But Ronnie is not, certainly a PN supporter. Genuine PN supporters compare Gonzi to Joseph Muscat and not to past PN leaders. And there is no doubt who is the better.

Unbelievable, the hell through which we went during those sixteen frightful years. What a pity that thousands of voters have not the slightest idea of what life was like under Labour.

No, Ginger, so that come 2013 Joseph will be thrown in a garbage skip as his predecessors were.

The Labour Party cannot win next election because there is that ‘trust’ bit which determines how a voter casts his vote.

Forget polls, forget wishful thinking, forget Jeremiahs even within the Nationalist Party, but when the moment comes, the voters’ intelligence (of the majority) will find in favour of the party which propelled our country forward and away from the shackles of Laboiur governments of the past.

Unhappy as many Labour supporters may be, they cannot re-write history until the old party politics are abandoned and true fresh blood is injected in it to replace the old (and some newer) relics with men and women who espouse true moderate and progressive thinking.

Unfortunately, this new blood is not even a tiny blip on the Labour Party’s radar.

But you see, we were not as badly off as people were in Libya (but getting there) and as long as the hated Nationalists were unhappy then what did it matter that we had no ‘luxuries’?

Also, the Nationalists had no reason to complain, who did they think they were?

So what if a lady in Hamrun was beaten up, served her right, using a blue umbrella was defiance of the first order.

We also had a taste of Mintoffian freedom. We could belong to a trade union but we teachers were locked out for refusing to sign a paper in which we promised not to follow our union’s directives.

Even today I wonder how teachers could have been pro Labour. Almost all MLP education ministers looked upon us as their enemies and showed little respect towards teachers and their union.

Why so they can happen again?

When I think what we went through because of the fixations and personal demons of some very dangerous and ignorant people, when I think that we wasted 16 crucial years of our life and that so many, many people’s lives were ruined, starting with my father’s, I feel angry.

But I am also grateful that ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man’, and Eddie Fenech Adami did not show up a moment too soon. His bravery, keen sense of right and wrong, and his moral strength changed the course of Malta’s future.

Had things carried on as they were, we would be going down with Gaddafi’s Libya now. We would not be in the European Union, or even democratic.

What upsets me most about Joseph Muscat is not his idiocy, his self-delusion, his ideas of grandeur, but the way he describes that dreadful period in Malta’s history as the Golden Years, “ignoring and rubbishing the pain and damage caused.

For saying that, for belittling the ruining of so many lives, I can never forgive him or vote him.

Not remember those days? We have a duty to tell our children about those days because those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.

I can never forget those days because I am the product of them: my whole being and wherever I am in the world, I take those days with me because it was through those horrible days and the hardship which my family had to face that I am what I am today.

Tzuma you must be joking. We are so much living in a Fascist state that you can log on to whichever website you want and you can say, without any fear of admonition or reprimand or revenge, that we’re living in a Fascist state.

I know how ridiculous your statement is because I lived in a fascist state: Malta 1971 to 1987.

Nobody who knew the fear of those times, the fear of speaking, the fear of voicing an opinion, the fear of being ‘noticed’, will ever mistake what we have today for what we had then.

You think that you are owed a living. You think that the jobs other people have have been stolen from you. You are deluded. If that is your attitude, then no wonder you haven’t got the job you want but only the job you deserve.

Our main concern this Summer, when the rest of the world is trying to eke out a living in an economy with 30% or 25% unemployment, while our neighbours in Libya were going through hell, was the buses.

Makes Joseph Muscat look like a useless prick, though he’s VERY OBVIOUSLY modelling his way of speaking on old Fenech Adami videos and falling flat.