Kemm hu antipatiku, miskin – that stock way of replying took him through an electoral campaign, but it will not take him through five years of government
Malta Today reports:
Quizzed by the press over his home affairs minister’s declaration of almost €500,000 in cash which he declared in parliament, Muscat said Manuel Mallia “had not forgotten any Swiss bank accounts”, in a jibe at former Nationalist minister Austin Gatt.
I can’t understand how the press continues to let him get away with that ‘nisa jitghajru fit-triq’ style of replying democratically-crucial questions, which he is OBLIGED to answer.
Il-vera bniedem antipatiku. It is almost always people raised without siblings who end up like this, unless they have proper parenting, because the tendency towards such antipatija is usually thrashed out of a child by his or her siblings while growing up.
One of the first lessons you learn in childhood: don’t talk back to your siblings like that or you’ll end up tied to a tree-trunk or playing with your toy cars alone.
Clearly, this is one lesson Muscat didn’t learn in the nursery – and he can’t have learned it on the street or in the school playground, either.
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It will take him through five years and more. The audience just loves it.
[Daphne – I’m afraid you’re wrong on this score. Some people love it; more people don’t. It’s amusing when people are still happy with you, but it grates and backfires when they begin to expect more, like proper answers. Some people actually live/work with people who talk like that, remember. It’s a reason why some marriages break up and some people look for another job. It becomes intolerable after a while.]
If you’re right on this one, there’s hope yet. I’d resigned myself to ten years under Labour, at the very least.
The tendency towards antipatija can hardly be thrashed out of someone who’s had a unending run of good luck for forty years, who’s never had to look for a job, and who’s had his whole life handed out to him on a silver platter. A man’s character is forged in adversity.
[Daphne – I don’t agree with this, either. He’s just ill-bred and lacks self-awareness. I know many people who have had good luck all their lives, and who have lived off money they never had to earn, and who have perfect manners and know how to behave. Privilege is supposed to give us better manners, not worse ones.]
I’m not much of a fan of Simon Busuttil’s current strategy of silence, whatever that is, but I’ll say this for him: his broken marriage, and the trials of single parenthood, puts him miles ahead of Joseph Muscat in my book.
[Daphne – Yes. With this, I agree. And I think Simon Busuttil really needs to find his voice.]
I’ve known men like Joseph Muscat, sashaying their way from success to success, born into greatness, thrust into further greatness, and loved by one and all. Then one day some hidden fault is revealed, and the whole edifice collapses. Then they virtually disappear off the face of the earth.
I meant that if you’re ill-bred and lack self-awareness, you’re not likely to grow out of it if you’re surrounded by fawning sycophants.
Oh, just tell it like it is. Hamllu baxx imdawwar bil-hamalli baxxi. And all pretentious to boot.
Baxxter, can’t see this guy surviving five years. Met him a number of times a few years ago. His ‘strut’ did not cover up for his lack of business sense. (or common sense).
I expect a self-implosion within a year. Aided and abetted by his ‘loyal’ followers.
In that case, a few crates of doughnuts, with compliments, might speed up the mass gains and aid implosion.
At Baxxter: Disagree, many people hate such jibes. Others don’t understand it, but pretend they do and soon hate pretending too.
Within two years this government will have serious internal cracks within the top office. The fissures are already being seen.
If only the cracks take a little longer to surface, it would implode before the election.
My concern is Simon Busuttil is still coming through as weak. Claudette Pace should speak mpre. Many may not like her but she can convey a message clearly and in simple language. It would take them a long way.
Nsomma, ruffjan ta’ Manuel.
More than being antipatku, it is simply inadequate and uncalled for for a person in his position.
Maybe he trained in the school playground with another only child, namely Franco Debono
His chief of staff is also an only child
The Prime Minister is effectively defending the euro 500,000 in cash held by Manwel Mallia. What if there was something illegal with that cash?
This is turning out to be a bit like Francoise Hollande’s government insisting on fiscal morality for the masses, but then having one of his own ministers (the Budget minister) hoarding cash in a tax haven.
Yes, but Francoise Hollande fired Jérôme Cahuzac the Budget Minister. What will Joseph do?
Whether there was something illegal with that cash one cannot say. However if that amount represents earnings over a period of forty years from Manwel Mallia’s legal profession and that same amount was stashed away or hidden from prying eyes it follows that Manwel Mallia never declared that amount over the years in his income tax returns.
“It is almost always people raised without siblings who end up like this, unless they have proper parenting, because the tendency towards such antipatija is usually thrashed out of a child by his or her siblings while growing up.
One of the first lessons you learn in childhood: don’t talk back to your siblings like that or you’ll end up tied to a tree-trunk or playing with your toy cars alone.”
How very true that is. Being a younger sibling myself, I can vouch for its veracity.
We never get proper answers from Labour – never have and never will.
Antipatku Jew simpatiku, the point is that it is becoming sickening to have questions to MPs or even to the PM replied in this manner by reference to other recent or not so revent events. This is sheer arrogance and disrespect, pleasing only the silly crowd and reducing the matter to stupidity.
I was and am still hoping our politicians mature and provide straight and respectful replies. I beg our PM to lead by example.
This is proof of how soceity has changed. Education and ethics are no longer important for Malta. We’re back to the ‘Golden Years’ where only the scratching of backs will take you places.
What is it about certain men who stand with their knuckles facing forward?
” Il-vera bniedem antipatiku. It is almost always people raised without siblings who end up like this, unless they have proper parenting, because the tendency towards such antipatija is usually thrashed out of a child by his or her siblings while growing up.”
That’s called the spoilt-child syndrome.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-the-spoiled-child-syndrome.html
Such glib answers may satisfy and even amuse Maltese electors who wear blinkers all the time, but they will register very negatively with foreign investors, diplomats and investors with whom he will have to deal.