High tea in Leicester
Published:
February 5, 2015 at 2:32am
When the president’s invitation to high tea in Leicester was published on this website, many of you asked why on earth she was going to be there – in Leicester.
I’m told her daughter is at university there.
The RSVP email address on the invitation is that of Antonella Berry-Brincat, a consultant ophthalmologist and daughter of former Labour cabinet minister Joe Brincat, who lives in Leicester. She is registered as living at 9 De Montfort Street, the same street as the Belmont, the three-star hotel where the high tea is planned.
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Netfixing for the daughter, banana republic style.
Heqq u – killing three birds with one stone hux .
(High) Tea at a 3-Star hotel. How very chic!
Not a very classy place for a high tea. Presidents and 3 star hotels don’t mix, and reflects badly on Malta.
There are a number of 4 star hotels in Malta that are inferior to this 3 star establishment in Leicester.
I have stayed at the Belmont on a number of occasions (when on business at the university there) and it is probably the best Leicester has to offer. Why Leicester?
Well, that’s another matter altogether.
Indeed. It’s not the classiest bit in the UK but perhaps she wants to give a lesson to Maltese people on multiculturalism.
There are 4 star hotels in Leicester which would be more appropriate but there again, why Leicester?
Were it not for the President’s daughter seemingly attending University there, no particular reason probably.
“Why Leicester” is an irrelevant question. Why hold this event at all?
Leicester tagħna lkoll.
So does the presence of a public occasion make the visit suddenly an official one ? And so will her trip to visit her daughter suddenly get paid by the taxpayer, entourage and all?
One has to ask whether she’s visiting her daughter off the state’s coffers.
With the Labour government, joining the dots is a hazard to one’s mental health.
But then Michelle invited the headmaster of her daughter’s school to meet Prince William, is the President inviting anyone from her daughter’s faculty or college perhaps?
Paying taxes in Malta becomes more rewarding every day.
Prospective employers?
Will this be an official function of our Head of State?
What standards!
The whole issue was misinterpreted. It must have been one of these Anglo-Maltese translation issues. The event was probably an event to launch the latest hit in Maltese literature, “Hajti gewwa Leicester”.
Is it the University of Leicester or the De Montfort University I wonder.
Is this an instance of mixing business with business, or mixing pleasure with pleasure?
Whatever it is, it sucks.
Nahseb li Marie Lise qed timpika ma’ Michelle.
After robbing the state coffers to organise this little jaunt, can they pronounce the venue? I think we should ask the President’s Office.
Lechester?
I had a lecturer who was always going on about how “qed naghmel il-PhD Leysester”. Malta hub tal-academia.
Did they get 3 quotations?