Mrs Bland isn’t such a good idea
Dom Mintoff’s daughter has managed to upset even the Labour Party’s former secretary-general, Jimmy Magro, who commented beneath her interview last Sunday on timesofmalta.com:
Ms Mintoff felt sad when AS called Mintoff a traitor. Did she feel sad when the Labout Government was brought down by his vote?
We worked so hard to be elected and were brought down in 22 months. Things would have been very different today of that vote did not go the way it did.
I can’t say I share Jimmy’s regret about the downfall of the Labour government in 1998. It made it possible for us to become EU citizens six years later, and you have to be pretty silly (sorry, Jimmy) to prefer another three years of government, however hard you worked for it, to that.
Even if, thanks to ‘AS’, the Labour Party and its supporters were dead set against becoming EU citizens back then, I hardly think they feel the same way now, as so many of them are rushing about grabbing what they can, starting with the current leadership incumbent.
But I do agree with Jimmy that Mrs Bland is off the wall.
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A political hot potato if there ever was one .
Things surely would have been different in Malta today, Jimmy, had AS succeeded in staying on in 1998.
We would not be EU members since AS froze our application.
We would still be using the Maltese lira, devalued 15% and probably heading for yet another devaluation.
We would still have massive unemployment and the best jobs would still be in low paying textile mills.
We would not have smelled a euro, let alone adopt it as our currency.
We would still be begging, scraping and letting our infrastructure and heritage buildings crumble to dust.
We would not have an e855 million injection from the EU since, we would have been after something called ‘Partnership’ which the EU has denied its existence repeatedly.
We would be paying for electricity many times over what AS had planned to charge when oil was selling for $12.00 as opposed to today’s price of $120.00 a barrel.
Where would we be without a billion euro EU grant? Back to the old days of Labour when Foreign Affairs meant organizing trips for Labour leaders to go begging funds door to door and make secret deals with Communist countries. Gaddafi would have the only monument in the world, in his memory.
Il-Malti jghid, “Mill mitluf hu li jista”, but as far as the Labour Party goes, it never learns and keeps repeating mistakes even kids in reception classes would not make. Joseph is a perfect example.
That’s what Yana Mintoff Bland and Labour elves should be pondering on and not about Dumink’s bocci.
For me Angus Black is not a real person. If he is so convinced about the PN why does he/she uses a psuedo name. What is the phobia?
[Daphne – Jimmy, why aren’t you using your full name? Yes, Angus Black is a real person. I have his real name and his real email address. I also recall that he used to post the exact same sort of comments using his real name on timesofmalta.com. Something must have happened. Who knows what? So many people are scared of your Labour Party.]