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London Mayor Boris Johnson poked fun at the Maltese who bought London's bendy buses, saying he's happy to see the back of them and are now congesting Maltese roads.
During the Conservatives party conference, the outspoken mayor was quoted in the Guardian saying that he kept the promise to remove the bendy buses from London and are "now clogging up the streets of Malta." He added that these were replaced with "the cleanest buses in Europe". He added that the buses now in Malta were "jack-knifed diplodocus".
Johnson insinuated that he managed to lump the buses to the Maltese and is glad to not see them anymore in London.
The Ministry for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, under Austin Gatt, issued a press release criticising the London Mayor's comments.
In the official press release, Gatt's ministry blasts the mayor for his comments and embarrassingly gets his name wrong, criticising "Mayor Johnston's" comments in reference to Mayor Johnson.
Comments
carmen
- Wed 10-Oct-2012, 07:10waqqa'lil austin ghall-wiccu.mela tal P.N jixtru l-iskart ta'l-inglizi,basta ihaxxnu bwiethom.messhom jisthu jekk jaf jisthu.
ExPatriatus
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 22:08Is this what Gonzi and Tonio Fenech meant when they said the cabinet is full of inept people and they were surrounded by 'cwiec'?
Agostino Pipi's ministry can't even spell the Mayor of London's surname properly (twice in that press release).
It's Johnson, not Johnston please. I can just imagine their conversation... "U iwa mhux xorta Gon-sin u Gons-tin!!!?"
DCG would write a whole blog entry about something like that if the LP media did such a mistake. On the other hand, the Ministry's press office can get away with murder.
Thorny
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 21:37Malta getting a mention internationally and does not get a mention on PBS the National Station!
Someone must be very angry, very F**King ANGRY!
Shamed again after he Fucken Wanker incident.....
Joseph Mifsud
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 21:33The PN are good only to spend money, they doesn't know what European standards and common sense are.
Nenu G.
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 20:32Now even a foreign Conservative politician is making fun of our transport system that was bungled by the most incompetent minister Austin Gatt and his henchman Manuel Delia
f.bugelli
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 19:48araw l ahbarijiet ta 8pm fuq p.b.s,l ewwel ahbar fuq l agenda ha tkun!!!!
Carmel Grech
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 18:58If it were for Hon. David Agius, M.P., to issue the press release, he would have copied the name correctly!
Joseph Fava
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 18:14Did any one notice that this news item first appeared on Dr Helena Dalli's Blog and that it was then, repeated on Jason Micallef's Blog, the latter saying that it took it from the original source ?
GL Calleja
- Tue 09-Oct-2012, 17:43Bendy buses could be made to work fine on our roads if TM did not mismanage the whole bunch. You cannot fit 5 litres of water in a 1 litre can and that is exactly what Arriva and TM are are trying to do. Only use bendy buses on direct routes, like from Cirkewwa to the airport or direct from Cirkewwa to Valletta without the scenic tourist routes into the inner cities. These bendy buses are built for straight and direct roads and not to go into where they do not fit or be not being able to turn around. It takes TM to screw that one up. Maybe it is time to change the TOP Management at TM. How come Austin Gatt did not think of doing that in the first place. It is not rocket science to figure out.