And yet, people like Edward Fenech think that people like us have an axe to grind.

Perhaps he should have also visited Kim Jong Il of North Korea.

How convenient – yet whenDaphne’s son told the Super 1 TV crew to fuck off many Labour supporters saw that as an opportunity lighten the weight of their chips and call Nationalists hamalli.

And the fact that il-Qahbu is a well known Labour supporter and friend and canvasser of some MLP former ministers is, I suppose, merely coincidental. As is the fact that he (yet again) beat up someone who works for the Nationalist Party.

http://www.paolalocalcouncil.com/default.asp?selMMSec=198&selMMCat=98

Before departing for the court sitting they met in Zejtun and took photos with ex-minister Wistin Abela. They were joined by a Labour mob with masked faces and wearing crash helmets.

When they got to Valletta they were also joined by ex-minister Lorry Sant, who had various altercations with the police, which later escalated to the mob pelting the police with various objects.

They were unloaded from the cars and carried shoulder high.

Then the whole thing degenerated even further and moved on to the smashing up of the law courts and the Valletta police station, the destruction of evidence/paperwork of their and other cases, the setting on fire of number of halls and the removal of a number of weapons held as evidence in other cases, (possibly including the Ray Caruana murder weapon, but I’m not sure about that).

At some point they changed into Labour teeshirts (but still private persons, no doubt).

Lorry Sant was also running about inside the law courts. Joe Debono Grech was in Republic Street.

Some of the witnesses were beaten up, inside the police station, no less.

And then to round it all off, the mob proceeded to carry on in the fine longstanding tradition of the MLP demonstration in Valletta, which traditionally culminated in the smashing of shop windows, and where possible, looting of goods.

At the next sitting they decided to attack Castille instead, but limited themselves to smashing a few windows and toppling over the cannon.

Just thought a reminder of whom and what we’re talking about was appropriate.

[Daphne – Yes. And it’s important to point out, too, that this was AFTER the Nationalist Party was elected to government and they just couldn’t accept it.]

it’s colloquial ;

@ SR … had you been the one who got whacked, it would be “Ommi ma x’biza!!!” (erm, I’m new to this, but are you an elf? You know, exclamation marks, an’ all)

@ Leonard: That would be “liebes a slipper?”

About the whole issue, Il-Qahbu is on the “waddle” (judging by the images broadcast by Net News, probably lamely followed by an even podgier, out-of-breath police officer) and so much for New Labour. Same old, same old!

good one!