Watch it and weep: a Krismiss song for the Golden Years, with Renato, Mary Spiteri, Joseph Muscat and a right-on Wardakanta tune

Published: September 24, 2011 at 10:49am




113 Comments Comment

  1. red nose says:

    Why remind us?

    [Daphne – It’s a NEW song, red nose.]

  2. Doreen Il-Galloppin says:

    Some pertinent questions:

    1. How are people who can’t cope with the cost of living going to buy all those presents without sending their wives out to work?

    2. Was the robin shot?

    3. Is that a PN mass meeting right after the EU referendum vote?

    4. Is the Labour Party now set on persuading the new generation of voters that it was in favour of EU membership and that it was thanks to Muscat that we became EU citizens?

    5. What does Air Malta have to do with it?

    6. What are those people running away from in the black and white bit – KMB’s police?

  3. jae says:

    The song refers to ’90 sena ta’ hidma’ and ‘Ewropa li tghaqqad’. They even show images of crowds with both Maltese and EU flags.

    What the song fails to mention is that for several years in its history, the Labour Party worked very hard so that Malta would NOT join the EU. Their current leader was also very active in the campaign against EU membership.

    [Daphne – He actually led that campaign.]

    If Labour had had its way, Renato and co. would instead have been singing praises to Partnership on their 90th anniversary, and Joseph Muscat would still be hacking his way at Super One.

  4. Mhux ta' Bonello Kiosk says:

    Joseph Muscat is going to be ‘starting the launch’ with Cyrus Engerer in St Anne’s Square at the Sliema Ferries tomorrow at 10.30am.

    I guess Joseph Cuschieri is not going to be there to reminisce about the days when he was a waiter on that very spot, given the job as a favour by that little sh*t Joe Pace tal-Magic Kiosk, who probably won’t be there either to explain how he got the site through a haxja with the Labour government.

  5. mary "titanic" spiteri says:

    I wonder what the archbishop thinks of his “involvement” in the video…

    • red nose says:

      If he was invited, it would have been difficult for him to refuse attendance. But we all know that the PL “uses” people and people of our Archbishop’s calibre, know exactly; but the have to be diplomatic

    • Carmelo Micallef says:

      The PL do not care what the Archbishop thinks – they want they Catholic supporters to stay on-side.

    • Antoine Vella says:

      And the Rector of the University

      • john says:

        The Rector has also taken legal advice. He has advised the police to proceed with action against the producer and writer of this piece of propaganda for offending public sensitivities. He may have a case this time.

    • john says:

      The archbishop has taken legal advice. He’s not financially responsible for anything in that video.

  6. Pecksniff says:

    KMB must be having kittens at Gaddafi/PL’s attempt to hijack Malta’s EU membership as their own thing.

    PS 1: When are Renato and Mary Spiteri going to retire gracefully into the sunset?

    PS 2: When is the PN’s PR machine (is there one?) going to wake up and rebut this Stalinist rewriting and airbrushing of our history?

    • Carmelo Micallef says:

      KMB and Afred Sant seem to be privately at peace with Little Joe’s campaign to get elected by saying and doing anything.

  7. Jozef says:

    Remember George Orwell’s 1984? The main character’s job was to edit past literature and newspapers removing any words, names and phrases deemed problematic, replacing them with new ones.

    Don’t you just love the way Mintoff is transformed into Joseph on the way up to the cauldron? And that Alfred Sant is now nonexistent, except for one brief frame where he takes his oath of office?

    • red nose says:

      I have a feeling that Joseph keeps Alfred Sant in tow to tell him what to say. Sant is bound to take care of “his baby”

  8. GALLETTU says:

    State of the art Stalinist nonsense.

    • Edward Caruana Galizia says:

      Textbook example I would say. All that talk about “The Worker” and ” look how good it is to work in a factory” footage. I don’t know any other country that would have such a video.

      • Edward Clemmer says:

        I saw prosaic and more extended factory footage in as East German cinema in 1987, which was before the screening of the comedy film we (the audience, mostly young people who chuckled throughout the state propaganda) had come to see.

        According to this assembled footage, it seems that Dom Mintoff has passed the torch to Joseph Muscat–unbelieve it.

        Can anyone of the current generation, who still has a long (and medium-term) future to consider, find any of this appealing? Actually, short-short term for everyone is sufficient for alarm about any future government under Labour.

        Those with experience and a rational mind have rejected this emotional appeal throughout. It seems that the intended audience for this promo would be convinced Labourites of the old school. Joseph Muscat is a bit of a “young fellar.”

        Is Joseph shoring up his internal defenses with a Christmas video? Never too early for an election campaign? Or should we say, “election advertizing campaign”? And not very original at that.

  9. H Mizzi says:

    Reflecting on the representation of local political parties in
    the European Parliament, Partit Laburista has managed to maintain it presence of 3 seats out of 5 and 3 seats out of 6
    with a prospective fourth seat, in both elections held since Malta joined the European Union. It is evident that
    Partit Nazzjonalista is stagnant with its 2 representatives irrespective whether the Maltese representation in
    the European Parliament is 5 or 6.

    [Daphne – Those two PN MEPs are worth the other 3 ten times over, H. Mizzi. Look at their work record.]

  10. red nose says:

    I think that Cyrus has a very – but very- thick skin to appear anywhere in Sliema after his shameful behaviour.

  11. Interesting pentagram at 0:47 … the come-together value of this song is so powerful that even Satan will be celebrating Christmas.

    Let’s hope for the best …

  12. Jozef says:

    John Attard Montalto’s quantity of air miles is the only record they may have some difficulty in matching.

  13. Matt says:

    Labour worked assiduously hard against the EU. They fabricated false scenarios to keep Malta against the EU and now they have the audacity to promote MLP as a pro EU.

    They are not embarrassed. What ever Dr. Muscat does he will be always perpetually stained as the main protagonist in the No to EU campaign, after Alfred Sant.

    [Daphne – Ah, but he’s targetting the current crop of new electors, who are too young to remember that and many of them too unmotivated to fnd out.]

  14. H Mizzi says:

    Irrespective of your opinion, Daphne dear regarding the worth of MEPs representing Malta in the European Union, the Partit
    Laburista has proved that it is more credible and convincing
    in the elections for the European Parliament than the Partit Nazzjonalista.

    [Daphne – Ah, H. Mizzi, but that depends on who to. It’s one thing being thought credible and convincing by, say, me, and another thing being thought credible and convincing by, say, Silvio Parnis or H. Mizzi.]

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Credible and convincing, H. Mizzi dear? It’s just a case of 49% core vote for MLP against 45% for PN, with the floaters staying away.

      [Daphne – Actually, Louis Grech was not elected by the MLP core vote. You must have forgotten already – he was elected by the ‘tal-pepe Sliema’ vote.]

      It’s always been that way. In any case, call me radical, but MLP should have been barred from presenting candidates for European elections, since it was against EU membership.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        We’re in for a repeat performance in 2013 unless someone starts speaking for the Slieme tal-pépé.

        Most of them will tell you, proudly, that they’re socialists.

        The only thing they need to tip them over into MLP’s basket is a PN which speaks the language of Xarabank.

        PN may think it’s doing brilliantly when the sweating masses cheer and applaud some totally kitsch event like that Indifest rubbish. In actual fact, it’s only alienating the crucial pépé-rationalist voting segment.

      • maryanne says:

        Should Indifest feature in anyone’s calculations when deciding whom to vote for? OK, so I never heard one whole song from Indifest. I won’t vote for the PN because of Indifest. The altternative is to vote PL and it’s worse because they have the ikla b’xejn ghal kullhadd.

        Baxxter, there are those who don’t identify themselves with either the sweating masses nor the Sliema tal-pepe. They just base their opinion on the recent and not so recent past and are able to see which party works best for Malta. You have to look at the big picture or else you finish by not voting at all.

      • Min Weber says:

        Baxxter, why two accented e’s not just the last one?

        The PN would shoot itself in the foot if it were to follow just one of the myriad pieces of advice you give on this website.

      • Martin says:

        That is not radical, that is anti-democratic.

        It is also illogical. Put simply (perhaps simplistically) there were those who wanted to join and those who wanted to stay out, or join later. However, when we did join, everybody became a members subject to the same pros and cons, not just those who wanted to. Therefore those who became members “against their will” have MORE right to representation, not less.

        [Daphne – Mmmm, that’s a curious attitude to democracy. More right to representation, you say? This is a bit like saying that the Opposition should have more seats in the house than the government does – work that one out – because they lost.]

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        If it’s French, and you’re pronouncing “pepe” the Maltese way, then it’s two accented ‘e’s.

        Yes, Maryanne, even with Indifest and il-Fiera tal-Hut, I will still vote PN, because the other side are unfit for government. But why should I have to hold my nose when voting PN?

        I yearn for a party in the European mould, led by bright, articulate, urbane people, where the biggest annual event is not a song festival, but a policy review workshop. Hamalli have taken over my country. Why should I give up?

      • maryanne says:

        Baxxter, I agree completely with your last paragraph. Please don’t give up.

        But I have seen enough to make me give up.

        I always had high hopes that the PN would instill higher standards but it seems that we are always going against the tide, regardless of the exposure to the outside world and to a better education system.

        That is one more reason why I can’t stand Labour. They should know better than to keep on abusing of people’s ignorance.

      • Min Weber says:

        Pépé le Moko, what are you talking about Baxxter?

        Pépé is a first name in French. In Malta the word means something else, and it’s written with one, different accent: tal-pepè.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        So what – it’s still wrong.

        Has the Akkademja decided on the matter?

        Until then, it’s one man, one spelling, and my spelling is as good as yours.

    • red nose says:

      Please refrain from saying “Daphne dear” we are more than convinced that you do not mean it

  15. David Buttigieg says:

    His hair’s disappeared again.

  16. Edward Caruana Galizia says:

    This is so hypocritical.

    1) EU flags? Are they serious?

    2) People running away from police? Are they trying to make us think that it was the PN who caused such unrest?

    3) All those Christmas presents: something to looking forward to when they get their living wage?

    And finally- all that prosperity they portray is thanks to the PN. The PN aren’t perfect, I ll give you that, but can’t the people filming this footage see that what they were filming would not have been possible without the PN?

    What’s worse is that all the progress Malta has made in the last 20-something years, which was all thanks to the PN, has given rise to a spoiled, selfish, and materialistic generation who plaster themselves with make up, buy expensive clothes, buy and run a car, and then complain that they have to pay off some sort of loan.

    Do you think they would have been able to cope with buying one brand of everything?

    • 'Angus Black says:

      …or take an annual vacation abroad more than once a year?…

      Maqtulin bil-guh u jistghu jaghmlu l-kapricci kollha. M’hawnx post fejn tipparkja , 300,000+ karrozza b’popolazzjoni ta 400,000 u qed imutu bil-guh?

      Mela ghandhom biex jixtru l-petLor, imma m’ghandhomx biex jixtru l-ikel! Imorru ghidu hekk lill Gaddafi, forsi jitfa xi ftit flus fis-sasla ta l-LP.

    • Min Weber says:

      As I don’t like historical re-writing by anyone, the reply to No 2. is: that’s the 28 April 1958 uprising. The PN had nothing to do with it. It was Mintoff vs. Britain.

      There must have been many Nationalists who shared Mintoff’s exasperation with Britain.

      • Edward Caruana Galizia says:

        ” The PN had nothing to do with it”- My point exactly.

        I was referring the message I assume they are trying to send. As in….look how Labour has fought and been oppressed.

        Oppressed by whom?

        And really, with the way they go on about “don’t think about the past” it’s pretty rich to use footage from as far back as 1958 to prove some sort of point.

        What is their point anyway?

  17. davidg says:

    Unbelievable! NO2EU and now here they are waving the EU flag, as if the EU-related progress of the last few years is down to Labour. Dissembling liars.

  18. Etil says:

    As the Maltese saying goes ‘wiccom u s…..mom xorta.’

    If it were for Labour we wouldn’t be in the European Union. They are re-writing history to save themselves.

    The Labour Party bombards people at all hours of the day and night on their radio and TV with this kind of propaganda, so when is the Nationalist Party going to do something about it?

  19. Jozef says:

    While being interviewed by Reno Bugeja on TVM’s Dissett, Joseph Muscat said:

    ‘If it’s a question of whether partnership won or lost, then given what happened in the general election that followed, membership won’.

    Reno Bugeja had asked him what he thought of the referendum result.

  20. Owen Hargreaves says:

    A song sung in Maltese followed by “Happy Christmas”, “Thank you, thank you” and a mental block.

    [Daphne – No, Owen, they speak Maltese all the way through: ‘hepi krismiss!’ ‘tenkju, tenkju’.]

  21. Jozef says:

    Perhaps H.Mizzi would like to explain why Labour have, since 1962, only managed a majority in three elections.

    [Daphne – Labour didn’t win the 1962 election, Jozef, so you’ll have to count even further back.]

  22. Yanika says:

    Mary Spiteri is off-key.

  23. Jozef says:

    Oops you’re right, maa, I’ve just eliminated Independence…..

  24. Edward Caruana Galizia says:

    Actually, in a way this video might be a good thing.

    Although I m not that religious I always find that parables make a lot of sense.

    Building your house on sand is never a good thing, and that’s what the PL seem to be doing with their image and possible with their election campaign.

    They are building it on lies.

    They know nothing about running a country since they never really did.

    The time Mintoff and KMB were in power they weren’t running a country they were just fulfilling a vendetta they have against those they hated so much.

    Now the PN only have to remind the country that the present standard of living, the present prosperity and opportunity has been all thanks to them.

    Arrogant as some of them may be, they have still managed to get a country on the brink of collapse and turn it into the free and democratic country with opportunities that no one would have been able to dream of 25 years ago.

    All you have to do is look around and you can see that every person, no matter where they live, has the chance to make something more of their lives, not just in Malta, but across the whole EU. No discriminatory points system for university, no anger towards those who are successful, no bombs, no unlawful arrests.

    • Martin says:

      “The time Mintoff and KMB were in power they weren’t running a country they were just fulfilling a vendetta they have against those they hated so much.”

      Do you really believe that? But REALLY?

      • 'Angus Black says:

        Martin, have your memory checked unless you are 30ish or younger. Then I recommend you read several books to brush up on Malta’s history say from 1960 to 2004 and you will get a better idea.

        For starters, I recommend Ganado’s ‘Rajt Malta tinbidel’ and DeMarco’s ‘Politics of Persuasion’.

        But don’t go looking for them at Mile End. Do they have any library at all?

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        Are you guys for real? “Rajt Malta tinbidel” is an autobiography, and boring at that, not the work of a historian.

        As for de Marco’s ego-trip, well, it’s a we’re-all-friends-now-Mintoff-had-his-good-points piece of revisionism.

        No. If you want to learn about Malta’s history from 1960 to the present, read the newspapers in the archives, then draw your own conclusions.

        In any case, it’s not history. Almost current affairs.

        I mean, should anyone need a history book to tell him that import substitution and alliances with North Korea were bad for the country?

      • Edward Caruana Galizia says:

        Yes Martin, I do.

        The people they targeted, the people who got the real tough deal, were the people they were, in some way or another, jealous of – or who they thought threatened them in some way or another by standing against them or not buying into their rubbish.

  25. Jelly Bean says:

    Sounds more like the song ‘Do They Know its Christmas’, incidentally from 1984. One of the most golden of years.

    And what does Christmas have to do with an anniversary of a political party? Or is it just an excuse to gloss over all the rubbish?

  26. Jozef says:

    Wait a minute, since 1962 they got 1971, 1976 and 1996.

    I didn’t count 1981 which was not a majority.

  27. Joe Micallef says:

    This week I was watching that bloody dangerous twerp Ahmadinejad addressing the UN council and attempting to re-write history.

    The PL is doing the same to a tune, albeit even more awful than that of warda kanta age!

    Those who lived those days form a fundamental part of the ninety years work have a DUTY to remind other – at least until all those prehistoric morons and who glorifies them (Muscat) are driven out in the cold!

  28. SC says:

    Is this Malta’s NOT got talent?

  29. jenny says:

    No sign of Gaddafi anywhere. They want us to believe that they never had anything to do with him.

  30. H Mizzi says:

    Every voter in elections held in Malta for the European Parliament has one vote. Silvio Parnis, me and you
    have one vote each, Dear Daphne, irrespective of
    your pretensions.

    [Daphne – I have no pretensions, H. Mizzi. I am extremely down to earth and realistic. Ask around. Yes, everybody has one vote, so by your reasoning all Labour has to do to win a general election is 1. increase the number of twits, 2. rewrite history for the gullible, or if all else fails, 3. find ways of coming across as credible to people like me.]

    • 'Angus Black says:

      H Mizzi, you are so annoying. The only reason I read your garbage is to use it as a yardstick by which I measure the depth of the LP’s ignorance, spitefulness, lies and ineptitude.

      It is quite interesting that several times I thought you had reached rock bottom, but then Joseph opens his mouth while he continues to dig deeper. Then there you go, repeating his inane comments.

      When will this agony end?

    • Rover says:

      Mizzi why not drop the Dear Daphne bit. You sound like a subservient total prat.

      There’s plenty of space for your contribution whether you refer to Daphne as Dear or not. As long as you keep it clean that is, as opposed to most contributions from your other Labour lot.

  31. Martin says:

    It must be really galling to think they had to send a double-murderer to bully the għannejja into taking part in the Independence celebrations, musn’t it?

    [Daphne – What in God’s name are you on about? Isn’t there even one Joseph supporter who can come in here and talk sense?]

    • Martin says:

      I think it’s pretty obvious – who is going to be mad enough to refuse a request from a double murderer?

      [Daphne – I’ve asked you to explain what you’re talking about, because I have no idea. You sound like one of those women I used to come across at the corner shop in Marsa.]

      • Martin says:

        Well if you want me to spell it out, I’m referring to this:

        http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110923/local/Jeffrey-Pullicino-Orlando-snubs-mass-meeting-over-murderer-s-involvement-.386009

        And this bit in particular: “A spokesman for the PN said: “Mr Mangion’s involvement with others was limitedly related to identifying għana singers, which is a restricted and niche sector.”

        All you have to do is to replace “identifying” with “intimidating”.

        [Daphne – You can NOT be serious. Ghana singers. As if anybody in the Nationalist Party’s administration had a clue who was recruiting the ghana singers, let alone that a random man called Charles Mangion had killed a sailor in Strada Fontana in 1975. To my mind the problem here is the ghana singers. Now if Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando had refused to turn up because of that, he would have won back some respect. Ghana singers don’t need to be intimidated to turn up and sing, Martin. They’re teed off if they’re not asked. As for that intimidation, he makes it sound like somebody was on his doorstep with a gun, not commenting on a Facebook wall. What sort of pansy is he, anyway – he should see some of the comments that come into this site, threatening to do things the writers could have see only in a snuff movie. You’re pathetic, Martin – roughly as bad as Jeffrey.]

      • Martin says:

        Yeah, right.

      • the truth says:

        Ghandek zball, MARTIN – forsi ma tafx taqra sew. Qed thalltu ma’ haddiehor. Kien ikkundannat fuq murder wiehed mhux tnejn.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        Dan iz-Zubina tal-bar tal-club tal-bocci tal-Pietà? Kelli konverzazzjonijiet affaxxinanti fuq l-ghana mieghu.

  32. Natasha says:

    Comically tragic or tragically comical …

    Talk about the leopard not changing its spots?!

  33. J Abela says:

    Ha ha – now they’re proud that Malta is an EU country. And the song and video are produced as if GaddafiPL gave a huge contribution to that happening. Please, next time, spare us because I almost threw up half way through.

    • 'Angus Black says:

      Ah, but you forget that Gaddafi had contributed so handsomely to the Nationalist Party’s campaign in the EU referendum.

      Don’t you believe the Labour Party? Too bad their idol (idiot?) is still in hiding.

  34. kram says:

    Il-vera ipokriti. Ghal dawk li twieldu wara l-2004 tahseb li kien il-Labour li dahalna fl’ Ewropa. Fil-fond ta’ qalbhom il-core tal-Labour jibqghu kontra l’ UE. Tkellem maghhom u tkun taf u l-vera mzazen jekk jibilghu din id-diska wkoll.

  35. Martin says:

    So how is this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6hZkt8T4KU&feature=related) different.

    Apart from the fact that it’s mostly out-of-tune, of course.

    [Daphne – Thick, aren’t you? But then you’d have to be to root for Joseph. That’s a NET TV song sung only by NET TV staff, with no lies and no propaganda footage. It’s not the quality of the singing that’s so offensive in the Labour Party propaganda video: it’s the Stalinism.]

    • kram says:

      Ara l-vera t… biex tikkumpara id-diska t’ hawn fuq ma’ tan-Net.

      Tan-Net hi kanzunetta tal-Milied u xejn izjed, u tal-Labour hija propoganda Stalinista li tuza l-Milied, l-Isqof, r-Rettur tal-Universita’ u l-UE.

  36. UoL says:

    I always thought that Dom Mintoff was is-Salvatur u l-Krismiss Fader all wrapped together with ONE BIG RED BOW.

  37. Jozef says:

    And right on cue;

    http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/2011/0924/accessibility-is-gozo-s-lifelink-say-gozitan-mps

    Note how Maltatoday ‘mistakenly’ includes Franco Mercieca as an MP.

    Justyne must be in a bit of a huff.

  38. H Mizzi says:

    In both elections for the European Parliament since 2004, when Malta was accepted as an EU state, the majority of votes cast
    in favour of the Partit Laburista (PL), in both elections for the European Parliament, outnumbered considerably those which the Partit Nazzjonalista obtained. Kindloy refer to what
    H P Baxter states above that Sliema residents are declaring proudly that they are socialists. For goodness sake do not count yourself, Daphne dear, amongst Sliema residents.
    You were born and bred in Valletta.

    [Daphne – H. Mizzi, since you seem to spend rather too much time reading the gossip of awful chavs who couldn’t possible know me from Adam, on pro-Labour websites which are fixated on me, here are the facts for your benefit and theirs.

    I was born at the Blue Sisters Hospital in Sliema on 26 August 1964, and a few days later was taken by my parents to live at no. 25 Milner Street, Sliema, where they had lived since 1962, having previously lived in my grandparents’ house at San Pawl tat-Targa and in a flat in Tigne, and where still live today. I lived there until 28 August 1985, when I departed for my new address at 243C Tower Road, Sliema, where I stayed until July 1991, when I came to live where I do now, at Dar Rihana, Bidnija.

    My mother was born in Sliema and has lived in Milner Street (a different address, where my grandmother continued to live until her death in 2003) since the age of 14. My father was born in Valletta, as were all his Vella antecedents for the previous three centuries (I was the first to break it by being born in Sliema) and was raised at 169 Britannia Street (Melita Street to you), the bit between St Paul Street and Merchant Street, in a house that lies vacant today – except for the war years, when he and his cousins were taken to live at the family’s country house, Villa Lijana, which stands on St Anthony Street and Anibale Preca Street, Lija.

    Only somebody impossibly naff and uniformed would think being born and bred in Valletta inferior to being born and bred in Sliema, and this is no doubt because of the sort of Valletta families with which you are familiar. Also, Sliema is not a uniform area and like Valletta it has its ‘qiegh’. Manuel and Joseph Cuschieri are among those born and bred there.

    Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was an entirely different sort of Valletta family, but you wouldn’t have known them. Sliema started out in the 19th century, the first few houses having been built in the Milner Street area where I grew up, as a summering place for that sort of Valletta family. My grandfather and his siblings summered at a house on Victoria Avenue (Borg Oliver Street to you) and their cousins down the road at Rocklands, which is long gone, while my husband’s family, who were from Old Bakery Street, Valletta, had their summer house at 185 Tower Road.

    On a last note, it is not the place that makes the people who live there, but the people who make the place. That’s why Valletta became an undesirable dump when all those families left, and is only now struggling back as certain sorts of people begin buying there again. It is also why living in Sliema is no longer anything to be pleased about (not that we’d ever have dreamt of even thinking that way, having grown up there and taken it entirely for granted). The place is literally TEEMING with total chavs.]

  39. heidi1015 says:

    Two words: XI DWEJJAQ

    No I have more….I bet they really had to search hard to find footage of EU flags in a Labour meeting and since when do these people love ‘l-Ewropa’?

    We also had a small photo of Karmenu in the video. Do these people have no shame?

    [Daphne – Which Karmenu, Vella or Mifsud Bonnici? I didn’t notice the small photo and I’m damned if I’m going to watch that thing again.]

    All the ‘nice’ things they showed in this clip are developments of the past 20 years or so, when Labour was certainly not in charge.

  40. David Thake says:

    This video must have been rushed. They didn’t even give the singers time to learn the words, they all have a script.

  41. Not Tonight says:

    I had to stop watching around the time Mintoff was mountain-climbing the rubble/monument with a large, flaming torch in one hand.

    Even though I know it didn’t happen, I half expected him or the other idiot, hot on his heels, to set themselves or each other ablaze after taking a tumble.

    Now that would have been an interesting rewriting of history.

    The nausea started when I saw the EU flag waved about at what would have had to be a Labour meeting, and not a single one of the usual sea of red flags. I just couldn’t go through the whole clip.

    • Pecksniff says:

      “the other idiot” was Gorg Agius, then Secretary General of the GWU.

      It must have been quite a feat for him to scramble over the slippery “gagazza” holding a torch to il-Perit’s posterior without setting him alight.

      That could have been a history-changing moment.

      Incidentally, who designed the awful thing?

  42. Charles says:

    They even have to politicise Christmas.

    I presume that with Labour in government even simply going to the loo will get a political perspective.

  43. yor/malta says:

    So now Labour has given us its song about its relationship with the EU. Next up: its musical theme on its relationship with Gaddafi.

  44. Pups says:

    At 1:20 they actually sing ‘pajjiz l-ahjar fl-Ewropa’.

    Incredible.

  45. the truth says:

    Ghadni nisma lil Dr Fenech Adami jghid li ghad jasal iz-zmien li il-Partit Laburista jibda jghid li hu dahhal il-Malta fl-Ewropa. Qed noqorbu ghal dak iz-zmien.

  46. JAQQQQQQQ !!!!! says:

    Dear Daphne – I wanted to do something other than weep after watching this.

  47. Charles says:

    Just out of curiosity what are they saying at around 3.46? Sounds like “Dak il-pu**a ljun”

  48. bunbury says:

    The Nightmare before Christmas.

    • David Meilak says:

      Although this video left me speechless, it is something I have always expected of the Labour Party.

      They are trying to make us forget that they were so much against joining the EU.

      Eddie Fenech Adami was right when he said that Labour would eventually tell people that it took us into the European Union.

      And look who’s using the church now.

      These people are incredible.

      May Malta get the goverment it deserves. What worries me is that people might actually choose these dreadful hypocrites and liars.

  49. Grezz says:

    Qabda criecer.

  50. Anthony says:

    Hypocrites.

  51. Wayne Hewitt says:

    Hin ghall-videos ghandhom kieku. Hin ghall-erbgha proposti sura ghall-pajjiz milli jidher m’ghandhomx. Disgusting.

  52. red nose says:

    Why was “the great” John Bundy left out of all this?

  53. Hibernating From Malta says:

    Not the best song after a Saturday night out with lots of beer…

  54. valuri says:

    Is this Joseph Muscat’s promised new way of doing politics?

  55. Dee says:

    My God!

    I have just clicked on that clip! It IS a re-hash of the Warda-Kanta era.

    Mary Spiteri sounded like the Battleship Potemkin sending put Mayday calls.

  56. Pecksniff says:

    These song clips from the Mile End always remind of the London Dungeon tableaux (located in a really scary area in Tooley Street just south of the River) .

  57. Hibernating From Malta says:

    An Emo’s paradise..

  58. TROY says:

    H.Mizzi, kemm tiflah taqa ghaz-zufjett?

    Does the ‘H’ stand for HMAR?

  59. Paul says:

    Amazing…..well over 3 minutes’ wait to see the Labour emblem – otherwise it’s Ewropa and EU flags from the word go……u Ewropa tghaqqadna, etc. Lanqas biss jisthu.

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