Go on, newspapers! Send a reporter to ask Godfrey Grima what he thinks about Dom Mintoff.
If you’re wondering why the ubiquitous Labour commentator Godfrey Grima, who is generally plastered to the Super One screen, has become invisible over the last week or so, it’s because he couldn’t stand Mintoff’s guts.
He thought Mintoff was scum (and he probably still does, even in death).
Mintoff is the reason Godfrey Grima switched to the Nationalist Party for a long, long moment back there. Alfred Sant drew him back. He liked Alfred Sant.
His brother Joe had the reverse problem. He adored Mintoff and thinks him spectacular. He despises Alfred Sant and Sant despises him. When Sant moved into the Labour leadership, Joe Grima had to move out. And for a short moment back there, he lent his support to the Nationalist Party and ran a show on Net TV.
But the two brothers agree on one Labour leader, at least: Joseph Muscat.
When Godfrey Grima praises Muscat in public, he says that he seems him as the new Eddie Fenech Adami (right, sure). When Joe Grima praises Muscat, he calls him the new Dom Mintoff.
I suppose we could always cry in despair at the chaos that lies ahead, don’t you?
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“…in the eighties, Grima was once ‘hauled in front of Parliament charged with breach of privilege’ after writing a piece for the Financial Times criticising a law that forced the Maltese to repatriate their investments from abroad…”
http://www.dailymalta.com/wt/2005/08/dom-mintoff.shtml
The case of breach of privilege against Grima is mentioned here as well.
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=144654
I love it how Judge Giovanni Bonello describes the procedure of breach of privilege:
“Breach of privilege exists only in the UK, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta. It is a very strange procedure by which Parliament converts itself into a criminal court of law, acting as victim, prosecutor, judge and jury at the same time and if found guilty the defendant can be sentenced for up to two months in jail.”
So, did he meet Mintoff at the Garrick Club?
jidhirli li il-kaz ta Godfrey Grima kien ispira lil Oliver Friggieri jikteb Fil-Parlament Ma jikbrux Fjuri