They put Albert ‘Taghna Lkoll’ Marshall on the state pay-roll, and off he goes to Australia for a two-month holiday
Albert Marshall – has any one of you lost a garden gnome recently? Well, it’s masquerading as the chairman of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts.
Now that the useless aged bum and 1970s relic Albert Marshall has been put on the state payroll – is it three or four positions he’s been given? Any more and we’ll have the Albert Sutra, though with no sex involved – he has taken off to Australia for an extended vacation of two months.
He must have collected A LOT of holiday leave over the last, what is it, six months?
Marshall and his wife Jane lived in Australia for around 20 years and it’s their second home. They were involved in The Arts, they say, but Mrs Marshall’s most memorable on-screen appearances featured her: 1. up a ladder in a mini-skirt on Xandir Malta circa 1976 playing a ‘saksi sakritri’ while somebody else playing a priest took a gander up her skirt; mini-skirts were already heavily outmoded then, but priests can’t take a peek up a maxi no matter how high up a ladder a girl climbs, and 2. in last February’s key Labour Party campaign video, saying alongside Lara Boffa (now sleeping with Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando), Ramona Frendo (daughter of the woman who ran the Zejtun Labour club in the Golden Years of Labour) and Norman Hamilton’s younger daughter that she ‘believes in Joseph’. You know, as though Joseph is one of those gods she and her husband claim to scorn.
Of course she believes in Joseph. Joseph was and is the ticket to life away from a limp and inadequate pension for her and that escaped garden gnome off whom she lives. Appearing in that video was a completely mercenary act which she sought to pass off as political activism.
Now there they are, living it up in Australia while her husband’s Malta government pay cheque keeps coming in: Jane and Albert Marshall are a couple of old bums milking the system with the help of their socialist friends in power.
I quote from The Sunday Times of three days ago:
Mr Marshall was speaking from Melbourne, where he is currently on a two-month-long vacation.
MCCA (Malta Council for Culture and the Arts) sources contacted by this newspaper said that the council had practically stopped functioning in the chairman’s (Albert Marshall) absence.
“The chairman is on holiday and the former CEO Davinia Galea did not get her contract extended so we don’t have a point of reference at the moment,” the sources said.
Asked if this is correct, Mr Marshall said it was “obvious”.
“Well, obviously now since there is no CEO leading the entity and the entity is being developed into a different structure, things are on hold until I come back in two weeks,” he said.
Incredible. This bum takes the chairmanship and the money, perks and privileges that go with it, flees to Australia for two months to see his old friends, and doesn’t hand over or delegate duties or prepare a contingency plan for his absence. Everything is expected to be put on hold until His Majesty The Garden Gnome returns at his leisure. And this when Davinia Galea has been ousted to make way for him.
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Of course he will not delegate duties or prepare a contingency plan for his absence, otherwise someone might take over his job.
Typical attitude of incompetent people who have been given their job purely through cronyism and not merit, and who are afraid of competent individuals and of being shown up for what they really are.
The time will come that there are no more jobs for the red boys and girls (and little old garden gnomes) and then there will be people who are uneasy and continuously on their toes lest someone more competent takes over.
That’s the rule of this scam. The one that’s on the front of it meant to keep people on their toes. But what it does, in fact, is multiply the creative options on how a dagger is used to backstab, with little or no progress done on the main project/ job.
There’s a never-ending supply in line for any job. Keeping the job doesn’t depend on performance but on pressure power at the ready, or on just being instrumental in making the leader look good.
The blame should be laid at Jose Herrera’s door. He was the one who decided to get rid of Davinia Galea – a truly competent CEO – to have her replaced by this incompetent bum.
Was it really Herrera, or Mario Cutajar at the Office of the Prime Minister?
Bumming off the state has become a legitimate art form in itself.
Come on Daphne, he was stressed out from all the work he’s been doing, miskin. Cut him some slack. Jahasra.
Oh so “I believe in Joseph” was the pre-election mantra?! I’, not completely up to date, I must say.
So what is he the golden calf, a sacred cow, buddha (I’m going by weight here)?
I heard it’s summer there. You know how it is with the elderly: they like to flock to the sun in the winter months to get the cold out of their ancient bones.
Mattie, some ‘elderly’ people are hardier than others. Right now I am enjoying a -30 degree temperature in a toasty warm home and feel no urge to escape to warmer climes.
A fresh 8″ of pure white snowfall makes looking out the windows a spectacular treat.
Mr Marshall does not hand over things. He is handed things.
He’s got nothing to give. Anyone who has seen a minute of his production (available on the internet) will understand the incompetence of the man.
I am beginning to believe that the person/panel entrusted with recruiting and appointing people to public office require to see only Form 2 C school reports to make the final choice.
Anyone with a reducation and better qualifications do not stand a chance. Franco Debono must be on cloud nine to witness this sort of meritocracy in action.
Typical of Labour at the helm. But why are you surprised? Labour have always treated Malta as though it were their little fiefdom. No wonder the country always ends up a total mess.
He has nothing to hand over.
He obviously manages on a day by day basis and his immediate subordinates are obviously distrusted.
Il bandiera ta’ Malta taghna lkoll. Minflok il-George Cross il-baqra biz-zejziet kbar ghall-halib.
As Mintoff used to say: “ahleb guz”. What have we done to deserve all this?