And frankly yesterday’s cortege was organised by chavs for chavs. X’ hamallata! A friend today remarked that yesterday’s cortege bore an uncanny resemblance to Khomeini’s. I couldn’t agree more. And Mintoff’s Coffin Tour was hysterical as was Meri’s singing at that ghastly monument tal-helsien.

When everything will be said and done, Mintoff will still be the tyrant that fostered, rewarded and glorified sloth and ignorance.

Facebook was a nightmare wasn’t it? I’ve been “unfriended”, abused, told I wasted 6 years of my life at University and that jelly fish probably avoid me for fear of being stung. Rewwixta kien hemm fuq Facebook. Vera kaz pajjiz tal-biki, as my late father often said.

Sadly I cannot find a site where I can watch it on-line. Any suggestions?

I would gladly run you over with a garbage truck

‘ ghamel zbalji wkoll. Bhall kull Gvern u mexxej’

No Ruth, no other government or leader committed the serious ‘errors’ – more like atrocities in some cases – committed by Mintoff, with the exception, of course of KMB. Such as the absolute arrogance with which he governed the country, the class hatred that he sowed, the fact that violence was never dealt with (and was therefore encouraged and capitalised on), the lack of investment (water, electricity, telephones, computers) and job creation (admitted by the man himself), just to mention a few.

In my view, Mintoff should be respected now simply because in this part of the world, we respect our dead; but this should not be confused with our obligation to condemn most vehemently most of what he did as MLP leader and Prime Minister and sadly, the legacy he left behind..

Dik kienet il-problema tieghu, Ruth, li qatt ma ried li l-popolin xi darba iqum fuq saqajh u jkollu l-edukazzjoni u l-istatura ta’ bniedem ta’ klassi.

Anzi kien igieghel lil popolin jobghod u jirredikola lin-nies ta klassi u edukazzjoni minflok kien jghidilhom “ejjew insiru bhalhom u ahjar minnhom”.

Ruth, dahhal haga f’rasek: il-baxx QATT ma jista jkun aqwa mill-pulit. Jista jsir aqwa minnu imbilli isir bhalu u jissuperah. Pero Mintoff dan ma riedux.

Kien ihobb il-fqir, ghaliex il-fqir hu l-uniku strument li tista tahdem bih biex takwista l-poter. Il-fqir kien strumentali ghilih fi zmienu. Lil-fqir kien jilghab bih.

Beautiful irony.

Are you the same Raphael Dingli who’s taken to licking Franco Debono’s arse?