When Harry met Dalli
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December 10, 2009 at 3:59pm
You heard it here first. A compromise has been reached. Saviour Balzan will not form part of EU Commissioner John Dalli’s cabinet. Saviour’s close friend Harry Vassallo, who currently edits Saviour’s newspaper Illum (a job Saviour gave him after he was finally forced away from AD’s helm) will go instead.
I imagine we won’t be reading any giant-font front-page stories in Malta Today about hbieb tal-hbieb, string-pulling and calling in favours. Instead we’ll be told that Harry is going to be Dalli’s secret weapon in keeping the Euro-parliament Greens off his back.
Secret weapon sabih. Really effective. Araw dawk l-isparks itiru, man.
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How ironic, I must say. How bloody ironic. And this proves how right Dr Gonzi was to get rid of John Dalli.
Mela tal-lejber hadu lil Marisa u ahna lil dan!
Imma Dalli veru Nazzjonalist?
If I’m not mistaken, Harry hosts/hosted a program on One TV, too – possibly going by the name “Illum”.
The PN are too trusting, if you ask me.
“Imma Dalli veru Nazzjonalist?” – Forsi opportunist, bhal hafna nies ta’ madwaru, u bhal hafna “politici” ohra.
Fejn kontu ? fi` zmien il-hakma socjalista Mintoffjanabiex tistaqsu jekk John Dalli hux veru Nazzjonalist.
Maybe – but still the most able of the lot, by a long shot
Where does that leave the editorship of Malta Today? Will Saviour go back to it (and Reporter) and the concomitant subsidies… choo-choo! Quite!
Cute title. Wonder if Dalli did the restaurant scene to get the job? Harry, of course, would look suitably embarrassed in order to get his.
Maybe he went to Portmaso Cafe with makeup-less, handbag-less (wallet-under-armpit) wife in tow. Who knows?
We didn’t read any front page stories in Malta Today about Dalli becoming commissioner either. Coincidence no doubt.
No wonder Saviour has been sounding brassed off at John Dalli lately and denying rumours he’s going to Brussels. Poor man obviously wasn’t chosen.
But, thankfully, for us, he’ll stay here and pretend to be an objective journalist instead – swiping at everyone (unless of course they’re giving him something). The wannabe-but-failed-RCC is a vile joke. And changing his photo on the paper every week will not change that. It just shows him up for the vain, shallow hypocrite that he is.
“Ahdar” is a more apt description for such a man.
How is it a “compromise”?
If it were not going to be Saviour, it had to be one of the ‘clan’. Somebody had to be rewarded after working hard to keep Illum and Malta Today as independent as possible during the past months.
It’s a pity that Dalli did not recognise the need to have the right people in his cabinet. Vassallo is a bright guy, but it’s really not the right post for him. I smell trouble.
Yes, that is what Harry deserves – a job in Brussels. Not after appearing on Miriam Dalli’s TX and speaking the way he did. He has every right to speak out his opinion but then he has the cheek to be part of Dalli’s team.
Where is H P Baxxter? We need another ‘f’ paragraph here.
I haven’t a fucking clue about this clusterfuck and quite frankly I don’t give a fuck about these two fuckers fucking about in their quest for an even cushier job, where no doubt they will be screwing every Estonian MEP below the age of 75. Quite frankly, they can both get fucked. With a greased welding rod.
Will this do, Maryanne?
[Daphne – Sigh.]
It’s not spontaneous, and the piece is quite unworthy of my ranting genius. I have to admit that the story doesn’t really interest me.
Baxxter, just love it. Let’s meet for a drink and out fucking rant each other. Tremendous stuff!
Baxxter, here’s a win-win opportunity for you: join a prayer group. It will do you wonders. And it will fuck up the prayer group.
To Harry and Hans Peter, our little rascals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMkXR_Fkl8Q&feature=related
Let me put it this way, most of those who join the Youth Fellowship do it so they can do it with some desperate single filly pushing thirty. Horizontal worship, what. When I was a schoolboy (a hot crumpet burning my cheek, etc) I wouldn’t even “close my eyes during prayer”, as ordered. Prayer groups….tsk… God isn’t some girlfriend. “Turn off the lights, hon, I do it better in the dark”. I want to look God in the face, back straight as a ramrod, upper lip stiff, and standing to attention.
“Sir! Situation report, Sir! Of Universe by you created, Sir! Report total fuck-up, Sir!”
“Get out of my sight, Private Baxxter! It’s your fault you twit! It’s a “Gift of Life”, remember?”
“Permission to sp—”
“Permission denied, you c*nt! If you can’t fornicate you can’t fight, you know that! And if you can’t fight you can’t praise me! You should have joined Youth Fellowship if you wanted to dip your wick, you moron! Now fuck off! I’m busy creating another supermodel for Cristiano Ronaldo to shag. I need his endorsement as a celebrity Catholic dago. Fuck off, Baxxter!”
Hey Baxxter! That ‘Super Guy in the Sky’ just won’t quit. He satisfies Christiano, then he goes and creates 12?, 15?, 30? chickies for Tiger. Oh to be fucking famous.
I’ll take a leaf out of Woods and show some consideration in my choice of words. Now that was one hell of a transgression against Villa.
Too bloody right, Harry. “Gift of Life” my arse.
[Daphne – Let’s give the Tourette’s a rest, shall we?]
You’re joking! Come on you must be!
The only thing I know of which Harry was good at was selling expensive welding rods and grease. He always accompanied an older Indian man who really did the persuasive sales talking. Harry just filled in the invoices.
Harry filled in the invoices – but not the VAT returns!!
Actually, in my real life, I often purchased from Harry and Dilip – his partner. Dilip is in fact a chartered engineer, so he knew his onions. In reality, he also did the invoices.
If you ever need those welding rods, Gahan, I’ve re-sourced them.
[Daphne – Mr Sheth. Harry used to go out with his daughter at the time.]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091213/local/dalli-chooses-his-brussels-team
So Harry isn’t going….Some folks on this page might feel like real berks….
[Daphne – I don’t imagine they do. The one feeling a right berk now is John Dalli, who woke up to find news of his plan had leaked out, presumably even before he had bothered to brief the prime minister – hence the ‘Mind your own business’ response to a journalist who asked him point blank whether he had offered Harry Vassallo a post on his cabinet (he had). And there you have another story that Malta Today chose not to cover, when the newspaper would have had all the details even before the rest of us did.]
I still want to know if Saviour will go back to ‘editing’ Malta Today.
Thanks for the clarification Daphne!
‘The prime minister announces John Dalli’s appointment as EU Commissioner and Saviour Balzan announces his resignation as editor of Malta Today, a newspaper which he co-owns (which means the resignation was voluntary).
Put on your thinking caps, children. Now why could that possibly be?’
I just love predictions.
[Daphne – Don’t you. And aren’t you just lucky to have this blog to let you know the machinations going on behind the scenes?]