Come on Daphne, you must be having another surge of your usual bright hysterics. Mintoff was the worst thing ever happened to the PN and to some other draculas who sucked dignity from the many. Bye bye and enjoy the PN marmalja celebrations.

Why is he acclaimed as a hero by many? It is now very clear to me that right from the start Mintoff was no good for Malta.

Dawn nies ta’ veru li jafu l-istorja politika ta’ Malta mela dawk li jmorru jajtu viva l-Labour minghajr biss jafu x’gara fl-istorja, bhal dik l-avukata tal-General Workers Union Vella Cuschieri.

Issa misshom jiktbu u jghajru lil Daphne meta bis-sahha taghha qed jitaghlmu l-istorja preciza tal-partit Laburista. Anke Joseph Muscat ghandhu hafna x’jitaghllem u jinduna li zbalja li rega dahhal il-personalita’ u kunjom Mintoff fil-partit. Imma dawn kif jghidu ghal poter jaghmlu hbieb anke max-xitan.

They prefer to build their ideas on assumptions and idols rather than on facts. As the saying goes “il-fatti ma jmerihom hadd”; and I add “L-istorja ma jmeriha hadd”.

Well done, Daphne. JM should watch these before he goes to sleep; maybe he will learn something from them.

There is no argument; simply a recounting of historical facts.

[Daphne – Thank you. Please contribute further. I find this kind of thing interesting and many of my readers do too.]

In 1930, the Church issued a pastoral letter stating that those voting for the Constitutional Party and its allies (i.e. the Malta Labour party led by Boffa) during the forthcoming elections would be committing a grave sin. In view of these pressures on voters, the Constitution was suspended and the elections were not held. In fact it could be argued that the Church inadvertently helped Strickland retain a degree of power because his government was retained in a caretaker capacity.

Elections were held in 1933, with the threat of mortal sin still looming. However, Strickland, aware that he was heading for an electoral trouncing, apologised to the Church and all religious sanctions were removed a few days before the vote. However, both Strickland and the Labour Party did badly at the hustings.

[Daphne – A Jesuitical argument.]

Mr Farrugia, I think you’ve got the wrong end of the stick.

As you can see from the video, Mintoff gathered support when he rebelled against Boffa.

Mintoff then became leader and set the country spiralling towards the violent and chaotic mess it ended up in by 1987.

But the “Old Labour” Pawlu Boffa followers never made it back to the front line of the Labour Party. They never managed to stand up and denounce Mintoff and KMB.

The Labour Party of Pawl Boffa will never return. Mintoff managed to put an end to Dr Boffa’s ideals, out-looks and motivations. In their place there is nothing but envy that has become less and less relevant since equality is everywhere, opportunities are plentiful and one’s life is in one’s own hands.

From this festering rage and anger that has filled the PL ever since Mintoff’s time we will only get more of the same.

The same ideas, the same type of government and the same belief that it is Labour’s duty to rebel, rebellion being where the seeds of the current PL were sown. But what are they rebelling against?

And this is why the PL looks so ridiculous today. It has nothing to rebel against.

The only dictators we’ve ever had come from its ranks; there is no oppression of the poor and snobbery is viewed by people to be as bad as being a yob.

So it is always trying to invent something to rebel against. They are always trying to search for something to be angry about and feel oppressed by in order to direct their anger and jealousy at something.

Hence their reaction to VAT, their stance on the EU, their stories about people not eating meat and their preoccupation with the slogan GonziPN.

You might say that the PN supporters are the same, but we are not. I, for one, am tired of having to vote to protect my country rather than vote to improve my country.

And I am 100% positive that once we no longer have the Mintoffjan attitude within the PL, and once the PL owns up to its mistakes and its past, most if not all PN supporters will no longer vote with such a sense of urgency, and we can all finally go back to vote for ideas for our country’s future and not vote against people who want more of Mintoff’s spirit in the party.

However that will never be. Not for another three generations, I don’t think.

That’s what I’ve been thinking. He genuinely thinks he can redo ‘a Mintoff’.