He was never going to be fit for purpose, was he?
Times of Malta reports this morning on how a buffoon who was always going to be unfit for any public office can’t stop digging himself further into his hole.
Muscat considered him a liability to the Labour Party’s image when he was deputy leader, and so dumped him on the nation as Speaker of the House instead – and the pseudo-liberals who support Muscat don’t see this as the scandalous insult (to Malta and parliament) that it is.
In Times of Malta:
Speaker Anġlu Farrugia did not realise Pope Francis was so close when photographers caught him on camera metres away with his mobile phone to his ear during Sunday’s canonisation ceremony.
The ‘all-important’ phone call was not an emergency, nor one he urgently had to reply to, but a call he actually made himself to his secretary who was further back in the queue, to establish where the Maltese delegation had to meet after greeting the pontiff.
Contacted yesterday, Dr Farrugia attempted to defend his action by saying he had not realised he was so close to the Pope nor that he was being photographed.
“The call lasted just 31 seconds and I did it in the best interests of the delegation,” Dr Farrugia said.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140429/local/speaker-phone-call-was-to-my-secretary.516849
As long as I’m not being photographed I do what I like wherever I am
‘The best interests of the delegation’.
One is left with the impression they were negotiating a ceasefire with the Taleban.
It’s on the rekort the call lasted 31 seconds.
The Times should have also made the point that Mrs.Muscat is also seen as using her mobile.
“Dr Farrugia [said] he had not realised he […] was being photographed.”
M.A.L.T.E.S.E.
Jaqq
Purcinellati ta’ gvern rappresentat ufficjalment minn adulti li jikkomportaw rwiehhom ta’ principjanti qishom sejrin fuq l-X Factor ! X’misthija gibtu fuqna l-Maltin!
Ma nafx kif ma qalx li t-telefonata kienet: “fl-interess tan-Nazzjon” !
Who is Anglu’s (Dr. Farrugia is such an exaggeration) secretary? Only asking because the last time I saw the speaker’s car, his daughter was riding in the front passenger seat.
How the hell could he possibly have not known that there were two couples between him and the Pope! If that’s the case, then what’s he doing as the Speaker!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140429/local/V-18-chief-s-plants-dream-comes-true.516883
Anqas Mrs. Farrugia ma ndunat.
And during those 31 seconds his eyes are fixed on the Pope. Yet he claims he didn’t know he was that close. And we are expected to believe him?
But perhaps poor Anglu did not know which one of the two in clerical robe is the Pope.
He was rallying the tuks force in case the Pope was in danger.
Why didn’t Labour send Franco Debono instead?
Maybe he would have pushed the Pope aside and canonised himself?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140429/local/V-18-chief-s-plants-dream-comes-true.516883
Pansies rock.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140429/local/muscat-vague-over-change-of-law-to-block-referendum.516939
40,000+ signatures, Dr.Busuttil.
Who was Michelle Muscat texting?
Besides if one sees a video of what happened when they were in front of the pope it leaves one speechless.
Michelle Muscat shakes his hand (in her funny usual way) and just walks off leaving Anglu with his stupid face in front of the pope not knowing what to do.
Both Anglu Farrugia and Michelle Muscat were expecting instructions from someone on what protocol required them to do next.
As usual in Malta the person at the other end of the telephone was having tea, had temporarily left his post or was himself asking elsewhere for the information required.
That left both the inarticulate Speaker and the “mart il-Prim Ministru” literally lost for words, or simply lost.
After all, neither of them is really used to “the high society”, in spite of the constant posing and pretending.
For heaven’s sake why did Angelo Farrugia have to take a secretary with him for the canonisation ceremony. Is he incapable of travelling alone?
So despite staring at the Pope, he still didn’t realise how far from him he was?
Utter prat.
“He had not realized he was so close to the Pope”
He must be really shortsighted – or, maybe, he was occupied with the requirements of ‘Mrs Farrugia’.
Michelle Muscat was playing with her tablet. she had her tablet under her left arm when shaking hands with the pope.
Level 87 on Candy Crush is a real bugger.
He wanted probaly to know were the delegation was meeting for lunch.
Mela kien fil-qamar biex ma ndunax li kien daqshekk vicin il-papa?
Or was it Franco Debono at the other end ?
So it was not only the Speaker and his wife’s imposter but a delegation who flew to Rome, consequently leaving no place for Mrs. President on an Air Malta flight.
“Anglu Farrugia said he did not realise Pope Francis was so close.”
What a lie! It is not as if the woman between him and the Pope is so huge that she obscured his vision.
There is no one blinder than him who does not want to see.
Why are so many people in the Labour Party such compulsive liars? Or are they so stupid that they do not realise that their very lies are stupid and unbelievable?
Michelle Muscat, oops, Mrs. Farrugia I mean, looks like she is fishing for her’s in the bag as well.
Well Peter Paul Zammit could always send out his boys in blue to call in the photographer for questioning
Well, to be fair, Anglu was standing a whole 120cm (erbgha piedi) away from the pope, and the pope was completely dressed in white in an entire sea of dark clad people.
I mean, how is one expected to spot a pope in such conditions?
It is not like one comes across popes every day; and to make things more difficult, there were two popes present at the canonization, plus two more dead ones. Not to mention a strange looking Mrs Farrugia fidgeting about next to him, when he had travelled to Rome unaccompanied by his spouse.
Give Anglu some credit, the human brain can only cope with so much.
“did not realise Pope Francis was so close ”
Any closer than that he’d be up his skirt.
What a lie, can’t he see beyond 1.5 metres?
He needs to go to Franco Mercieca to have his eyesight tested if he didn’t realise he was so near the Pope.
Mrs Muscat is also messing around with her phone.
1. He is not metres away from the Pope. He is one metre away from the Pope.
2. He did not realize he was so close to the Pope. His sense of awareness is about as keen as that of a blind goldfish.
3. He did not realize he was/will be photographed. Who would have thought that the photographers will be actually taking photos?
Even Godrick from Zejtun Band whose only qualification is a certificate for graduating from potty training knows to switch off his mobile when he goes to the cinema.
But the Speaker of the House actually makes a phone call while standing 2 metres away from the pope.
Note to self: Purchase citizenship from St Kitts ASAP and get the hell out of this dump run by morons.
Mrs Muscat is also busy fidgeting with something.
Looking for her mowbajl to take a selfie with her friend the Pope.
There was a time, a little more than a year ago, when I felt proud of my country; when I held my head up high every time I engaged with overseas professionals who wanted to know more about Malta and its various industry offerings.
I exuded confidence wherever I went and with whomsoever I met.
Today, thanks to the manifest inexperience and crass incompetence of our new leaders, I cringe every time I am asked to explain what is happening on our island. Although clearly shocked and disappointed by the election result last year, I privately hoped that the change would breathe new life and energy into the island’s economic fabric and lead to something better.
Instead, it’s one step after another down the road to degradation at every level. They simply don’t have what it takes to run a country.