Il-kap tas-sawt: “Awguri perit”
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October 4, 2014 at 8:31am
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Whether it’s Karmenu Vella for EU commissioner or the prostitute Facebook friend of the Law Commissioner and her photos with holy pictures in the background, there is only one thing to say: Ma nafux nisthu.
Do certain people honestly think that everyone admires us just because we are Maltese? Why do we have to give the impression of backwood bunnies who are ever presumptuous and put ourselves forward to compete and stand on the same platform with others who are more prepared and fit for purpose?
I cringed while Karmenu Vella was being ‘grilled’. (That was no grilling, in my opinion). I just couldn’t stand watching him anymore and switched off. He had a prepared opening speech. He should have had a better one and delivered it more professionally. At least he would have left an adequate impression even if only for the first ten minutes. Are we too lazy to get a good script writer and rehearse well?
He shouldn’t have passed the test on most counts. Was there any agreement behind the scenes or was it a question of apathy and surrender to what Malta can produce? Just asking.
I believe Jean-Claude Juncker had to take risks to be nominated Commissioner President. Karmenu Vella is one of those risks.
There certainly was agreement – if not outright collusion – between the EPP and the Socialist blocks within the European Parliament.
It seems to me that this expedient was arrived at to make sure that the Greens and other groups would be in a definite minority when it comes to voting on (this, perhaps?) Commissioners.
I dare say that this was the only reason that Vella has somehow ‘passed the test’.
That’s exactly what it is: we genuinely think that everyone admires us because we are Maltese.
At the very end of his ‘show’ he tried to give the impression that what he was about to say was off the top of his head.
He also said that this was not scripted. He started blabbering about passed-on family values and mentioned his grandchildren. At that point he brought up the photo and the impression he was pushing, that of managing to close off with an ad hoc thought, was shredded to pieces.
There was agreement re Vella between the EPP and the Socialists. And this is no secret. Thus, this was no grilling but a formal farce. For those of us who do not agree with how things are managed and run, all we have to do is grin and bear it. And by the way, Euro democracy is dead letter.
Please, refrain from using the royal ‘we’ here. I’m sure that you and I are not like that.
I believe that Juncker has been kind to Malta this time: its Commissioner does not need to be associated with a request for Eur 60 million to let Malta’s name down.
The mere mention of Vella’s name should be enough to humiliate us in Europe.
Welcome back Daphne.
Karmenu, whom we remember as a university student of the tal-Karmnu clan of Zurrieq of the 70’s, used to spend days at the Bronze Bar teaching his mates “tal-Partiti tal-Haddiema” . He quickly joined the Mintoff clan where he was well groomed as one of the new breed of Generazzjoni Socjalista together with Johnnie Dalli, Lorry Sant, Reno Calleja and such other corrupt rubbish. Il-Guy had years and years of training from his leader Dom to learn his twisted reasonings, body language antics and bullying. He is no longer the Haddiem from Zurrieq and now become one of the hypocritical Socialist elite millionaires who are bound to increase and strengthen their expectations of divine right to lead the Taghna Llkoll fools.
Il-Guy is continuing to strengthen his profile within the ever-increasing incompetent PL and it seems that the idiot MP Silvio from the South, probably believes that in time we can go back to the glorious days of having an affluent “Perit” leading his Socialist tribe. Maybe Silvio will have more opportunity of globetrotting to New York with a PM from the South and possibly a ministerial post.
“Are we too lazy to get a good script writer and rehearse well?”
Even though he was reading off two teleprompters and what was said turned out to be lies (Malta Taghna Lkoll etc) Joseph Muscat did a good job in this regard during last year’s election mass meetings. .
Awguri for what? He sounded like a school kid at the principal’s office, giving his reasons why he failed the mid-term religion exam.
I loved his dis, dat and dee udder. I also learnt that fish eat fish.
He also taught the EU a new species – Blue Fish Tuna despite being brought up in a, I quote, “small fishing village”.
Agreed. What really annoyed me, to the extreme, was his uninterrupted sequence of gesticulations – someone please advise him to tie his hands behind his back and compel him to follow a course in public speaking.
“Was there any agreement behind the scenes”
Of course there was, after the pasting both large groupings got from the far right in the last elections. They did a deal.
So Lowell was right. Again.
Bleat on, PN.
Karmenu Vella might have made it because of the way things are done in Brussels, but mark my words, his life and indirectly that of Juncker will be made hell by the NGOs in Brussels as soon as the first slip is made.
I fully agree with your view, with respect to Vella.
I believe that Joseph Muscat may think that the road after the acceptance of Vella is downhill – say on the issue of hunting – but I think that this marks the beginning of a period of immense pressure by the environmentalists on the Maltese government.
I am not so sure that Juncker’s life will be made hell. He has hedged his risk well: if the pressure is about Malta, Vella or the Maltese government must face the music. If it is on more serious European issues, Vella will probably face the same choices given by Barroso to Dalli.
Just your wishful thinking. Things are going from bad to worse in Brussels. It is all about the gravy and the Euro Parliament is there just for the plebs’ consumption. If things were otherwise, there would not have been a prior agreement in the first place.
First he said he voted in favour of Malta’s accession to the EU.
Then he tells us he is a convinced European [Funny how some Labour supporters still can’t stomach the EU while others seem to have persuaded themselves they’re more pro-EU than Simon Busuttil].
Finally he has the gall to present himself as not being at the hearing as a Commissioner for Malta but one for the EU. With that coming from someone who spent his life shouting the Malta L-Ewwel u qabel Kollox doesn’t that sound like blasphemy? What can I say – Hawn min ma jafx jisthi min Alla li halqu.