Anglu the Speaker: another hamallu getting a thrill out of feeling important

I have just received this email from a reader.

This morning, during the chaotic traffic to get to Valletta, Anglu Farrugia’s black saloon, with number-plate SPK, barged through the long queues of cars with its flashing red and blue lights.

On a short stretch of road that was miraculously free from traffic, his chauffeur raced the car at what I would consider to be an excessive speed, only to get stuck again at the Blata l-Bajda traffic lights.

Once he got through the lights, he tried to overtake cars in both lanes, using just the siren’s warning wail and the flashing lights, but no indicators. The poor drivers in the other cars, because he wasn’t using indicators, had no idea in which direction he wanted to go. And he should not have been shifting from lane to lane in the first place in that heavy traffic.

The Speaker (a lawyer and a former police inspector) and his chauffeur seem unaware that traffic regulations apply to them too. If I were to drive in the same manner I would be stopped by the police and prosecuted for dangerous driving.

Malta is now thoroughly infected with heads of institutions, some of them in Constitutional roles, like the Speaker, who are utter and complete hamalli – showy people who throw their weight around, make as much sound as possible to be seen and heard, don’t know how to behave properly, and are completley inconsiderate to others. They want us to get out of their way because they’re ‘important’.