News flash: the Fat Controller has a lucid moment
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November 7, 2013 at 12:22am
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Oh well, thank God he is not presenting it.
Ding. Dong.
Issa Eddy Privitera jmiss biex jistenbah u jxomm il-kafe.
Did he expect to move to PBS at his age?
Pero propju dak li jrid jaghmel Joseph. Iraqqad u jdajjef kull forma ta’ oppozzizjoni.
Qabel l-elezzjoni jrnexxielu mat-Times u anke ma hafna entitajiet ohra b’mezzi lleciti.
Ghalhekk l-argument ta’ totalitarizmu.
Donnu l-argument ta’ l-ohxon pero huwa aktar ta’ rabbja personali. Jrid xi haga.
Funny how I could have said the exact same thing about Joe Mifsud and reached the same conclusions as Joe Grima,
Truth is, that Portelli and Mifsud balanced each other’s bias.
On the other hand, Pablo and Norma come out of the same political bucket and have no appeal whatsoever. Which is a pity, because if I wanted to watch tasteless and boring programmes I’d have switched to Net or One. As it is, I do not watch Maltese channels any longer.
An update on the Public Accounts Committee scrutinising Enemalta tenders for oil procurement (a.k.a as the ‘Total scandal’):
One of the witnesses called by the PAC, a certain Dr Godwin Debono was let off the hook under the convenient excuse that he was never a consultant. Miriam Dalli reports on Malta Today:
‘Debono’s appearance before the PAC must have been the shortest one so far: approximately 13 minutes. He was thanked, but dismissed, after PAC members had no questions for him (Dr Debono) given they had been given wrong information about him by Enemalta.’.
How convenient.
But what is Dr Debono’s connection to Labour?
He was the person officially responsible on the Maltese side for the infamous Madonna taz-Zejt well in Kercem, Gozo (1998) when Joe Mizzi had the brilliant idea of commissioning ENI to drill the deepest well in the Mediterranean at the expense of taxpayers. The well cost Malta a staggering 30 million euro (equivalent to the citizenship for money scheme).
God knows how many commissions were involved per metre of well drilled in this very suspiciously deep well. Obviously, some people need to be protected and let off the hook.
We heard about the ‘Total scandal’, but we seem to have overlooked the ENI scandal left simmering since the Labour administration of 1996-98.
The sanctimonious Joe Mizzi has a lot to answer for.
It’s interesting that he describes the Labour-leaning presenters as ‘protected’. Freudian slip? Does he subconsciously know that the non-Labour leaning ones are in some sort of danger?
[Daphne – No, he knows, as should you, that Norma Saliba lives with Manuel Micallef, who heads the Labour Party’s broadcaster, and has his child.]
He didn’t get a government appointment, did he?
He is too heavy to sit on boards. And he was also dangerously heavy to put on billboards.
The Fat Controller has obviously not received what he was expecting from Joseph. Now I hope that Net will not accommodate him again and give him the opportunity to present another programme. Hu go fik, Joe.
I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘receiving’. It’s more a matter of Muscat showing his true colours and failing his party which could potentially lead to a schism.
Should we be thankful for small mercies?
I am hoping that a couple of government MPs have a lucid moment when voting in the Passports for Sale Scheme. Maybe Marlene Farrugia and Deborah Schembri can find it in the themselves and vote against this scheme.
Keep dreaming.
Remember that they run for office on the MLP ticket. Don’t expect a shallow person like Deborah to become ethical overnight.
Someone should tell Michelle Muscat that it’s not a good time at all to be a Spanish princess. El Mundo revealed yesterday that the Infanta Cristina personally made out invoices in her name for the rental of a palace to Aizoon, a company in which she was a partner in and that was funded with public money, effectively renting the property to herself.
The newspaper reports that this destroys the thesis of the Spanish treasury (Hacienda) that she was not involved in the siphoning off of public funds that her husband is being accused of.
Come to think of it that’s much better value for money than Joseph Muscat’s old car.
http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2013/11/06/5279726b61fd3d445e8b4577.html
But Michelle doesn’t see herself as the Infanta Cristina… Her idol must be Laetizia.
The problem is that when principles vacillate they then need to be firmly consistent to become a credible voice. This is a stand of sorts – a good one – that still has a long way to go.
He does have a point. It IS a terrible programme.
‘Panache’ is best not used where the country’s financial estimates are concerned.
“Budget 2014 provides a wide-ranging action programme for the new government, aimed to stimulate economic activity. This was promised and has been delivered with panache, in a format that is both consumer and business friendly,” Dr Sant told The Malta Independent.
But for Labour, “panache'” is the best word to use if it is exactly what was missing in the Minister of Finance’s speech between one cough and another.
Pablo and Norma come over as two animated wax exhibits from Madame Tussaud’s.
The animated part may be an exaggeration.
Daphne, what do you make of this?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131106/local/notifications-system-for-maltese-living-abroad.493585#.Untg1vlQGCk
[Daphne – That any Maltese living out of Malta would be crazy to give this government his or her details. The expressed purpose may be innocuous, but with people like that, you never know what they are going to use the information for. You can’t trust those bastards. In any case, most Maltese living abroad have families who are perfectly capable of contacting them themselves and don’t need the government to do it.]
Who writes this stuff? Calamity? Turmoil?
My thoughts exactly. This government thinks we were born yesterday.
Our High Commissioner doesn’t think that there is anything to worry about.
charles muscat • 10 hours ago−
Don’t be so naive please, we do this all the time every time we leave Australia.
You Maltese must involve politics in everything
Are those who will be buying a Maltese passport going to notify the government of their whereabouts?
“In any case, most Maltese living abroad have families who are perfectly capable of contacting them themselves and don’t need the government to do it.”
I was wondering how this didn’t cross Eyebrows Vella’s mind.
Tidher li gejja l-elezzjoni tal-MEPs.
This is a good way to find out how many Maltese are living overseas so as to withdraw their right to vote.
Hope he doesn’t become too depressed and cuts on his breakfast because of this breakfast show.
Why limited to “those Maltese who are abroad for more than a month”. What if a calamity occurs before the month is out?
I can’t stand Norma Saliba. She tries to come across as intelligent but ends up asking quite mundane questions with plenty of ‘Duh!’ moments from her guests.
As for Pablo, he makes it patently obvious that he’s Labour that it’s excruciating to watch the pair of them trying to present a supposedly independent breakfast show.