Konrad Mizzi in parliament just now: he asked for an unreserved apology, rather than giving one
I am listening to the utterly insufferable Konrad Mizzi on Parliament TV right now. As is typical of people with Asperger syndrome, there is no sign of remorse or regret, because those emotions are entirely alien. Instead, there is resolute conviction that he was right, is still right, and that others are wrong or misguided to attribute bad motives to him (another symptom of the syndrome).
As any woman who lives with a man who has Asperger syndrome will know, getting them to see what is normal behaviour and why they have upset you and others is like hitting your head repeatedly against a concrete wall. They will stonewall you and carry on telling you that they did nothing wrong and that you are making an absurd fuss – in other words, that you are the abnormal one.
The situation is so bad that he had to refer to his notes on the table before him to remind himself to make a cursory and unfelt apology. It was scripted, in just a sentence, and even though it was scripted he got it wrong. Instead of apologising, he demanded an apology.”Nitlob apoloġija,” the Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister said, instead of “Nitlob skuża għal dak li għamilt”.
How can you take a man in high office seriously, who doesn’t know the difference between demanding an apology and apologising? I certainly can’t. It means his level of education is bumping somewhere along the bottom of the barrel, along with those people who wear LABURIST SAL-MEWT T-shirts.
His code-switching between English and Maltese doesn’t help. It makes him look ridiculous, particularly given how heavy his accent is when he uses English expressions. I really can’t stand to hear him anymore as he hisses the final SSSSSSSSS of English words (“compromiSSSSSSisSSSSSSS”) instead of using the ‘zh’ sound. Is that a petty observation? Not at all. The man grew up in a Maltese-only environment, so all this pretentious throwing around of English expressions where they don’t belong is clearly an affectation. And it makes him look linguistically deficient – like somebody who can’t find the right words in Maltese.
To make matters so much worse, he brushed off the gravity of what he has done by zipping through his non-apology in one sentence. When he has caused so much trouble to his party, the government and the country, he should have devoted the entirety of his time allocation this afternoon to an eloquent speech soaked in regret. He is incapable of writing any such thing, and incapable of the emotion which should inspire it, but that’s what speech-writers are for.
Instead, he spent his time in parliament boasting about how clever he is, and how smart his decisions in government. The man isn’t normal, he is seriously corrupt, and those who vote for him this afternoon have no integrity, whatever excuses they make to themselves and their largely absent consciences.
