The chief of government communications doesn’t grasp the magnitude of what is happening
The utterly moronic chief of government communications, Kurt Farrugia, who has turned crass stupidity into a fine art, has been busy tweeting inanities right through the reshuffle crisis (for make no mistake, a crisis it is).
Blue skies at Girgenti, press pack at the Girgenti gate (well, Kurt, it’s a whole lot better than your barbarian hordes), pictures of Godfrey Farrugia chummed up with the PM (so appropriate, I don’t think), and then this: ‘Do the press want more reshuffle or more cookies?’
This is a reference to the biscuits fed to reporters as they waited.
Fool and idiot – it would be a Taghna Lkoll appointee to have no sense of the gravity of the occasion, or what is expected of him in this position.
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The prime minister was clearly short of “people of calibre” today.
I said one year ago that Muscat had put together a war cabinet. Now he has a war, but I’m not sure if he has a cabinet.
The prime minister is short and so is most of his cabinet of poison dwarves. That’s why he appointed Kurt the coconut – it makes him feel he’s of respectable height.
A case of “purgamentum init, exit purgamentum”.
Kurt Farrugia can’t get over the fact that, barely a year ago, he’d have been at the gate, struggling to be seen in the crowd.
He isn’t a coconut. He’s a whole bunch of them – just plain nuts.
If it weren’t for the fact that everyone else would go down the drain with him, I’d love to see him handle a major natural disaster.
“..or more cookies?”
I just don’t get that kind of humour.
We never used ‘cookies’ unless we were referring to something else and in his case he would have none to offer.
The road map has evolved into a rowdy map.
It’s rogue not road.
Nine seats is a huge majority, though we know that by rights it should have been 7 ( the “mistakes” on the 8th & 13th districts). Now Godfrey & Marlene can hardly be counted on any more and the reshuffle excludes a few others who expected to get a nod (Silvio Parnis, Joe Sammut, Etienne Grech). Is it all starting to unravel?
Silvio Parnis would make an excellent minister of cafeterias and canteens.
It all goes right over his head. Not that it needs to go particularly high to do that, mind you.
Clown.
There I’ve done it.
How come they were given cookies not gingerbreadmen?
I am not so sure he so moronic, unfortunately.
OK these photos are stupid.
But I was having a chat with some relatively apolitical friends yesterday evening. Most comments were on Karmenu Vella: this is what struck me – they (the midget and Jo, I’d assume) managed to ensure that a few hours later people were discussing the Commissioner appointment, not the two resignations.
They’re probably brighter than we think. I really believe I am wrong.
[Daphne – If they were brighter than we think, they wouldn’t have had two resignations, a mess of patch-up appointments, and Karmenu Vella nominated as EU Commissioner. I know that when the situation in government is desperate, there is a tendency to look for any glimmer of hope that things might not be so bad, but the fact is: there is a bunch of incompetents in government whose only skill is manipulation of the public mood. And while that’s great for campaigning, it’s utterly useless in working the nuts and bolts of government. What is happening now is happening exactly because they are neither bright nor skilled; they are only cunning.]
Daphne – yes, that is precisely my point. Kurt Farrugia’s role is not to take care of “the nuts and bolts of government”, but to “make government look good” (putting it very simply).
And as you admit, they have an excellent skill in public mood manipulation.
Unfortunately, I feel that a) in today’s “world”, perception has probably a higher impact than, say, 20 years back and b) considering the gullibility of the average Maltese, we’re doomed to a (very) long period of these idiots running the country.
They just have a single skill – but it is enough to keep them there.
And we might still be in for another reshuffle. What if the Court decides that Justyne Caruana’s seat in parliament is not hers in reality, then what happens? Can somebody explain the outcome, please?
Kurt Farrugia: the quintessential nonentity among the top notch PL fools.