The Labour leader/prime minister has been reduced to making a show campaign visit to his own first cousin
Reduced?
Not quite, because when you think about it and analyse the stunts the Labour Party pulled in the general election, you will understand that it scraped the bottom of the barrel throughout.
It used party employees, friends and family of party employees and testimonials from rubbish people of zero credibility, presented to the know-nothing, uninformed public as the precise opposite – the notorious scammer Andreas Gerdes, Albert Gauci Cunningham, Frederick Testa, Willie ‘Garages’ Mangion and the like.
Today, the Opposition press and The Malta Independent are reporting that the show visit which Joseph Muscat paid to a working-class family in Senglea, taking the media and a tarted-up Miriam Dalli along to launch his party’s EP campaign, was a fraud.
The wife/mother in that family is his first cousin.
What was Muscat thinking – that because she, her family and her home are typically Maltese working-class, nobody would dream that she’s his first cousin and, if told, would say, u ejja, as if, how can it be true.
People who are really middle-class don’t have working-class first cousins in the cliched working-class mould. But Muscat and Michelle are not really middle-class and that is why their values and attitudes jar. They don’t have a ‘middle class’ mindset. They are savagely aspirational working-class in the process of first-generation acquisition (grabbing) of what they perceive to be Maltese middle-class trophies, behavioural patterns and symbols.
In this case, the devil is not in the detail but in the screamingly, blatantly obvious: renting your own family saloon to the state for your own use as prime minister is not middle-class thinking, nor is a wife who talks openly at parties about the pleasures of the ‘treatment’ she receives when travelling with her husband.
Treatment? Who says that? Who even thinks that?
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-23/news/pm-visits-cousin-as-part-of-pl-campaign-pn-media-4718788610/
Anke l-mod kif inhuma liebsin – kieku jken gej ghandi l-prim ministru, nahseb is-sens komun jghidli biex nilbes pulit.
Ma neskludiex li kellhom direttiva u nstruzzjonijiet biex jilbsu casual, halli juru li huma komuni u ordinarji.
Jahasra joseph…qed tahsibna boloh.
THAT is pulit in Senglea – freshly bought that same morning at the Birgu market.
Wow! That’s below the belt, but then so was the promise made, and delivered to Norman Vella, by Joey himself.
I wonder where they are hiding the picture of Dom Mintoff with candles and flowers.
A Sky news reporter dug into Farage yesterday because he used an employee as if she was just a grassroots supporter. It was quite an exchange to watch. But then reporters in Malta, excluding one exception, have gone in the way of the dinosours.
This is just an excerpt from one of the papers:
”UKIP leader Nigel Farage has shrugged off questions over whether a woman featured in party election literature should have been identified as one of his aides.
Lizzy Vaid, an events manager for the party and assistant to the leader, has appeared in a variety of promotional documents portraying her as a grassroots supporter.
In Ukip’s manifesto for forthcoming European and local elections her picture is captioned simply “Lizzy Vaid, Devon”.
“I’ll be voting Ukip because they are the only party listening to what people want,” she is quoted as saying.
Asked about the labelling during an interview with Sky News, Mr Farage said he “did not see the need” to state that she was an employee.”… see link to continue reading:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/nigel-farage-dismisses-questions-over-ukip-posters-1-3383832
And James Alexander Tyrrell’s obsession with you continues unabatedly. What a sad person.
Small world, eh?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-23/news/pm-did-not-know-senglea-woman-was-a-distant-relative-4721803264/
He is a liar.
http://www.independent.com.mt/mobile/2014-04-23/news/pm-did-not-know-senglea-woman-was-a-distant-relative-4721803264/
hasra li hafna issa indunaw.
I think this stunt exposes precisely what Joseph Muscat thinks of Maltese journalists. He supposed that they would never check who this family is, that they would report the facts as they are given to them.
If he had tried this buzullotta in the UK, he would have been eaten alive by the journalists there.
Well, the Maltese press deserve this. The have proved to be dumb and/or suckers repeatedly over the last years.
”When asked why the family name was changed from Buhagiar to Bartolo in the press call and the press release, Dr Muscat said that that might have been a genuine mistake.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-23/news/pm-did-not-know-senglea-woman-was-a-distant-relative-4721803264/
Quick get the olive branch, ha nbahhru, he must be jinxed! We are told that this is the ‘no negativity’ government after all. Miskin, first the ultraviolet thing, then the unknown kinship to the people he visited and now the ‘genuine’ mistake in the surname. Fuq kemm jghidu toqghod il-borma?
This story reminds me about our Joey and his reaction to the blokka silg.
The greatest taboo in this fair land, class distinction and their legitimacy as a method to clarify issues and ensure the social pact.
Oh no, it has to be keeping up with the Muscatians and baroque by numbers.
Perhaps the PN should research why places like Zurrieq and Bormla were PN strongholds once, and how these were taken over.
Duplicate the symbols, replace what was effectively a community and contemporary Malta’s plight, including abandoned urban cores can be understood.
It is good to go after the festi, go after the kazin tal-puliti, is-sinjuri, usually the one calling itself circolo musicale with some plaque commemorating an exchange visit to Como’s music festival. Restoration beckons.
It is good to understand that all kazini tas-sekondarja, the notoriously Labour affiliated ones, are named for some British royal, duke or admiral. And it’s no coincidence.
The poison imbued all symbols to seep in.
Peppi Azzopardi will tell us pique is some local harmless affair, patronising infotainment on the Sunday Times, as long as violence isn’t present. Cemplilna.
No it isn’t, not when the kazin becomes the model to follow to create the state, instead of being considered what it really is, just a circolo.
How does one get through to the kitchen in that house? That photo wouldn’t be… staged, would it?
Oh and I LOVE my prime minister’s crotch. I think the vernacular expression is “gvern bil-bajd”.
Remember that old TV series, ‘All In the Family’? Here we have our own Archie Bunker.
It’s time to start the research into WHY Mintoff did what he did and how he set about it. Expose the consequences.
Anyone disagree Piano’s project was an affront to modernity per force vulgar and ultimately tacky?
Kenneth Zammit Tabona singled out the building’s texture as the offence. How dare Piano explore interface and materia? That has to belong to baroque, otherwise ‘refined’ people like him have no place in society.
This is not a republic, just a bazaar, Zammit Tabona one of Preziosi’s exotic characters.
It was a misprint.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-23/news/pm-did-not-know-senglea-woman-was-a-distant-relative-4721803264/
A total of 159 new citizenships have been granted and yet, the monitoring committee has not met once. This committee as well as the appointment of Busuttil to it was nothing more than lip service. In the meantime, Muscat is probably dishing out citizenship to whomever he pleases without there being any control whatsoever.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/United-Against-Sale-of-Maltese-Citizenship/743546829003845
Your questions answered. I say “only the deprived, the needy, the miserable, the forsaken. That lot.”
I wonder who put the guest list together for Muscat’s wedding and whether Muscat, who couldn’t remember having met his own envoy Nair, is suffering from premature Alzheimers.
How many incidents will it take for the penny to drop?
This was so appropriate..
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSK4p998QxJ8VyAUqaSQ0-gLcoPCCf1_R1fzgrWFR-yPgtvn6pB
There is only one word which suits Muscat, he is so so so FALSE, I cannot understand the mentality of the average Labour Voter, are they so naive that they cannot see through his FALSITY