Kurt the Coconut lets rip – bring a J-cloth to mop up the milk

Published: August 27, 2011 at 9:24pm

I'll get that wil(l)ful Simon with one of my brilliantly witty and ironic letters to The Times.

Kert the Coconut is wery, wery cwoss. Simon Busuttil is so wery, wery annoying, so wery, wery superficial, failed and wil(l)ful.

Doesn’t he know that the Labour Party will not engage in a war of words about Libya?

That’s because it’s a war it can’t win. Now about that party for Muslims…..

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The Times, Letters to the Editor

Saturday, August 27, 2011 , by Kurt Farrugia, director of communications, Labour Party, Ħamrun

Why Gaddafi reminds us of Gonzi

In his opinion piece entitled Why Gaddafi Reminds Me Of Labour (August 24), MEP Simon Busuttil seemed frustrated by the fact that Labour and Joseph Muscat did not turn the Libya issue into a political ball game.

He showed his true colours as a petty partisan politician. Suffice it to say, in his superficial and failed analysis, he willfully omitted the well-known fact that his leader was the last democratically-elected Prime Minister from the western world seen hugging Muammar Gaddafi. Dr Busuttil preferred not to embrace this fact.

Applying Dr Busuttil’s reasoning, it follows that Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi was close to Col Gaddafi “right to the bitter end”.

The Labour Party will not engage in a war of words about Libya. We look forward to seeing the Libyan people living in a peaceful and prosperous country led by a democratically-elected government.

It is a pity that Dr Busuttil chose to be petty on this occasion.




14 Comments Comment

  1. Brian says:
    August 27, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    @Kert the Coconut

    “The Labour Party will not engage in a war of words about Libya. We look forward to seeing the Libyan people living in a peaceful and prosperous country led by a democratically-elected government.”

    What? Do you mean to say that it took the Labour Party 40 odd years to realise this?

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  2. Edward Caruana Galizia says:
    August 27, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    Kurt-

    It was the PL which wanted to turn Malta into Libya in the first place.

    It was the PL which strengthened ties with Gaddafi.

    It was the PL which tipped off Gaddafi when the US was going to bomb him and free Libya.

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    • Grezz says:
      August 27, 2011 at 11:48 pm

      Ah, but Kurt Farrugia had probably not yet been born when all the events you mentioned took place, so he has to believe the fairytales fed to him by his Labour family and acquaintances.

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    • nobody says:
      August 28, 2011 at 12:54 pm

      Ah, so because the PL wanted to turn Malta into Libya, strengthened ties with Gaddafi and tipped off Gaddafi about the bombing some 25 years ago, makes Dr. Gonzi’s visit in 2004 insignificant, right? I see this logic very much in line with Nakita’s!

      And what about the close business relations, that I got to know about on this website, between a certain prominent PN minister and the regime in Tripoli?

      I only got to know about these relations on this website, and that’s greatly appreciated. However, I see this more of a typical ‘kull min jgholli jdejh ghandu xi jxomm’ scenario. Judging by what the general public knows, PL’s armpits may smell fouler than the PN’s, but that hardly justifies some of the infamous relations that key members of the PN kept with Libya?

      U iva, huma ghandhom lill-Joe Sammut, u ahna ghandna l-John Dalli!

      [Daphne – The point you miss, Nobody, and I don’t blame you because even the august Lino Spiteri chose to miss it in his The Sunday Times column today, is that the Nationalist government operated at an above-board level. The Labour government did not. Malta under Gaddafi – yes, under Gaddafi – was virtually a Libyan satellite state. We had green passports on which Libya was marked more prominently than Malta, children in state schools worn green uniforms and were given copies of Gaddafi’s Green Book, Arabic was made compulsory like English and Maltese for university entrance and the state sixth form, Gaddafi’s HQ in Valletta faced the seat of national power across Palace Square, Gaddafi was permitted to enter the Maltese parliament escorted by armed Libyan guards, when Libyan students were found hanged at Ta’ Giorni college the police were too terrified to investigate and marked them down as suicides, Malta was used in the transshipment of arms by Gaddafi to the IRA, Gaddafi addressed Labour Party mass meetings but when democratic politicians tried to address PN mass meetings they were arrested and deported…I could go on, but won’t.]

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      • La Redoute says:
        August 28, 2011 at 4:30 pm

        And the buses were Gaddafi green.

      • nobody says:
        August 29, 2011 at 12:39 am

        Daphne, the point I miss, I think, is this; that after all the horrible PL’s history with Gaddafi in the ’80s, why make Gaddafi an honorary companion of honour of the National Order of Merit in 2004?

        [Daphne – You’re asking the wrong person.]

  3. anthony says:
    August 27, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    To Malta’s great detriment, the Labour Party looks forward once every forty years or so.

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  4. Judas Tree says:
    August 27, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    What do you expect from the sort of people who think this is satire?

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=162643237088573&set=a.162181107134786.33748.157583954261168&type=1&theater

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  5. Denis says:
    August 28, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    The MLP will be credible once it gives back the funds received from Gaddafi

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