After military intervention, the most pressing question of the moment is…..
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March 2, 2011 at 2:11am
Muammar Gaddafi at a Labour Party mass meeting when Mintoff was prime minister
WHAT IS THE LABOUR PARTY GOING TO DO FOR MONEY NOW?
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I hope once the dust settles the new Libyan regime will be more forthcoming and tell the world how much money Gaddafi gave to the Malta Labour Party over the years.
People like Karmenu Vella must be very concerned. The next few months will be quite telling.
Bieb bieb jigbru ftit ewro.
Shiber shiber, dar dar u zenga zenga.
Mhux hekk kien jaghmel Mintoff? Imur ic-Cina, l-Korea ta’ Fuq, ghal ghand Caucescu, Gaddafi ul- bella compania?
Il-Laburisti jghidu li Mintoff qered il-faqar u nehha t-tallaba minn bieb il-Belt.
Minflok, hareg jittallab hu.
Some observations:
Gaddafi gave his interview to the BBC in English. This shows that:
1. he knows the language (he’s been trained at The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in Surrey);
2. his interpreter was killed or ran away (like his Ukranian voluptuous nurse);
3. that he used the interpreter as a ‘buffer’ to give him time to think and put the blame on him if he’s ‘misinterpreted’.
Gaddafi actually showed us his eyes and smiled. “My people love me”.
Times of Malta is still running its divorce poll.
Should Malta have a consultative referendum on divorce before Parliament votes, or should it have an abrogative referendum after the House decides?
Malta should have a consultative referendum before the House votes. 55.9%
No need for a referendum, Parliament should decide. 23.4%
Malta should have an abrogative referendum after the House decides. 16.8%
Don’t know. 3.9%
Total votes: 6355
It’s like asking your children whether they prefer Gozo or Santorini for the next holiday while your neighborhood is burning.
I’ve seen many people in Libya waving old, even tattered pre revolution Libyan flags. That shows that the Libyan people were yearning for this moment to come.
Gaddafi’s speech from the bastions of the old city made me recall Ceaucescu’s speech before his downfall.
I can understand the Libyan ambassador’s (Saadun Suayeh) position: if he abandons the embassy and resigns we cannot have the much needed line of communication with a Libyan government representative, we will have anarchy and confusion instead.
Last note: the Ta’ Giorni Libyan ‘institute’ was the former St Michael’s Teacher training college which was dissolved and the building sold to the Libyan government by the Mintoff government for a pittance.
Are you sure he gave the interview in English? It is in Arabic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12607478
[Daphne – He spoke English several times, understood most of the questions, and pretended not to understand others when it paid him to do so.]
What you are saying is true. But it does not amount to “Gaddafi gave his interview to the BBC in English.”. What you are saying and what Mr Schembri said are two different things, with different implications.
Gaddafi was, to my mind, still playing to the gallery – but the Libyan / Arab gallery, not the West.
Gaddafi used the interpreter as a paraventu.
Did you see the wide angle shots of the Gaddafi interview, where he is shown with his right foot on the coffee table?
That’s easy, take up Toni Abela’s suggestion to open a Supermarket tal-Labour of course. Rumour has it that Joseph will be manning the diapers section.
Plead “neutrality.”
Naghmlu maratona fuq Super One ma’ Normint Hemiltin u niehdu l-ftit minghand il-hafna.
Imbaghad il-hafna ma jkollomx biex ihallsu il-kont tad-dawl u l-ilma. Heqq, m’hemmx x’taghmel.
Isibu dak il-madoffi portmoni ta’ Charlon Gouder.
Jibaghtu t-tifla tad-driver tal-Guy tizzuffjetta ma’ Jason Micallef fuq Kemmuna bhalma ghamlu xi sena ilu biex jigbru l-fondi ghas-Super One.
Sell Joe Grima by the kilo in the barbecue season.
For gravy, maybe.
Jaqq.
Don’t you have any respect for those who are still having breakfast or for those who are preparing the mid-day meal?
Ask Ronnie Pellegrini whether he’s got any of the readies his friend Lorry left behind – you know, the ones they all fought over – stashed away. He might oblige if Jason MIcallef asks VERY nicely.
That photo was taken at the airport, not at a Labour Party mass meeting, I think.
[Daphne – The caption was written by the Labour Party itself. I wouldn’t have known whether it was at the airport or at a mass meeting. I got it off a Labour site.]
Have another membership drive with SMSes the price of a pizza which automatically make you a member of the PL and give you the chance to win a box of gingerbread men handmade by Mrs Joseph.
SMS question in the spirit of the Golden Years: Malta ghanda tinheles mil-hakma tal-Unjoni Ewropeja?
Jaghmlu l-guided tours il-Mile End. Joe Grima knows a lot of tourist guides.
And another suggestion: bed & breakfast at Burmarrad. The ideas are coming thick and fast.
Who is to say that the Gaddafi family hasn’t got assets stashed away by Labour men, ex-Labour Party treasurers to be precise.
Remember that this is an old established principle of corrupt tyrants and dictators – find a lackey, launder your money, get hold of it in times of need.
Perhaps we should ask Ronnie Pellegrini who appears to be well-versed in this type of business having been Lorry Sant’s best buddy.
Right now the balcony at the glasshouse looks like it has to wait
Jokes apart, the Labour Party should come clean about its finances. If they’ve never received any money from Gaddafi – directly or, as is more likely, through some labyrinthine route – then they should declare that publicly, unequivocally and without delay.
As long as they keep quiet on this one, we’re going to have to believe they’re guilty as charged.
1. Distribute fireworks chemicals on 10% commission for Joseph Muscat’s family business.
2. Flog Jason Micallef (as in ‘sell’, that is, not lash with a whip, though he’ll probably prefer the latter, especially if Ronnie does it).
3. Get Robert-Oh Francalanza to sell kisses for one euro a shot and hope there are some takers.
4. Set up a coconut shy. They’ve got one of the props down in communications.
5. How about another of those nice Stitch ‘n’ Bitch sessions at the GWU, or Books ‘n’ Looks down at Caqnu’s Montekristo vaults?
6. A Bring & Buy Sale: we’ll bring some serviceable politicians (Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Jesmond Mugliett, as new) while they hope somebody buys Toni and Anglu.
7. Are plastic dinosaurs still popular with small boys? You know where I’m heading with this one.
8. Dispatch Reno Calleja to Tiananmen Square with a begging-bowl.
9. Rent out Godfrey Grima to any talk show that will have him.
10. Run a prostitution racket out of Labour HQ. Or have the pom-pom girls been disbanded?
Pity Prof DeMarco is not with us anymore. He would surely have resolved the situation using his special friendship with Muammar.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100813/local/prof-de-marco-more-than-just-a-friend-former-libyan-ambassador
Er, what would “more than just a friend be”? A bedmate?
KMB jiftah il-Macina u naghmlu hafna Nescafé morninksijiet.
11. Auction Silvio Parnis to the highest bidder as an assistant to a person of the third age. Cheaper than a Filippina, but watch out if you see a notary about.
12. Put the lot of them in the stocks while we form an orderly queue to pay 10 euros and lob rotten tomatoes at them. Or worse.
13. Anglu Farrugia seems to know where votes can be sold for 70 euros to a PN agent with a fund for the purpose. But you’ve got to be a drug addict.
14. Send John Bundy round restaurant tables with a bag of keyrings and pens and a printed card that says ‘I’m deaf and dumb and possibly also blind, please help’.
15. Given what I’ve been reading lately, it looks like the MLP has the werewithal to provide a hitman service. I’m told by The New York Times that the going rate at the LIbyan embassy in Malta in the 1970s was around $150,000. Prices must have gone up by now.
16. Maybe Byon Jo Zammit’s mum can be persuaded out of retirement to turn a trick or two for his camera, with the results screened at a private viewing for gerontophiliacs who like large labia. Charge them 100 euros to get in. Il-vera wortit.
17. Sack Marisa Micallef and save 40,000 euros a year.
18. Sack them all, and give us some peace of mind.
19. Jaghmlu bingo kull nhar ta’ Sibt ma’ Consuelo u Robert u forsi Jeffrey ukoll. L-ewwel premju sabih: hot date ma’ tat-Teletubi.
20. Get Al Qaeda to help them organise a coffee morning with spiked Nescafe. Their mate Gaddafi has the details.
That’s it from me. No more free ideas for Labour.
Daphne, it seems clear that many Labour supporters are still in love with this old chap. Their love for dictators never ends.
This reminds me of a particular session in Maltese Parliament sometime during 1990 -1991. One of the Nationalist Ministers spoke in favour of Gorbachev, and a number of MLP MPs starting booing and ridiculing Gorbachev from the opposition benches.
Somehow, this party consistently ends up on the wrong side of history.
Do the Labour Party MPs or PL members know anything about Gaddafi’s familiy fortunes?http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361919/Muammar-Gaddafi-familys-astonishing-wealth-revealed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Let’s not probe too deep into family fortunes. Many Maltese businessmen made their own fortune on the backs of the oppressed Libyans, as favoured buddies of Gaddafi’s family.
Labour should ask KMB to press Gaddafi to award them the 2011 Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights – in appreciation of Labour’s achievements in that department during the Golden Years – before the ship sinks. That would put a quarter of a million dollars in the kitty.