Swieqi Council was not responsible for the Pay Attention To The Hedgehog/Porcupine/Beaver signs
I have received the following email, which I reproduce with permission.
Dear Mrs Caruana Galizia
I hope this email finds you in good health.
I was directed to your blog post “Swieqi Council says: PAY ATTENTION TO HEDGEHOG”. I double checked and I can confirm that the signs were erected by the Central Government and not by the Swieqi Local Council. The Executive Secretary has confirmed that the Council was not asked to vet the signs – nor was the Council told that the signs would be erected in the first place.
I can assure the general public that the Swieqi Local Council has a good command of both official languages and will thus remedy the amateurish use of language that third parties have decided to showcase in our locality.
Regards
Dr Justin Fenech
Deputy Mayor
Swieqi Local Council
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The whole list includes Roberta Metsola. She too is nominated for an award in her field.
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Who was drunk? The person who created that porcupine/beaver, the person who put up the sign or the one who drove into it?
Perhaps the person who drove into it was laughing so hard at the sign’s stupidity that s/he lost control of the car.
Hedgehog giving tuition to all who care in Swieqi.
So it was those jokers in Beijing.
So the embarrassing sign was not put up by the Local Council but by the central government.
That makes it even more embarrassing.
Was it the brainchild of the ‘bos’ sign department you had featured here?
It’s the law: clean up after your hedgehog.
What is it with this government? Are they trying to show us that they had their ‘experts’ tucked away somewhere for many years, and pulled them all out after March 2013? (No wonder they were hidden before that.)
Fejn ma tifmhux staqsu! Nobody is going to look down on you if you ask. It’s much better than making fools out of yourselves (which seems to be the order of the day lately)!
I thought as much. The Swieqi mayor is Noel Muscat, who definitely knows better than to authorise such road signs.
“Vet the signs”. Now there’s an idea, maybe a vet should be consulted before any more signs are displayed.
That explains everything.
If the Hon Minister for the environment in our central government cannot distinguish between birds and mammals he should not be expected to be able to distinguish one mammal from another.
Amazing how Labour can never get it right on hedging’, be it oil or hogs.
“I can assure the general public that the Swieqi Local Council has a good command of both official languages and will thus remedy the amateurish use of language that third parties have decided to showcase in our locality.”
Well, well. Tsk, tsk Mr Central Government. But, meanwhile, we would have done nothing about it unless somebody took a photo and sent it to Daphne.
It is not a hedgehog, looks more like a porcupine.
It is a bastard.
One can learn a lot from a hedgehog.
If the sign reads “Kunsill Lokali Swieqi” it must have been erected by the Swieqi local council.
If not, than the council must order whoever placed the signs to remove them from the poles which are the council’s property.
BTW, “Qanfud” has sexual connotations like “beaver” does in the English language.