Has any newspaper bothered to ring Deputy Prime Minister Louis Grech to find out why it wasn’t he who went to the Vatican, but Mrs Muscat?
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April 29, 2014 at 10:09pm
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Totally unbelievable!
“Kien hemm marti…minn naha li qed tirraprezenta lili”!
Is he really serious? You’d think he was talking about school sports day or some constituent’s wedding reception.
You nailed it: he has no idea of the difference between representing the government and representing his family and children.
It took a while to get used to Lawrence Gonzi after years of Eddie Fenech Adami, but we got used to him as time went by.
I now miss having Gonzi at the helm, and find Simon Busuttil a little bit too weak and “pliable”. Having said that, Simon is far more endearing than Muscat can ever hope to be. This photo is really a case in point: https://www.facebook.com/followsimonbusuttil/photos/a.206289822730831.58814.175361972490283/854609971232143/?type=1&theater
Never seen the Prime Minister as genuine with any one, not even sharing staged kisses with ‘martu’ during the electoral campaign.
Banana republic thinking mode.
I challenge this idiot of a PM we have been landed with to name just one single country that was represented at Sunday’s momentous occasion in Rome by a ‘marti’.
Who on earth does he think he is taking for a ride apart from other idiots like himself?
More than half of Malta. Is that enough to make quite a number of people taken for a ride at one go ?
Did anyone ask Muscat whether it is true that his wife posed as Mrs. Farrugia to gain access to the Pope with the Speaker of the House? Muscat is making it look like she had every right to be there as his wife without him.
He treats his wife as an extension of himself, and that is a tell-tale sign.
Leave Louis Grech out of this.
He is a sick man. It is most unfair.
[Daphne – What can I say, Anthony? If he’s too sick to carry out his duties and obligations as deputy prime minister and Minister for Europe, then he should resign. It’s not an honorary, ceremonial appointment. But clearly, he’s not too sick to be along for the ride. What really is most unfair is the way individuals who are not fit for purpose are hogging positions from which those who are fit for purpose are excluded because they are not tal-qalba.]
You’re a disgrace to the Maltese flag, Anthony.
I was fighting Dom Mintoff tooth and nail forty years ago.
I risked dying of hunger in the process.
I am, as they say, battle-hardened.
I trust the Maltese flag will look kindly on me.
Then as you should fight corruption, sleaze and incompetence wherever it occurs, and whoever it concerns, including dying ministers. Sickness does not absolve anyone of guilt.
Tell us more about that Anthony? I’m curious.
I can understand you saying you’re battle-hardened, when previously I was tempted to think it was a softening.
I held back because your presence and comments point to something else, although my tolerance level is lower than yours.
I thought there was something more raw in the process. A process of forgiveness preceding the fact that even Louis Grech had a choice. He still is meant to have one.
I’d ask Louis Grech whether he now thinks that this result has produced the “greater than the sum” that he was after, whether he now feels “appreciated?”
Starting points are always so widely, or snidely, different.
That’s bloody ridiculous is it?
Democracy isn’t fair, it demands accountability and truth.
I cannot for one moment imagine anyone who is not ‘tal-qalba’ occupying the post of deputy PM.
[Daphne – I can’t imagine why you say that. It worked perfectly well for Eddie Fenech Adami and Guido de Marco. When I say tal-qalba, I don’t mean the party.]
And why wasn’t ‘he’ available? Or maybe the Sunday match on TV is too precious for him?
He corrects himself. After rushing into saying that his wife attended in the official position of …, he changes tack.
He realises that calling his wife anything other than his wife is tantamount to reducing her to an official escort provided to him by the state like a perk for the duration.
Well one wonders, at this rate.
Bet she has a newly created post. We just haven’t asked the right question yet.
I am sure he was about to say, “Il-mara tieghi kienet qeda hemm bhala “FIRST LADY”.
“Kien hemm marti tirrapprezenta lili.”
The Prime Minister’s arrogance is beyond belief.
So…if Malta decides to award Gieh ir-Republikka to Sir Elton John, and Lady Furnish shows up instead, would that be OK?
I guess it would have to do.
So, the logic of our Prime Minister’s statement “Kien hemm marti tirraprezenta lili” means that Dr Muscat is failing miserably in distinguishing the difference between:
His status as “Office” (Prime Minister) and a “layman” (husband to Mrs Michelle Muscat)
A deputy Prime Minister (another officer) as his “proxy” and any other civil person (such as the Prime Minister’s wife)
With this logic, it seems Dr Muscat as Prime Minister can dare to ask anyone (perhaps even his parents) to represent him in Public functions or possibly delegate to his wife to attend to sign official documents. Correct?
This is the logic, I understand.
This is not a parent’s day at their children’s school.
I did not realize that Malta had a Deputy Prime Minister.