Comments on: The government buys its own things…and now Mrs Muscat can upsize from Girgenti

By: Alexander Ball

Alexander Ball — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:35:22 +0000

Does she have a vast shoe collection?

By: Butterfly

Butterfly — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 13:31:50 +0000

In reply to Queen's English. Well said

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:03:30 +0000

In reply to Patrik. Pretty useful that it wouldn't be wrapped in as many clauses as Villa Francia is, either. They must have got through the "briksa" on that one, finally.

By: Nutter

Nutter — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:12:45 +0000

In reply to Myfanwy. not to mention duckies

By: Patrik

Patrik — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:53:30 +0000

Oh no. I got married there. Can’t they keep their grubby hands off anything.

By: observer

observer — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:38:06 +0000

In reply to Queen’s English.

Whether the persons mentioned by Daphne are homos or not is totally their own business – and they can darned well play at it as much as they like.

That they act the buffoons and incompetents and get paid for it out of tax-payers’ funds is not. It is totally ours. Bil-Malti ‘taghna lkoll’ fil veru sens tal-kelma.

By: Stefan Vella

Stefan Vella — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:34:37 +0000

In reply to H.P. Baxxter. The term 'circle jerk' comes to mind.

By: Tabatha White

Tabatha White — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:16:30 +0000

” its dictator friends in China are less friendly than first supposed”

If the Chinese involved got the passports they were after, I suppose there is that little bit of pressure Manwel could apply.

If the deal really was on the cards.

I suppose it depends on how many passports were issued, for what dates, and if they were declared with the number of scam passports issued.

Note 7 on passports: Dan il-passaport huwa proprjetà tal-Gvern ta’ Malta u jista’ jirtirah meta jrid.

But what happens in cases where the new Maltese Chinese would have relinquished the Chinese Passport?

I guess that would be a different problem.

By: jack

jack — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:08:08 +0000

How is that not state aid?

[Daphne – I know. And perhaps we should really be asking whether any pseudo ‘sensar’ has been given commission on the ‘sale’ of Selmun Palace, in the way that Mario Camilleri was given a commission on the corrupt deal he struck for his own Cafe Premier company with the Labour government (or more possibly, before the general election).]

By: Queen's English

Queen's English — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:05:54 +0000

I find your attempts at humour at the expense of homosexuals rather off colour. You’d do better to point out that one of the persons you mentioned is an alcoholic. He’d down a whole body of Scotch at one sitting while at work. Imagine what that sort of behaviour will do to Malta’s image.

[Daphne – You would be surprised to know that some of the rudest taunts re Cyrus and the rest of the Taghna Lkoll LGBT crowd come from other gay men (not women), but that I generally delete them so that people like you don’t assume that they are homophobic insults from narrow-minded and backward straight people like me. Only just now, I deleted one which addressed Cyrus directly, asking him whether he can handle a double fisting. Given that I know what a double fisting is, I thought best not.

Incidentally, I agree with you on the subject of alcoholism. For 16 years, the Labour Party had as a leader a man who would down, routinely, an entire bottle of whisky at a single sitting. But when I pointed that out, he, his party and his supporters went totally ballistic and became absolutely vicious towards me (as though they need any encouragement). Of course, the fact that I had actually seen him do this on a few occasions was irrelevant to them. I’ve seen Jeffrey Pullicino (Orlando) do the same thing, as it happens, and two years ago when he was on the rampage, largely out of frustration because he didn’t want to marry Carmen Ciantar and had painted himself into a corner, his television appearances had all the signs of being preceded by heavy drinking, too.

However, those of us who realise that alcoholism is a serious problem and that alcoholics should not be in office are up against the brick wall of public indifference to it in a culture that favours very heavy drinking and a society which fails to acknowledge that alcoholism is real, that it is a condition of problematic addiction and not just somebody who likes a drink, and that there are very many alcoholics in Malta who are not recognised as such even by themselves.]