Comments on: Why Labour keeps mum about Gaddafi (3)

By: claude sciberras

claude sciberras — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:23:30 +0000

Did you notice that the two Maltese gentlemen are holding Ghaddafi ‘labransetta’ – wtf?

By: Albert Farrugia

Albert Farrugia — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:04:42 +0000

Ah, La Redoute, I think you need a little history lessen. So here goes. After Independence, Malta was declared to be a Monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II of the UK to be also Queen of Malta.

She even had her Maltese Royal Standard, which was flown only once, when she visited the islands as Queen of Malta (NOT of the UK), in 1967. By declaring Malta a Republic in 1974, the Maltese government abolished the Monarchy in Malta and Queen Elizabeth became a foreign Head of State.

[Daphne – Might I butt in? You’re wrong. Malta did not abolish a monarchy to become a republic. ‘Abolishing the monarchy’ describes the situation that pertained, for example, in Libya in 1969. Queen Elizabeth is still there, and is about to marry off a grandson. I see what you are trying to say, but even there you’re wrong. Britain, and still less the queen, had no objections to Malta becoming a republic, just as there were no objections to Malta becoming independent as part of the general decolonisation process of the 1950s and 1960s.]

By: TROY

TROY — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:47:37 +0000

Another heart warming photo from the ‘Golden Years’

By: Riya

Riya — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:57:27 +0000

Min jaf kemm jiftahru b’dawn ir-ritratti tal-Labour. Tghid kienu jafu minhu ezatt Gaddafi?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:34:28 +0000

For the record.

The other man in the picture is John M Calleja, Malta Drydocks GM.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:14:45 +0000

“abolishing the monarch here, as he had done there”

What the F**K?

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:59:05 +0000

I had forgotten about the tacky plywood green box covering the historical British coat of arms over the Main Guard. Another example of Mintoffian servility to Gheddafi.