This crush is getting seriously out of hand, Mrs Muscat
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Cameron: “Oh my God, not this man again.”
Last pic:
“Any time. Any place. Anywhere. Just say when.”
All in the nostrils. Ever so slightly flared.
If he could, he’d salivate.
[Daphne – Yes, and the eyes held wide open; another dead give-away. If the picture were a high enough resolution, we would be able to zoom in and probably find dilated pupils.]
And if flash photography was used, we would notice his tiny chub-on.
The jaw-line, earnest look, now you see it, now you don’t hairline, and the bewildered look of not having any idea of what’s happening around him…
And the Desperate Dan stubble ?
They’re all so hot they had to remove their jacket.
They are all wearing the same school tie.
Closeted one
Thing is, the crush should really be on Ed Milliband, given all the New Labour ideologues that have been advising Malta’s Labour.
But the eyes are not blue, nor the hair fair. And that nose is so wrong isn’t it?
[Daphne – Wrong again, Baxxter. Muscat is attracted to powerful/rich and important men who are bigger than he is. Ed Miliband is not a powerful man. He is the leader of the Opposition. Eye colour has nothing to do with it. That’s Tancred Tabone in this picture; he has brown eyes and grey hair: http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/741184_10151645698959741_1577247437_o2.jpg ]
No no no! I’m not talking about sexual attraction, but marketing potential.
To be seen next to David Cameron is good marketing: Maltese PM next to Ingliz-looking Prim Ministru Ingliz. Tifel ginger ma’ ragel Ingliz.
[Daphne – You’re wrong on this one too. He’s magnetised by Cameron and in awe of him. Politically, Cameron would not be his strategic choice. Using your hair-colour-Nordic rationale, he would have been glued to PM Thorning-Schmidt (as most straight men would be), but no.]
But Maltese PM next to Sephardic-looking Miliband? Not good marketing. Tifel ginger ma’ ragel tahsbu Malti.
[Daphne – He wouldn’t have been anyway, because the opportunities for meeting in public are not there. Miliband is an Opposition leader. Muscat is a prime minister. if Miliband’s status changes to that of prime minister at the next general election, rest assured that Muscat will fall for him too – because as you noted much of the attraction with Cameron comes from the fact that he is the British prime minister. But make no mistake that this is not political or socio-cultural strategy. That is his hardwiring for attraction.]
You notice these things, so here’s some more examples for you: the blonde, blue-eyed girl on those MTA adverts; the strategically non-brown eyed billboard women; or this http://www.mta.com.mt/loadimage.ashx?id=7ee529eb-7793-468f-970b-baff92c9ba92.
[Daphne – Lara Boffa and Marlene Seychell have dark eyes and dark hair. The one thing all the billboard/public testimonial women have in common is that they are good-looking on camera and photogenic (in real life it’s a different matter). This meant nothing except that the Labour Party remains as sexist and chauvinistic as it always was, assessing a woman’s value only in terms of aesthetics. The Labour billboard men, conversely, were wiehed iktar ikrah mill-iehor – precisely because Labour values men differently and not in terms of what they look like.]
Turkey does it all the time. Just watch their news anchors and Eurovision singers. We do it too. Remember the tfajla xuxtha tad-deheb ghajnejha zoroq etc.? Old Nordicist fantasies never die.
[Daphne – I’m sorry, but I don’t agree with you at all. Yes, this is most certainly the case among an older generation of Maltese and particular types of people who have negative attitudes towards dark colouring, but rest assured it’s not the general perception by a long shot. For every old lady who thinks ‘sabih ghax bjond’ of a young man her granddaughter might be seeing, there will a whole raft of other family members and friends who think ‘kemm hu nej’. I think you’ll find that Maltese women are generally agreed that they would rather rip the clothes off George Clooney than rip them off Joseph Muscat or David Cameron.]
This is all about marketing in the age of fruit-fly attention spans.
[Daphne – Which is exactly why people react positively to good-looking masculinity and not to hair colour or eye colour. Up against a tall and seriously handsome man with dark hair and dark eyes, Muscat would be a goner immediately, not only because he would fade out next to him, but because his own defences would be weakened by attraction. In a face-to-face debate, he would be torn between the primal desire to please and flatter his opponent and the political need to destroy him, and the former would win out. You’re right, I notice these things. A woman’s eye is more acute, and an older woman’s eye is acuter still.]
I was rather hoping to steer the debate in the direction of the (British) New Labour strategists who have been making regular trips to Malta.
I may have overstated the bit about Nordicism, so let me retract that and rephrase it: looks count a great deal more than we think. The MLP knows this, which is why they tried to put good-looking boys n’ girls on their billboards. Their imagery scream S.E.X..
Now looks at the Nationalist Party’s.
Exactly.
[Daphne – So we agree on that. Except for one thing: Labour’s male billboard personalities were all really ugly. Because they were presented as having other values to them. It was in the generalised billboards that everybody was ‘goodlooking’ – but even so, they were NOT goodlooking, only presented as such and airbrushed to distraction. In real life, many of these people are what would be called il-vera ordinarji.It’s not so much in the looks as in the presentation. The people on PN boards always look as though they might be popping off to a prayer meeting after the shoot is done, or like those people one never noticed at St Aloysius Sixth Form because they blended seamlessly into one extended Fotofit of a non-descript boring person. Labour’s tended to be equally nondescript physically but presented in life and colour as exciting people – which they most definitely are not. Lanqas tigborhom jekk tarahom fit-triq. The PN fails to realise that people of a certain kind no longer want to relate to people who are clearly like them, but want something aspirational: they want to identify with people who are goodlooking and popular and who party and have things. The key word is identify: they don’t want to feel that those people have what they don’t.]
You know, if I had Edward de Bono’s credentials (I know, but please bear with me), I would gather all the Nationalist Party leadership and strategists and play a little game.
Imagine you were an alien, from another galaxy, who lands in Malta around March 2013 (or any time since then really). You know nothing about MLP or PN. But your aim is to party hard. You like to have fun. you like excitement. The buzz.
So you fly around in your little saucer, gathering data: billboards, sounds, proportions, people, thought processes, words, music.
Who would you party with?
Muscat never makes strategic choices. He is not a strategist, which requires foresight and intelligence. He is a tactician, which can be managed on low-cunning alone.
Before she started dating Joseph, Michelle Tanti had a long relationship with a man who would later become President of the Malta Gay Rights Movement.
His name is Sandro Mangion and today he is the chief editor of the GWU publications.
She really can’t tell.
Michelle Muscat lives through her husband’s position, not in his bed.
Ara min irid jirraprezentana. His posture and body language smack of an inferiority complex the size of the EU territory.
He knows he is incompetent. All incompetents know it – which is why working with one is such a nightmare.
The PM knows he is incompetent and I reckon sometimes he lies in his Ned at night wondering how on earth he managed to do it.
However in the real world, he cannot feign competence any longer which is why his expression is one of awe. There used to be no such expression painted on Lawrence Gonzi’s face or indeed on Eddie Fenech Adami.
‘There used to be no such expression painted on Lawrence Gonzi’s face or indeed on Eddie Fenech Adami.’
Of course not.
Eddie Fenech Adami knew better than most and Lawrence Gonzi thought he knew better than most.