You can tell this prat was born in 1988
Alex 'Winston Churchill' Saliba: this is the darkest hour in Maltese political history
Here’s Alex Saliba, secretary-general of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti and the embodiment of Labour’s future, telling us on his ‘blokk’ that this is “one of the darkest hours of Maltese political history”.
And he actually believes it.
Tal-biki.
You can tell that this prat was born in 1988 if a debate on a controversial power station contract makes for his worst experience of politics.
You can also tell that he’s thick. Other people his age have the intelligence to work out that the worst thing in their political experience does not equate with the worst thing in political history.
Does this prat know nothing? One of my sons went to university with a girl who didn’t know who Mussolini was (and she was an international relations student).
So I shouldn’t be surprised that Alex Saliba, law student extraordinaire (let’s hope he’s not another cheat) has no idea about other political events in Malta in – let’s be generous here – the 19th and 20th centuries which might just have surpassed a power station contract in terms of darkness.
In my lifetime alone there were more than a few. But then I didn’t have the jolly good fortune of being born in 1988 and straight into clover.
Alex Saliba, on his ‘blokk’
Today I tried to watch Bondi Gonzi’s Monday night talk show but I succeeded to watch only a few minutes of this comedy. In the midst of one of the darkest hours of Maltese political history, Bondi tried to put a smile on our faces with his guest Norman Lowell.
I succeeded to watch! A law student who clearly reads very little English – or at any rate, not enough to have worked out yet that ‘I succeeded’ is not followed by the infinitive.
Here’s a free lesson, Alex. Political history might be beyond you, but you can at least start trying to get a grip on idiomatic English.
I SUCCEEDED IN WATCHING
How irritating, honestly. If they’re going to insist on using English to target the ‘mittilkless’ (all of whom speak Maltese as a first language, so I don’t see why), they can at least get it right.
Oh, I get it! They are targetting the ‘mittilkless’ – by using ‘mittilkless’ English. Well, I’m telling you, honeys: you’re turning the tal-pepe people right off.
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Realta, right now on One T.V. Brain Hansford’s profound research is so amazing. It dispels the night from Tander’s “darkest hour”.
None on the panel are politically motivated – they are all so concerned about the people’s health that they put the wicked and cruel government to shame.
[Daphne – Oh, no one’s watching anyway. Too many people in Malta take a personal interest in Britain’s general elections.]
Thing is, blogs in Maltese don’t seem to have a readership. So I won’t blame Alex Saliba for trying to write in English.
Is he chanting ‘Nella vecchia fattoria’? & the camera caught him exactly saying, ‘Il maiale oink, maiale oink….’
Hi Daphne, You must excuse him; he was writing during the darkest hours.
Tal-pepe would never vote labour anyway, not in a million years.
[Daphne – That’s what you think.]
In Britain they do. What makes local *pepes* so averse to labour?
And what’s your definition of pepes? people who aspire to be upper-middle class and speak manglish?
[Daphne – The real tal-pepe are people like me, Joseph. The others are mittilkless.]
Alex Saliba, you’re either insane or else you never read Malta’s political history. I suggest you leave the planet your parents sent you to and get back to planet Earth.
Probabbli ghamel il-homwerks fuq is-suggett.
Yes, according to a recent Maltese dictionary, “homwerk” is the (singular) Maltese word for “homework”. Believe it or not, the same dictionary even lists a plural for the collective noun, in the form of “homwerks”. I despair.
So you think that all of those born in 1988 are stupid?
[Daphne – Read it again. Obviously not.]
Yes they are. Makes them what? 22? They’re fucking morons.
@ J Abela
That is one heck of a Labour statement!
i’ve read alot about maltese political history and i’ve also heard some stories from both sides.. i guess as one gets older you become more interested in our history including political history.. our last election was my first voting experiance and i think that is were my interest started to rise.. now i was born in 1989 =)
People like Alex Saliba are the proof, if you need it, that this country urgently needs the power station extension. Hopefully, it will increase the power generation sufficiently so that Alex and his bunch can see the light.
I wonder what all you democrats think of what happened in parliament today.
[Daphne – Try and be a little less parochial, Grace. It’s a power station, not World War III. Believe it or not, the general election in Britain is actually more important and certainly more interesting – even to us here in Malta.]
It’s funny how some questions are deliberately avoided :)
@ Grace
What happened today is that two MPs one from each side of the house, made a common mistake which can happen to anybody at such a late night vote.
But what didn’t happen is the big worry.
Firstly the opposition leader (who by the way was not elected to serve this house by the people) acted in the most undemocratic way possible,and yes the electorate will never forget this.
Secondly this empty vessel is not worried about the people or the extension of the power station, but his only priority is to become prime minister at all costs.
Lastly my dear Grace, as Daphne said, it’s only a vote on an extension of a power station which by the way Labour never wanted cause they were always against progress.
I think I have to criticise the auditor general for not being loud and clear in his conclusion. How come that after so many years none in the office of the auditor general never went through the system of contracts? What did the section value for money do during the reign of the previous auditor general – Mr Galea? How come these sort of ‘flaps’ in selection process are advocated ‘today’?