Are you watching TVM right now?
Simon Busuttil and Joseph Muscat are on Saviour Balzan’s Reporter.
I’m sure the prime minister’s absolutely insufferable smirk and supercilious expression go down a treat with a certain type of person watching in a bar, and with the new liberal hamalli posing as tal-pepe switchers, but they must be as offensive to decent Labour voters as they are to me.
You just don’t want to see your prime minister behaving like that, so self-satisfied and using spiteful retorts.
Incidentally, he was spotted driving home down the Burmarrad road at 7pm: no siren wailing, but blue lights flashing non-stop, with two police outriders on bikes and an unmarked police car bringing up the rear with his security contingent.
Just now – the prime minister’s sole examples of meritocracy are, once again, Lou Bondi and Anton Attard, CEO of PBS. One of the main reasons I would not have done what they are doing is precisely not to give him the opportunity to say that repeatedly and make me look bad, without caring that he’s making me look bad.
He never mentions any others, does he – Marisa Micallef our ambassador to the US, Joe Zammit Tabona his special envoy, Philip Farrugia Randon his appointee to the National Festivities Foundation, Michela Spiteri his appointee to the Valletta Rehabilitation Committee or whatever it’s called nowadays, and so many, many more. He doesn’t want to humiliate and upset them with that level of exposure on television, but he doesn’t mind doing it to Lou Bondi (mentioned another five times in succession right now) or Anton Attard, presumably because he knows they’re not in a position to do anything about it.
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When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/38898/marco_cremona_resigns_from_sustainable_development_network#.U3EPFWdZodX
Where’s the bloody Front kontra c-censura? The resignation’s handed in January, we get to know about it mid-May.
Apropos, how many more of these resignations have been kept under wraps?
Getting rid of Anton Attard will come with a heavy expense.
Muscat has found a creative way of reducing Lou Bondi’s credibility to rubble: waving his scalp in public repeatedly while thinking “Hekk, hu go fik, Lou.”
It always amazes me how low people can go while in the pursuit of money.
Lou Bondi? please…
It’s on again at around 10.15 on TVM2 for whoever’s missed it.
It is pretty obvious that Lou Bondi has jumped ship. He is a narcissistic so-and-so who needs the attention and wants the money and the fun of having a free hand and an apparently unlimited budget to organise one pointless concert after another – as though the government is an impresario and he’s the promoter.
Joseph Muscat has plugged into his vanity and greed and has distracted him and bought his loyalty with (expensive) toys.
He has allowed himself to be used and has been humiliated in the process. Not that he cares. Maybe some newspaper should do some digging into precisely how this government has used Bondi’s services beyond the National Festivities Committee, which is now his personal fiefdom, how much he is being paid to act as consultant to the NFC board of which he is a member, and for other matters, and where his allegiances really lie in the light of this.
That newspaper is unlikely to be The Malta Independent, because he has somehow managed to get the mother of his most recent child put on the payroll there in a newsroom position.
Sorry, Lou Bondi Fan, but whatever your opinions of Lou, Rachel is a valid journalist in her own right and is doing an excellent job at The Malta Independent. The stories and the angles brought out are sufficient proof of that. She never needed Lou Bondi to find her any place. She is more than capable on her own.
I’m watching TVM right now. There are representatives from Alleanza Bidla, that Sammut man, and the woman from Imperium Ewropa.
They can bla bla as much as the like. Bla bla only justifies they’ve no political talent. Waste of time.
Anton Attard was already in that position at PBS long before Labour were in power, and he has a contract.
you must be joking? at 7.00 he was at Msida. your informers need a good binoculars.
[Daphne – Veronica, when you have two motorcycle outriders and a siren, you can get from Msida to Burmarrad in seven minutes. Even in normal traffic it takes 15 minutes. Targa Gap is Mosta, you know, not the end of the earth.]
Are you saying that there’s more than one Alfa flying Malta’s flag and accompanied by police bikes and an unmarked car with flashing lights?
That makes Muscat even more of a waste of money and space.
I wouldn’t be so sure, EP elections always favour the Opposition, lower percentage at the polls might favour the PN, given the Labour voter mentality that the EP election is a friendly match, anger of some outer circle LP voters who didn’t get what they wanted, gays are now happy and Cyrus is not on the list, you never know…
[Daphne – You can’t quarrel with polls, I’m afraid.]
Was the show recorded? How can I watch it?
When die-hard Laburisti went berserk after Lou Bondi’s appointment, Muscat told them “Jien naf x’qed naghmel”.
In other words, he’s doing it for a reason and not because he really needs Bondi’s talents.
The fact that he hid the purpose is in itself unacceptable. But the reason is there for all to see as he now waves Bondi’s scalp around in triumph and uses it as ‘proof’ to counterbalance the thousand cronyism appointments he has made.
And the way things are looking, you could describe Bondi’s appointment as cronyism too.