She s definitely better looking than you Daphne because you look like a scarecrow !!!!

Exactly. M’hemmx x’taghmel, din ohra ghal go l-Iskip.

Let’s not blame her, because that’s the environment in which she grew up..

No.

Hint: three words and a proposition (Adjective, plural noun, preposition, proper noun)

My mum was different cos she was not ‘ tal-Labour’ and she did not go to coffee mornings with the rest of the neighbours.

Instead she preferred to drive to Sliema and have a coffee and chat with her friends, who of course like her were not ‘ tal-Labour’.

I went to a private school but I feared I would not finish my education there because the government was threatening the church schools.

I was afraid to say my parents supported the Nationalist Party because I lived close to a government estate and they were all die-hard Labour. Those days they would ask you ‘ inti labour jew PN ?’ after they asked you ‘ Hey what is your name?’

Now I am disappointed in the PN. Yes it s true. I will not hide that fact. But I can’t forget my teenage years of deprivation from everything starting from education to toothapaste.

“Mietna”?. Shame, Antoine, shame!

In the 80s (pre 1987 of course), you might have been considered for a job in a ‘taks fors’, or ‘pijunieri’, all this because our leaders at the time were so good, they had so much foresight.

In the pre ’87 years you got beat up for reading ‘in-Taghna” (and yes the name was changed from In-Nazzjon Taghna because everything was controlled) Yes pre ’87 you got beat up for expressing an opinion. Pre ’87 you had to pay extra to get a colour tv. Pre ’87. In the pre ’87 years at secondary school Arabic was compulsory….yes Arabic so that we could please our blood brother none less than Ghaddafi. In those glorious years they say that il-kaxxa ta Malta was full. So??!! Nowadays they tell us that when the PN got elected in 87 they found the money ready and started spending.

Bloody hell they should have started earlier. And you know what? the ‘full’ kaxxa ta Malta was not even enough for all the things that we lacked under socialist governments. We had to borrow yes, because the full kaxxa ta Malta would never have been enough to pay for a new Airport, a new Power Station, a completely revamped and created infrastructure especially in the telecommunications sector, new roads everywhere, IT, and so many more things that have made Malta rise from the doldrums and be respected once again.

One last thing and this is important. Today we are being told not to keep mentioning those days because we have to l ook forward. yes of course but for Labour supporters it hasn’t changed, because they were free to speak their mind under Labour without the fear of getting beaten up and now they still do. For PN supporters it wasn’t ……not until 1987.

You did not understand me – the argument is that even if the person was not there or couldn’t care less, bad things still happened. Sant was talking about some other happenings during the 70s probably.

Martin, just for curiosity’s sake, are you the Martin Borg aka balky aka thor aka TYOM site contributor?

[Daphne – Yes. Il-vera miskin.]