A lecture on The Family, from the daughter of a spectacularly dysfunctional one
Daphne speaks Maltese and my daughter doesn't.
Yana Mintoff, quoted entirely without irony on Malta Today, possibly by a reporter too young to know of the trials and tribulations of Mrs Mintoff, or the ceaseless philandering of her husband and the deprivation she suffered because of his notorious miserliness and refusal to give her any money to live on:
“Except for a clique of crooks, working conditions in this country have deteriorated. I emphasise that the family is the basis of the economy, and if the family is weak, the problems of alcohol and violence are more likely to increase, and with that comes a lack of education and quality of life.”
As for the importance that Mizzzzzzz Mintoff herself accords to the family, don’t get me started. Let’s just say that there are all sorts of definitions of families, so whatever floats her boat…
Incidentally, looking at her speak is like looking at Mintoff with a hairstyle and no spectacles, so no love lost there with me.
“My mother gave me this accent”. Like hell she did. Mizzzzz Mintoff has that accent because despite her father’s posturing as a man of the people, she was never integrated into Maltese society and spent most of her life outside Malta, having left the country permanently at the age of 17.
Let’s go back to quoting Malta Today’s report on this morning’s farce with Mizzzzzz Mintoff:
Her nod to Joseph Muscat, entrusting him with a government that “will give Malta stability”, was met by the Opposition leader’s approving finger-gun gesture.
Frumpy nerdy kids who grow up to think they’re hip: there’s no stopping them, God bless. Wayne’s World with politicians and suits and ties. Finger-gun gesture indeed. Cringe cringe cringe.
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That dried-up old harridan is a regular chip off the old block. I am referring to her father, not her late mother who should have been made a saint whilst still alive for putting up with all the sh*t that randy old satyr of a husband put her through. Miskina, lanqas flus biex thallas lil tal-grocer ma kien jaghtiha.
It is said that in the early eighties, Italian Oggi magazines carrying pictures of Dom cavorting on yachts with a variety of filmstars like Charlotte Rampling were often banned from Malta.
[Daphne – Actually, it was one issue of Oggie or Gente featuring Mintoff on board the Marsovin yacht, Noneta, with a topless MALTESE woman who was – obviously – not his wife or Yana Mintoff Bland.]
Yes, I remember that because the topless lady involved was a colleague of mine – at my “work phase” job during university days.
“and if the family is weak, the problems of (alcohol and) violence are more likely to increase”…
I like the way she sums up her dad’s Labour party in the 70s.
Yana Mintoff is to Joseph’s 70s-themed party/government as Minnie Mouse is to my daughter’s Disney-themed party.
Let the good times roll.
Malta is full of violent drunks? What sort of people does this woman mix with?
And we thought ‘Yanatorousus Rex’ was extinct. My.
First the hand-gun, soon the fist-bump:
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Moira Mintoff was a friend of my grandmother who was English too, and she often turned up on her doorstep crying because of the way Mintoff treated her and the misery she had to live in. These people are unbelievable !
Spouting sh*t and throwing it around are just the same for a Mintoff.
Wasn’t Moira Mintoff a British aristocrat? Why on Earth did she stay?
[Daphne – Because she had no money of her own and nothing to go back to. Life was tough for women in those days. That’s why so many women stayed in terrible marriages and now don’t. And she did leave him once, anyway: she went back to England and it made the headlines there. But the massive efforts to persuade her to return were successful.]
Strange how she presumably wrote that whole speech out herself, revised and edited it too I assume, and then read it out to her dad’s admirers as if it suddenly appeared on the sheet before her in Japanese!
Who the hell are they trying to kid?
Yana Mintoff’s mother knew what real poverty was, thanks to Yana Mintoff’s father.
What is Joseph trying to do by harking back at the ‘good’ old Mintoffian times?
Are things so bad at Mile End that he has to resort to Mintoff’s daughter to keep his team together?
Does he have so little confidence in himself and his ideals that he has to resort to Mintoff to get the ‘masses’ behind him? Where is this ‘new’ Labour? Looks rather old and dated to me.
Two days on and I still feel insulted by this stranger’s – given that she doesn’t know our language and she spent her adulthood a abroad – speech.
I really can’t stop saying “kif ma jisthux?”