Comments on: Karmenu Vella celebrates the 1981 electoral ‘victory’ on a truck with Mintoff – report in The Times, 28 December 1981 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Smelli https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71015 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:37:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71015 In reply to La Redoute.

Salvu Meli presumably being this one, whose many trucks, I believe, were often used by Labour:

http://homeinteriors.com.mt/salvu-meli-and-sons-ltd

http://f1plus.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20060226/local/port-workers-demand-involvement-of-zammit-dr-abela-in-negotiations

http://www.illum.com.mt/2007/07/15/l2.html

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71014 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:45:40 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71014 “Mr Mintoff said there would be more broadcasts from Parliament …”
Yeah, in 1997-1998, when he and Alfred Sant exchanged insults in Parliament.

]]> By: ciccio2011 https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71013 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:44:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71013 “Finally, Mr Mintoff thanks all those who had worked to ensure the party’s third electoral success in a row and felt sure that with what the government intended to do, they would win the fourth as well.”

Should have said “…and felt sure that with what the government intended to do, they would stay in opposition for a quarter of a century.”

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71012 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71012 In reply to Suldat ta’ l-azzar Guzeppin.

Translation:

“I remember how we had jumped for joy on Salvu Meli’s truck

A few days after the demonstration, Karmenu Vella had called at the village Labour Party club to explain to us that we had won the election according to the rules of democracy and the constitution of Malta.”

I’ll stop there because this is where I point out that you were celebrating without knowing what you were doing. Why else would you have needed Karmenu Vella’s explanation of the election result – and one which you accept unquestioningly even 30 years later – if you knew what you were doing?

I (don’t) hate to say it, but it’s no wonder you vote Labour.

]]> By: Suldat ta’ l-azzar Guzeppin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71011 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:00:52 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71011 Niftakar kemm konna qbizna bil-ferh fuq it-trakk ta’ Salvu Meli.

Ftit jiem wara dik id-dimostrazzjoni kien gie Karmenu Vella il-Kazin tal-Labour tar-rahal biex jispjegalna kif irbahna l-elezzjoni skond ir-regoli demokratici u kostituzzjonali ta’ Malta. Fl-irhula l-ohra kienu marru ministri ohra bhall Joe Grima jispjegawlom x’kien gara.

Intom kontu dhaltu ghal-loghba u wara li tliftu ridtu tbiddlu ir-regolamenti.

]]> By: Moxxu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71010 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:48:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71010 “One for all the people” my ass. I was in Malta still working when thugs roamed the streets.

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71009 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:13:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71009 In reply to Jo.

Amongst whom Karmenu Vella who penned his masterpiece “Il-bajja tal-Mellieha” (with due apologies to the real authors).

]]> By: Pete https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71008 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:05:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71008 “The Prime Minister emphasised that the Labour Government was one for all people. There would be no reprisals against anyone, he said, since all were Maltese. The Party will act with justice and honesty, he declared.”

And in February 1982, an Hon. Minister (RIP) turned up at my place of work to inform me that I was to be transferred on the basis of what he described as “reports having nothing to do with my post or the discharge of my duties,” (read, taking active part in the electoral campaign of the P.N.).

]]> By: Fairy Liquid https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71007 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:38:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71007 If Karmenu Vella could write and tell the truth, his would be a most interesting autobiography.

In 2013, he will become the only person to have served in the cabinets of all four most recent Labour leaders: Mintoff, KMB, Sant and Muscat.

Quite a survivor, if nothing else.

]]> By: Zmien tad-deheb https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/02/karmenu-vella-celebrates-the-1981-electoral-%e2%80%98victory%e2%80%99-on-a-truck-with-mintoff-report-in-the-times-28-december-1981/#comment-71006 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:50:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=9566#comment-71006 “The Prime Minister emphasised that the Labour Government was one for all people. There would be no reprisals against anyone, he said, since all were Maltese. The Party will act with justice and honesty, he declared.”

Well, the old rogue’s fans always believed he had a sense of humour.

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