Government by tenterhooks

Published: April 26, 2014 at 8:59pm

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Il-Prim Ministru Joseph Muscat qal li fil-jiem li ġejjin il-Gvern se jkun f’pożizzjoni li jħabbar aħbar kbira.

Dan qalu waqt li kien qed jindirizza l-folla preżenti fi Pjazza San Franġisk fir-Rabat Għawdex.

Come on then, let’s begin the guessing (sorry, gassing) game. All suggestions welcome, however outrageous.




49 Comments Comment

    • Tom Double Thumb says:

      M’hemmx ahbar ikbar u isbah milli Joseph Muscat ihabbar li se jirrizenja b’effet IMMEDJAT.

      • Tom Double Thumb says:

        Sorry. Did not notice somebody had made the same guess. The question was too great a temptation to resist and I wrote before reading the suggestions already sent in

  1. ciccio says:

    Muscat government to sell Gozo to China in exchange for a bridge.

  2. amlodipine says:

    “ahbar kbira”…wow…what?

    I know: brightly painted mini vans roaming the country distributing POYC medicines, I bet.

    Thank heavens I can afford it and bought my hypertension medicine using my own funds.

    All the money I could have spent on Super 5 or playing bingo at coffee mornings I invested wisely and am receiving dividends.

  3. Jozef says:

    Joseph’s marrying Jason.

  4. curious says:

    He’s working on how to sell it so it must not be right or he knows already that it will be met with criticism. Hence the drama.

  5. Gobsmacked says:

    He’s admitting how incompetent he is.

  6. Mike says:

    Michelle Muscat is pregnant? Hmm no, no.

    They found Sai Mizzi? Hmm neither, no.

    They found oil in Burmarrad? Burmarrad ‘Texas’ no, no.

    Willie finally found a garage? Yeah go Willie go Willie…no.

    He found the culprit who was behind the tampering of the smart meters?…’Barunijiet’ huh, no.no…hmm.

    The first gay marriage + adoption etc. etc…maybe.

    The LNG tanker is going to be bigger..hmm ‘ahbar kbira’?

    Sant finally came to understand that we are in Europe…now that would be an ‘ahbar kbira’.

    Hair loss remedy forsi? Jeffrey getting married yet again?

  7. Freedom5 says:

    Meshall Peron is pregnant with quintuplets.

  8. Charles says:

    Time for a multiple choice question here.

    A) Michelle pregnant with twins fathered by Jason Micallef.

    B) China in deal to buy Air Malta.

    C) New power station contract to be signed with Kazakhstan.

    D) A new company that will provide hundreds of jobs is going to be set up only to end up not opening at all.

    E) Joseph Muscat announces that he is gay and will divorce Michelle to marry the phenomenal Konrad Mizzi, whose wife has run off.

    F) Malta will soon need a bailout and Simon Busuttil was right all along (maybe not ghax issa we’re selling passports).

  9. Freedom5 says:

    LNG Tanker Deborah let out some gas in the Fliegu and triggered a tsunami warning.

  10. veronica says:

    The Malta Police Force Rapid and Advanced Catering Team (MPFRACT) has made it to the semi-finals of Masterchef.

  11. Kevin says:

    Selling part of Mater Dei Hospital to China, in a deal brokered by John Dalli and Shiv Nair.

  12. il-hsieb tar-ronnie says:

    An Eastenders episode shot at the Auberge de Castille, starring Mrs Muscat and her personal assistant Pamela Seychell.

  13. etil says:

    Joseph crowned Emperor of Malta.

  14. etil says:

    Read ‘to be crowned Emperor of Malta. Three days paid holiday to celebrate.

  15. Stephanie says:

    Last time I heard the phrase ‘ser inhabru ahbar kbira’ I was at my children’s nativity play.

  16. Stella Maris Parish says:

    The prime minister is divorcing Mrs Muscat and marrying Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando in Malta’s first same-sex civil union. The ceremony will be performed by that human waterbed, the Liberace mayor of Zurrieq.

    Lara Boffa discovers that she is a lesbian after all and, to be really liberal, marries Franco Debono in Hal Ghaxaq’s parish church. They adopt a cock.

  17. anthony says:

    After it was announced that the President is a direct descendant of the Romanovs and hence a grand duchess in her own right, it has been discovered that Michelle is a direct blood relation of the Habsburg-Lorraine and Jo is a scion of the house of Savoia- Carignano.

  18. Calculator says:

    The nudists are getting their beaches! Equality for all at last!

  19. GD says:

    Manuel Mallia is joining a Marion Mizzi weight loss program.

  20. M. says:

    Joseph Muscat is pregnant.

  21. Meshallveryhappy says:

    Malta will be abolishing intellectual property legislation and will become more European by manufacturing genuine counterfeit Dolce & Gabbana dresses under licence to China.

    • White coat says:

      Genuine fakes, same as our PL government, which is not a government at all, but a party of raiding pirates, looting the island and selling the spoils to the Chinese.

  22. etil says:

    Malta has struck oil.

  23. Min Jaf says:

    L-ahjar u l-akbar thabbira tkun li Joseph Muscat & Co jwarrbu min hemm u jhallu l-gvern jitmexxa min nies sodi w kompetenti.

    • Tom Double Thumb says:

      Sorry, I did not notice that somebody had already made the same suggestion. The temptation was too great to resist and I answered before reading the suggestions already made.

  24. H.P. Baxxter says:

    What a twunt.

  25. H.P. Baxxter says:

    Mintoff cloned.

  26. Confused says:

    I would hazard a guess that the Chinese will be getting themselves involved in the public health care system or Air Malta.

    Obviously this will be sold to the public as the only solution to the survival those state entities. Much the same as when they sold 30% of Enemalta to the Chinese state.

  27. Vagabond King says:

    The canonization of Dom Mintoff and Lorry Sant.

  28. il-Ginger says:

    The radiation from the Nexos UV lamps gave him mutant superhuman abilities which will be revealed in the upcoming X-Men film.

  29. Charles Spiteri says:

    Seriously, the only good and great news I can think of is the discovery of oil in commercial quantities.

    Unfortunately it will mean more money available for the PL to squander.

  30. zunzana says:

    Sai Mizzi will be returning to Malta after having has struck a deal with China to run Mater Dei. Mission accomplished and Konrad ‘s aspirations gratified.

  31. Meshallveryhappy says:

    Muscat’s latest hair transplant is successful. Fenomenali.

  32. Funtasia says:

    Malta will join China by offering expertise (Joe Mizzi will head team) and partly financing (Citizenship For Sale proceeds) an ambitious programme to land Joseph Muscat on the moon by 2018 (as part of V18 celebrations).

    Time and prestige are being considered a priority. How to get him back is not being treated as important enough.

  33. White coat says:

    I bet that, having old Enemalta to the Chinese, the next logical step is to sell the other utility, Water Services Corporation. That would not complete the looting. There’s still the state general hospital and Filfla.

  34. White coat says:

    Manwel Mallia will be found after having gone AWOL for weeks if not months, which is his version of keeping his promise of resigning for having conceded the single day of residency for the false ‘Maltese’ citizens.

  35. Nostradamus says:

    An underground train /subway tunnel for passengers between the islands

  36. pirellu says:

    He’s going to announce that he’s going to hire out his personal house to be his official residence

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