Xarabank – this post is being updated as live commentary
The Labour Party’s representative on Xarabank. Hey Lara, get him a Valium prescription for Christmas.
They’re discussing Malliagate. The producers asked all three parties to send two representatives: a politician and a political columnist. The Labour Party’s political columnist is the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology.
What a farce.
Five minutes into the show and the highly strung science council chairman has taken over with his rising hysteria and aggressive bullying tone already. “As a father I understand that Manuel Mallia’s primary concern was his daughter.” Oh right, you and he both – fathers of the year award.
If Manuel Mallia’s primary concern were his daughter, he would have got into his car there and then and driven straight to pick her up. But two hours later he bothered to ask where she was, was told that Pawlu l-Machine Gun had collected her, didn’t bother asking where he had taken her, and responded calmly, “OK siehbi.”
Crap Fathers United.
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Toni Abela thinks they are there for nothing. That we should stop talking about the subject – because we’re flocking a det hoss.
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Ignorant savages, shouting over each other. Typical Maltese ‘debate’. Have they any idea how they’re coming across? So uncivilised. And has Jeffrey been drinking before the show, or is that just a Manchester tan the make-up girls gave him?
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I like the way James Debono thinks and reasons. I agree with him that it’s shocking, and an insult to the memory of the dead man, that Joseph Muscat released the ‘detention inquiry’ report a day after he was forced to get rid of Mallia, in retaliation against the Opposition. And this when he has been sitting on it since March last year.
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Toni Abela, shouting over people as usual. Hamalli United. I can’t stand the way so many Maltese male politicians are completely unable to discuss things in a normal tone of voice. It’s all loud aggression. Send them to finishing school in Switzerland.
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I have only had one occasion to agree with Alfred Sant: when he described Pullicino Orlando as “politically and morally corrupt”. I also find it rather odd that somebody with a history of running around his house with an unlicensed gun to intimidate other family members would have the brass neck to sit around on television discussing the gun events of others. Guns are one subject Pullicino Orlando should have stayed well away from.
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I don’t know how the board of directors at the Malta Council for Science and Technology can tolerate their chairman bringing the council into disrepute in this fashion. He’s a complete disgrace. In the case of at least one of them, I do know: she’s married to Jesmond Mugliett and she in on the science council because…she has a degree in domestic science (food and cookery).
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Can we have some more close-ups of the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, please? We’ve just had one in which he looks clearly drunk, narrowing his eyes with contempt and ready to spit. They should breathalyse this man before they allow him on air. No wonder women flee from him. Imagine putting up with that level of spiteful contempt whenever you cross him. Vicious. Why is he always so angry and frustrated?
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Pullicino Orlando thinks that the control room recordings should not have been released because they have added nothing of value to the debate and there is no public-interest element either. James Debono is trying to respond and Pullicino Orlando is shouting over him as though James is one of his wives. Arnold Cassola has just told Pullicino Orlando to shut up and let him finish. Good. Now Pullicino Orlando can be seen checking his smartphone. His level of obsession is such that there are no prizes for guessing what he’s reading. Not a message from his personal assistant, that’s for sure (“Hi Jeff, top o’ the mornin’!!!! You’re great, sweet!!!!”)
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Is it my imagination, or has Joe Azzopardi put a psychiatrist on that desk back there? That’s Mark Xuereb the head doctor there, right? Well, they certainly need him in that room. Damn, no it’s not Mark Xuereb. That means they’re going to have to call in the men in white with a couple of straitjackets before the night is through.
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Does Toni Abela know how to speak in a normal tone of voice? Whoever did Pullicino Orlando’s make-up should be fired. Maybe he did his own. He’s the same colour as one of those girls stumbling out of a Liverpool club at 2am. At least he’s stopped dying his hair brown. Let’s be grateful for small mercies, though I hear he was an amusing sight at the hairdressers, with his head encased in aluminium foil.
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Beppe Fenech Adami – the perfect choice for dealing with a trout like Pullicino Orlando. He stays calm and lays into him while Pullicino Orlando goes ballistic. Listen to him interrupting. He’s so ill bred, it’s quite unbelievable. Manners maketh man, Jeffrey – manners, not suits.
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James Debono has just said that the government’s timing in releasing the ‘detention report’ is obscene. He’s right. It illustrates that the prime minister’s personality is not much different to Pullicino Orlando’s, the only difference being that he doesn’t get drunk before flying off the handle.
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Is that a hankie in his breast pocket? Cringe. Maybe he got it for his birthday, in a cellophane packet with that toning tie.
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Arnold Cassola too says that the ‘detention report’ should indeed have been published, but when it was completed – that it has been published only now as a “vendetta” is disgusting.
He’s just said that the prime minister should do X and Y…”if he’s not asleep”. Se tibqalu din li mar jorqod. Shades of Alfred Sant.
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Joe Azzopardi has just remarked on the fact that in not one of the recorded telephone calls did anybody ask about the fate of the man who had been shot at. That’s right. Control room operators are supposed to be trained to ask if medical care and an ambulance are required.
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Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando needs a prescription for Valium. Badly. I don’t approve of Valium at all. If it were up to me, I would ban it. But in his case, I make an exception.
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Toni Abela said that he has no ambition to stand for election and become a minister. He doesn’t need to. He’s got himself a seat in cabinet without all that hassle.
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Toni Abela has just made a snide remark about Austin Gatt “appointing his cousin to a top job at Enemalta”. That would be Tancred Tabone, his second cousin. I barely know most of my second cousins. Joseph Muscat, on the other hand, has appointed Austin Gatt’s first cousin to his right hand on 54,000 euros a year, to design ‘unveiling ceremonies’ for statues and organise Republic Day ceremonies and so on. I won’t say more than that.
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We love you, Beppe. There truly is no substitute for strength of character and moral conviction. And a loud, clear voice and daddy’s sarcasm. Issa se mmorru ghall-brejk – and no doubt another few Nippremjaw il-Bzulija Budget 2015 advertisements.
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Pullicino Orlando has just said that he is “honoured to be part of Joseph Muscat’s team”. Muscat must be dying inside. That’s all he needs right now. But then he’s the one who sent him to represent his party. Sad man. Sorry, make that sad men.
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FANTASTIC, BEPPE – “Do you think it’s right that you, as chairman of a state entity, have put your girlfriend on the council payroll? Do what you like with your own money, but you have no right to do that with public money. I’m giving you some of my time to answer that.”
Pullicino Orlando: screaming, shouting, pastaz, bassezzi, personali, shrieking, shouting. If his ‘siehba’ has any sense and an IQ higher than Deborah Schembri 180%, she’ll drive right down there to the studio and make sure he keeps away from the bottle after the show. There’s a pretty strong chance he might clip a GM car’s wing mirror otherwise and end up riddled with bullet-holes like a Swiss cheese.
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Top comment – Beppe Fenech Adami to Toni Abela as Pulcinello Orlando let rip: “Stop him because he’s embarrassing your party.”
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As a father I understand that Manuel Mallia’s primary concern was his daughter.”
Nonsense view to take. As a parent, what was he doing leaving his child with someone known as Paul the Machine Gun, and God knows who else.
Incidentally, did anyone notice the dip in applause when they introduced Pullicino Orlando? I couldn’t stop laughing.
His primary concern was to finish eating; he only spared his daughter a thought hours later.
JPO is c*nt. Are we allowed to say that? Or are you going to put an asterisk in it?
Because really. Because MCST. Because his bullshit has now expanded to fill the entire universe.
And his colleagues are just happy to go along with it.
Or as or speaker would say: asteriks
Whatever ‘Jaffrey’ is on tonight, it’s definitely not Earl Grey.
Brilliant from Isco.
Ara Toni, x’jitbqbaq u jivventila ai termini. He referred to scandals under the previous government. Was he referring to the Mistra scandal?
No, he was referring to the bar of cocaine he hid from the police, until he found a pulizija Laburist.
No, he wasn’t. He was referring to his own cover-up when somebody was found dealing cocaine (a white bar, powder) at the Hal Safi Labour Party Club for which, as a lawyer, he should know that he should be doing time at the Corradino prison facilities.
And from a person who hysterically flaunts and points a gun in front of his children is, to say the least, very very normal.
Il-wiċċ il-ġdid tal-Labour “politikament u moralment korrott”
Ara l-filmat hawn: http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/12/politikament-u-moralment-korrott.html
That is why they sent Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. Ha jhassar il-loghba.
He is also controlled through Snapchat
A civilized discussion would have shown just how badly handled the situation was. It would have been a disaster for the Labour Party and the government, showing them up for all their false, pretentious promises.
Labour had to find a solution to that and they sent a loose cannon with a huge chip on his shoulder.
And true to form they do not care if MCAST is ridiculed in the process. Imagine how the students feel to have a political hot head in charge. Parents must feel so reassured to witness first hand the guiding light of their children’s college.
JPO must be a gem in meetings, he certainly must find another vent for his frustrations.
[Daphne – Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has nothing to do with MCAST (Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology). He is chairman of the MCST (Malta Council for Science and Technology.]
All Pullicino Orlando is doing is proving Simon Busuttil right for saying that Muscat can keep him.
If I were a Labour supporter I would be incredibly unamused to be represented by that man.
JPO, as a father you understand f*** all.
Even less than Manuel does.
If you had ever understood anything you would have amended your ways many years ago.
You can pontificate about anything you want, but certainly not about fatherhood.
You are anything but a decent father.
You are a sorry excuse for a father.
If Mallia had been a responsible father he would not have left his 4-year-old with a driver who carries a gun, who takes her wherever, when she should be at home, in bed.
This not to mention any drinking or meeting with other people which neither parent would have any control over. Mallia didn’t even know the address the child was at. He had to ask for it.
Anyone who says that behaviour is what is expected from a father should have his head examined. Jeffrey thinks it’s normal, but then he would, wouldn’t he.
Anyone on the Labour side/ Switcher side will tell you that Mallia’s children are his “pride and joy.”That’s where the words come from.
From that perspective, and massively discounting the “compromises” in the hopeless choice of babysitters for his children, what then was going through Manwel’s head in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and the weeks that followed?
I think that the realisation was simultaneously dawning on him, and his cousin Ray Zammit, from the start of those phone calls/ crisis management in operation, that as much as he had to cover his own arse in the story, he was being manoeuvred as the cover up for a bigger arse.
From that perspective, the fate of his daughter was surer than his own. In damage control, she was in no danger. He was the one under fire. She was safer with those criminals than he was with the ones in his own developing environment.
This fact is revelatory of the prioritisation, and it jars on its own because the rest of the perspective isn’t yet fully there.
He knew, from the start, that this was the orchestration of his demise. He had the facts, but he couldn’t use them. This is why mixing the personal with the professional is not a good idea. The illegal with the legal.
He went to see Sheehan in hospital because Sheehan too – in the second layer of things – was orchestrated against.
Keith, for sure, “is listening.”
How clever to get a “foreigner” to carry out the job. With just enough links all round to make it credible.
The twists and turns required to keep up with Labour’s plotting.
Keith and Joseph were the power couple all along.
Manwel just got them there. And there is nothing he can do about how he did it. Check Mate.
Unless he chooses to go to the next level of the game.
He has a choice right now: whether to continue defending the criminals or to fight for what’s right. A line that he needs a GPS for. But for him that line is a stratagem
The question is, will he use the hand he’s got?
He can out-manoeuver Joseph and Keith in a flash, and let the axe do its own job.
That his cousin’s job was retained was a neutral positioning forward.
I wouldn’t over-interpret things, Tabatha my dear. Some bright young spark or intellectual hanger-on at Dar Centrali might suggest making overtures to Mallia, li ghadu bniedem validu u jista’ jaghti kontribut fil-PN.
Baxxter, you speak disparagingly – and I see where you’re coming from – but you do stand full-square behind the man.
This may confuse others so spell it out with more clarity perhaps?
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Did I over interpret other situations? I said from the start that the power station was simply not going to happen. I still see something else happening there.
Well before proof of Nair “happened,” I recognised rather than simply interpreted actions, correctly.
I’m far from perfect, but I have good antennae.
Don’t hold your horses with Michael Cassar.
Is it just me? Jeffrey seems to be refering to she who shall not be named while airing his scientific views at the very start of the debate.
Yes, that is what I understood as well.
All Beppe and Frank have to do tonight is to bring out the worst of Toni and ‘Jaffrey’ (as his wife Carmen pronounces it). And it looks like it’s going to be easy.
Today there was another live xarabank in Cospicua. Are these people for real?
“Claire Xuereb Grech, writer of L-Elf Lewn ta’ Mintoff, said that more than anyone else, Mintoff understood the changes Malta fell short of. “Today we dream of having a leader like him – a dominant personality, one who knows how to offer comfort, but also correct. In many ways, there are still people who lack to understand his ways, and how relevant they were, and would still be in the future,” Mrs Xuereb Grech said. “It was Mintoff who taught us that Malta is as capable as other countries, and strived to diminish that sense of inferiority.”
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-12/local-news/Dom-Mintoff-s-monument-unveiled-in-Cospicua-by-Prime-Minister-Joseph-Muscat-6736127239
MLP = Toni Abela and JPO. Says it all.
“I remain a friend to those who do me wrong too”
And there we have what I believe to be the most revealing statement coming from Toni Abela tonight.
I have always noticed that within the Labour Party there is a shared sense of pity towards one another. They recognise that they are all inept, incompetent and not fit for purpose. So they feel sorry for one another.
That pity is expected from the rest of the country. “Help us, we’re useless but we love you”.
This seems to me to be the biggest difference between them and the PN.
The PN, instead of feeling sorry for one another, hold each other up to the professional standards they maintain and share. These shared standards are what the people expect, because we see them being maintained abroad, and we like how they give us, the people, the power.
How on earth can you run a country and its economy if you yourself don’t know how to make it all work and if you see nothing wrong with allowing convicted criminals to be part of your team?
That is the side of the PL and its supporters that is this country’s undoing.
“That is the side of the PL and its supporters that is this country’s undoing.”
Do they have any other?
It rather defines them.
Why does Toni Abela keep winking at me?
His friggin’ eye is like a flickering light on a Christmas tree.
Who will win the next election. Muscat’s Movement? The MLP? Or the PN?
Finishing school? Just take JPO aside and send him to a firing squad.
As a father, he should know that a 4 year old should be in bed by 7pm latest on weekdays and not running around in cars with strange and violent men.
RE: the report being pulled out today.
Muscat doesn’t understand how a country should be run. He sits on things that he thinks are significant. He waits till he does something wrong, or does something he knows is going to be disliked, and then pulls them out of the bag if he needs them.
Muscat treats parliament like a court of law without a judge. It doesn’t feel like he s defending his ideas.
Meta Toni Abela kien l-iskola l-ghalliem qalahhilu BUFFURI. L-istess ghadu, ma jaghtikx cans titkellem.
U meta konna nilghabu l-ballun go ghalqa fejn konna noqghodu, dejjem jargumenta jekk ma jirbahx.
Hmar taqtalu denbu HMAR jibqa.
Unless Joe Azzopardi restrains Toni Abela from indulging in his favourite pastime of interrupting, we won’t be able to hear a decent discussion.
I like the way Beppe Fenech Adami told the Labour Party that they can keep JPO.
Toni Abela is his usual hamallu self, shouting over everybody else there and, as is standard PL politics, tries to change the subject to an attack on the PN. What a jerk.
Nothing on the antagonistic Beppe? You people live in a world of your own.
[Daphne – He is the only one there who knows how to handle somebody like Jeffrey. Everybody else treats him as normal.]
100%
I agree. But there is a serious disconnect between the two main groups here.
The Nationalists have professional standards which are the same as those in Europe.
When these standards are compromised very specific reactions are expected, a sort of unwritten protocol exists.
When this is not followed either, it is assumed that there is little to no point trying to reason with these people because they don’t hold to the same professional value system.
The Labour Party doesn’t understand this. They quite literally see these reactions and expectations, and they are nothing like what they expect or understand.
Do we really need to be having these discussions? No. But we do because the PL has not agreed upon the same professional standards that the PN and AD have.
In Maltese we say ”ghandkhom Alla ghalikhom!”
[Daphne – ‘In Maltese we say’. Why do people say that? It’s obviously Maltese, so no need to tell us it is.]
In English we say “Pot meet kettle”
In Maltese we say: “Bil-Malti ngħidu”.
36,000.
“The Labour Party doesn’t understand this. They quite literally see these reactions and expectations, and they are nothing like what they expect or understand.”
I will contend that these Labour scammers understand it very well, so well that it provides the necessary space that they hijack for their ill deeds. If they didn’t understand it as well, they would be limited with their space for manoeuvre.
It is in this gap that anything can be done at all. The bigger the gap, the bigger the “possibility playground”.
Labour has always understood it. And make no mistake: there are several of “Malta’s fantastic legal minds” on board, backstage to all this.
What it can’t factor in is the time element for incoming information, and the quality of that information then manipulated for best use, since the timing element is generally out of their control.
That is why, for Joseph Muscat, “the timing file” is the one thing on his desk that matters most. It is the one area where he has a “measure” of control on the timing of what’s in hand and its quality.
The timing of incoming information and the constant rearrangement of the puzzle pieces into optimal use is an inherent part of lateral thinking.
This will give you a little idea of this context:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/icaf/hobbs-thinking.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyj1KBjW_nY
http://www.debonogroup.com/serious_creativity.php
The downfall of this method – used deliberately, systematically and with intention – is where any technique is used withOUT a positive value safety net.
However, the “master” deliberately excludes the inclusion of the positive value safety net. In business politics the recognised and adhered to code of ethics will prevent a negative application of impacts.
In politics, it is currently being assumed that there is a free for all, whereas the Constitution provides otherwise.
Accepted ethics and impacts are those respecting positive impacts – the upholding of democracy, for example.
Where the focus and priority are in this case switched to negative ethics and impacts, this is – with deliberation, systematically and with intent – working to produce a sum of negative impacts, directly aimed at undermining democracy.
This is being done with full intent and comprehension, even if that comprehension of the masses is being manipulated.
Frank is doing a good job as well. Ha grinta da vendere.
Ta’ Beppe ghadu gej.
If Muscat thinks he can blackmail the Opposition with a number of ‘scandals’, all he’ll do is alienate those who switched.
U ta’ Joseph diga wasal mid-dehra.
Actually I wish we could have a world of our own and the Darmanins could have theirs.
Kemm teqridkhom li farraktu partit u tliftu poplu.
Ironic how the PL is represented by two cover-up artistes: Jeffrey tal-Mistra and Toni tal-Kokaina.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s appearance on PBS representing the MLP is “shameful and provocative”.
Well it was according to Alfred Sant in March 2008 when JPO was then representing the PN.
Kummidjant kien dakinhar, kummidjant baqa. L -ironija hi li min zebilhu dakinhar qed jonorah Illum u vice versa.
They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and that is certainly the case with Pullicino Orlando. His eyes are full of hate, misery and contempt.
And booze!
Itfulhom il-microphone.
It was actually meant to be ‘micraphone’ (sic) :)
The Labour Party/government has turned itself into a bring-in site for unbalanced people and PN rejects.
Lil JPO lanqas habbata mad-Dar Centrali iriduh tal-PN.
I am expecting Jeffrey to burst out crying. Withdrawal symptoms?
Jeffrey is high on tea, coffee, or both.
Toni Abela jitkellem dwar “skandli” li għamlu Ministri u Deputati fi żmien Gvern Nazzjonalista.
Infakkru fi ftit minnhom hawn: http://normanvella.blogspot.com/2014/10/skandli-tal-passat.html
I have a suggestion for Xarabank. Put up a set where the guests have to sit in pods which are sound proof and which open and close only if the presenter says so.
That way the only person speaking is that person whose pod is open.
Too much shouting. Ma niflahomx.
Oh get off your high horse, Toni Abela. If you have forgotten the cocaine at the Hal Safi Labour Party club, and how you covered it up, we haven’t.
That is something I have always thought of. It would be brilliant. Similarly traffic lanes should be delineated with concrete in Malta because white paint is just not enough for this country of savages.
Watching this streaming online, so am a few minutes back from the actual live stream on TV.
There have been few times when I’ve seen Peppi in such a struggle to keep the programme going civilly.
At one point JPO looked like he was about to get up and throw a few punches. He is very obviously unable to keep his vicious anger in check.
Of course he’s angry. He’s there representing the Labour Party, for Christ’s sake. No amount of fringe benefits will ever wipe that away. I repeat, representing the Labour Party. Hu go fik, ja pufta. And that last is not an insult, but a statement of fact. Never has it been more obvious than it is tonight that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is gay and can’t come to terms with it.
Tajjeb, mela x’kellu il-Partit Laburista, Toni Abela ma jafx. Imma x’kellu il-Partit Nazzjonalista jaf.
Now Labour is scandalised about the release of the recordings. They have conveniently forgotten when Joseph Muscat asked the RTK journalist to spy for him.
Toni Abela is speaking nonsense. It’s hard to believe he’s a lawyer. Pullicino Orlando hasn’t taken his medication tonight and is making a total idiot of himself, playing into the hands of the Opposition because he is blinded by simmering hatred.
My mother used to tell me that converts make the worst fanatics. JPO proves her point brilliantly.
He will always need to keep trying to prove that he made the right choice, because now he chooses to ignore the fact that he was not allowed to dominate the Nationalist Party.
The reject depends on the party taking him in to appear superior; he needs that for validation. JPO’s hysteria would be expected to rise the more the Labour government’s lies are exposed.
Pullicino Orlando seems to be worried that if a neighbour rings 112 to report him for beating up one of his wives or girlfriends, somebody might get hold of that recording and publish it.
If the police do not act on it as they should because he is JPO or for whatever other reason, let us hope that someone does take the risk and publishes it.
He must know something about neighbours calling 112 when they hear violence once his wife called them as witnesses in her request for annulment of their marriage.
Toni Abela says he is not against those recordings being made public.
This makes sense: when he was recorded describing how he and another party official dealt with cocaine-dealing at the Hal Safi Labour Party club, there were no consequences when that recording was made public.
Frank Psaila to Mad Jeff:
“Lanqas habbata ma irridek mal-bieb tieghi.”
Baxxter to Frank Psaila: “Ftakar min pogga l-habbata fl-MCST.”
Another salutary lesson for Simon Busuttil there.
Habbata? More of a toilet tank flush handle.
How about a toilet brush?
From his colour I would say it’s a used one Ciccio.
The Xarabank panel is the human equivalent of chimps throwing faeces at each other.
Do they have specific instructions to use their mobile phones on live TV? Ignorant bunch.
Toni Abela għadu kif qal li l-Labour qatt ma xandar recordings.
GIDDIEB.
Araw hawn:
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2007-05-31/news/mlp-releases-more-recorded-conversations-174186/
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20120716-watch-rcc-guido-words-led-to-attempted-murder
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20120308-listen-joanna-gonzi-whines-against-her-fellow-councillors
Not only that.
In the Joanna Gonzi recording mentioned, the MLP edited out Cyrus Engerer’s vicious comment telling her ‘To hit Councillors with a hammer’.
This shows Engerer’s mentality and clearly the MLP thought the comment was serious enough to edit it out.
Despite this, Muscat called Engerer a soldier of steel and gave him a cushy job in Brussels.
Joseph Muscat will live to regret that move.
Jeffrey mahruq aktar mit-toast li hraqt jien dalghodu.
L-ohrajn gabuh salami.
Whistleblowers should be able to report confidentially to the Ombudsman.
Yes, but Don Manwel already had an objection to the Ombudsman investigating matters relating to the army.
In the circumstances, can you imagine Don Manwel letting the Ombudsman investigate something about the police?
The Ombudsman was compelled to file a judicial protest about the army issue back in June.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/court_and_police/39987/ombudsman_files_judicial_protest_against_manuel_mallia
Won’t watch that Xarabank crap. I don’t know what drives that political has-been JPO to participate and get all heated up on the matter.
The guy just loves his voice and being on TV. I’m sure when he returns home he watches the programme a few times over and feels good about himself, possibly even getting sexually aroused unless the alcohol has taken its toll and the whole thing flops.
Smajt parti zghira mid-diskussjoni ta’ Xarabank u tant rajta edifikanti, specjalment waqt li Dr Fenech Adami kien qieghed jitkellem u l-parti opposta kollha twerzag, tghajjat u tinterrompi, li qlibt l-istazzjon immedjatament.
Toni Abela and Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando. What an excellent couple to represent the ‘Sliema switchers.’
Is Pullicino Orlando preparing for a 2018 run on the MLP ticket, now that his ex-wife will not stand for election again?
There was a close up of Toni Abela spitting.
JPO’s argument: “if you hear your next door neighbour beating up his his wife…”
No comment.
[Daphne – Not so much a Freudian slip as his worst fears talking.]
That’s exactly what I thought too.
Hemm mohhu.
Jeffrey doesn’t need a finishing school but a finish-him-off school.
Beppe just did
He’s already finished.
Jeffrey really screwed up about those recordings.
Whoever leaked them IS the whistleblower.
As for Toni Abela, how about Joe Azzopardi putting up the blokka silg recordings for discussion?
It’s surreal that the Labour Party should send a master emotional manipulator like JPO to help it out of a web of its own making.
Joseph Muscat will be using Pullicino Orlando’s poor showing to get rid of him like he did with Anglu Farrugia.
And who will he put in his place?
Manwel Cuschieri
Indeed. Jeffrey may have begun to realize that his friends in the Labour Party have thrown him to the lions and those lions have mangled him.
He is now obviously not fit for purpose, so Labour will ditch him.
I’ll tell you one thing: I’d hate to be in Miss Boffa’s shoes tonight.
Hilarious, Jeffrey and his gun, Toni and his coke.
And they cry foul.
Daphne, your commentary must include Beppe’s question and answer about the prime minister:
“Taf x’jghid ir-rapport tal-inkjesta dwar il-prim ministru?
Jghid li mar jorqod.”
Ara vera Jeffrey Pulcinello Orlando, buffu bil-pedigree.
As for his opening comment that Manuel Mallia was concerned about his daughter, somebody should have pointed out that Mallia stayed at the Police HQ for another two hours and only at 11pm did he think to ask where his daughter was.
Looks like Jeffrey has botoxed himself heavily. Or is his face swollen for some other reason?
Gout (bil malti gotta)
I thought he may have done that following the dead-ringer comment.
“The only advice I would give the PN, not that they need any, would be to not even consider you for the role of a door knob on their back-door.” Excellently put.
Zatat. Vera, ghaliex dejjem donnu qisu wiehed ndannat, dak Jeffrey?
Toni Abela to Beppe Fenech Adami: “U ijja, u ijja”. Looks like it’s the new PL buzz word.
Xarabank u ejja, u ejja.
MLP – U ijja.u ijja.
Xarabank mhu xejn hlief attentat oxen u iddisprat biex johorgu l-PL ifuh.
Kazzola jrid jistaqsi mistoqsija liz-zija. Why not?
Il-Labour vera inbidel. Kellu ragun Joseph Muscat f’dan ir-rigward, ghax minn zmien il-frame-ups tal-80 dhalna fl-era tal-cover-ups.
I think this is the protest march Beppe Fenech Adami mentioned:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120711/local/united-against-racism.428173
Is Pullicino a repressed homosexual? That would explain his camp mannerisms and explosive rage.
[Daphne – I, for one, believe so, yes. It would also account for his non-sexual way of relating to women, even if he is supposedly in a relationship with them. He’s extremely camp in that bitchy way. In fact it’s really easy to picture him in a cassock, bitching about campily with other camp priests. No wonder he’s so angry. He can’t even come out under a progressive and liberal government.]
So it’s not just boardroom politics, but bedroom too. Very interesting. Is that why Patrick Attard was fired from the MCST?
I think he looks better in a kilt.
Cassock? He looks more like a vicious nun.
Ghandek zball. Hawn min rah Londra jixtri t-tangi tan-nisa.
Ma nahsibx li ghalih. Insomma ta. Tghid? :O
[Daphne – Hemm hafna irgiel li jiddilettaw jilbsu l-qliezet ta’ taht tan-nisa, gn. You can’t possibly have lived that sheltered a life.]
Ma niskantax. Hawn min ihobb jiehu r-ritratti u l-videos porno.
Il-kumbinazzjoni ghax dejjem mal-istess partit jispiccaw dawn in-‘nies’.
Il-plural Maltilkoll huwa “taneg”.
But seriously, if boardroom walls could talk eh?
Why is everybody shouting? Toni Abela is calm at least. JPO is a nutcase. Kemm hu ridikolu.
Spit is flying out of Toni Abela’s mouth.
Re next door neighbour beating his wife JPO has an advantage, he has no neighbours.
[Daphne – Wrong. His wife has cited “the neighbours” as witnesses in her petition to the court to have their marriage declared null.]
JPO is not only an unbalanced angry man but definitely a danger to society.
The more I see and hear of him the more I think that he will one day end up killing someone.
Last Sunday I saw him in Sicily hand in hand with his subordinate in a supposedly relaxed environment (Jose Herrera was also around) but still wearing that unmissable frown and angry look ta’ hdura kbira.
Let’s hope its not tonight , it wasn’t good for him today .
JPO is a menace to society. There is something very wrong there.
I am still waiting for someone to mention the Mistra scandal.
It’ s in nobody’s interest to mention it.
What were they thinking, sending Pulicino Orlando. They never learn.
They have just experienced why the PN never wanted Mallia on its ticket and they promote another PN reject who is clearly mentally unstable.
He was sent to hijack Xarabank and turn the debate into The Jeffrey Friday Night Show.
Labour sent him in to hang himself. He thinks he’s among friends in the Labour Party. Well, so does Franco Debono. Enough said.
What were they thinking? They wanted someone to yelp and stop anyone, except Toni Abela, from being heard and up to a certain extent it worked.
I bet they will be using him again, whenever their back is to the wall, to stop any form of civilised debate.
Within his mental parameters, he probably thinks that he´s come out of this looking good too.
“What were they thinking, sending Pullicino Orlando.”
Seems like they asked Franco, but he refused.
Imma kif dejjem hekk. Kulhadd jitkellem fuq xulxin. Qishom moghoz. Disgustanti.
L-unika tnejn kalmi u qed jaghmlu ftit sens huma James u Arnold.
Forsi ghax mhumiex fil-parlament? L-unika haga li fhimt hi li hemm bzonn tat-tielet partit forsi xi darba nitghallmu ngiebu ruhna.
Finishing school? Nearly reminds me of The Hill.
“I’m reporting everything that happened here, shtarting with you, Williamsh.”
Brilliant film-making, eh?
Wiret mentalita li kollox jghaddi, qal Toni Abela. Ghalhekk prova jsib pulizija Laburist meta ried jahbi l-bicca xoghol tat-trab abjad?
“Nista’ nghid kelma minghajr ma jinterrompuni?”
http://postimg.org/image/xpnkqeo29/
Finally, someone’s said it – hundreds died at sea because of Muscat and Mallia’s pigheadedness. So much for Labour’s grandstanding about migrant deaths.
The Labour Party must be really desperate to send in JPO.
Probably none of the MPs wanted to touch this.
Only Toni Abela in his capacity as a defence lawyer and JPO who craves being on TV would do it.
I think if Muscat checks his polls after tonight, they are going to be even worse. What possessed them to send Jeffrey.
Muscat is a skifuz. He enjoys feeding his false friends to the lions.
In other news which could give our current PM some brilliant ideas:
http://revolution-news.com/spain-congress-passes-draconian-gag-law/
I think that is an extreme-left wing blog. Can you supply a link to a PP blog to read the other side of the coin? I cannot imagine this happening inside the EU
Wonder why these two clowns were sent to represent the Lejber government.
Is it because the rest are busy celebrating the new deals in energy manufacturing with China?
I get the feeling our prime minister is enjoying watching Xarabank and JPO making a scene of himself.
The PM is busy unveiling Mintoff’s statue.
Dak li hexa l-Malta ghamlulu statwa biex inkinu nistghu nibqghu niftakkru kemm qlajna bullets, gas tad-dmugh u sahansitra rajna ukoll nies maqtula, frame-ups, cover-ups u korruzzjoni iddisinjata mill-ministri Laburisti bil-miljuni misruqin mill-Mid Med taz-Zejtun li wara harquh biex ma jibqa xejn jidher.
A very toppleable statue at that.
Jeffrey, if you are reading this, please seek mental advice.
Jeffrey, if you’re reading this, please go fcvk yourself.
Jeffrey, if you’re reading this, come out of the closet. Labour is gay-friendly. Hadn’t anyone told you?
can you imagine him doing that?
I can already see him at his next speech at the Leuphana.
“..the only man ever to come out of the closet in Maltese history was a chap called Napoleon…”
What a great move by the Labour Party, nominating a crackpot as their ‘star opinjonista’.
This has backfired badly. He can cosy up to Franco, Jesmond and Lou in the skip.
X’jitpastas Jeffrey, basta bil-maktur tal-harir.
Jeff, I know you’re reading this. Ma xbajtx taqa’ ghan-nejk, siehbi?
Incredible! Not one cabinet minister to defend the government on tonight’s hot topic.
I think it’s not just Joseph Muscat who’s gone to sleep – it’s the whole washed-out and incompetent government.
Energija Pozittiva – Now that’s hilarious.
They wouldn’t know what positive energy means if you stuck a 450-volt cable up their arse.
“Can we have some more close-ups of the chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology, please? ”
Well, it looks like you got the close up you asked for.
A properly labelled close-up for our Daphne:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4sFCbiCYAESIOQ.jpg
You have to have no dignity whatsoever to go represent a political party that fucked up your political career (with a lot of help from yourself). JA PULCINELL.
This programme is one of the items that has helped keep the island in such mental darkness.
No one should really wonder why there are or were so many switchers. It is going to take twenty hannukkas to light up this lot.
Kudos to Beppe, and an apology, as I had always thought him a nice enough chap but ineffective.
It’s a pleasure seeing him keeping his cool and sticking it to both JPO and Toni Abela.
They have been left spluttering and blustering for a comeback, but it seems that this is a lost hope, as Beppe is on a roll.
Go for the jugular, Beppe.
And by God, did he do just that.
Il-partit Soċjalista dejjem jinqeda bil-ħmieġ; ipprova jinqeda bi Franco Debono f’Xarabank, u issa, f’Xarabank ukoll, ipprova jinqeda b’dak li għalih il-pastizz jiġi l-ewwel u qabel kollox. Għal darb’oħra, il-Partit Soċjalista reġa’ fallielu bil-kbir.
Il-partit Socjalista jinqeda b’nies mentalment instabbli, fil-livelli kollha. Uhud minnhom jispiccaw hazing jew jispicca ghal kollox, kif kien rappurtat fuq din il-website xi zmien ilu.
Dan l-agir tal-partit Laburista huwa disgustanti.
Sausage rolls.
It’s 18k not 40K you f**ktard
It was.
Much less these days.
“Onorat li nimxi wara Joseph”
Whatever spiked Jeffrey’s drink tonight, it’s mighty powerful.
GRANDE BEPPE…..
Beppe 101% & Jeff spilt over
Make that 190% I.Q.
Hu gofik Deborahhahaha
Lara Boffa must be proud of her man.
Was Lara Boffa shagging Jeffrey already when he employed her or did he employ her to get inside her knickers?
Why is he afraid to answer?
Beppe, slip Toni the “blokka bajda”.
JPO has been spending too much time in the tanning salon.
Dak ghax mahruq.
Beppe just knocked out JPO. Left him speechless. Prosit, Beppe.
It appears that Joseph Muscat didn’t wake up to smell the coffee but went to sleep sniffing chamomile tea.
Jeffrey repeats the question he asked Beppe and says “because you didn’t answer it”.
Jeffrey, did you shut up long enough to stop screaming at him? Hamallu ffrustrat.
Labour’s new STAR candidate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bBFdsR4p6Q
Finally the PN is putting away the trash written in the electoral defeat report, and is instead listening to what the people want: a militant Opposition, not because it’s necessarily right to be militant, but because that’s what these bunch of amateurs that govern the country require.
Jeff swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Scrub cutting his mike. Bring out the attendants with the straitjacket.
Pullicino’s found his natural home in Labour – hamallu fost Hamalli United, with the bad make-up their women usually wear.
Does he really say he’s an English gentleman?
Smith = Sammut.
Kif lil JPO hadd ma semmilu l-MISTRA u x’qal fuqu Alfred Sant.
A book about Labour’s new STAR candidate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ugosno9rz0
Lilek ghandu bzonn il PN Norman, biex zgur ma jirkupra qatt.
OK sieħbi.
Taghtix kass min hu mahruq, Norman. We need you. Keep up your good work.
Kemm hu ahdar JPO. Beppe Fenech Adami asks a legitimate question, definitely not a personal attack. JPO goes hysterical, does not answer Beppe’s question and says that he does not make personal insults, only to do exactly that within a second. I cannot understand what type of condition JPO has, or is he just pure evil?
I hope they frisked Pullicino Orlando before allowing him on air. We know he has an unlicensed gun and that he is not averse to bringing it out and using it to threaten people when necessary.
At one point he really did look like he would have drawn a gun on Beppe Fenech Adami had he one on him.
Beppe you’re a star like your father. You put the drunken commissioner in his place. You rendered him speechless.
If I were not afraid to wake up Joseph Muscat (because he must be sleeping by now) I would use a few caps.
Why is Toni Abela happy that Muscat has done the right thing and something which no one else has done? Muscat only fired Mallia at the very last minute and three weeks too late.
He did the so because of the pressure from the media and public opinion and not on his own merit.
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.- Ronald Reagan.
Daphne, ghalfejn il-kumment tieghi mhuwiex publikat?
My dear lady, while I appreciate your investigative journalism (and you’re a treasure for that), it seems to me that you are refusing to publish an honest comment which encourages people to behave appropriately just because the third party is mentioned. Why is that? You keep re-iterating that you’re not aligned to any political party. Well, you’re proving otherwise (and being very undemocratic in the process). I sincerely hope that the parrocchial attitude which plagues most Maltese is not rubbing off on you. Tharisx sa mniehrek pls.
[Daphne – When you’ve experienced uploading a solid wall of 600 comments, one by one, then speak to me with your complaints. If you imagine I sit around all day waiting for Mxebbha’s comment to come in so that I can upload it immediately, you are mistaken. Even when I do sit around all day uploading comments, if there are 500 before yours, there are 500 before yours. There are more than enough neurotic men in my life right now, so if you wish to become a regular here, don’t join them. Post a comment and leave it. Don’t fixate.]
yes, Ma’am.
Alhough I’d just like to point out that many other comments that presumably came in after mine were published before mine.
Also, you assume too much… and that surprises me. I wonder if it’s you or my style of writing that’s the culprit.
[Daphne – Yes, because the shorter and more coherent they are, the more quickly they get uploaded. The ones I can’t skim through at a glance go to the back of the queue.]
yeah right :P
u ija, ok sehiebti };-)
and that’s parochial before you try and correct my typo
Muscat bghat lil JPO biex jaljena l-attenzjoni minn fuqu, u tajjeb li n-Nazzjonalisti jiffaccjawh bil-qawwa u fejn l-aktar iwegga. Naqsu pero ghaliex li ma sejhulux Guda.
madonna x’inkejja :P ok I take it all back
Jeffrey il-Ġakbin asked Beppe Fenech Adami for opinion about the death of the migrant at the detention centre. Fenech Adami told him that the very next day he marched in protest in Valletta with others, and what was Jeffrey doing but writing articles for the newspapers saying that migrants should be pushed back or towed out to sea and left there.
Then James Debono chipped in with a question, giving Jeffrey time to change tack.
Toni Abela looked ill at ease with Jeffrey as a PL representative. Joseph Muscat did not get a Franco Debono Xarabank repeat. He has overlooked the fact that now he is in government and the things that worked for him in Opposition will not work anymore as the context has changed completely.
JPO is now a seriously dangerous liability for Labour – another accident waiting to happen.
Since independence in 1964, the MLP has been trusted with power four times: 1971, 1976, 1996 and 2013. All four resulted in botched attempts at governing a micro state the size of a small town in mainland Europe.
Ilni ma nikkummenta hawnekk Daphne. Qed timmisjani? (Mhux hekk qalilhom lil Beppe u lil Frank illejla sehibna: Qed timmisjawni?)
Some highlights from someone who was there:
I don’t know if it came through on TV. When Jeffrey was saying something about when he was asked to reconsider PN etc, he said something which I could not hear due to everyone talking over each other, to which Beppe replied: Jistghu izommuk, m’ghandniex x’nambuk ahna, jistghu uzommuk (accompanied by shooing gestures with his hand). What I can say is that that went down very nicely with the PN supporters there, and I’m sure with all PN supporters.
After the programme ended, Zaren tal-Ajkla, who was invited by the producers to attend, made a big hullabaloo about having gone there for nothing as they didn’t give him time to speak. He also reprimanded the producers for not getting shots of the half empty seats.
He said: “Jaqaw ghax gew tan-Nazzjonalisti biss? Ghalhekk ma gibtux li s-sala nofsha vojta? Biex ma jaqawx ghan-n**k tal-Labour li ma kellhom lil hadd?”
Incidentally, there were only about 10 people on the Labour side.
Beppe Fenech Adami gabu f’postu lil JPO.
Another thing that struck me tonight was that normally the crowd is more pro PL. Tonight the PL did not manage to convince people to attend.
Next time round it will be the other way for sure…
Azzopardi did say something about people not turning up. The audience was totally anti-government.
Had the Laburisti turned up, they would probably have booed the government side too.
Beppe Fenech Adami to JPO: “Tista tibqa’ fejn qieghed. M’ghandniex x’naghmbuk. Lanqas habbata mal-bieb tad-Dar Centrali ma’ jixraqlek.” Priceless.
Or was is Frank Psaila. Anyway it was definitely the best comment of the night.
It was Frank Psaila . He was very good yesterday.
How very appropriate:
“The international shooting body has promised the Malta Shooting Sport Federation (MSSF) that it will host a World Cup shoot in 2017, president Saviour Portelli told a news conference yesterday.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141212/shooting/Malta-to-host-2017-World-Cup.547855
On a more serious tone, I am fed up of being surrounded by Laburisti who are thirsting for the blood of anyone who they assume voted PN in the last election (or in any election – they don’t distinguish between PN voters and switchers). They have created a climate of tension and fear and they are thriving on this. It’s sickening.
JPO and Toni…..Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Camorra
I have to admit that Beppe Fenech Adami makes a very good deputy leader. He managed to put JPO(S) in his place. Keep up the good work, Beppe. Your stamina is incredible.
Agree 100 %
I truly believe that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando needs to seek professional help.
How can someone who was at the receiving end of Labour’s vicious hate campaigns feel at home in this party? His lack of self-respect is unbelievable if he has somehow come to terms with the fact that his friend and fellow deal-maker ‘Joseph’ was a prime motivator in those campaigns as that was his role in Sant’s party back then. He was not a Labour politician yet, but a party media orchestrator.
I can understand Pullicino Orlando feeling uncomfortable with members of the Nationalist Party, but to join forces with Labour is unthinkable.
Besides, when Carm Mifsud Bonnici was forced to resign because of ‘Ħu ġo fik’ Franco Debono, Pullicino Orlando had written on Facebook how sad he was about that. Yesterday he didn’t stop attacking Dr Mifsud Bonnici. Amazing.
How come no journalist has ever asked Alfred Sant his nopinion on the prominence his successor in the Labour Party has been giving Pullicino Orlando?
Beppe Fenech Adami should have taken along a copy of Sensiela Kotba Socjalisti’s L-Iskandlu tal-Mistra and handed it over to Jeffrey on camera, saying ‘Happy Christmas, Jeff.”
On second thoughts, he should have presented it to Toni Abela with Jeffrey there. That would have been smarter and a whole lot funnier.
And I think he should have taken a jar with some white powder (talcum powder would do) in it and asked the audience if they knew what that was, and handed it to Toni Abela, asking him to throw it in the bin.
What a mess of a government. Politicians who get mixed up in land grabs, gun-shooting, scandals, and risky consumption and then go to sleep, while the country goes to ruin.
The tele-novela of intrigue and messy relationships is not fiction but reality. More to come. Are you being entertained?
If anyone had to tell me that my daughter was involved in an accident but assured me that she was OK, I would still have left wherever and gone to find her. Father of the Year, my left foot, Manuel – and that goes for you too, JPO.
TVM hasn’t uploaded last night’s Xarabank on its ‘on demand’ site yet.