L-istejjer tar-Ronnie, habib tal-qalb ta' Jason (u Robert u Consuelo)
Saviour Balzan, writing in Malta Today, 6 July 2008
The last time I talked to Jason he told me that the story that we carried about Ronnie Pellegrini was wrong.
I do not think so. A problem with details, perhaps, but not wrong.
But then, if anyone has any doubts they should read through the news story on Ronnie.
Unlike Jason I remember Ronnie in years gone by. When Jason was hardly a teenager, Ronnie Pellegrini was in his prime, a sidekick to one of Labour’s most unforgettable nightmares. He was there when Lorry bulldozed his way through everything and always had his way.
And Ronnie was not only his lieutenant with direct access to many of Lorry’s excesses; but probably quite aware of how, when and how many of those excesses where committed.
That he continued to survive politically, and more importantly, failed to get hammered by the media when he took the role of assistant to Jason Micallef, beats me.
Now Jason has said that Mr Pellegrini, who has an office at Mile End large enough to dance the waltz; who is heard screaming and phoning from his room; who signs circulars on Jason’s behalf; who accompanied Alfred Sant, Jason Micallef and Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi everywhere, is not an employee.
Well, that may be the case. Which means there are two Ronnies, and we should really all thank the GWU for looking the other way while one of its paid up employees spends all his friggin’ time at Mile End.
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I’m a great fan of the two Ronnies, but I don’t think it was Barker and Corbett he had in mind.
Why would the GWU look the other way when it is an open secret that it is just an extension of the Labour Party?
Whether Ronnie is at the GWU offices or at Mile End makes no difference.
The aims of the GWU and the LP are identical and at all costs even at the expense of the workers they are supposed to care for.
I am not amused that Ronnie Pellegrini has been given a spacious office within the glass house at Mile End. This might be due to the fact that he does not have a decent house to live in, and so the GWU and the PL keep him comfortable for the work he carried out for their supporters, mainly those working at the Dockyards, AirMalta and SGS.
The GWU and the PL seems to have an obligation to keep him comfortable because during the time of Lorry Sant he used to be a ring-leader for the atrocities that took place then. Ronnie was also the person to give instructions to lock the main door of the SGS with a chain during an industrial dispute when the PN was in government.
I am also amazed atthe fact that he was not seen in the last demonstration in Valletta together with the three monkeys and being interviewed by someone from the media to tell us, like Stacy, that he cannot cope with the cost of living increase – just like his friend Piju Camilleri.and many others.
With all the allegations of poverty that the PL and the GWU are talking about to discourage people, yet none of them sold their property or had it repossessed by the banks.