Meritocracy update: the Fat Controller has been made the government’s special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation
The man who has been appointed Malta’s special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation – photograph taken at a fast-food outlet.
Oh the hypocrisy of this government. Joseph Muscat made a big show of forcing the Fat Controller out of his Super One TV show, August before last, when he upset people by writing obscenities about Alexander Lucie-Smith, a priest who wrote a piece about Mintoff for the Catholic Herald.
But that was in the run-up to the general election, when Muscat needed to win brownie points from a gullible electorate. Now that he’s home and dry, he has made the man who had to resign from his Super One show special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation.
Well, what can we say? Joe Grima wasn’t considered fit to keep his show on Labour TV, but now he’s fit to be Malta’s special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation.
And he’ll be paid, we are told, “the standard remuneration”, whatever that is. But this is not about how much he is paid. It’s about whether he is fit for purpose. The man is not qualified in tourism just because he was tourism minister under Mintoff back in the 1970s. More specifically, he is in his late 70s and so morbidly obese that he has a special reserved parking space for the physically disabled outside his Sliema flat.
He is too disabled to walk to his car, but he can somehow jet off all over the world to tourism meetings – presumably taking up the entire space between the window and the aisle in row 1 of business class where Manuel Mallia takes up only the equivalent of two seats. Whatever you do, don’t seat them next to each other.
“Here comes the Maltese delegate”, and an elderly obesity warning walks in.
Muscat is certainly rewarding his Mintoffian dinosaurs, isn’t he. Alex Sceberras Trigona, Mintoff’s Foreign Minister, has been made special envoy to the World Trade Organisation, and now Mintoff’s Tourism Minister has been made special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation.
At least Sceberras Trigona isn’t yet 70. Joe ‘Fat Controller’ Grima will be celebrating his 80th birthday while he is Malta’s special envoy. His sons are in their 50s, for crying out loud.
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Tal biza. Dan il gvern waqalna wicchna ma l- art.
This fat slob is going to eat all the tourists.
It’s gonna cost us two seats per trip and two servings per meal.
Is it going to be fat fighters hotels?
“I remained attached. I think it is an area where I would fit in” the man said. Iced bun !
Did they mean convoy?
Scraping the bottom of the barrel for this bag of sh*t. Surely it cannot get worse.
One less opportunist living in poverty.
It is unusual to see old fat people. There aren’t that many alive.
It is a waste of energy to keep picking on every Labour move: the political system is fractalised and one notices the same pattern all over the place.
Sane people can see that Malta has caved in due to the people’s compliance with corruption and mob antics. Replacing demonstrations and massive protest is a hollering silence; the media is transparent, intellectuals nonexistent and the PN is now a lame Chihuahua trying to take on a raging pit-bull.
Dystopia at its very best!
Agree. He is too old for the job. I am sure that are far more capable persons to fill the vacancy.I do not like the way Joseph is recruiting. Is Mr. Grima the one and only?
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Qamel mhux qabel
Will the tax payer be paying for his breakfast,lunch and dinners too,because if so that would make one hell of a bill. When he gets ill from over eating his favorite rich creamy dinners we will have to foot the bill too when he ends up at MATER DEJN!
PS AIR MALTA start stocking up on BEER NUTS
He should not be forced to accept buns, especially iced ones.
I suppose he will be ferried to important meetings abroad in an air ambulance with a geriatrician on board.
An unfortunate choice of words by Mr Grima.
He told Times of Malta (the print edition, today) that the tourism organisation is something “he could fit in”.
He really doesn’t look like he could fit into anything.
The ideal person to promote health tourism!
If Joe Grima opens his mouth a little wider, Jonah might be able to climb out.
Presumably he is a roundabout in Joseph’s roadmap
Jeez, is he lowered into bed by crane? And how the hell does he get out?
Actually, he was once lowered out of his flat by crane …
It’s water retention. He lives in Sliema and Golden Years habits die hard.
I applaud the government’s decision to appoint seasoned heavyweights to internat– er…..