The queue spilling onto the pavement at the Social Policy Minister’s constituency office in Hal Qormi
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April 9, 2013 at 1:44am
This is Marie Louise Coleiro Preca’s constituency office in Hal Qormi, on a slow day.
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Is that Antonella tas-Snobbi in blue?
Nah, that’s a C cup.
Che occhio clinico.
You mean as in jock strap?
I thought that people queued up to see HER.
You ain’t seen nothing yet! You should see the situation in Luqa, absolutely chaotic.
The Hon madam and the Hon Galdes have offices within fifty metres of each other. Any day they’re there it’s like the ‘marc ta’ filghodu’.
Some time ago the local council has also obliged by removing all clamping zone signs in this narrowest street of Luqa so that clients can park, leaving just enough for an Arriva bus to scrape through. Anyone walking up that street has to take shelter into someone’s door if a bus comes along as the pavement is less that 2 feet wide, and in some places does not even exist.
Promise miracles, get devotees.
Ara vera pajjiz ta’ tallaba.
Clientelism like only we southern Europeans know it. I’m so sick of being from such a backwards place.
[Daphne – Console yourself by taking a look at the electoral campaign in Venezuela.]
Daphne, may I draw your attention that Venezuela has a European (NOT to be mixed with EU) style of culture and it is further to the south that we are?
I’ve been finding solace in N. Korea recently.
And that is her Qormi San Gorg office. She has another one for the Bastjanizi.
Please tell me you’re kidding. Please.
And Luqa.
I wish I was.
Yep, she has another office in the other parish which is 120..errm 1 km away.
And yes that is a slow day. On a peak day you would need to navigate your car through the people and cars quadruple parked. Pathetic!
Ditto.
Tistghu izzommuli post fil-kju, hiii? Wasal iz-zmien li niehu jien ukoll slajs minn Malta Taghna Lkoll.
And another one at Hal Luqa.
The Golden Triangle, eh?
What would they want? She is not a doctor or a lawyer and they are not seeking her professional services. She is a Minister – which makes all the difference. She can authorise FAVOURS.
She’s been issuing favours since way back, even though from the opposition benches. Now she has more power.
Maybe she is giving out pillows.
They are there to obtain a social housing flat or house, an easy job with the government which also allows them to work in the black market, and so on.
Fil-kju halli ninqdew :-)
Ahna ahna jew mahniex : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLzjLBabWQ
There’s a similar one outside Jose’ Herrera’s office at the Manoel Theatre.
And a sign saying ‘no mobile phones allowed’.
A similar situation in St Rocco Street in Birkirkara outside the office of Edward Zammit Lewis. The situation is worse because the road is so narrow that at times cars can hardly go through.
Is the guy in the beige top (second from left) holding a blue Vascas gift bag?
My thoughts exactly. Gaudy silverware anyone?
Dak li jrid il-poplu… il-bajtra taqa f’halqu !
Jippreferu jaghmlu hekk milli jmorru jahdmu !
Dawk mhuma xejn!! gieli kien hemm izjed minn hekk, hafna izjed, nahseb ha tara min hu l-izjed b’sahhtu biex jibni il-pont tal-bypass, pont li verament ma iwassal imkien u fil-verita ahna ma rriduhx ghax ma rridux li wliedna jaqsmu minn hemm ghac-centru ta’ hal Qormi. U jekk titilghu sat-triq l-ohra (triq Anici) mhux il-boghod issibu kju iehor dak tas-segretarju parlamentari tal-annimali nahseb qed itihom il-fniek b’xejn talli telghu :)
Lose lose situation for labour. Ignore the die hards and expect trouble. Act partisan and risk losing the Malta Taghna llkoll aficionados.
What are they waiting for? Why are they there?
Handouts and payback.
Another nail in the coffin of the real meritocracy.
Don’t Labour realise how hypocritical and daft they look when they criticise opponents for clientelism and then it’s what their supporters expect out of them? What a bunch of utter morons.
There was also a full waiting room at Karmenu Vella’s office in Zurrieq.
The Italians say “Ogni promessa e’ un debito.”
Queues also at Marlene’s office at Zurrieq – and on Sunday.
That used to be Johnny Dalli’s crowd.
This is 1970s politics….the new way under il-Muviment.
Edwin Zammit Lewis’s Birkirkara office was no better last week. i passed by at 5.30 to see a whopping queue of people waiting for him. 3 hours later the queue had dwindled but people were still there.
I also heard that Jose was practically in tears with the amount of people queueing outside his offices.
Probably explains why they’re working from dawn to dusk. To many hours spent granting favours in a bid to ensure re electionand not enough time spent working for Malta.
It appears that now reading an e-book or surfing the web on a tablet is banned while waiting in a queue in a hospital even though wi-fi is available. The paranoid Labour mob are suspicious of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fJZqEEk_zRs
Remember this one so so long ago.
Back to those times it seems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QLzjLBabWQ
It’s like a typical Sicilian village, asking for favours from the Godmother?
Dawk qed jistennew id-doughnuts hergin mill-forn?
You should go to the ministry-seems an open market with all the shouting for favours