I am just wondering whether Marisa Micallef, formerly ‘Micallef Leyson’, expects not to be taken to task for her move to the Labour party. She says that she is an advisor not a porta voce of Muscat and she says that she does not earn 40K, but refuses to say how much she will be earning and refuses to explain what advice she will be giving.
Incidentally the Labour party, as is the case with the Nationalist party, is a bankrupt party but surprisingly still finds the money to raise a salary for a turncoat.
Now just in case Marisa is worried about the meaning of the word turncoat (ie: somebody who abandons or betrays a group or cause and joins its opponents), she could remember that in my long years writing for newspapers I have used the word turncoat several times. One time I used it freely and expressively to describe Eileen Montesin who, after her degrading behaviour towards Nationalists on TVM in the good old days of that disgusting character Tonio Pellegrini, she decided to see the light and suddenly went all wobbly and jelly-like for Fenech Adami, who suddenly became her saviour.
Good for her.
Now Marisa, just like Eileen and so many others before her, has every right to see the light and become an advisor to Joseph Muscat. I imagine that one of the first experiences she will share with Dr Muscat is to inform him that when you are in politics, you should expect flak.
Marisa is so good at taking criticism I am sure she will not mind if I ask what she plans to advise Dr Muscat about.
Let us face it, just because she was a Lawrence Gonzi aficionado and a political appointee on the Housing Authority – and more importantly a PN candidate – does not mean that she understands the Nationalist psyche.
Peter Serracino Inglott, a Nationalist, went as far as writing she represents no one. Nonetheless, if Marisa does not represent anyone, she has surely ruffled some feathers in the PN and got people talking and some keyboards rattling.
Marisa has stated in today’s edition of MaltaToday that she is aligning herself with Labour because of the social conscience of Joseph Muscat, and his hand-on-heart commitment to “middle Malta”.
Well, whatever “middle Malta” means. Middle is a term used in the UK, where Marisa worked as someone rather inconsequential. Here in Malta “il-partit tal-lejber” prefers to use the word “haddiema”. But this is not the point. Joseph Muscat is surely someone who has some very commendable and attractive aspects in his viewpoint. But really, there are so many people around Joseph Muscat without a social conscience, that I am starting to wonder if Marisa is living in this world or residing on some other planet.
Marisa has every right, as we have all said, to do what she likes with her political emotions but it does not stop me, you and everyone else from laughing at her actions.
It also does not stop all the spin doctors – who make it their job to demolish turncoats and traitors with critiques – from lashing out and taking out their machetes for their traditional kill.
This, Marisa, is politics in Malta and if you have not noticed then I suggest you go back to England for some Steak and Kidney pie, lager and some good working class ‘Benny Hill talk’: three items which I am sure she consistently avoided when living in grey and wet Britain.
If Marisa is surprised at such lurid attention, then really and truly she should go and get some advice from one of those self-appointed advisors in the Labour party.
Better still if she really wants to feel at home, she should transfer herself to Bormla and mix with the Bormlizi milieu: starting off by exchanging her Chanel for some cheap eau du toilette and her elegant watch for some thick gold bracelets, and instead of chocolate croissants, eating pastizzi tal-pizzelli.
As Anton Buttigieg once said, the one thing that is consistent in all Maltese is that they all forget.
As we forget that Bertu Mizzi was vilified by Fenech Adami in the eighties and embraced after 1987, the same way Marisa will be vilified, embraced, and vilified and embraced, and so on.
The cardinal difference between Bertie Mizzi and Marisa Micallef is that Bertie has millions and political clout, and all the political parties sooner or later dance to his tune. Marisa on the other hand has un bel niente!
Marisa – and that is my opinion, as I have right to point out (and guess what, it is also a fair comment and a right bestowed upon me by the Constitution) – is as short lived as the life of Cabbage butterfly. Cabbage butterflies as everyone should know live very short lives.
In less than a year’s time no one will be talking about Marisa and the only advice she will be giving Muscat is how to pronounce the word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious with a Birguma, and not a Bormla, accent!
The great leap forward Jason Micallef’s great leap forward as Chairman of Super One is one way of confirming that it is not what the PL delegates hope for, but what the leader always says. The great social conscience leader who by the way has now decided that Jason Micallef’s replacement is Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi, son of Joe Zrinzo – another turncoat, by the way, who saw the light became a Labourite and a great Eurosceptic.
Well Jason’s new job will be directly and indirectly concerned with doing nothing or close to that. But since the Labour party is a bankrupt party and bankrupt parties do not pay bills but dish out hefty pay salaries, they have decided to take Jason Micallef out of the picture and give him a cosy job. James Piscopo, Muscat’s anointed CEO, is a very happy man.
Jason (as is the case with Marisa) has a very fine salary, but since political parties always preach about the need for transparency, they are not going to tell us how much Jason is getting, and neither will they tell us what Marisa is going to earn. Neither will they inform us what their role in the organisation is going to be all about.
I guess we have to trust the good benevolent party of the social conscience pretenders, and more importantly the great social conscience of Joseph Muscat: one of the great reasons, or better still the primary reason, which has led to Marisa’s genuflection before Muscat: the man who took the honourable, undemocratic decision to show his middle finger to the delegates who elected Jason Micallef as secretary general.
Which goes to show that when delegates vote in the next Labour conference we shouldn’t really blame them if they get the funny feeling that the congress of the Workers’ Party of North Korea and that of the PL apply the same weighting to voting patterns.
So Jason Micallef, good luck with your new post in Marsa and if you need any timely advice about how to move on in your next job, please do not hesitate to contact Marisa, the great advisor to the great social conscience of Middle Malta.
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She says that she is an advisor not a porta voce of Muscat and she says that she does not earn 40K, but refuses to say how much she will be earning and refuses to explain what advice she will be giving. 
