Comments on: Lest you think all my readers are Mintoffjani hodor who are wild about foxes and axes, here's a sensible comment that came in

By: milone

milone — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:51:11 +0000

‘at least’ – why is the measure of Labour’s successes always the lowest of the low? Surely the party’s supporters – at least – expect better?

By: Shaun Azzopardi

Shaun Azzopardi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:14:54 +0000

Well, at least Mintoff removed anti-sodomy laws and laws punishing adultery.

[Daphne – God, I’m impressed. I do remember our jails being full of fornicators and sodomites in 1971. Now let’s see – couldn’t he have done that without wrecking the country over 16 years? I’m sure it was possible.]

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:00:53 +0000

In reply to ray meilak. You are right Daph, he didn't. He took them from a dealer in Sliema who consequently went bankrupt.

By: Joseph Micallef

Joseph Micallef — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:55:06 +0000

The exchange of these rewards/gifts are a wonderful case study in the theory of gifts from a sociological and anthropological perspective. One of the pillars of such theory is that such gifts circulate amongst birds of a feather!

So Mintoff rewards Cuacescu, Gaddafi rewards Mintoff and so on and so forth.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:06:01 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella.

You are right about the “wrinkles business”. See this http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,624567,00.html

Why should a man be spared what he deserves simply because of his age?

By: Bus Driver

Bus Driver — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:11:37 +0000

Johan Malta – Dwar id-dockyard tajjeb li izzomm quddiem ghajnejk li terz mid-dejn nazzjonali – u, allura anke terz mil-miljuni f’imghaxiet li jridu jithallsu kull sena mil-poplu – huma rizultat tal-madwar Lm300,000,000 li tferrghu fid-dockyard tul is-snin, biex dawk ta’ hemm gew flok hadmu biex jirrangaw is-sitwazzjoni mwiera li holqu huma stess, bdew jarawhom bhala xi dritt taghhom.

Tad-dockyard kienu derghu bil-‘blank cheque’ fuq il-Mid Med Bank li Wistin Abela kien aghta lill Sammy Meilak biex kull gimgha jigbed flus ghall-pagi, inkluz overtime li ma kienx jinhadem – u dan apparti mil-PAYE u l-kontribuzzjonijiet tan-national insurance li qatt ma thallsu, li ammontaw ghal miljuni ohra ta liri Maltin, u li ukoll eventwalment gew mahfura – jigiefieri wahhluhom ukoll lil-poplu.

By: Bus Driver

Bus Driver — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:59:02 +0000

“Allura dahhal lil Karmenu iz-Zero”

Huwa tajjeb ukoll li niftakru li anke Joseph Muscat huwa ‘Zero’ ghax dahhluh fil-parlament minghajr ma kien hareg ghall-elezzjoni, minghajr ebda vot mil-elettorat – u dan meta kien iddikjara b’mod car li huwa qatt ma kien ser johrog ghall-elezzjoni ghaliex biex taghmel dan wiehed irid ikun mignun jew halliel.

Forsi .Joseph Muscat jinfurmana x’ser jaghmel meta jispicca it-terminu ta’ dan il-parlament. Ser iwarrab? Jew ser juri lill-kullhadd li huwa ‘mignun’ jew ‘halliel’?

By: ray meilak

ray meilak — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:48:10 +0000

Mintoff and KMB – two prime ministers straight out of a horror movie.

By: Chris Saliba

Chris Saliba — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:31:25 +0000

Bus driver mela tisthi turi ismek? u jekk int veru bus driver se jirrangak gonzipn. Dak li semmejt inti kollu veru ghax inti stess qed tghid x’ghamel mintoff bid-differenza li il-gvernijiet pn kollox hxew ghax ma ghad fadal xejn.

By: ganna

ganna — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:22:07 +0000

To Johan Malta – please don”t mention the dry docks. They had it very good for a long time and finally this government had the guts to say enough is enough, no more robbing the taxpayer of all those millions of liri every year.

The dry docks workers can”t complain, they were awarded all those thousands of liri, roughly 20,000 liri for each person for bringing the dry docks to bankruptcy.

Now the money that used to be pumped in to the dry docks can be used to a more constructive purpose.