Italy had the compromesso storico at the time. Moro’s DC and Berlingeur’s PC decided, as the two major parties, holding over 60% of the votes at the time, to perpetuate a vast coalition including liberals, socialists and republicans to avoid such event happening. Both Berlingeur and Moro had multiple assassination attempts.

Malta wasn’t under any risk, even because both Britain and Italy were wary of Gaddafi. Moro was actively involved with the British government to broker the republic, and had set the path to Italy’s protocol, as soon as the British would have pulled out.

We have a situation where, even in our schools, the truth about the horrendous way Labour, headed by Mintoff, ruined a blossoming economy, has been blotted out due to political correctness.

This post of yours Daphne, came just a couple of days after I had a conversation with my son about exactly the same subject.

My son knows all about what we endured in the 70s and 80s but, from two of the best private schools Malta has to offer, that is the way it was explained to him in economics class at 6th form level – that it was inevitable and essential for an economy to pass through those times.

I consider this a grave injustice, those youngsters who have nobody to explain what really happened will make the mistake of trusting Labour to their own detriment and everybody else’s.

First of… I want to make this clear although you are rushing to conclusion, I am not a labor and I support Alternativa, although if an election would happen now i would give my vote to labor to see gonzi wiped out from government :) So let’s make that clear… I am a Floater and I support who i see fit, And if i see someone as corrupted as Gonzi, i would use my vote to see him get down from government, and yes give a chance to labor..

Second… It was a typing mistake, I meant foot :) (which you seem to do alot of them.)

and Finally,
You told me to read up on history and get my facts right.. So let me tell you, if you have your facts so much right, Point me to the correct information:
1)Point me to the information with facts about that it wasn’t mintoff who gave the vote to women (and i mean the vote as is today ) and made women more equal.

[Daphne – You could have done so yourself through the very simple expedient of using the internet to find out who was prime minister in 1947, when women got the vote: http://www.doi.gov.mt/en/islands/prime_ministers/boffa_paul.asp . Mintoff became leader of the Malta Labour Party in 1949. When women got the vote, Mintoff was just a random MP, making pots of money by working as an architect for the War Damage Commission, rebuilding areas damaged through bombing. Now instead of getting angry with me, if I were you I would seize this opportunity to impress your friends with your superior knowledge. It will make you stand out from the crowd.]

2) Point me to the information about whatever you said that he had and incestuous relationship..

[Daphne – I did not say that Mintoff had an incestuous relationship. I explained to you that part of Mintoff’s efforts at removing Paul Boffa as Labour leader, so that he could replace him, involved a campaign of slander. Boffa had travelled abroad with his daughter and Mintoff’s supporters spread the rumour that he had shared a bedroom with her meaning, hint hint, that there was something amiss. In 1940s Malta, you can imagine what that meant.]

3) Point me to the information… Oh wait! i meant don’t point me to the information on how you got your A-Levels, Kids, Marriage and the other staff.

On the british thing, sorry but i don’t accept someone to have a training area for foreign military in my country… and as much as i heard there was another military training camp in Marsa, which i hear alot about from the Qormi people which is very close to Marsa..

[Daphne – Malta was a British military base, Seamus. Military bases have training areas. They do not take these training areas ‘from the people’. They pay rent for them. If you have a flat and let it out to somebody who is paying rent, you do not have the right to barge in and out of the flat and even less right to accuse the person, who is paying you rent, of taking the flat from you. The same principle applies here. After Malta ceased to be a British colony in 1964, the British stayed on with the equivalent of a rental contract and not by right. The contract ran from 1 April to 31 March every year. In 1979, Mintoff decided he would try to get them to pay more money when the contract was renewed. They said they didn’t want to pay more money, and they didn’t renew the contract. That’s why they left on 31 March 1979: because the contract was up and they didn’t want to renew it. Mintoff had lost face, but because he didn’t want to lose face in front of his supporters, he pretended he had ‘kicked out the British’. They believed him because they didn’t know the facts.]

I don’t get the information from my father, But from multiple people and some of them were nationalists..

[Daphne – It is a bad idea to get information from other people. Look it up for yourself. You can get leads from other people, but it’s always best to do your own reading and research. You are clearly curious about these things. You should turn this curiosity to your advantage and take a serious and proper interest in the subject. It might lead to something. If nothing else, it will make you a more interesting and well-rounded person.]

And last thing about your readers should know and shouldn’t know, i hope you tell your readers about how many times i commented here and you didn’t post them (no vulgarity or suck shit) for some odd reason and your readers didn’t come to see my comments and i hope this one doesn’t end like that ;) and an election is not when it due to, its when it should happen, so if a government makes a massacre, he should still govern till when the elections is due? Sorry i don’t want my country to be ran by a government where his own people are opposing him, gets caught in frauds and corruption time after time, and still says he’s so important for the country :)

[Daphne – I have posted all your comments. If I delete a comment, it’s usually because a third party has been dragged into the mix unnecessarily. ‘Makes a massacre’: this is not the correct translation of ‘aghmel massakru’. In any case, there is no ‘massakru’. Things are pretty good, but you will need to take an interest in foreign affairs to understand that. The prime minister is not being opposed by his own people. He – and the rest of the country – has a problem with two MPs who have psychological difficulties and who will not resign to make way for somebody who doesn’t. The government has not been engaged in fraud or corruption, still less ‘time after time’. Please begin reading newspapers properly and analysing information correctly.]

We didn’t have Onassis. We had millionaire Mintoff and Lorry the crook, both still worshipped by the PL’s top brass.

It would be interesting to know what those badges the women are wearing were.

And for all the faqar that they were meant to be living in, their arms would most certainly knock me down.

Let’s be realistic. During the 1960s to 1970s Malta was surrounded by fascists regimes in Greece, Spain, Turkey and Portugal (Italy was half fascist but would not admit it).

Locally we had a party, the PN, which was styled on these fascist regimes. Even the PN party tune is identical to an Italian fascist tune. If the PN remained in power in the 1970s we would have gone the way of these other Mediterranean countries. I wonder how freedom of expression would have fared?

[Daphne – That wouldn’t have been possible, Farrugia, because the British influence was too strong. It’s still very strong, which is why there is so much opposition to the Labour Party. Also, we did have our very own Fascist regime 1971 to 1987. Strange how you missed that. Perhaps because names are more important to you and the reality behind them?]

Not surprising, you comment that the PN wants to bring ‘Malta in the direction which was broken off in 1971’.

The way our PM voted on divorce legislation proves your comment right. Indeed, the PN wants to bring us back to an oligarchy reminiscent of Feudal Times. Even PN MPs are saying this.

[Daphne – I am talking about Europeanisation, Farrugia, not marriage law. You may have failed to notice that when your glorious Mintoff legislated for civil marriage, he specifically failed to do the obvious and legislate for divorce, which should be part of the same law.]

@ H.P. Baxxter

I just came across this: http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/search/malta%20integration

Should make an interesting read

I remember this day with pride as I was there with my friends at midnight.

I still remember the Mintoffian hordes shouting and making themselves obnoxious. They were positioned at the Phoenicia Hotel side with Jean Agius at the front shouting obscenities and leading the horde. Agius was at The Lyceum at the same time as I was.

I don’t think we risked conservative governments or a military junta. The internal split within the PN, between the republicans and Borg Olivier following independence, resulted in the formation of a liberal wing.

Malta had managed, unlike Greece and its military’s dabbling in politics, to strike the right balance thanks to a comprehensive civil service and a sound democratic system, not to mention British forces stationed on the island.

Mons.Gonzi’s reluctance to rush the process, even choosing to side with Britain, was something which made him extremely unpopular. Mintoff proved him right.

The Nationalists never altered their principles, they simply chose not to force a natural process.