Would Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando have done the same himself?
Sidi from Ivory Coast, who works with Bad Boy Cleaners – he had done the window-cleaning at our house a few times; really hardworking and super-efficient. Up and down those ladders, focused on getting the job done, barely stopping for coffee. A revelation to somebody who’s accustomed to Maltese workmen moving in slow motion, dragging themselves around with cigarettes and radios, and forever breaking off from the task in hand so as to exchange views with their mates, because apparently it’s impossible to talk and work at the same time.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando would have liked Sidi to be towed back out to sea with bottles of water and some sandwiches and left there. He is angry that somebody like Sidi is in Malta, changing the visual landscape and muddying his cultural traditions. But Sidi is a much better man than Jeffrey and I know who most of us would much prefer to tow out to sea with bread and water.
Would Jeffrey have rushed into a burning building, struggling with buckets of water in thick, poisonous smoke, to try to rescue an African woman and an African baby? No, he wouldn’t even do it for a Maltese woman and a Maltese baby. Somebody as cowardly and selfish as he is would have rung for the fire brigade and then stood fussing on the pavement until the news cameras arrived to take his picture.
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This man is a hero. But compared to JPO he is a superhero simply in the way he carries out his daily work.
I’m told that Jeffrey as executive chairman of MCST goes into work at that office no more than once a week. Twice would be exceptional. And he is paid out of our taxes.
If the policemen guarding the Auberge de Castille did not rush in to rescue The Times of Malta employees at risk of being burned alive by an MLP mob, and if neither did the police in the Birkirkara Police Station rush to the aid of the family of the then Leader of the Opposition being assaulted a few metres away from them, why should anyone expect JPO to risk smoke inhalation when there is a public-spirited refugee from the Ivory Coast ready and willing to do it?
“But Sidi is a much better man than Jeffrey.”
Anyone is a much better man than Jeffrey. The betrayal of his voters and his party colleagues is unforgivable.
Come to think of it there is only one person who might not be a better man than Jeffrey – that is Franco Debono.
Leave Jeffrey alone. He is so worried, angry and in despair because the “Taghna Lkoll” government has taken his Lara Boffa off the Enemalta Corporation board of directors to make way for a Chinese man.
As I’ve always said, people in Malta are afraid of competition. If you’re Maltese and successful they will come up with some excuse to bring you down.
‘I know who most of us would much prefer to tow out to sea with bread and water.’
I don’t fully agree with that.
I wouldn’t waste the bread and water.
JPO would have used an old, crippled lady as a human shield then claimed glory.
Have his orange trousers had any good outings recently?
I think that this chap deserves Maltese citizenship as a reward for his heroism – that is unless he has citizenship already.