Mintoff’s cabinet minister lectures us on balance and propaganda on state radio
Alex Sceberras Trigona, a minister in Dom Mintoff’s cabinet and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici’s, delivers a lecture on political balance on state radio, and tells his interviewer that state broadcasting has, in 2012, been reduced to “dirt”.
Perhaps he would care to explain what he thought of state broadcasting back in the Golden Years of Xandir Malta. I suppose that was all right because it served his myriad purposes.
Another brass-necked fraud, I’m afraid, and really crass, ill-mannered and arrogant with it. Funny how even the well-bred end up behaving like the urban under-class when they spend too long rubbing up against Labour.
I see that AST has stayed as progressive as he was back in the days when he hung around on trucks with his mate Dom.
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1987 elections. I still cannot understand how after the atrocious years of 1981 to 1987, the PN just managed to get the overall majority of votes that day.
Like his mate Spiteri, this guy is suffering from selective amnesia.
Or, at least, that is what he would like us to think.
Marks, I have been plagued by this inexplicable fact for 25 years.
It is true that KMB and his hoodlums went on a mad rampage in the weeks preceeding the election distributing jobs (8000) and homes (ex British Forces and unfinished Housing Authority) like there would be no tomorrow.
A truly economic scorched earth policy that risked bankrupting the country.
However, the desperation of the regime at that stage was such that I, and many others, would not put anything beyond them.
When this suspicion was raised, after the PN electoral victory, with the party hierarchy the reply from one of them, well known for his appeasement tactics, was :
Hadna il-gvern ghal 25 sena, issa ma nqazzuhiex.
He certainly had foresight.
I am not sure whether his attitude was the right one though.
And this one on my right is another dino which I managed to bring back to life: Brazenosaurus Lex.
Milli jidher kull ma ghamel Alfred Sant fil-Labour kien li tefa’ l-hmieg taht it-tapit.
It’s just like the old days. Grey hairs but still politically immature and leaning to the extreme right. Can you see Malta’s international interests in the hands of this comeback kid?
When foreign minister he was caught by a visiting Scandanavian delegation of changing the text of an agreed joint statement just before it was issued. This was not revealed but the delegation passed on their disgust personally to Eddie Fenech Adami. The latter can confirm this as I heard it from him.
Who was the interviewer? He deserves credit for keeping cool under the barrage.
[Daphne – Chris Scicluna, not the one who works for The Times, though. There are two Chris Sciclunas in journalism.]