Here is a recording of Muscat’s speech in parliament on Monday night
I suppose it’s absolutely necessary to scream and shout when you’ve got the use of a microphone. Anger can be conveyed through choice of words, and in that context, shouldn’t be conveyed through yelling and haranguing.
Interesting to see that the Burmarrad accent has become a Bormla accent – maybe the prime minister spent the weekend listening to recordings of Mintoff’s speeches for inspiration and it rubbed off.
I remember Muscat going on the record as saying that how much he admired Lawrence Gonzi’s oratorical skills. Try to imagine Gonzi giving a speech like this, in this aggressive, insulting tone and using such inarticulate turns of phrase.
Where he says ‘Let me repeat it because they hate hearing it: ELF MILJUN’ (yah yah yah) he sounds just like an unpopular boy taunting those who have bothered him in the playground.
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Pulcinell.
Hysterical guy.
Noted, Daphne, but no thanks.
x’ghandu x’jaqsdam Bormla f’dan kollu?
jien bormliz u kburi u zgur li ghandna nies intelligenti daqs l bqija tal villagi u ibliet maltin!!
[Daphne – Can we please stop being so touchy? That was a reference to Mintoff, who was from Bormla.]
Bormliz, this was a reference to a “traditur.”
He’s being purposely touchy. He doesn’t want his countrymen nor himself to be compared with Joseph Muscat.
Bormliz – xihadd offendik? Take it easy buddy!
Dialects like yours are (normally) part of what makes all national languages so rich and beautiful.
Although I prefer to hear them spoken in a calm or humorous tone, as opposed to the hysterical screeching we heard from Muscat in parliament the other night.
What a prat.
Can someone tell us where the PM spent his time immediately before going back into the chamber to deliver his speech?
[Daphne – Somewhere with a television set, apparently, because he claims to have watched it on TV. Maybe he popped home for supper.]
Naqa selid u soppa tal-mara. Can’t blame him for being in a bad mood right after.
Wegħdi, wegħdi u ħolm.
Ilu hemm 10 xhur, u minkejja l-5 t’elef impjieg ġdid li ħadd mhu jarah (ħlief madwar Kastilja u entitajiet tal-Gvern), l-unika ħaġa li jaf li jista’ jġib (u anke din għadha fl-ajru) hija l-‘mitt elf miljun’ mill-bejgħ tal-passaport Malti-Ewropew.
Naqbel miegħek li min jaf kemm dam jisma’ lill-idolu tiegħu biex jimitah waqt id-diskors tiegħu. Diskors għall-platea u bla sugu kontra l-kap tal-oppozizzjoni u mhux biex jiġġustifika l-iskema mill-attakki li saru fuqha.
Hu u jisma’ lil Mintoff biex jimitah nissuġġerilu jisma’ sew x’kien qal: “KELLI BŻONN KONT KAPAĊI NĠIB IX-XOGĦOL DAQSKEMM KONT KAPAĊI NĠIB IL-FLUS.’
Bis-sħaba sewda ta’ pubbliċita’ negattiva li ġġenerat din l-iskema, jidher ċar li JM se jkollu jgħaddi mill-istess triq u jgħid l-istess diskors.
Doesn’t sound like a Bormla accent to me. That he speaks with the grace of a dock worker doesn’t make it a Bormla accent.
A Bormliz would never pronounce the r’s like muscat, nor would he say “ghaliJJhom” or “fuwqu”. A Bormliz on the other hand would say words like “tijji” (tieghi) or “mijji” (mieghi) which Muscat lacks completely.
“Ghalijjom”, “fuwwqu” – those are typical Muscat pronounciations. He can never change those.
He also has “Mijjja fil-mijjja.”
I agree. Bit too shrill, too, and the words used remind me more of the sort used by village women, not men. “Tghajjir”, rather than city tough talk.
I think he should stick to a calm act as opposed to a hyper act pretending to be angry.
He’s coarse and sounds like a fascist : le Pen (dad and daughter), Bossi, Farage, Fini…
If the combined weight of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the international media, the Opposition, and local sentiment is not enough to tip the government’s decision over, we have to wonder what powers sit at the other end of the scale.
Judging from the eloquence of this speech, it certainly can’t be discernment or acumen.
Tal-biki. Ma nifhimx kif jistghu jezistu nies li imgieba bhal din jarawa accettabli, u ta’ applaws.
When he says ‘this side and that side’ his tone reminds of Dr Alfred Sant saying ‘Goooonzi’
“Ghax hekk mghallem.”
The hang-ups and psychological troubles are all coming out now.
His grandmother used to take him to Mintoff’s mass meetings when he was a child. That’s where he learnt his first steps…
Vuci u accent ta’ bniedem salvagg.
He knows no better.
Thank you for uploading this. I hadn’t heard it.
If he means what he said, and will argue solely on the premise that the issuing of citizenship is within the country’s sole competence, to the exclusion of other EU interests, then he has sealed his own fate.
Sounds just like Mintoff. The difference between Simon Busuttil and Joseph Muscat is class, and that’s what we associate ourselves with. What a rough low-life Muscat is, so disgusting. Money can’t buy him what he most needs.
Well, if they’re going to unleash the fabled ‘kaxxa ta Malta’, how can we lose?
What a pitiful speech! How embarrassing. An appeal to the basest instincts and to the worst of Maltese society. Waqqajtilna wiccna l-art, Prim Ministru. We are ashamed of you.
I like the way he insists he can do this because he won the election, and the way he forgets it wasn’t part of his party’s electoral programme and no one actually voted for it.
“Ahna ikkonsultajna ma’ kull pajjiz membru tal-Unjoni Ewropea.”
And what did they tell him?
Don’t you recall that during the election campaign he imitated Eddie Fenech Adami in everything, even the suit he wore?
I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see him sporting a wide belt tightened with a half-kilo bronze buckle.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140123/local/cabinet-minutes-to-be-made-available-for-study-1970s-minutes-missing.503825#.UuFuO1hwbIV
Paranoia.
Actually the interesting question is whether these were destroyed in the mid-80s (pre-87) or now in 2013/4. Some of the people involved are back in cabinet again after all…
Ma, x’ hamallagni ta’ bniedem.
I thought I was hearing Norman Lowell!
I think we’re all accustomed to politicians presenting a version of the truth, but this man is a liar, plain and simple.
He did not consult with any member state of the EU. And the Greek Presidency had no choice but to note that this is a matter of national competence.
It is the European Commission which is the guardian of the Treaties, not the Presidency of the Council. That’s why it is the European Commission’s opinion that counts.
Gonzi never spoke that way. I never imagined that Joseph Muscat would stoop so low.
Ma, kemm hu hamallu, aghar minn Mintoff.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140123/local/pn-expresses-concern-at.503844#.UuF9iLA1gdU
05:36, Was that going to be Mintoff? Sounds like an intentional slip anyway, ‘Halli ma jsemmix relatives’ miskin.
01:34 lapsus “Dan huwa Gvern, Dan huwa Gvern” oh wait that’s us…
This speech is nothing but an act. He is just puffing himself up, imitating the bravado so typical of his hero.
Even his angry outbursts sound fake.
‘Aggressive tone’? What aggressive tone? Dak ton zfurzat u mhux naturali. Ton ta’ xi hadd li qaghad jirrecta quddiem il-mera qabel hareg ghal-‘performance’ imma ma kellux cans jirrecta bizzejjed.
M’hemm xejn tal-biza fih, anzi kif qal xi hadd, ifakkrek f’pulcinell, jew kif qal Gahan Malti, f’Lowell. Tad-dahk. Stand-up comedian. Carry on fuming… Joseph.
Speaking of awful, annoying speech patterns and voices. Ten months (more) and counting since I’ve heard, or even watched Konrad Mizzi speak. How great is that?
Seriously, like Muscat (but we have to hear him sometimes), I cannot stand to even SEE the man talk, on MUTE even!
Ara il veru kummidjant, trid tara biex temmen
I heard this speech several times and I can’t believe that this man shouting is actually the man leading the government. Really shameful and sad to go to such low level once again!
Was that English humour? Yeah right. That’s the love child of Mintoff and Mussolini. When he’s not flirting his mask comes off, and his character is quite disturbing.
Dear Leader Joseph Mussolintoff.