Make way – we’re the important people ta’ Malta Taghna Biss
Somebody who was in the queue for the Gozo ferry at Cirkewwa last Saturday emailed this:
Last Saturday morning we were queuing to board the 9am ferry to Gozo from Cirkewwa. There were hundreds in the queue, tourists, Scouts, people going to the Labour celebration at Sannat and so on.
All of a sudden there were about 12 men all in black suits and with ear-pieces, with a PL Security badge on their lapel (KGB style). They just made their way through the queue and straight to the ferry.
When it was our turn to pass through the boarding-gate, Gozo Channel staff stopped us because there was no more room. I asked him about the Men in Black who jumped the queue. He just said they were VIPs. I answered that it’s a fine example of Malta taghna lkoll (and this was witnessed by hundreds of stranded passengers). The Gozo Channel man asked me whether he should phone Muscat and my response was to go ahead with the call.
One passenger who was also stranded didn’t like my ‘Malta taghna lkoll’ comment. She angrily answered back that ‘in-Nazzjonalisti’ are already complaining about the lack of medicines. I said to her that this was not about medicines. It was about how those PL security should at least have had the basic decency to wait in the queue with everyone else. It looks like this ‘taghna lkoll’ business is rapidly becoming ‘taghhom biss’.
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Were the switchers allowed to skip the Q?
Switchers are teleported. At the flick of a switch.
B +ve!
I don’t think so, they’re not needed any more now.
And is this the change the switchers voted for? They were duped.
No, as they “are in” the skip already of JM and Malta Taghna Lkoll!
What was the Mintoffian song? Warrbu min nofs ghamlulna l-wisa’?
Make way – ghax Anglu Speaker tal-Kamra tad-Deputati u ghandu dritt jipparkja mal-membri parlamentari. (Net News)
I expected to hear, “Please shut up and be positive.”
And then they hate Bondi+, the only programme on Maltese TV which is positive.
This incident brings me back to your previous comment, Daphne, ‘Can we stop it, please, with the Prozac Nation’.
I have just finished reading an excellent article in today’s New York Times entitled ‘When hope tramples truth’, by Roger Scruton.
The pertinent sentence is: ‘Those who interrupt the good cheer of their fellows with the thought that the things about which all agreed might go badly wrong are either dismissed as madmen or condemned as fools’.
Hmm. Do we have a match here?
James Piscopo, CEO of the Labour Party – err, Transport Malta, please investigate and explain.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130325/local/Cabinet-secretary-to-review-code-of-ethics.462861
Another commission? What the hell…
Whose work is it going to be, the commission’s or Mario’s?
Are the commission members to be paid as well? In that case, Dr. Gonzi really left the finanzi fis-sod.
But they are not going to remain so for long.
The sight couldn’t have been as “lovely” as that of Natius Farrugia (larger than I thought he was) in a bright red t-shirt, together with that wimp of an Alfred Zammit of One TV, Ronnie Pellegrini (surprise, surprise!) and some other Labour “buflu” having lunch at Stone Crab in Xlendi last Saturday.
Meanwhile, taken off Facebook this evening:
“Dr Anglu Farrugia drives to Valletta and parks in the MPs parking slot. People bring to his attention that he cannot do that and he answers ‘I am the speaker of the house'”
And that makes Muscat the most insipid prime minister this country ever had.
An opinion poll being run on Maltastar:
Opinion poll
Do you think the slogan ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ is being put into practise by the New Government?
Yes, definitely
Yes, but some more effort needed
No
Still too early to say
Based on what has been witnessed over the past two weeks, I think it would have been appropriate to add a fifth option:
Who the f**k were we kidding?