Take your blood pressure pills before watching this one
Watch this video. It’s unbelievable.
In an attempt at getting us to vote Labour next year (or the year after that), Joseph’s team of goons and coconuts has come up with a video list of Labour’s massive achievements between 1971 and 1987 – except that the achievements stop inexplicably in 1981, and they…wait for it…actually forget the amazing achievement of 31 March 1979.
I must append a health warning, though. If you have high blood pressure or a heart problem, don’t watch it or take your pills before you do (if you’ve mislaid them, ring Silvio Parnis – see previous post).
It is so incredibly, incredibly infuriating that it will be hard to keep calm. Relief comes in the form of brief comic interludes, like boasting about a whole new road (when youth unemployment was worse than Spain’s is now).
Even if you take the paltry list of ‘achievements’ at face value, and don’t contest them, that list is pathetic and serves to highlight Labour’s lack of achievements in government even if you ignore the concomitant disasters on all fronts.
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Interessanti li m’hemm xejn bejn l-1981 u l-1987.
Is this the Labour they want to give us in 2012?
Tal-msthija..semplici video SFACCAT.
Sorry D. I started watching the video but I gave up.
1981 to 1987?
Partit tal-Habba Gozz – minn dejjem u ghal dejjem.
How on earth did they forget Jum il-Helsien in 1979?
Why does clip stop at 1981? Is it because after 1981 election Labour was in government with less votes/more seats?
Many of the so-called achievements are “ordinaria amministrazione”!
That helped me remember the chain of monstrosities that we are still burdened with like Telemalta, Enemalta, Air Malta and others, albeit, some of them under different names now.
Amazing how the British Forces closure was not mentioned. Of course, people our age remember the Blue Sisters’ case, the numerous attacks on PN clubs etc.
However, as you well said, it just shows how pathethic the list of ‘achievements’ during the ‘glorious’ years of Dom Mintoff were.
In their long list of ‘achievements’ they could have also added the lower price of tonn taz-zejt, for good measure. Kif tista’ ma tibkix?
Nsew 1981 li serqu l-elezzjoni b minoranza ta’ voti 49% u baqaw fil gvern mhux 5 snin imma 5 snin u nofs.
1971-1987: Tkissir u hruq ta’ kazini Nazzjonalisti u l-bini tat-Times.
Swat, vendikazzjoni, transfers u arresti lil min b’xi mod kien isemma lehnu kontra ir- regim socjalista.
Xejn fil-hwienet, ikel tal-bulk buying, djar bla ilma u dawl u lanqas telefon. Toroq minghajr karozzi. Ghexieren ta’ eluf ta’ nies bla xoghol. Pulizija joqtlu lin-nies. Korruzzjoni kull fejn tmiss. Biza bla qies.
Bejn wicckhom u dak il-materjal li qabel kien jizbroffa Wied Ghammieq m’hemmx differenza.
Not related but whilst thoroughly enjoying yesterday’s Bondi+, I was wondering who the PL would put in Bondi’s place to produce such a high level interview. Maybe Saviour Balzan or the soon-to-be-pipped cruise ship magnate?
You say achievements between 1971 and 1987, and that is how it SHOULD have been. But clearly it stops at 1981. And we wonder why. Who knows? Are they trying to tell us that the Labour Party was not in government between 1981 and 1987?
I wonder what happened between 1981 and 1987.
1981 – MLP in power without having majority of votes leading to a constitutional crisis.
1982 – Improving relations with Libya and Korea. Malta and Libya had entered into a Friendship and Cooperation Treaty, in response to repeated overtures by Gaddafi for a closer, more formal union between the two countries; and, for a brief period, Arabic had become a compulsory subject in Maltese secondary schools
1983 – Labour Party General Conference in that same year appointed an uncontested Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici as party leader.
1984 – 1987 The Mifsud Bonnici years were characterized by political tensions and violence.
The length of the whole video would probably not suffice to highllight the achievements of the PN in one year only.
Pathetic.
Thanks for the warning – just looking at the first screen put me off the rest. I haven’t yet plucked up the courage to click on the play button. I’m already feeling nauseous
“infethu l-kindergarDDens”
It’s clearly a German word with a ‘t’, why would you still say ‘d’?
They forgot to mention the Pioneer Corps and Izra u Rabbi into which workers had no other option but to register, and which were under military discipline.
Izra u Rabbi
Bahhar u Sewwi
Dirghajn il-Maltin
Id-Dejma
Il-Pijunieri
X’izjed?
@La Redoute
How about ”ifrex u orqod”. That’s if we had the peace of mind, which we did not have.
What gall.
The set up of Mid-Med and BoV are an achievement, now. Tell that that to the BICAL and National Bank creditors.
[Daphne – BICAL has nothing to do with Mid-Med or Bank of Valletta. Mid-Med was Barclay’s and Bank of Valletta was the National Bank. BICAL is a separate story altogether.]
Sorry, my mistake.
What about Scicluna’s Bank and Tagliaferro Bank?
[Daphne – You mean the National Bank of Malta.]
No, I mean Scicluna’s Bank and Tagliaferro Bank. They were different entities altogether.
[Daphne – No, they were not, and I would know. They were incorporated into the National Bank of Malta. If you don’t believe me, read this: http://user.orbit.net.mt/fournier/MNhistory.htm ]
Well, what can you expect from Joseph Muscat’s former PA, promoted beyond his abilities?
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002827159919&sk=info
Next up: Mark Farrugia discovers his natal colour matching skills, as did Muscat’s predecessor’s driver.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/14/bernard-henri-l-vy-downgrade-moody-s.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_morning&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_morning&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
Thanks, Daphne. Finally someone nailed these assholes in a clear, concise manner. Hope he gets the recognition he deserves.
BHL usually talks a large amount of bollocks but he’s right on this one. As for recognition, and more of that and he would overdose. This fellow bedded Arielle Dombasle, for fark’s ache.
And Daphne Guiness, too.
What I like most is the way they mention the “setting Up” of BOV, MID-MED, TUG MALTA etc, as though these were new companies created by the Labour government, rather than private companies which were forcibly nationalised.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111214/opinion/Past-sins-of-the-fathers.398275
“Times, however, move on and that episode today seems far remote. The PL had, in fact, taken a fresh start and I dare say that no one nowadays can impute even remotely any wrongdoing to it. The vast majority of the political players of that period are today basically out of the scene.”
Jose Herrera should take a better look. Those political players could well be hiding behind the curtain. Not Karmenu Vella. He’s very much ‘in the scene’.
Where does Bical Bank fit in all this?
[Daphne – Bical Bank was closed down for legitimate reasons, and its owner-directors were convicted and imprisoned for years. It’s not the closing down of that bank which is a bone of contention but the dispersal of the owners’ assets for peanuts and the delay in reimbursing others.]
Daphne, forgive me for asking a simplistic question .
Didn’t the owners/directors of Bical Bank get fucked by the commies? ie, Dr. Zero et al?
[Daphne – If you mean in the closing down of the bank and the prosecution and imprisonment of the owners, then no, because there were serious irregularities. They did receive very bad treatment, however, in the dispersal of their assets by the appointed administrators, including KMB (not yet an MP at the time). Their estate was sold off for peanuts. Meanwhile, the bank’s creditors and depositors were left waiting.]
Thank you for the clarification.
@ Harry Purdie,
There are some details on Malta Today – when it was still a sort of newspaper. Sorry I cannot provide links but if you go to their archives you’ll hit the jackpot.
Now we have it from the perpetrators’ mouth.
Sixteen wasted years.
Twaqqghet kerreja u saret korsa ghaz-zwiemel.
Big deal.
Qtugh tad-dawl u l-ilma kwazi kulljum, sptarijiet minghajr tobba, qaghad spietat.
Vjolenza fahxija u korruzzjoni tat-twerwir.
Qorti Kostituzzjonali maghluqa.
They can only kid their own morons.
Just what one needs after a taxing day at work. The PL missing out on 13 December 1974 and 31 March 1979 is like the French forgetting Bastille Day and the English forgetting their bacon. Gensna failed. You have to feel for old Dom; a lifetime’s stuggle and sold short by his own people.
They failed to mention the bulk buying, the empty shelves at the stores, the violence, the corps of no future, high unemployment, the closing of church schools, malaise. blackouts, waterless homes.
Fjask totali.
Did not the PL say they were progressive and Karmenu Vella say on TV that we should not speak of the past – well their Nazi-like video does just that.