Comments on: Did Joseph Muscat just say HBIEB TAL-HBIEB?

By: A.Sacco

A.Sacco — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:36:17 +0000

Re “nigbhu” : I think you meant “nixbhu” (look like, resemble)

By: red nose

red nose — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:52:21 +0000

The PN will never learn.

By: Fairy Liquid

Fairy Liquid — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:30:58 +0000

In reply to Marku.

He wasn’t Mintoff’s lapdog. He actually hated the man. If I recall correctly, Mintoff used an archaic tool in our parliamentary system to drag Grima before parliament and be tried by the members of the house for something he had written about the government.

Godfrey Grima’s love affair with Labour was rekindled, after a long hiatus in which he was in love with Fenech Adami, when Sant came along and won the 1996 election. But he kept sort of quiet about it, which is why the Nationalist Party continued to think he was a PN man and asked him to review the reasons for its losses in the EP election of 2004. By that time he was supporting Joseph Muscat already as an MEP, so that was a bit of a stupid decision of the PN’s.

By: Marku

Marku — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:45:08 +0000

In reply to Fairy Liquid. Well he had no scruples being Mintoff's lapdog in the 80s. Why should he stop not having scruples now?

By: Fairy Liquid

Fairy Liquid — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:21:20 +0000

The trouble with Godfrey Grima is that he can’t bear to be away from the centre of power, and let’s face it, he was quite taken with Alfred Sant’s electoral victory in 1996. To this day we don’t yet know whether he was for or against EU membership. He refused to take up a position on either side, which kind of led one to suspect that he favoured the No vote but was too embarrassed to admit it. His excuse was that journalists shouldn’t take a position, but he earned his living as an adman then. Funny how he now has no scruples about telling us what he thinks about power station tenders and MEPA tariffs and god knows what else.