Mass meetings kull gimgha (sajf u xitwa), strikes tat-tobba, skejjel maghluqin, swat, gas tad-dmugh, nirien, etc.

Budgets fuq it-tonn taz-zejt, il-bulu beef, il-hobz u l-ghagin.

X’nostalgija.

Jekk Muscat minghalih se jerga jgibna taht politika Mintoffjana, Malta tara l-ikbar ezodu bhal qatt ma rat fl-istorja. Din id-darba in-nies jistghu jaqbdu ajruplan u f’gimgha jkunu qieghdin jahdmu BI DRITT f’pajjiz ieher fl’Ewropa.

Phew! Imnalla.

Can’t stop laughing…imma bis-serjeta jeziztu dawn in-nies?Eat your words, H Mizzi.

Dak li sar fis -sebghinijiet u tmeninijiet ma jista jintesa u jinhafer qatt.

Imbaghad tigi xi Ritienne, li lanqas taf x’jigifieri tghix fil-qamel u l- biza’, tparla fil-vojt.

Inhoss demmi jbaqbaq meta nisma xi zghazagh Laburisti jitkellmu qiesu l-passat orribbli taz-zghozijja taghna kien xi cajta jew li qed nesegeraw.

Dazgur, ghax l-anqas temmen li kien vera li kieku mhux ghax ghexnieh….

Maryanne, I suggest you consult the archives at The Times – assuming that the relevant copies of the paper were not detroyed when the building was burnt down by Malta Labour Party supporters.

Also the records at The Public Library [Bibliotheca] in Valletta and its twin in Victoria, Gozo. The key period is 1954 through to 1958.

The incidents in the 1970s and 1980s were but repeat performances of what had occurred in the 1950s, which is why it is vital to note that the individuals in MLP government in the 70s/80s are still active in the PL and are putting themselves forward for election in 2013.

The Labour Party has not changed. The defective ideology is still there, as also those who seek to implement it.

Another ugly incident took place in 1958. The Malta Labour Party, then in government, was very keen, for its own ideological reasons, to generate a few Labour martyrs and sought to bring its own supporters into direct confrontation with British troops in an irresponsible attempt at replicating the 1919 incidents. The government instructed the police not to react against any attempted attack on Strickland House [il-bini tat-Times] the streets leading to which were sealed by police barricades.

That heinous plot which deliberately put human lives at risk was foiled by Police Commissioner Vivian de Gray, who went over Prime Minister Mintoff’s head by alerting the Governor of Malta that the situation would inevitably lead to bloodshed.

The police commissioner was authorised by the Governor to take appropriate measures should the need arise. The much-vaunted MLP suldati tal-azzar then rapidly showed themselves to be nothing more than suldati tal-landa when police stood up to the demonstrators who sought to breach the police barricades.

Twenty years later, with Mintoff/MLP again in government, Strickland House was successfully destroyed, but not The Times and all it [then] stood for.

Mur ghidilhom li kellhom jaghmlu mill-inqas 25 sena fl-oppozizzjoni.

Anke fis-76 kellhom poster jghid ‘Das-seklu ghalina’. Poster iehor kien juri seba – thumbs up – (kont nisthajlu tal-Lorry) bit-text ‘Mit-tajjeb ghall ahjar’.

U fl-elezzjoni tas-76 uhud mill-agenti tal-PN kienu spiccaw b’food poisoning mis-sala tal-ghadd tal-voti u nqata’ d-dawl darbtejn.

Labour – QATT.

U z-zraben tas-suldati li kien irregallarna Gaddafi [ghal tal-Korpi] hafna inzertaw ta sieq wahda.