Hey ta’ sapienza ,

A gift from Tas- Soho – The golden years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6PVPHxB8oA&feature=related

Enjoy

Are you serious Daphne. Partisan much? Fejn jaqbillek irrelevanti. Tiftahhru tant b Nerik Mizzi, irrelevant x qal u x ghamel issa.

[Daphne – ‘Partisan much?’ Spoken like a true chav. That’s not English, BC. Not even in England.]

I also came from a family of Stricklandjani.

In fact my grandfather was a candidate for Mabel’s party.

Thanks for the link as this is the only time I have seen any footage or heard lord Strickland speaking.

What the Labour Party did, said or thought is indeed very relevant. This is because the wonderful new cabinet that Joseph Muscat intends to impose on us in a few months is made up largely of people who were politically active at that time (dinosaurs).

Therefore there’s a very high chance that what they did, said or thought is still what they’ll do, say and think.

Lord Strickland vison was more progressive but lets face it in terms of those who wanted a self governing and Independant Malta , unrealistic .

Here we are a Tip to Trumpton :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQWVY0nqceA

But why do people like you keep harping about Mintoff did this and Mintoff did that and sometimes it turns out that Mintoff did not?

Mintoff/Gaddafi introduced social services and without Gaddafi Mintoff would have been screwed. No one would lend any money to Mintoff and the Maltese were not so well off that they could buy government bond issues. The majority did not know what bonds were anyway.

What is astonishing is that people over 50 must be suffering from an onset of early amnesia otherwise they would be able to remember what life was like in Mintoff’s time as compared to today. How many of them could afford to buy a new car? How many took an annual vacation abroad? How many went to restaurants more frequently other than, perhaps, on very special occasions? Hobz biz-zejt f’xatt il-bahar, forsi? How many owned their homes then? How many children wore hand-me-downs? Mur ghidilhom illum jilbsu ilbies mhux tad-ditta!

Joseph a self proclaimed Mintoffjan is ready to screw the country by creating an imaginary ‘instability’ crisis. The twerp has no idea what life was like under the two bit despot and yet he wants to be like him. Maybe he too was an infant member of the ‘Brigata’?

Mintoff ruined the Labour Party and it hasn’t recovered since.

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2012/01/the-underdog-party-governed-for-five-and-a-half-years-despite-losing-the-general-election/

You are right in claiming Mintoff did not extend the vote to women, but you re also wrong in saying that it was Boffa. Universal suffrage to anyone over 21 bar prisoners and the mentally unsound was part of the conditions of the 1947 constitution.

Strictly speaking therefore, it was Westminster (which would have had to approve the constitution after it had been drafted by the colonial office) which gave Maltese women the vote. That said the National Assembly of 1945-47 (which was composed wholly of Maltese members) had recommended granting the vote to women in their draft constitution which was eventually presented to the British government.

Either way I agree with you that Westminster (then under Attlee’s Labour government) would not have approved a constitution which limited voting to males, whatever the Maltese draft said.

True. But as deputy leader of the party and deputy PM, he would have had more influence on party and government policy and direction. I am not saying that the merit should go to him rather than Boffa; just that he would have probably been part of that decision more than other MPs or other party officials.

[Daphne – Who was it who took us into the European Union – Eddie Fenech Adami, or….? I’ll bet you can’t even remember for certain who was deputy PM then. Don’t be silly. If ever there was a man who despised and disrespected women it was Dom Mintoff. He treated all the women in his life like dirt, and that’s a good indicator on the subject of where a man stands.]