Comments on: A lecture on The Family, from the daughter of a spectacularly dysfunctional one

By: Lomax

Lomax — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:00:13 +0000

Two days on and I still feel insulted by this stranger’s – given that she doesn’t know our language and she spent her adulthood a abroad – speech.

I really can’t stop saying “kif ma jisthux?”

By: Ghoxrin Punt

Ghoxrin Punt — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:46:52 +0000

What is Joseph trying to do by harking back at the ‘good’ old Mintoffian times?

Are things so bad at Mile End that he has to resort to Mintoff’s daughter to keep his team together?

Does he have so little confidence in himself and his ideals that he has to resort to Mintoff to get the ‘masses’ behind him? Where is this ‘new’ Labour? Looks rather old and dated to me.

By: Ganna

Ganna — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:30:18 +0000

Yana Mintoff’s mother knew what real poverty was, thanks to Yana Mintoff’s father.

By: Neil Dent

Neil Dent — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:17:30 +0000

Strange how she presumably wrote that whole speech out herself, revised and edited it too I assume, and then read it out to her dad’s admirers as if it suddenly appeared on the sheet before her in Japanese!

Who the hell are they trying to kid?

By: Macduff

Macduff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:09:36 +0000

Wasn’t Moira Mintoff a British aristocrat? Why on Earth did she stay?

[Daphne – Because she had no money of her own and nothing to go back to. Life was tough for women in those days. That’s why so many women stayed in terrible marriages and now don’t. And she did leave him once, anyway: she went back to England and it made the headlines there. But the massive efforts to persuade her to return were successful.]

By: Stanley J A Clews

Stanley J A Clews — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:00 +0000

Spouting sh*t and throwing it around are just the same for a Mintoff.

By: fran

fran — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:12:44 +0000

Moira Mintoff was a friend of my grandmother who was English too, and she often turned up on her doorstep crying because of the way Mintoff treated her and the misery she had to live in. These people are unbelievable !

By: L. Gatt

L. Gatt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:06:54 +0000

In reply to Dee.

Yes, I remember that because the topless lady involved was a colleague of mine – at my “work phase” job during university days.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:46:23 +0000

First the hand-gun, soon the fist-bump:

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By: TROY

TROY — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:55:08 +0000

And we thought ‘Yanatorousus Rex’ was extinct. My.