“Erba gaffef iduru qishom ta’ Bahhar u Sewwi” – Tonio Fenech to Konret Mizzi
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October 23, 2014 at 4:26pm
Konrad Mizzi at the Labour Party’s May Day meeting in Bormla this year.
Sloughing through an entire parliamentary sitting can be mind-numbing. But did you hear the bit where Tonio Fenech, clearly enjoying himself immensely, laid into the Minister for Health and Energy for not permitting the press to cover his zjara tac-Cinizi?
The press were given a ‘video provided by the government’ instead.
“Kulhadd jista jara x’hemm jekk titla fejn kien joqghod Mintoff,” Fenech said. “Erba gaffef iduru qishom ta’ Bahhar u Sewwi. Ihaffru hofra u jimlew ohra.”
He could also have asked Mizzi whether his people trawled the kitchens of Chinese restaurants to find all those extras in hard hats for the film.
Damn right.
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And whether the ‘delegation’ was costed.
““Erba gaffef iduru qishom ta’ Bahhar u Sewwi. Ihaffru hofra u jimlew ohra.”
A well-established, notorious socialist principle how to reduce unemployment.
We have a saying for this , which fits exactly the Labour Party economical results since Mintoff , Fredu and now Joseph,
” Jaghzqu fl-ilma”
I’m not aware seeing someone holding or showing some drawings when the supposed Chinese delegation visited the site of the power station. I might be wrong.
They sent their beefed up squads in to invade homes in the search of some drawings and documents.
But they didn’t get their hands on them.
I was walking near a zoo with a friend.
Suddenly an escaped lion, with a taste for human flesh, bounded over the wall and was about to pounce for his next meal.
I started running.
“You fool”, my friend shouted, “you can’t outrun a lion.”
“I don’t have to outrun the lion,” I replied. “I only have to outrun you”.
[Daphne – One of Edward de Bono’s favourite mantras, repeated to the point where you just smile through gritted teeth.]
I use to say before election time that this grotesque, unfeasible project will never materialise .The reactions I got were : “mela f ‘ kollox tifhem int! “, or ” Daqs Konret bravu int ” and so on.
or “Intom in-Nazzjonalisti mingħalikom li intom biss tifhmu?” Labour – uniting all those with chips on their shoulders.
Sorry for the anorackery, but it should be “gafef”. Two Fs int he entire word both in the singular and plural. Arabic word roots and all that.
[Daphne – Tenks hi.]
I take no pleasure in correcting errors in what is, after all, a pidgin language. But there you go. Lest I be accused of nobghod l-omm li tatni isimha.
Taghtni, le?
I think not.
Tatni. Il-verb huwa ta, minghajr appostrofu, jigifieri minghajr ‘gh’ fl-gherq.
Your ‘tatni’ is correct Sir !
What an apt description by Tonio Fenech.
And you know what – since you mention the video provided by government – the delegation was filmed even as they walked through the dirt on the mound of construction waste, but when Konrat Mizzi signed the contract for the “electricity deal” back in May 2014, this was done in a hidden dungeon without an invitation to even the friendliest of the media.
Who in his right mind would couple a health ministry with that of energy? Imma Connard forsi huwa a ‘jack’ of all trades.
and master of none
And the best part of that video is when the Caqnu-owned truck goes past this delegation of actors in yellow hats and covers them with dust.
The other good one is that obese fellow walking up the dirt road, breathing heavily on the verge of a heart attack.
Oscar-winning stuff.