What Labour’s chief elVE has been reading lately

Published: December 12, 2011 at 12:37am

Sadly, Elvish hasn't yet left the building. Pjan ghal bidu gdid, indeed.

Aaron Farrugia has felt the need to upload on Facebook the covers of those books he’s read most recently (ahem).

They are:

Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man
Tony Blair’s A Journey
Nicolas Sarkozy’s Testimony
David Plouffe’s The Audacity to Win
Drew Westen’s The Political Brain – The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation

How bloody dull, predictable and obvious.

Is it absolutely necessary to be one-dimensional when you’re a Labour politician who’s risen from the gutter, via the glories of a BComm certificate, to preeminence as the head of the Opposition’s think-tank?

Even their book choices are cut-and-pasted.

Well, I suppose I should be thankful he at least pretends to read.




26 Comments Comment

  1. Antoine Vella says:

    Nothing from Sensiela Kotba Soċjalisti?

  2. Harry Purdie says:

    Aha! Here we have a ‘speed reader’. Those who utilize a number of methods which attempt to increase the rates of reading without reducing comprehension or retention.

    Think this retard flunked the credentials. But well within Labour limits.

  3. oldtimer says:

    Can he actually read?

  4. Mark says:

    I suppose he’s tongue in cheek. This is a most charming caricature of a politician.

  5. Jozef says:

    He’s given the game away, all one has to do now, is to check Joseph’s speeches. He did say he admired Tony Blair.

    Politics by numbers.

    • ciccio2011 says:

      Politics by cut and paste. Any intelligent phrase in Joseph’s speeches must be traceable to Mandy or Bliar.

      • 'Angus Black says:

        Joseph pasted and the PM cut up all 51 hallucinations.

        Back to Karmenu’s drawing board.

        Dwardu, please keep out unless Karmenu writes the exact opposite of what you propose so he will not have to reverse your suggestions after you have second thoughts.

  6. ciccio2011 says:

    Why would this ELVE be reading Mandelson and Bliar in 2011?
    They are now history. Their incompetent New Labour governments brought Britain to the economic mess it is in now.

  7. Seggy says:

    Two of the most popular ones this season:

    Krismiss Fader
    Selminn

  8. Vanni says:

    Ah well a step up from the Beano I suppose. But then again, who needs Beano, when we have Joseph as the Menace.

  9. La Redoute says:

    No “The Audacity of Hope”, then?

    The Great Leader’s posturing on the podium during that meeting ta’ kuragg (2009 – that’s how long they’ve been banging on about utility bills) and that cringe-making letter he sent to Barack Obama were wasted on the Elves.

  10. xmun says:

    My my, he must be a fast reader or with plenty of time on his side. did he say how long it took him to read all these books.

  11. Lomax says:

    It’s funny how you said he was dull. I thought so too. I thought he was trying to impress us all though I have to admit, I thought to myself: what a boring young man.

    Can you imagine going out with somebody on a date and he only speaks about Blair and so on?

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