My, what an ass
The braying of asses does not reach heaven, says a Corsican-Maltese proverb. But give an ass a microphone and the whole of Malta hears him.
We have two assets in our electoral efforts, Labour deputy leader Toni ‘Blokka Silg’ Abela told the party’s general conference a couple of days ago: Joseph Muscat and Simon Busuttil.
As Father Christmas might say, ho ho ho.
What bad taste people have in Malta. How undiscriminating most people are. Every day we have to wake up and face this unsavoury fact. The appalling taste and choices we manifest in our clothes, shops, product choices, home interiors, food, cement gardens, choice of entertainment and general lifestyle is manifested also in our political preferences.
All money and affluence have done is given us more ways in which to demonstrate our appalling taste, so that now it’s in your face everywhere you look.
Imagine looking at Toni Abela and saying, wow, what a great deputy leader. I must vote for a party that elevates somebody like that to its second highest position. And Joseph Muscat? Fantastic. I mean, he’s so credible and straightforward, so presentable, unlike Simon Busuttil.
Come off it. If our politicians came branded by Versace or whatever it is the tackiest of tacky Maltese see as the epitome of ‘kless’ and status, they’d pick those. “Eh, dak ta’ Versace, ta. X’ma jafx imexxi pajjiz.”
Can’t stand it. Tacky, tacky, tacky, tacky. Wall to wall tacky.
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“Imagine looking at Toni Abela and saying, wow, what a great deputy leader. I must vote for a party that elevates somebody like that to its second highest position. And Joseph Muscat? Fantastic. I mean, he’s so credible and straightforward, so presentable, unlike Simon Busuttil.”
An ass he is, and tacky a good portion of Maltese are. Reminds me of a typical Labourist I’ve met who worked as a canvasser (and got his modest iced bun afterwards, of course); the kind of person who wasn’t able to even drive properly with worry because a friend joked that the PN had something on Joseph Muscat which would discredit him in the run-up to the last elections. (Rather than question the fact that his dear leader did something reprehensible, he was more worried about his public image.)
Incidentally, he has quite expensive tastes in brands, and his ability to buy them really is his idea of ‘class’. So your assumptions are pretty much spot on.
To understand tackiness, enter a Maltese house.
Toni Abela is extremely meticulous in everything he does as the following incident clearly shows.
A husband and wife, well known to me, were involved in a separation case.
In court I happened to be walking up the stairs behind the two lawyers involved in the case when Toni turned to the other and asked, “Who am I representing, the husband or the wife?”
He must have stayed up all night preparing his case.
Didn’t Toni Abela represent Arlette Baldacchino aka Etoile Noir in a libel suit she presented because she took offence at being called short, when that is exactly what she is?
A decent man and lawyer would have gently explained to her that stating facts isn’t libellous.
What struck me also about Toni Abela and now Owen Bonnici, is that both criticised Simon Busuttil and Jason Azzopardi for saying in public that Manuel Mallia vowed to resign if 1 day of residence is included in the scheme.
That was said during the bi-party talks and those talks were supposed to be secret, they said.
What they’re missing is that it was Joseph Muscat who first said that the Nationalist Party refused the 1 year residence obligation during the same talks, and he said this in the press conference following the agreement with the European Commission.
What trash we have to deal with in the next four years and it’s incredible how dumb people are to fall for such rubbish.
I think Malta’s about to topple Albania to the number of second hand BMW’s, Mercs and Porsches imported from the UK.
This is where the PN’s renaissance starts, understand the national craving for ‘class’. Perhaps as Baxxter put it, 2004 gave a false sense of security.
Putting Malta’s delay at between one to two decades, depending on circumstances, somehow manages to provide a clear picture. At least it works for me.
Naomi Klein’s No Logo was about to become a hit back then. She denounced America’s self-betrayal, delegating the social contract to Chinese sweatshops. Globalisation they said, Malta Globali in current Labourspeak.
Sometimes, influences rage and fade, but that’s your blockbusters.
People like Toni Abela cannot get to terms with breeding.
Which isn’t akin to exemplary behaviour either, that’s their forsaken pre-concept, what it does is attenuate the effort required. With ex-realsocialists, Mintoffjani, mkeccija u lura et al however, it means only one thing; a privilege they never had. What has to be destroyed is what the adversary represents, if it’s the person in its entirety, this becomes politically valid.
There’s an obsession with the Leader of the Opposition’s soft spoken ability to challenge every false notion conjured.
The more Simon Busuttil manages to move from emotion to dry, explicit logic as required, the worse for Labour. Just look at Labour’s timed ‘isolated’ pre-emptive strike in anticipation of the Opposition’s studied response.
Muscat cannot stand an agenda beyond him, Kurt obliges, but the country started looking both ways. Or better, San Alwigi had better students.
It doesn’t look like Toni Abela was starving under successive Natinalist governments, does it?
Some fascinating facts about Toni Abela:
he is a nephew of Victor Pace, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff’s chief messenger;
he is a nephew of Paul Bond, the Golden Years of Labour police inspector who was among those who raided the Nationalist Party headquarters;
his mother still lives in the Blata l-Bajda flat requisitioned during Labour’s golden years from one of the owners of John’s Garage.