It’s more than that, Etil – there’s a gas-down drive to re-write history on PL’s part. Not surprising really, given a track record that produced N O T H I N G positive for this country.

Not only must we not forget, we must actively put people straight on what really happened.

Let me give you an example: whenever you ask a socialist what did Labour ever do, the first reply usually shot back at you is “Air Malta”.

Imma skuzi, was a company with such a virtual monopoly that fleeced us for millions for years (due to lack of competition), whilst being Wistin’s employment agency for Zwieten, a good thing? Something to boast about? etc etc

I thought it was an election campaign style speech and I suspect that Dr Gonzi has had enough of Franco and has resolved, that if an election had to come about, so be it but he will not give in to any last minute demands by Debono.

He sounded like he is in a fighting mood. He was forceful, eloquent and determined. It was vintage Gonzi at his best. He rallied the troops and the response was electric (high tariffs or not).

During Carm Mifsud Bonnici`s tenure of office, a law was passed – the Second Scedule to the Civil Code – which regulated the law on social purpose foundations (such as the above-mentioned Fondazzjoni Arka and Fondazzjoni Wens) and also on private foundations which, amongst other things, can be used as vehicles to provide for the administration of the estate of deceased parents of disabled children.

Now we learn that the Labour Party has adapted this idea and included it in its electoral manifesto.

To further illustrate how far-reaching Carm Mifsud Bonnici`s legislative enactments were, an article by Max Ganado in today`s The Sunday Times shows how the the whole fuss about polical financing and political party regulation is a non-starter and the suggestion that political parties are not regulated by any law is incorrect as political parties are associations which are regulated by the said Second Schedule to the Civil Code.

The Chairman of the House Committee on the consolidation of laws is opting for a special law replicating a lot of what already exists, rather than just issuing regulations to the existing laws.

The above-mentioned law, which Carm Mifsud Bonnici had the foresight to legislate and implement, laid the infrastructure for some interesting developments, and lawyers and notaries are realising its potentiality in various aspects.

The Honourable (and I use the word judiciously) Carm Mifsud Bonnici was a quiet reformer though not prone to blowing his trumpet and he deserves to be given full credit for his unstinting service to the country.

Surely it couldn’t have been his personal distaste for Eddie Fenech Adami, given the praise he was heaping on him at the time.

I would like to see posters and viral mails showing him at Sant’s meetings flooded with MLP flags and red shirts together with speeches or quotes vilifying the EU, burning of flags etc.

It’s unbelievable how fellow Maltese who lived through these vile episodes in our recent history tend to forget all this.

Forgiving is a virtue; forgetting is a crime against contemporary and future generations.