What Claudette Buttigieg means, Mr Bus Minister, is a non-rogering position
The Opposition MP Claudette Buttigieg rose in parliament to ask the government’s various ministers how many women they had appointed to decision-making positions.
The Minister for Buses, Joe Mizzi, rose to respond, and with a pervy smirk said: “It depends what you mean by positions.”
Those on his side of the House thought this hilarious (well, they would, wouldn’t they). On the Opposition side, not at all.
Would Joe Mizzi have made an old innuendo like that about gay men? Of course not. And if he had, would his side of the House have sniggered and smirked? No way.
That’s not because they’re gay, but because they are, above all, men. And women are always women, gay or straight (they’d have made a joke like that about lesbians and enjoyed it even more) and the only thing Labour thinks women are good for is sex, food and cleaning – preferably all of that in seven-inch hooker heels while slathered in the thickest make-up this side of Beirut.
Those klutzes have met more than their match in Claudette Buttigieg, and because they think she’s just a singer and show-host, they don’t know it yet. More fool they. She can eat them all for breakfast and they won’t even notice.
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I look forward to her weekly essay on the Independent. Claudette Buttigieg is an articulate writer too.
Joe Mizzi and his Labour friends did everything possible to destroy Arriva. Mizzi could have easily improved the public transportation with more funding since it was already here.
Thanks to him we the public have to suffer.
Convinced this Mizzi is a liability to the MLP.
And the PL is a serious liability for us all.
I seriously suspect that the Malta Labour Party is infected with the “Common Purpose” mind-set that is at work in the UK and other EU nations.
Jo and his band of incompetent jokers reek of Common Purpose mind programing in an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” type of co-opting.
This video with Brian Garrish is worth watching to see the similarities in what is happening in the UK and what is happening in Malta under a Labour government .
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xed9c2_on-the-edge-no13-brian-gerrish_shortfilms
Make her Deputy Leader.
Leader will be even better
Condolences to the women in Mr. Court Jester Mizzi’s life and congratulations to all who laughed at his sorry excuse of a reply.
Seems like we are increasingly confirming that you only need to go over one book in order to succeed in an interview with this lot, the Kama Sutra. Progressive government indeed.
Parlament kazin gabuh.
What is this Neanderthal Labour creep doing in parliament anyway? Ministru tal-Venda tal-Linja.
He has cost the country millions of euros. Another hopeless minister no better than an old style Labour git from the 1980s.
Claudette Buttigieg is one of PN’s best assets. I hope she is given the prominence she deserves.
Vera ghandna kabinett tan-nejk.
If memory serves well, this ‘joke’ was first used by the extremist Norman Lowell on Bondiplus when Lou Bondi asked him for his position re women, and he said he always preferred to be on top.
Joe Mizzi ried jaghmila tal-helu.
Position could mean standing in front of a camera announcing something that has no date, no sense, no information but shows what a perfect dummy the subject is for a toothpaste advert.
Position could mean a person who receives a call from Castille or one of its agencies and told that the person is going to get paid for doing nothing or at least get paid to live a life of luxury abroad. If only €13000 a month could afford it.
Position could mean that a woman with humble aspirations in life dreams of becoming someone`s concubine, Chinese emperor style, getting paid for it, being given a highly rewarding job within the enclaves of one of the Government Department harems.
Position could mean the position one finds oneself in after their Labour movement fires one for no justifiable, obvious reason especially if the position is one of Permanent Secretary.
Position could meant the position a person involved in politics, takes in front of a camera with the lover in the picture on the eve of their departure into exile in one of our country`s embassies.
Position could finally mean the pitiable state the Minister for Transport is in having failed in all his promises and efforts to extract the black gold. It also means the position he is in having failed to notice, understand and learn the definition of so many definitions of position on his side of the House and within their Labour movement.
I would have expected the speaker to intervene with such a comment being made.
I recall a time when I had to sit in endless meetings being the only woman around the table when such comments were the order of the day.
Thanks to the leadership of Eddie Fenech Adami and Lawrence Gonzi, the number of women in decision-making positions increased.
However the real success was the culture change they wrought in the civil service where such comments would definitely not be tolerated.
Is this governement inviting and condoning such behaviour? I think Claudette Buttigieg was spot on with her astute assessment of the situation.
Joe Mizzi Roads Scholar bhal Mintoff.
And where was Deborah Schembri during all this….defending Sai Mizzi’s appointment maybe?
The woman has absolutely no idea just how she is being used, and just how much her ‘colleagues’ laugh at her behind her back when she gets all defensive of women’s rights
I remember attending a meeting with my boss (also a woman) at a Ministry some 12 years ago.
We were discussing a project and at one point one of the Minister’s senior staff got upset that my boss and I were sticking to our point (or should I say position?) and exclaimed:
“I don’t know why we have to keep on discussing this, you keep harping on this point because you are just two frustrated housewives”. We were both full-time professionals.
I don’t know what hurt me most, his comment or the other men’s smug reaction.
Minister Mizzi’s behaviour turns back the clock and undoes the work done by the PN government. But it also shows that deep down, notwithstanding the bla bla about gender equality and most feminist government, the chauvinistic attitude is still there.