Some more brown-nosing from Bedingfield
Published:
April 22, 2009 at 9:07am
Glenn licks all the right butts
Frans Sammut set the bar with his published hagiography of Alfred Sant. Now it seems that every Labour leader has to have one. Glenn Bedingfield has dished up the goods with his personal take on Joseph Muscat, which doubtless leaves out all the juicy bits and focuses on his more heroic qualities.
Glenn squeezed out this piece of horse-shit just in time for the EP electoral campaign. He thinks it might get Muscat to stop pushing Edward Scicluna and Manwel Cuschieri’s brother and give him a bit of a hand instead.
Fat chance. And I don’t mean Glenn. That’s a fat chancer.
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If Joseph is pushing Edward and Manwel’s brother (although I don’t think so), Gonzi is clearly pushing Simon.
[Daphne – Is he? I hadn’t noticed he needed any pushing. And that’s quite apart from the fact that he’s the single most valid candidate of the lot, Labour included.]
Is he the most valid of the lot?
When I needed a simple question to be answered via email, he replied about 2 months later, excusing himself of the late reply due to his enormous workload, and just paying lip service to the government, dodging my question altogether.
[Daphne – MEPs are not there to provide a personalised information service. Imagine if everyone who voted for Simon Busuttil were to ask him even one question in five years and demand an answer at all, let alone an immediate one.]
The European Parliament adopts Busuttil report on migration
http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsID=60065&newscategory=31
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924)
Ok, so they have email addresses just to adorn their webpages? And what do all their staff do, paid from our taxes? I never expected an immediate answer, or an answer at all (even thought that is a prerogative of a question), but since he found time to reply, I would have surely appreciated a short answer to my question instead of a whole load of rhetoric about how well the government is doing in the EU.
I had contacted higher institutions in the EU first and then presented him with the answers I received, and just asked why it wasn’t applicable to our country.
I don’t know what it is about Simon – can’t quite put my finger on it – but there’s something about him that reminds me of a priest. Still, I suppose even a priest is always going to be preferable to Glann Badingfield or to the brother of that other odious man.
I’m no apologist for the clergy. But I find your comment rather senseless. Would you care to try and “put your finger on it” so that maybe some substance may emerge from your comment?
Is Glenn human? Or is he chancer?
Nice one!
Have you forgot Vince Farrugia’s boot-licking Gonzi, Daphne ? I think nearly all the candidates try to impress apart from Simon Busuttil and Edward Scicluna, who I think are by far the best of the lot.
[Daphne – I am quite sure that Simon Busuttil and Edward Scicluna bend over backwards to impress their leader, the difference being that they do it in far more sophisticated and subtle ways than writing something that cringe-making.]
Really, Eric? I have seen Vince argue with Gonzi many times, but we still think that Gonzi is a very valid prime minister. He doesn’t need his boots licked, especially by Vince. As for Edward Scicluna, Vince runs rings around him; he is a theoretician if ever there was one.
Whatever you lot may think of Vince, his agenda is simple. If he becomes an MEP, he will use it as his ticket to help Maltese businesses get out of this shell we call Malta and go out into the great EU instead of relying on this small market for survival.
That much is apparent to all, except to Daphne. She seems fixated on his hairpiece and by some fantastic stretch of imagination, his values because of that.
[Daphne – A man who wears a wig by definition can’t face reality. It’s not so much the wig that makes me wary, but what the wig represents: a man who cannot face the mirror, still less the world, with a bald head.]
As for the PN pushing Simon, yes, spot on. But if someone is hoping that a plebiscite here guarantees some future post, like leading the country, well, there are other valid candidates…….and the PN should not be hijacked like that.
Daphne, I somewhat disagree.
Our reality is highly dependent on our self-image. And our self-image is constructed upon the way we see ourselves and also the way others see us.
Most women use anti-wrinkle cream to remove blemishes. They shave their legs and armpits. They act younger than their age. And they continue to live life rather than patiently wait at home for the final visit from the Grim Reaper.
Is this all a failure to accept reality? Maybe to a certain extent. But if you keep active, and you continue to provide a positive contribution to society, then THAT is the reality!
At the end of the day who cares if Vince cannot face the world with a bald head? I’m sure he has several other wigs in his closet!
[Daphne – Whether you agree or disagree is irrelevant. The fact remains that in 21st century western society it is not socially acceptable for a man to wear a wig, precisely because it is socially acceptable for a man to be bald and wigs for men are no longer fashion items as they were up to 200 years ago. Your comparison between what women do and what men do is nonsensical. Women wear lipstick, but if Vince Farrugia were to take to the streets with a nice slick of Purple Crush, the first people to flee would be other men, especially the homophobic sort.
In 21st century western society, a man who wears a wig and pretends it is his own hair and that he isn’t bald is a figure of fun. This is not me saying this. It is an established fact. There is a preponderance in Malta of well-known men in wigs precisely because we have so far fought shy of laughing at them in public rather than only in private. Because they are not publicly lampooned, they think wearing a wig is fine. It isn’t. And not to put too fine a point on it, a man in a wig is about as attractive to women as a man who takes his dentures out at night and puts them on the bedside table.]
@M. Gatt – “Most women use anti-wrinkle cream to remove blemishes. They shave their legs and armpits.”
Men who do the same would be deemed ridiculous by most. The same goes for all men (and not most women) wearing wigs/toupees.
M. Gatt must be a man to reason the way he does. Women tend to see a lot wrong with men in wigs.
Eric, donnok irfist il-kallu ta’ Mario Debono!
@Lino Cert
Glenn Bedingfield is one of the three Labour MEP’s who got 13,435 votes in 2004, 53% more than David Casa.
[Daphne – It doesn’t say much for Labour voters, does it?]
Big-headed Burmarrad Gowey speaking in parliament right now…”chewing gum politics” (his words)
…”il-mara nabbuwwa…u mhux fil-kcina u fis-sodda”…
…and all this whilst discussing:
Bill No 24 – General Elections (Amendment) Bill
Oh, what a circus!
‘A man who wears a wig by definition can’t face reality’
I wonder what you would do if you would turn bald one day (sometimes, although very rare, woman do)… I don’t imagine you going round with a bald head.
[Daphne – Please don’t be ridiculous. Baldness is the norm in men. It is not normal with women.]
A man with a full head of hair (even if natural) is not the norm, and would thus stick out more than bald men. In the case of women, it is the opposite.
Oh, and I would never trust – or respect – a man who would prefer to go about with an inanimate rug on his head rather than show the world his true self (which would be perfectly normal, however imperfect in his own eyes).
As for girls / women who who suffer from alopecia / baldness, that’s an entirely different matter. A wig, in most cases, would be deemed necessary, and would certainly not be considered ridiculous (unless it is, say, a solid red wig on a 75-year-old, which would be totally inappropriate).
Daphne, baldness is much more common than you think in women. But it’s easier to hide.
[Daphne – It’s no more easy to hide than it is with men, Mario. And the point you’re missing is that baldness in men is 100% normal. Wearing a wig, on the other hand, is 100% freakish when you are a man, so please stop trying to justify the fact that your bald hero can’t face the world with his bald head, and actually believes that wearing roadkill is more attractive and socially acceptable.]
And alopecia and MPB is not the only cause of baldness in men. Some medications, even the most innocuous ones, can precipitate irreversible male baldness. Again, it’s more common than we think.
[Daphne – So blinking what, Mario? Let me spell it out again: BALD HEADS ON MEN ARE 100% NORMAL, HENCE WHAT IS NOT NORMAL IS A MAN WHO FEELS THE NEED TO CONCEAL HIS BALD HEAD WITH A WIG OR TOUPEE. Baldness in women is NOT normal, whatever the cause, hence it is perfectly acceptable for bald women to wear wigs. Women don’t even have to be bald to wear wigs and hairpieces as they are fashion items.]
Jesus, I love the fair faced wall on the background!
Daphne, agreed 100%. Simon is the most valid of all. He deserves the first vote. Definitely, he’s getting mine.
When I sent an email about an EU problem to Simon, who I don’t know from Adam, he wrote back about two weeks later with a detailed reply including some research on similar cases. He also recommended a specialised lawyer in Malta who could help me in my case. So he helped me a lot, yes. But still I won’t vote for him this time because of his extreme stand on maximum 18 months detention for illegal immigrants. AD are also out this time round. They’ve lost their whole reason of being by discarding their rebel image. So I think I’ll vote Alan Deidun this time because he was the only one that I heard give a moderate view on detention for illegal immigrants. Pity Graffiti aren’t contesting. They would have got my vote for sure.
Effing wow, Lino. I mean, Graffitti!
I don’t like Vince Farrugia and David Casa, Glenn Bedingfield, Joseph Cuschieri, Sharon Ellul Bonici. The others are acceptable. As for Vince Farrugia, the thing that annoys me is not his wig, but the way he started praising Gonzi as he started his campaign. I remember Joe Grima doing the same with Eddie. I hate these men that for their own personal ambitions end up like fools licking their tails.
I think Simon and Vince are really good candidates. I don’t like the candidates who speak only about EU funds and petty politics. Both Simon and Vince make good MEPs: Simon has a proven record of relentless work in the EU. Vince’s mantra is ‘xoghol’, which is what Malta always needed.They can work miracles for Malta.
I miss Joanna Drake’s candidacy.
The MLP has a very wide spectrum of candidates, from moderates to extremists and from Eurosceptics to Europhiles. They want to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.
I agree with John. We need candidates that exchange their MEP status into getting business for Malta and to promote Maltese businesses. We have failed to do so in the EU, so far. Maybe Simon, but more so Vince, can reverse that trend. and maybe Simone Mizzi. The rest, be they MLP or PN, are not slated for something like this. We need to get business here. Otherwise, we are in for a very rough time.
[Daphne – Simone Mizzi is not standing for election, Mario.]
Excuse me, dear lady, I meant Marlene Mizzi. Slip of the old tongue there. Apologies.
As for the title of the book, it might be well to replace the word mexxej with something that rhymes with the old Maltese word for filling. More apt, I would say.
Simon is by far the one and only valid candidate…..the others are there just for convenience.
[Daphne – MEPs are not there to provide a personalised information service. Imagine if everyone who voted for Simon Busuttil were to ask him even one question in five years and demand an answer at all, let alone an immediate one.]
Maltese constituents do seem to think that your MEP is there to offer a free legal advice service. I know for a fact that the workload coming from these requests alone is tremendous.
“I know for a fact that the workload coming from these requests alone is tremendous.”
“Workload” often equals extra work = extra income. Why else would such MEPs have employees/consultants with hefty salaries/fees on their payroll?
What about the salt n’ peppah look, Daphne? In the last six mounths I’ve sprouted a spreading forest of white hairs. And I’m having nightmares about it, because current fashion doesn’t allow me to cut my hair ‘high and tight’, so I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. Oh ze agony.
[Daphne – Women LOVE the salt and pepper look. Why don’t men understand this? I think I’m going to have to start a men’s advice section in this blog. Line up four good-looking men -one bald, one salt ‘n’ pepper, one wearing a ‘realistic’ wig and one with dyed hair – and all the women will be falling over the first two. Right, girls?]
And Simon Busuttil is the shizz when it comes to answering questions by email, even the more esoteric ones. I only ever sent him one email in my life: about whether I could move to Greenland under EU law. He could have ignored the email, but he replied after some weeks. (No, I can’t live and work in Greenland as an EU citizen. They opted out of EU free movement and employment rules, even though they belong to Denmark.)
And yes, why isn’t Joanna Drake on the PN candidate list?
[Daphne – Because she has a very good job.]
“…even though they belong to Denmark.”
Only until June this year :)
Yeah, their status remains somewhat ambiguous. The Slædepatruljen Sirius still patrols Greenland….
My husband started going grey in his late twenties and a rather dizzy friend of mine asked him where he’d got his streaks done.
[Daphne – Women LOVE the salt and pepper look. Why don’t men understand this? I think I’m going to have to start a men’s advice section in this blog. Line up four good-looking men -one bald, one salt ‘n’ pepper, one wearing a ‘realistic’ wig and one with dyed hair – and all the women will be falling over the first two. Right, girls?]
Right, provided that the first ma’ jsellifx minn naha ghal ohra.
Daphne, some years ago you guessed that Glenn’s books had been ghost-written by someone else: why aren’t you surmising the same thing this time? What about MC?
Do a little research… ;)