Ah, so it’s all right for Minister Evarist Bartolo to be driven about in a Jag
Evarist Bartolo: driven about in the Jaguar he criticised Austin Gatt for using
Do you remember all the sordid fuss the Labour Party, its politicians and its actively spiteful media machine made about the fact that Austin Gatt’s ministerial car was a Jaguar (and it was just the ‘junior’ model)?
No doubt you do. They rammed it home so hard that even people who never read newspapers were fed the ‘Austin Gatt has a Jaguar’ message all over Facebook.
It became such a big thing that when the theatre studies student Nicola Abela Garrett stood up at the university to insult Dr Gatt and call him a w**ker, she just had to bring up the Jaguar.
In The Times, September 2011:
After the incident, a calmer Ms Abela Garrett said that, as a frustrated commuter, she had thought about who was responsible for the irregular service. “I’m not a disruptive student… I’m sorry I swore at the minister but he made me wait in the basking sun for two hours on the bus stop while I’m sure he has his Jaguar.
Now it turns out that Education Minister Evarist Bartolo, a man who has spent an entire adult lifetime being driven about by his wife because he never had what it takes to learn how to drive himself, has a ministerial car that’s…a Jaguar.
A member of my international worldwide network of spies emailed me this morning:
I was driving down the coast road after that accident which led to the road being closed on the side going up to Qawra.
Suddenly, on the side of the road that was closed to traffic, a car zoomed up: a dark blue Jaguar with a GM 07 plate, probably the very same one Austin Gatt used. There was Evarist Bartolo in it.
I thought the police had opened up that side of the road again to traffic, but no other cars came up after Jaguar GM07. After driving for some more time I came to the point where a policeman was diverting all cars into Maghtab, with a mile-long traffic jam.
Only Evarist Bartolo in Jaguar GM07 had been waved through by the police, and spared the mile-long diversion into Maghtab. Imagine if it had been Austin Gatt.
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The man is TRASH.
They all are, every single corrupt one of them.
The guy never learnt to drive.
Typical communist.
Where are the journalists to ask pertinent questions? One by one they are being silenced.
So I presume Ms. Abela Garrett won’t be calling Bartolo a w**ker too any time soon?
It is always made clearer and clearer that people didn’t give a damn about anything except seeing Labour in government.
They didn’t care about the PN’s success or mistakes. They didn’t care about the PL’s ideas (or lack thereof) or anything else. They just wanted to get Labour into government.
They hate the PN as well. They would rather see Malta suffer under Labour than do well under PN. I know people like this.
Spot on, Edward.
So right Edward. They have such lanzit festering inside them they cannot see reason.
Nice to see that it is the same one, because after the election no one wanted to take Austin’s Jaguar because it was not good enough for them, even though they had spent a couple of years telling Malta that it was way too good for Austin Gatt and a symbol of his arrogance.
Most of the current crop of ministers opted to hire new-model BMW series 5 cars. Tourism Minister Il-Guy runs around with it all alone and it is hired from Sixt.
The emperor’s principal security officer, police sergeant Johnny Iz-Zubina – for whom the police retirement age was changed just days after the last election – so that he could be reinstated, is now running around with a dark blue citroen C5, a government car. He has been seen with it on many occasions near his relative’s restaurant the Oriental Garden in Marsascala.
Socialist outside, capitalist inside.
I am told that this Jaguar has been in repair for some time and the government had to pay a considerable bill to make it roadworthy again. It only made its way back to Varist’s Ministry this week.
Austin Gatt used to walk home/to other govenrment departments, because he lived and worked in Valletta.
Too bad no one in the media cared to bring up that last bit before.
The Maltese expressions, ‘Ahtaf kemm tiflah’ and Min jikolilhu l-iktar’ come to mind.
Maria l-Maws bniedem vixxerali.
Ah, finally. Maria l-Maws has been eaten by a Jaguar.
Minister Bartolo was at the Old University in Valletta yesterday at 1830 hrs with his chauffeur, a former Malta Shipbuilding employee, and the Jaguar was parked illegally on the wrong side of the street, on the pavement.
Evarist Bartolo: to quote Miss Abela Garrett, what a w****r.
The man is a communist has been and now he managed to crawl out of Joseph’s skip and became education minister.
Maybe it’s also all right for Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca to be driven to meet her constituents at Hal Luqa in her official car GM 13 while her chauffeur paces up and down Triq San Pawl for over an hour, chatting with the crowd that overflowed into the street from her packed office.
Naturally we pay for his overtime
Norman Vella qala transfer vendikattiv u ghadu ma gabx ritratt wiehed tal-karozzi bil-GM fuq id-double yellow line bhal ma kien igib il-Jaguar t’ Austin Gatt.
Pero Austin Gatt la quddiem id-dar u lanqas quddiem il-ministeru qatt ma kellu ir-RESERVED, u jghidu li kien arroganti.
The ‘junior’ Jaguar you quote is a Ford Mondeo, disguised for consumers to have an entry level Jaguar, people the likes of Abela Garrett is very easily impressed with anything better then a Lada.
Actually her father owns a BMW, but his daughter had to crowdfund for her education.
Ghax mhux bizejjed niehdu li nistghu mill-gvern imbaghad nghajjruhom ‘wankers’, irridu niehdu minn shabna ukoll. L-aqwa li d-‘daddi’ ghandu BMW.