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Published: March 22, 2014 at 12:36am

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  1. Joe Fenech says:

    Muscat really…stands out.

  2. Alexander Ball says:

    What the heck?

  3. Antoine Vella says:

    Looks like he’s getting ready to stamp his foot.

  4. Antoine Vella says:

    Angela Merkel is looking for Muscat, but in the wrong place.

  5. el bandido guapo says:

    We know who ate all the canapes.

  6. bob-a-job says:

    You know you’re not popular when you’re welcomed by total indifference.

    When your pal David Cameron distances himself as remotely as possible.

    And when someone shows adversity to the ‘Flogging Passports’ issue by writing ‘European Rat’ on that board.

  7. albona says:

    I bet they have been told to avoid him. Enda Kenny will need to make sure Muscat doesn’t grab hold of him this time.

  8. kev says:

    This picture deserves a million captions.

    But wait, what is Merkel looking at? A dead rat? Konrad Adenaur’s name tag? Or is she looking for her masonic ring as Martin ‘Rottweiler’ Schulz sniffs his way in.

    Then there’s the gay French President who was saved by a ‘mistress’ hoax. Has he just been hit by the question? Barroso seems to find the whole affair rather amusing. They all do. Look at them.

    Except, of course, our Joseph, always the visionery, beaming into the distant future, even as the Irish Taoseach, Enda Kenny spots a fair young damsel in distress and has just worked out a plan.

  9. Gahan says:

    I think Muscat’s jacket must have shrunk in the wardrobe. The creases near the button hole are showing that the jacket is under stress.

    Could it be because of the daily gym workouts?

    If this is what they call a family photo, I can spot who the black sheep is.

    It is pertinent to note that Cameron is right opposite on the other side back row.

  10. canon says:

    That photo is worth a thousand words.

  11. Brian*14 says:

    Castaway

  12. Sv says:

    That’s what happens to people who lift weights whilst still fat. Muscle grows under the many layers of fat, and they seem like a balloon ready to burst.

    • Tabatha White says:

      Nature’s secrets are all too easy to get hold of and apply. But the mind does need to work in the same direction.

      Thank God that Simon Busuttil’s full countenance shows a man who, as the saying goes, is “bien dans sa peau.”

      I find that reassuring.

  13. MIchael.b.Mifsud says:

    The picture seems to have been taken in a hurry, the photographer might have realized that he could have been sniped down by a button.

  14. The Observer says:

    No need for red arrow I’d day. Suit 2 sizes too small, robotic posture and yes barely Maltese average height, and of course isolated, not really difficult to miss, is it, oh sorry, is he.

  15. pale blue my foot! says:

    The odd one out in so many ways. What an embarrassment this guy is.

  16. Lorna Attard says:

    One question: The CCTV images show a man who appears to be bald. THE Nicholas Grech seems to have a headful of hair. Doesn’t seem possible that hair grows back from a shaven state in such a short time. How could these CCTV images have been used as evidence in court?

  17. rob says:

    Jaqq. Can’t we have a more relaxed and less pretentious PM? Simon Busuttil would surely fit in better.

  18. PWG says:

    Muscat who?

  19. A+ says:

    and our PM has the cheek to tell others that they are “isolated” …… it’s called projecting one’s feelings on to others

  20. Mr Meritocracy says:

    Superman, to the rescue.

    Or so he thinks.

  21. Giovanni says:

    He is smelling the coffee

  22. J Agius says:

    Dak ghax ikun diga ha l-qaghda ghar-ritratt

  23. Anthony says:

    Maghzqa jonqsu.

  24. Sister Ray says:

    Muscat looks like a young Churchill, bulldog look and all. You do us proud Joey.

  25. Tracy says:

    Isolated from everyone except his clique.

  26. Kieku Taf says:

    Imma miskin kif dejjem fit-tarf ipogguh?
    And that button…oh dear…I hope the stitching is reinforced

  27. H.P. Baxxter says:

    I can’t say I’m sartorially impressed by anyone there, except Merkel. She IS her suit. As for the men, they’re all heads of government, and they all look as if they’ve been MADE to wear their suits.

    No panache at all. Just two pocket squares and a bow tie. It’s a shame David Cameron has hidden himself, because it looks like he gets the award for best cut suit.

    A big round of applause to the schoolboy on the left front row who gatecrashed the photo after scoffing all the crumpets.

  28. steve fenech says:

    Attributed to George Bernard Shaw:

    ” democracy is a devise that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve”

  29. bob-a-job says:

    It must be something to do with his blend of coffee. They smelt it and they don’t like it.

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressData/Pics/photoGallery/%7Bb3280b70-aef8-4f5d-bda5-dd26294ccc20%7D.jpg

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressData/Pics/photoGallery/%7Beebd581d-ff6e-4bce-87a1-8ebda280ffbf%7D.jpg

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressData/Pics/photoGallery/%7Ba0a7ff7c-b26c-4ff8-b013-a0cd82047902%7D.jpg

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressData/Pics/photoGallery/%7Be3c4c931-af55-497f-be75-19f208b7fa5a%7D.jpg

    One would expect him to be at least among the arrival photographs.

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/press/photographic-library?command=VIEW&BID=76&dateEvent=21/03/2014&rubrique=5378&id=&lang=en

    Oops, sorry he’s not there.

    OK try this batch then

    http://www.consilium.europa.eu/press/photographic-library?command=VIEW&BID=76&dateEvent=20/03/2014&rubrique=5355&id=&lang=en

    No, no luck either.

    It must dawning to him by now that a majority of 36,000 votes is not gauged as popularity in mainland Europe, indeed his snide remarks and pseudo English humour nourish pity rather than sympathy.

    The man is popular with a certain kind of majority that is thankfully non-influential elsewhere in Europe. Sadly it throws the rest of us into the same pot.

    Similar to the notion that all French eat frogs and all Italians are Mafia, I am sure that to the rest of the EU we are gradually being generalised into a nation of fools where the village idiot stands out as being the most gifted.

  30. Nik says:

    He’s been working on his Mussolini-Putin pose. If he could he’d commission Jacques-Louis David to paint him.

  31. H.P. Baxxter says:

    That creepy Barroso is putting on weight prodigiously. His legs are starting to look like Muscat’s.

    And as Daphne memorably put it, “with all that money sloshing around”, surely he can afford a pair of lace-ups?

  32. Tracy says:

    Qiesu lest ghal xi glieda ! Kif ma poggiex hdejn Hollande forsi kien ikolli ftit attenzjoni minghandu

  33. Caroline says:

    Very clearly ignored by the rest

  34. socrates says:

    Tat-tarf l-iehor li huma rashom flimkien qeghdin wisq probabli mifqughin bid-dahq jghidu: “Dak tat-tarf l-iehor min il-qaddisin hu?”

  35. gorg says:

    Muscat was late so they brought in his wax mannequin from Madame Tussauds.

  36. janeff says:

    That posture seems to be more like an imitation of a Putinesque show-off, but in a suit instead of a bare chested pose.

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