Another good reason to give Joey the thumbs down in a year and a half’s time.

Remember how it was said that ‘it was the thugs who in their zeal went a bit too far and il-Perit knew nothing about it…’?

Or how the police did not recognize anyone in the mob which burned down The Times?

Or how KMB had just left a truck load of hooligans who proceeded to trash the Curia?

Or how KMB had the police fly a helicopter over tal-Barrani relaying information where the terrified Nationalist supporters were taking cover and which streets were to be blocked to prevent them from making it safely home?

But thanks MLP for this incident because it may have been the catalyst for a Nationalist victory a few months later and the liberation of Malta from the clutches of the Socialist tyranny.

I disagree. Only people who are truly deserving should have a monument dedicated to them after their death.

My guess is that the monument was made possible by Sant sympathisers using finances earned by corrupt means when Lorry Sant was minister.

One could also speculate that Labour agreed to commemorate him following an appropriate donation. The money donated was most likely of dubious origin earned during the Labour government of the eighties.

Why else would Labour expel Lorry Sant before his death and then decide to commemorate him afterwards?

The latest trend is to have monuments for everything.
Let’s keep Lorry Sant’s where it is and we will be the first country to have erected a monument commemorating CORRUPTION

Keep the monument there and let the pigeons roost on it.

And the party which represents almost 50 per cent of the electorate commemorates him.

If Claire Bonello (rightly) thinks so poorly of Lorry Sant, then she should campaign to have his monument removed, instead of using his name to denigrate this government.