Wenzu celebrates the signing of the lease as well as Britain’s refusal to renew
Isn’t this just incredible?
This screen-shot is from Wenzu Mintoff’s Facebook wall.
For years the Labour Party has sold its supporters the amazing lie that the British left their military base in Malta because Dom Mintoff fought them out and won.
There are still tens of thousands of people around who don’t know that the British left on 31 March 1979 because that was the day their lease on the base, signed seven years earlier, expired. Mintoff had implored them to renew it, but when they said OK, maybe, he upped the price to an exhorbitant sum and they said no, we don’t really need it that much after all.
After which, he went nuts, panicking and calling in Gaddafi for money. And that’s how we become Libya’s vassal state.
Now here’s his nephew Wenzu, who edits the Labour Party’s newspaper, uploading on his Facebook wall this photograph of uncle Dom and Lord Carrington signing the seven-year lease contract in 1972, and PRESENTING THIS AS THE GLORIOUS AND JOYOUS FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM.
Let me get this straight: which bit are they supposed to celebrate, the signing of the contract or the end of the contract?
And what are they supposed to do about the bit where Mintoff wanted the contract renewed and Britain refused? Oh I see. We’re supposed to pretend that didn’t happen.
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Parenti serpenti.
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Does Mark Montebello know all about this? And how old was he when KMB took the Dockyard “democracy of the workers” to smash up the Curia in front of the Police HQ?
[Daphne – He was 20.]
It was the “aristocracy of the workers” who did that as well as beat up innocent people including women and old men at Tal Barrani.
The “democracy of the workers” were those who burnt down the Times and ransacked Eddie Fenech Adamí’s house and beat the shit out of the doctors at St. Lukes Hospital who were following their union’s legitimate directives.
They are to be distinguished from the “soldiers of steel” who bankrupted the country on the eve of the 1971 elections, by going on an all out strike at the dockyard ordered by the MLP’s common-law wife, the GWU.
Didn’t the British actually leave April 1st?
[Daphne – No, 31 March. You leave the day your lease is up, and not the following day. Freedom Day, if we really must call it that, is actually 1 April, because the British were still here on 31 March. But poor old Mintoff couldn’t well make April Fool’s Day his big public celebration, could he.]
Wenzu Mintoff is probably proud of this picture because he thinks it’s Lord Carrington with his father.
Which one?
So the British left and they celebrate Freedom Day, but Mintoff went straight to Gaddafi for money and we became a Libyan State… Freedom anyone?
Even before Mintoff went to Gaddafi, cap in hand, the jubilant Libyans came over in force into our Grand Harbour to oversee the departure of the last British warship from Malta. That is our “Freedom Day” that was.