Compulsory reading for members of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti and brainwashed individuals
From the correspondence pages of The Times, today:
From David Healey, Stockport, UK
I REMEMBER FREEDOM DAY
My association with Malta goes back to 1972, so when I read comments about Freedom Day I cannot control a wry smile.
In 1973, when I read that Britain intended to withdraw all forces in 1974 I shouted to the sky with joy. I was then later disappointed to find that Nato and Dom Mintoff wanted forces to stay in Malta until 1979.
Britain explained it could no longer afford the upkeep of the base and proposed that some other Nato country should provide the men and money.
Mr Mintoff then stated that he wanted British forces to stay because, as he put it, “we know them”.
When 1979 arrived, Mr Mintoff said he wanted a “flag lowering ceremony”. Lord Mountbatten replied that Britain lowered the Union flag in 1964 when Malta obtained its independence but he would be happy to lower the naval ensign, which is what happened.
After British forces finally left the island, the only freedom I noticed was the freedom of one section of society to intimidate and attack the other section.
After Mr Mintoff left office we had Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici who set Malta’s economic growth back about 20 years. In the end, Malta was reduced to bartering for unnecessary imports. Radio and black and white TV (colour was not necessary) was controlled by the ruling party as was Chinese chocolate which I am sure Mr Mintoff didn’t eat.
My wife and I arrived in Malta on the eve of the election which brought Eddie Fenech Adami to power and looking down from the plane the island was in semi-darkness as though an air raid was expected.
Talking to people later it was obvious that they were afraid to express an opinion about the election in case they were overheard. I thought “thank God we don’t have to live under this”.
All I have stated above are historical facts, which can be checked.
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“After British forces finally left the island, the only freedom I noticed was the freedom of one section of society to intimidate and attack the other section.”
This is what Dom’s freedom was all about, Mrs Bland.
All those I knew who flew into Malta during the Mintoffian and KMB regimes commented on the startling sight from the plane of the pitch darkness enveloping Malta except for the airport area.
I can imagine Mountbatten’s look on hearing the great leader’s request.
Right now on ONE radio, the moderate liberal modern Labour candidate Edward Zammit Lewis is up in arms against GonziPN for their criticism of AST as the face of NEW Labour’s foreign policies.
Zammit Lewis thinks that AST is idoneju u jithoqqlu u jixraqlu this position.
Some one pleeeeeeease record this programme right now and listen to what AST himself is saying. It is surreal.
“Zammit Lewis thinks that AST is idoneju u jithoqqlu u jixraqlu this position”
Does Dr. Joe Mifsud (ex P.L. International Sec.) think likewise?
Now that we’re on the subject of lights and darkness
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg
Do we see a pattern here?
According to AST on Labour radio right now, the Libyans they met during their recent visit told them that the current government of Libya distrusts a prime minister who a few days after kissing Gaddafi condemmed him and supported them.
According to AST, the Libyans are worried that Lawrence Gonzi may yet sell them off again when the opportuinity arises.
Super One radio this morning: somebody phones in to complain that the price of a ballpoint pen went up by five euros. Another says she will have to begin walking to work because petrol is unaffordable and so are bus fares. Another is desperate because she can no longer cook for the family because the price of gas and electricity is more than she can pay.
Forsi ahjar jghidu lil Silvio Parnis biex jibda jibghatilhom il “privates” tieghu mela ha jkollom biex imorru ghax-xoghol, jipprovdi aktar pastizzi, Black Forest gateau u te waqt il-coffee mornings tieghu, u minflok jaghti imsielet tal-perli bhala rigali, jaghti il-biros u xi cooked meal.
draw your own conclusions
http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:MLT&dl=en&hl=en&q=malta+gdp+statistics#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:MLT&ifdim=region&hl=en&dl=en
[Daphne – Yes, shocking, isn’t it.]
Why? It shows very rapid economic growth, in particular between 1971 and 1981.
I presume Jeffrey will now take on Google and the World Bank for Malta’s geographical categorisation.
Persecution, intimidation and lack of basic human rights were synominous with Mintoff’s years.
I hope Yana Mintoff reads your blog, Daphne. She is really ignorant of our history from 1971 to 1987.
Maltese people must not reward MLP. They should be permanently repudiated for the misery they brought during the infamous 16 years.
David Healey declares that when in 1987 he arrived in Malta on the eve of the election which brought to power Eddie Fenech Adami television sets and programmes were black and white (colour was not necessary). Colour television sets were available and local television transmissions in colour were introduced way back when Dom Mintoff was Prime Minister of Malta. If this gentleman is not colour blind, he is either a dreamer or an inventor of declarations which lack credibility.
[Daphne – Mr Mizzi, colour television sets were made by Grundig, distributed by Xandir Malta, cost Lm400 each (for comparison purposes, my take-home salary was Lm120 a month; my friends earned less because they were on ‘reduced hours’ or ‘part-time’) and you had to bribe a minister or get the say-so from Karmenu Vella to get ON THE WAITING-LIST. So no, colour televisions were not ‘available’. I lived in one of Malta’s most affluent neighbourhoods (relatively speaking, because nobody was affluent in those days except cabinet ministers) and the only colour television in the street was owned by the German diplomat who lived next door to us. When Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in the wedding of tne century in July 1981, most of the women on the block crowded into their house to watch it, and some even stood in the street and watched through the window. These, I hasten to add, were women from what we today call socio-economic group A, and what Mintoffjani then called tal-pepe or tal-h*ra or even tan-n*jk. Oh, and I should add that we watched it on RAI, because Xandir Malta was damned if it was going to transmit the wedding of the imperialist hakem.]
Mr Mizzi, when my old mother bought a colour television in 1986 after inheriting some money , it cost Lm400 and I also had to pay the secretary of an ex- Mintoffian Minister, well known for his chameleon characteristics, Lm50 to allow her to acquire it.
The only other colour tv sets that were allowed in legally were of those who could prove that they had lived abroad for more then three years and had acquired the set when abroad.
There were several other people who owed a colour television set who went to bed at night wondering whether the SMU would barge into their homes at dead of night in search of clandestine colour tv sets.
Christmas of 1987 was the first Christmas when anyone born during the Golden Mintoffian age, saw for the first time the main roads of all our towns and villages decorated with fairy lights.
H.Mizzi might have a point,
Karmenu Vella was doing his utmost to provide us with colour TV’s, even dropping them off Ghadira to spare us customs duty.
Yes, they were available, but imported illegally and sold from homes like San Gwann. You went there, saw the TV, had cash in hand and take it.
But you had to know “friends of friends” or some “baruni” Mr Mizzi. And when one was visited by friends, one had to hide the colour TV. Tad-dahk jew tal-biki?
[Daphne – Seleco, that’s it, not Grundig.]
Dear H Mizzi, if you had a colour TV at the time, you were either a supporter of the partit tal-haddiema (double sic), greased some palms or got your set on the black market.
I lived in the same street as Xandir Malta and remember the long queues forming early before dawn, with people hoping to get their hands on a Grundig set by paying an extortionate amount of money …. provided of course their name in the typed list as consulted by the Xandir apparatchik was not be marked in blue ink, meaning they were untouchables.
My father joined that queue on no less than three different occasions and I still vividly remember the expression of humiliation on his face every time he returned from the TV expedition to announce that we would have to make do with the old Telefunken black and white set.
So yes, technically colour TVs were available during Mintoff and that other cuckoo clock KMB’s time, but only to the select few. Haddiema like my father, who bust their ass every day to put food on their family’s table, were denied such ‘luxuries’ unless they wanted to resort to the black market.
Many such rackets were run by well-known lejber supporters – x’ma jhobbuhx lil dumink, ghamilhom sinjuri.
And please, do not think that all Maltese are memory-challenged like you: we know very well how things were at the time.
Those events remain vivid in our memories and have been brought out of the cupboard and dusted by the reintegration into the MLP of a lot of the protagonists and perpetrators of that time.
Not to mention that video recorders (VCRs) were banned, even though we had video rental shops. That means that a select few could have them, legal or not, and even enjoy a video (copied, of course) as they were the ones that could afford it. The cheapest black-market VCR was around Lm350.
Daphne, for once you are wrong. Colour televisions (for those who were able to bribe to obtain them) cost Lm500 each when they were first introduced in Malta.
[Daphne – Oh, so MORE expensive even than I remember them. Lm500. Imagine that. I took home Lm120, for comparison purposes by the Labour Youth Forum. I had a friend who took home Lm80 a month.]
Later on, when the price was reduced and I tried to obtain one for my parents, I remember that the Xandir Malta official asked me if I had a car. I said yes, but asked why. Because, he said, I had better sleep in it outside Xandir Malta from the night before so that I would be one of the first to register for the purchase of a colour TV.
And in fact that is what people did. I was so angry that I went straight home (I lived in the 4th district) and I met my next-door neighbour who was talking to my mother.
I blurted out the injustice of it all. Do you want a colour TV? she asked. ‘I will get you one tomorrow’. And, true to her word, our new colour TV arrived the next day, while the other people were still queueing up. I don’t have to tell you her political colour, do I?
I flew in for the first time in ’76. Thought the pilot had over-shot the island and was landing in the Tunisian desert.
[Daphne – The coast road between St Julian’s and St Paul’s Bay had no lighting at all. Driving along it at night was a real hazard and the number of accidents there was phenomenal. And we’re speaking here of Malta’s main ‘tourist’ area.]
I flew out for the first time in 1994. That was KMB’s legacy of prosperity.
Daphne, I remember driving on the coast road back then. Scared me sh-tless.
Baxxter, you continue to impress. Just to think that you were imprisoned on the rock until 1994, however, developed a superior intellect. Your secret should be shared among the commie morons.
There’s no secret. I just went through life with my eyes open.
Why should FZL members and brainwashed people care? David Healey might be the fifth stooge writing under strict instructions from the Office of the Prime Minister.
[Daphne – You sound like a North Korean school teacher, K Farrugia. I know for a fact that David Healey is correct, because I was there (and not brainwashed). The facts about the withdrawal of British forces are borne out by documents. As for Malta being in pitch darkness – yes, that’s a fact. The Nationalist Party’s most successful newspaper advertisement in the 1987 election campaign, as I recall, was a black page with the words: Vote Labour. Or similar.]
Beg your pardon Madame, but Mr .Farrugia sounds more like one of those bright sparks currently illuminating the non- political non-aligned Fondazzjoni Idejat.
Yes, k farrugia. I work at the Office of the Prime Minister, where I hold the rank of Advisor Plenipotentiary. I earn a salary of 95k per year, plus perks. That is why I waste my time on this blog instead of enjoying my dosh.
My dear k farrugia, the people who work under the instruction of the Office of the Prime Minister are the famous “inner circle”. They don’t care who’s in power, one way or the other, and you’ll never find them commenting here. They’re living the high life while you and I quibble over a few votes. We’ll get screwed anyway, they’ll climb the grand staircase of life anyway.
Note that my comment was ironic and does not reflect my real thoughts on the subject. The “stooges” comment was a reference to Pullicino Orlando who some months back referred to Daphne as one of the four stooges orchestrating one tonality as instructed from the OPM.
Do you really think that some socialist or brainwashed Mintoffjan would change his mind just because some British man wrote this letter?
They would consider the thoughts expressed as ‘indhil barrani’.
Old-time socialists are especially wary of foreign people and consider them, by default, as enemies to the welfare of Malta. I confirmed this some days ago while listening to Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici on his Smash TV programme complaining how the two major television providers are owned by foreign companies, as if these would have any interest in restricting the content they transmit to households in exchange for some political or commercial gain.
Re colour TV sets and Princess Diana’s wedding: I recall walking through Zachary Street and a very sizeable crowd was watching the wedding outside the Grundig shop. The TV set was not for sale, but probably brought to the shop so people could watch the royal wedding on a colour TV.
Tal-biki.
The imagination of Mr David Healey and your half-truth amount to a sheer lie.
[Daphne – Poor you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-FQ_kHPqk4 ]
There were Grundig TV sets and they were imported by a company partially or wholly owned by Joe Camilleri who was also Mintoff’s private secretary. The TV sets were ‘assembled’ in a Zebbug warehouse.
Imported TV ‘parts’ had less import duty on them than complete TVs. The tax paid on each TV was Lm100 (that’s €233, which is double the average wage of a week) that’s 20% Mintoff Added Tax.
[Daphne – Lm100 was almost four weeks’ wages, actually. The minimum wage at the time was around Lm28. And that was just the TAX.]
I preferred waiting to choose and buy a colour TV set rather than buying a one-size-fits-all TV set.
In 1987, I bought a 21-inch Sony colour TV for Lm300.
I forgot who brought the Seleco factory. Was it Karmenu?
All this ‘Helsien’ thing was always a farce. Doesn’t anyone remember the big sign put up on the entrance of Kordin Prisons reading “Viva il-Helsien”?
Daphne dear, when both Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici were Prime Ministers, Grundig colour television sets
were available and programmes were locally transmitted in
colour. The imagination of David Healey and your half truth amount to a sheer lie.
[Daphne – I was aive and an adult at the time, H. Mizzi. I know exactly what I’m talking about.]
Mr. Mizzi, colour tvs might have been available but they were affordable only by the select few because their prices were artificially inflated and also because access was restricted.
There was a university too, but it was available on the basis that you got your ’20 points’ and were approved for entry by politicians. Chocolate was available, too, if you knew which bar sold it on the black market for 10 times its price in the real world.
In the same way banks were nationalised on the basis that it was for the ‘common’ good, and in the same way parastatal companies were created off the hard work of the Maltese.
Trust me, it’s not imagination but fact.
I was alive and an adult too. Prior to 1987 colour television was locally accessible and programmes were produced and transmitted in colour by Xandir Malta, received and viewed by the Maltese televiewers. I know exactly what I am talking about confirming that the imagination of David Healey and your version amount to a sheer lie.
[Daphne – Yes, of course there were colour broadcasts, H Mizzi. That’s not the point. The point is, 99% of the population had black and white TV sets or none at all.]
The point is that colour television sets were locally available to watch programmes produced and transmitted in colour.
Definitely, Daphne dear, your calculated percentage of how many Maltese televiewers had a colour television is by far a miscalculation amounting to a sheer lie.
[Daphne – Yes, H Mizzi, and Levi’s jeans and LP records of rock music from the ‘west’ were available in the Soviet Union.]
Aqtaghli kurzita’ trid? It-television tal-kulur tieghek kif xtrajtu dak iz-zmien, xi process ghaddejt minnu u kemm hallast ghalih (inkludi l-hlasijiet kollha pls)?
Vera king tal-bullshit siehbi. Insomma, trid tkun Laburist biex tohrog b’dawn il-bahnanati u tispera li minn ghaddha mill-esperjenzi tieghu jinsa kollox u f’daqqa jibda jemmen xi miskin tal-kwalita’ tieghek.
The fact that you have to insist on a design intent, H Mizzi, without admitting to the actual workings of the plan, indicates how isolated your regime was from reality.
When ideology refuses to acknowledge feedback as an essential component, a political system is doomed to fail.
In other words, if you have to insist that the farce created by Mintoff was a nominal attempt at market economics, where do these stories come from?
I can tell you my mother refused to buy a set, she was damned if she was going to bribe anyone and wanted a Loewe Opta anyway.
You call them lies.
We call it the great socialist experiment.
Karmenu Vella calls it the ‘golden years’.
I paid a soldier who used to stand guard at Xandir Malta Lm40 to get a television set. He gave me a slip of paper and told to go to Xandir Malta offices in Tower Road to get it.
This guy made thousands, yes, thousands. He was one of the very few who could get you a TV.
When colour TVs were first sold in Malta, Xandir Malta was the only distributor. Later on, a few other distributors were selected and these used to earn LM100 from every TV they sold. (Cost price was LM500).
I can still remember one distributor from Paola, the only one in the district, boasting that he had distributed 100 tv sets in one day and therefore earned LM10,000 in a single day. That amount was, and still is, a fortune to earn in a single day. 500 euro weekly increase is peanuts when compared to it.
@H.Mizzi
The sheer lie is yours in saying that prior to 1987 we could get colour television sets in Malta, suggesting that you could just go out and buy one for a normal sum of money.
Mela biex nghidlek, f’Mejju ta 1986 jien mort il-Public Works ma habib tieghi “Mintoffjan” biex jitkellem ghalija (dak iz-zmien il-queue kien ta madwar elf persuna) ghal TV tal-kulur.
Jekk ghandek amment, int kont haj u adult, missek tiftakar sew minn kien Ministru dak iz-zmien. Kif dhalna ghand is-segretarji (kienu tnejn….pjuttost minfuhin dawn), il-habib tieghi introducieni ghalkemm ma kienx hemm ghalfejn ghax dawn kienu joghqodu fl-istess triq tieghi, hekk inzerta.
Mela lill-habib tieghi jghidulu in-numru tal-bieb, tat-triq u li jien kont gej minn familja Nazzjonalista.
U nahseb m’hemmx ghalfejn inkompli. Dik hi l-verita’ sur H.Mizzi.
The MLP sectional committees used to be consulted as to who should be allowed to buy a colour television.
Soon after 1987, the PN media published correspondence between the Ħaż Żebbuġ committee and minister Philip Muscat. if I remember correctly the minister had a list of persons who had applied for a tv set and the committee marked all those who were Nationalist so they would be passed over.
In the late seventies, all European national stations outside the Iron Curtain transmitted in colour, EXCEPT for Malta’s.
When I travelled to West Germany in 1976 I watched television in glorious technicolour and then zapped to the dreary, grainy uninspiring East German productions similar to the crap Dardir Malta had got us accustomed to.
Anyone living away from Malta during the Mintoffian golden era could not but notice the uncanny and worrisome similarities in the lifestyle for the AVERAGE citizen in Malta and that in the deprived, communist East.
Imagine how much worse off we would have been had Mintoff and his infamous six points triumphed during the politico-religious crises of the sixties at a time when the cold war was at its worse and the biggest communist political party outside of the USSR was next door in Italy.
We would have ended up part and parcel of the communist east, right up till the end of the cold war in 1989.
David Healey’s imagination is not worthwhile reading far from compulsory reading. It lacks credibility. Daphne dear, you
are confusing the 1970’s/1980’s with the golden 1960’s.
George Borg Oliver was throughout the 1960’s Prime Minister.
It was during both those Nationalist Administrations that
“99% of the population had black and white TV sets or
none at all”. During the golden 1960’s transmissions by
RAI and Malta Television (MTV) only could be locally
received and viewed on black and white television screens.
Moreover, during the golden 1960’s, most salaries amounted
to twenty eight liri Lm28 monthly. Daphne dear, if you
compare this salary with what you were taking home
when Dom Mintoff was Prime Minister, you were taking
home 4 times as much or 400% more than when George
Borg Oliver was Prime Minister. Furthermore, nowadays
there is a Nationalist Administration and there are people earning locally an equivalent amount in euro to what you
used to earn in the 1970’s and 1980’s. How difficult it is
for these people to make both ends meet in their current situations. It is very much harder for them than David
Healey or you may imagine.
[Daphne – Part of that secret agreement AST signed with North Korea must have involved brainwashing.]
Brainwashing, followed by spin-drying at high speed.
Daphne dear, ask for information about North Korea to Lawrence
Gonzi. In 1991 he was the last visitor leading a Maltese delegation
in Pyongyang – North Korea. Incidentally last year 2011, twenty years later, Lawrence Gonzi was the last visitor leading a Maltese
delegation to meet Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Prime Minister
Lawrence Gonzi seems willing to meet and sign agreements with despotic dictators.
[Daphne – Please go away, H. Mizzi. There are other websites which cater to your needs. I’m not a politician, I don’t need your vote, and so I don’t have to tolerate you or be nice to you. There’s a good little community going on the comments board at maltatoday, and an even livelier troupe at timesofmalta.com.]
Yes of course, he attended a conference along with political parties from across the globe.
The early 90s were a time when communism had just gone belly up, Bush was signing nuclear disarmament with Gorbachev off Marsaxlokk.
North Korea had been accepted into the international community to help relax tension with the south and induce democratic reforms.
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t that Joe Mizzi with Lawrence Gonzi?
http://www.orizzont.com.mt/Issues/20042012/8a.jpg
The photo shows Lawrence Gonzi as a member of one of the parliamentary groups.
@ H.Mizzi
Tajba, mela issa ghax kulhadd tak risposta u ghalaqlek halqek fuq il-perjodu “prior to 1987” qlibt id-diska ghal 1960s? U min fl-Ewropa kellu TVs tal-kulur fis-60s?
Brian , fl-1970 kien diga beda jidher xi TV tal-kulur ghal bejgh. Kien hemm wiehed Triq-Zakkarija go showroom; kien Blue Spot (Blaupunkt illum?).
Imbaghad fl-1980 kont rajtu fix-showroom ta’ Grech, Triq Fleur De Lys Birkirkara. Ta’ min kien ma setghax ibieghu.
@ H. Mizzi
If ever you end up having to sell your brain, you can always advertise it as brand new and never used.
As to the claim of you being an adult during those years; the feeling you give is that you were either not born yet or have been dead since.
@Brian 14 Hadd ma rnexxilu jghalaqli halqi u kull ma wassalt huma fatti li hadd ma jista’ jichadhom inkluza Daphne li tant
qeghda turi li hija biased politikament li nnutli toqghod tghid
li ma hijiex persuna ghamja bil-politika ghax fl-ahhar mill-ahhar kellha turi kemm hija ntolleranti u stendniti nfittex websites ohra
ghaliex ma setghatx tmeri s-sewwa mgharuf minn min ghex
iz-zmienijiet tas-60,70 u 80 forsi meta int Brian kont ghandek ma twelidx. Ahna li ghexna dawk iz-zminijiet u ghadna hajjiena inhossuna f’sesina sal-lum u altru milli ma ahnhiex brainwashed. Ghoqod attent li ma ssirx brainwashed u intoleranti bhala
Daphne Caruana Galizia.
@Brian14 Hadd ma rnexxilu jghalaqli halqi u kull ma wassalt huma fatti li hadd ma jista’ jichadhom inkluza Daphne li tant qeghda turi li hija biased politikament li nnutili toqghod tghid
li ma hijiex ghamja bil-politika ghax fl-ahhar mill-ahhar kellha
turi kemm hija ntolleranti u stedniti nfittex websites ohra ma setghatx tmeri s-sewwa mgharuf minn min ghex iz-zmienijiet tas-sittinijiet, sebghinijiet u tmenijiet, meta forsi int Brian kont ghadek ma twelidx. Ahna li ghexna dawk iz-zmienijiet u ghadna hajjien inhossuna f’sensina u niftakru l-fatti li sehhew minn dawk iz-zmienijiet sal-lum u altru milli ma ahniex brainwashed. Oqghod attent li ma ssirx brainwashed u intolleranti bhal
Daphne Caruana Galizia.
H Mizzi During the M and KMB years it was even a privilege to have a wash. Sometimes we had water yet no electricity so we heated water on the stove. Yes we had a colour tv – it was contraband.
The sooner Labour comes to really understand the wrongs it committed then the sooner we shall have a decent opposition. Until then we keep on getting Hobsons choice come election time.
@ H.Mizzi
Perswas li jekk intik twegiba ghal dak li ghedt int hawn fuq, terga taqleb l-istorja jew fuq zmien zemzem, jew fuq id-dinosawri jew fuq Franco Debono.
Biex inkun ghedtlek kollox, jien ktibt sentenza ohra fl-ahhar kumment tieghi lilek u propju ghax Daphne mhihiex brainwashed u ntolleranti, izda ta’ l-affari taghha ghogobha thassru.
@Brian14 In the1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s the German PAL and the French SECAM existed throughout Europe. It was a Labour
Administration which introduced in Malta both television sets and transmissions in colour. Daphne dear, how come that thousands
queued and puchased locally coloured television and “99% of
the population had black and white TV sets or none at all”.
Misinformation, Daphne dear, is a sheer lie.
[Daphne – Thousands queued, but hundreds got. You know, like at GUM.]
It is evident, according to statistics, that thousands had a colour television prior to 1987 when there was a Labour Administration.
The imagination of David Healey and your biased illusions do not hold ground.
If H Mizzi is not a wanker, wankers do not exist.
@Xejn sew. Bhal xejn tahseb li matul is-sittax il-sena li Malta kienet immexxija minn Amministrazzjoni Labursta ma sar xejn sewwa fis-snin sebghin. Nowadays if you feel you are living in wonderland or rotting in your politically biased illusions, as Daphne Caruana Galizia brews up her comments in this website, you are hibernating in cuckoo’s land. Illum jekk jidhirlek li hemm xi haga li ghandek bzonnha, anke jekk ma ghandekx dritt ghalija, kull ma ghandek taghmel mur sad-Dar Centrali tal-PN, Pieta. Tmurx f’xi dipartiment tas-Servizz Pubbliku izda ara x’taghmel u iltaqa ma Dr Simon Busuttil halli jwasslek ghand il-Prim Ministru Lawrence Gonzi li mhux jikkoncedilek biss li taqta ix-xewqa tieghek izda li ta’ dak il-pjacir li ma ghandek l-ebda dritt ghalih jistenna li fl-elezzjoni geneali li gejja tivvota lilu jew lil Partit tieghu
GonziPN.
During the time of your dear kleptomaniac government, eveything was ‘ebav bort’ (bil-Lorry specjalment) and we were really living in Switzerland in the Med. U kullhadd jemmnek tafx.
It-tajba hi li kieku int kont Nazzjonalist dak iz-zmien u kont tikkritika lil-gvern bil-mod (anke jekk stupidu) li qed taghmel int illum, kienu jaghsruk qisek laringa.
Illum xi hadd bhal Gonzipn u Simon busuttil, tajjeb jew hazin, jaghmlu sforz u joqoghdu jisimghu il-qrid ta’ nies li jieklu imma jgergru xorta, inkluz xi miskin tal-kwalita’ tieghek – ghax fi zmien Dumink tant kont tiekolha tajjeb ghax l-unika kwalifika li kellek kienet li twerzaq viva s-salvatur u issa tara l-girien li ghandhom iktar kapacita’ u jmorru ahjar minnek.
Imma xi hadd bhalek li dak iz-zmien kien ipappiha tajjeb taht gvern halliel u awtokratiku ma jista’ jifhem qatt. wanker kont ghadek u tibqa’ (issa u fil-futur bil-viagra).