up) would have said that the Prime Minister was accompanied by the High Commissioner to the UK, and would probably take the opportunity to reproduce his CV, including his adventures in Soho as Clive Waters, his hosting of “Antenna,” “Sibtijiet Flimkien” and “Il-Festival tal-Kanzunetta Maltija” on Dardir Malta, and his role at Super One, that epitome of honest and unbiased broadcasting.

      Instead, The Times has published three short sentences focusing on the PM’s meeting with Archbishop Joseph Spiteri.

      http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131114/local/pm-in-sri-lanka-for-commonwealth-meeting.494704

      Oh, and the picture would not have been edited (probably by the DOI) so that Clive Waters has been practically eliminated from view.

  19. Sue says:

    The man has absolutely no clue about how to behave.

    A friend of mine related how some months back, during some event on a Saturday morning when an Australian dignitary was visiting, our PM turned up at the event, unexpectedly, wearing a pair of jeans.

    Il- vera ma ghandu rispett lejn hadt u lejn xejn.

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