The Fat Controller goes to Spain
Joe Grima, who was Dom Mintoff’s special envoy to the Middle East in the Golden 1970s and is now Joseph Muscat’s special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation, has just been to Spain with tourism minister Edward Zammit Lewis. There they had a meeting with World Tourism Organisation officials and Our Man in Madrid, Mark Micallef, whose first cousin is Our Woman in Washington.
The Fat Controller, who has a ‘special needs’ reserved parking space outside his Sliema home because he’s too grossly overweight to walk, miraculously managed to walk through the airport and up the stairs to the plane.
I’m quite sure he had pots of stuff to contribute to that meeting: his views on Arabs, sub-Saharan Africans, Muslims, women, homosexuals and Catholic priests would have gone down a treat.
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Did he start walking after visiting Lourdes with John Dalli? Praise the Lord.
hallelujah
Does anyone have a clue what Emy Bezzina is up to these days? The one who used to speak about ” ic-crieki tac-crieki fi crieki”.
Maybe he is feeling dizzy tracing circles.
“Ha nordna take-away sakemm Bagollu joqghod iparla ghax issa qabadni l-guh wara dik il-kedda kollha.”
Has Our Man in Madrid started to throw those special parties for which he was so notorious in Washington?
Another topic, if I may.
Recently Joe Muscat has gone to great lengths to convince us how much he is Charlie.
He not only tweeted, but went to Paris to be seen with other leaders there all tooting the Je Suis Charlie horn.
But when it comes to reality, he makes sure that any media house that is mildly critical of his reign are given the cold shoulder.
The Malta Independent was not included in his China trip, and now he makes sure that whenever situations crop up where the government or its entities may be in for an uncomfortable time, that newspaper is not invited.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-20/local-news/Lack-of-equipment-in-Mater-Dei-corridor-to-blame-for-elderly-woman-s-death-PN-6736129100
Ara min jaf kemm kompla jimla zaqqu fi Spanja, ovvjament bil-per diem mhallas mit-taxxi.
Interesting talks: two of the Maltese delegation are browsing their mobile.
Note to the Department of Information: choose the right moment to take photographs, and then choose which ones to release to the press.
It seems Mark Micallef is following the Fat Controller’s regime and might end up with a “special needs” reserved parking space if he doesn’t watch his diet.
x’injoranza meta l-Partit Laburista jghajru lil Dr Busuttil negattiv.
Ghall-finijiet ta’ grammatika tajba, il-kelma hija pessimist u mhux negattiv.
Mhux ta’ b’xejn baqghu injoranti.
They are all attentively listening while he is playing with his phone. Perhaps he was looking for some ideas on the internet.
I think he has a new phone he’s quite excited about.
Where was Colin Fenech? Seat empty at side of table.
[Daphne – Maybe he was taking the pictures.]
What a continued waste of a golden opportunity.
What I worry about on a daily basis is the opportunity cost of this regression.
Labour has really let the dredges within it out on the prowl with not a concern as to consequence and long term planning.
Too late, Tabatha. Your lot cannot undo years of cocktail parties with Mark Micallef just because Labour are now in power.
You assume, Baxxter.
Joe Grima looks like he is ordering McDonalds on line.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/48702/public_lectures_to_counter_cottonera_stigma_#.VL-86dLF9mM
Someone please explain what Joe Mizzi’s doing.
‘…Professional lecturers and guest speakers will deliver the lectures, which will be free-of-charge. However, people interested in attending will have to reserve their places from beforehand.’
Andrew Azzopardi, Mark Anthony Falzon, Peter Serracino Inglott’s ghost, Oliver Friggieri, Astrid Vella (why not?), Giovanni Bonello, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici (ma jistax jonqos), Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci.
Ara tithajjarx taghti “lekcer”, Jozef.
I presume they wouldn’t appreciate my thesis on the mental genocide perpetrated on the place, or the intentional social dumping called reconstruction.
Where modernism became an alibi to contemporary mea culpa.
They’ll ignore both the Rialto and that exquisite block in the form of a semi-enclosed ringhiera halfway down St.Margherita.
Meantime, the joker turns sceptic. His version simply confirmation of that which pains the Maltese no end; finishing , coordination and responsibility.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-21/local-news/New-Parliament-building-I-don-t-trust-contractors-target-dates-any-longer-Mizzi-says-6736129186
Social vandalism turned politics, the spring hunting referendum beyond politics, that these not sabotage the first ever attempt at civil society. As Antoine Vella said, Malta must be the place where single-minded people turn lobby to blackmail the rest. If this isn’t a way to social conflict, you tell me what it is.
And I definitely don’t expect one of the lectures to be a structural analysis into how the tal-pass racing boat actually flexes, automatically sealing itself due the buoyant forces.
Less is more was never Maltese.
Do you mean to say Richard England (motto: “Less is more”) is not Maltese? Blasphemy! The Xarabank crowd would lynch you.
My lecture will be on the luzzu Malti, and how it is not a dghajsa tradizzjonali ta’ missirijietna minn zmien zemzem because it is less than 130 years old. I’ll be wearing riot gear, just in case the crowd turns nasty. You’ll sit at the back, and if I give the emergency signal you’ll throw the tear gas canister and extract me.
Maltese academia is such fun.
Ah yes the Luzzu Malti.
http://www.cherini.eu/etnografia/Italia1/175%20Sicilia%20-%20ricostruzione%20di%20lautello%20-%20E.%20Guerrieri.jpg
Sicily
http://www.pietrocristini.com/gozzo_sorrentino1.htm
Sorrento.
http://www.cherini.eu/etnografia/NBP/hi-res/Pareggia%20ligure.jpg
Liguria.
‘Gozzo’. Kos, dat-taljani hlief jikkupjawna ma jaghmlux.
Did he fly Air Malta Economy Class?
No, I am sure he was upgraded to Club Class for two reasons, in need of more seating space and to full-fill his appetite.
U ahna l-poplu ihallas ja Gahan.