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China, 1972: Labour says the Nationalist Party is stuck in the past when its electoral programme for the years 2013 to 2018 is being written by one of those two crap artists in the middle, Il-Guy, Karmenu Vella. And the other crap artist in the middle, Alex Sceberras Trigona, is now Labour’s international secretary. I mean, can you believe that? Here we are, 40 years later, and they still won’t leave us alone.
My patience is sorely tried by the Labour Party and its communications gurus: Kurt the Coconut and Cyrus Engerer’s boyfriend Randolph (sleeping his way to the top, I see).
The latest mantra: the Nationalist Party is stuck in the past.
INDEED.
I look at the Nationalist Party benches in parliament and I don’t see a single face that I recall from the 1980s, let alone from the 1970s.
They’ve all gone, bye, ciao.
But when I look at the Labour benches, I shudder. God, the memories.
And it’s not just parliament, either – so many fossils from those nightmare years have wormed their way out of the woodwork. Or, in the case of Joe Grima, eaten the whole of the woodwork and even swallowed a double bed and a couple of sofas.
How can Labour have the nerve – or, more to the point, be so bloody damned stupid – as to fling insults at the Nationalists for being ‘stuck in the past’ WHEN ITS OWN RUDDY ELECTORAL MANIFESTO, THE ONE THAT SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME WEDGED IN KARMENU VELLA’S RECTUM UNLESS IT IS STILL A LOT FURTHER UP IN HIS GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT, IS BEING WRITTEN BY A MAN WHO WAS A CABINET MINISTER 30 YEARS AGO?
Imagine asking me, for instance, to vote for an electoral programme written by IL-GUY, for God’s sake, when I remember – far too vividly for my peace of mind – Karmenu Vella as a minister in the cabinets of Dom Mintoff and KMB. I remember him shouting on trucks at Labour mass meetings while Mintoff harangued the crowd and insulted and denigrated my kind.
I remember him throwing his weight around and doing as he pleased while the rest of us lived in a peculiar sort of hell.
I remember him running across the floor in parliament to assault the Leader of the Opposition (Dr Fenech Adami) during the reply to the Budget Speech in late 1986.
And I am supposed to vote for an electoral programme for the years 2013 to 2018, written by this turd? I would have to be insane, or just really, really stupid.
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If only all educated Labour voters were to read this article. Sigh.
They do.
It’s rich coming from PL.
Here’s their statement with some modifications. “The PL statement read: “33 years ago: Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran; Saddam becomes President of Iraq; The Walkman is the latest gadget; Village People come up with a new song – YMCA; Trivial Pursuit hits the stands; Superman is the latest special effects movie; Little House on the Prairie was a hit show; GonziPN’s copycat billboard is created. George Vella, Karmenu Vella and Joe Debono Grech were in the Mintoff government and AST involved with MLP.
“GonziPN is stuck in the past.”
Those who should be reading this article, digesting it well and drawing the right conclusion are not “all educated Labour voters” even if, for good measure, we throw in the not so well educated.
The readers should be everybody else who could profit from it – the young voters who were spared the vicissitudes suffered by their parents and bored Nationalists who for personal reasons are toying with the idea of trying their luck with the MLP/LP dinosaurs who were the architects of that dismal Mintoff-KMB era.
The hazardous experiment was tried in 1996 under Alfred Sant and we were lucky beyond expectations when it had to be abandoned after a mere 22 months and before irreparable damage could be done.
It is stupid to rely on the hope that a similar providential rescue from Joseph Muscat’s LP would happen again.
To think they’ve been using the ‘PN li m’ghadux li kien’ mantra for the past four years now.
Joseph Muscat even went as far as rehabilitating Eddie Fenech Adami in his media machine to belittle GonziPN.
It’s not that Labour won’t work, it simply doesn’t. A concept has to stand testing to remain true, weekly revisions will create confusion.
As if the PN they tried to appropriate doesn’t exist outside their wishlist.
If they’ve had 25 years, so they say, of opposition, surely they’ve had enough time to realise that attempting to poach the successful model implies radical change in their mindset.
It’s reality they won’t subscribe to. Given that this country managed well without them, they discover themselves not having been a part of it, what difference does it make now?
Or are we to understand theirs is a legitimate plea for help as much as some minority lobby venting its existence?
Funny you mention China. In the early 70s this country, the one real powerhouse in the world of 2012, was beginning to be discovered by the world. Western leaders began visiting China around the time Mintoff visited in 1972. China got its seat at the UN about this time, replacing Taiwan as the legitimate representative of the Chinese nation. Little by little this vast country opened up to the rest of the world and is considered to be a superpower in all senses today. If anything, the picture you put up here shows foresight and a brave look into the future.
[Daphne – As if, Albert. Western leaders approached China as western leaders. Mintoff approached China (or vice versa) in the spirit of one totalitarian/communist approaching another. Mintoff sought alignment with Red China, not trade.]
Albert, as if Mintoff had any choice. Who would he have visited if not China? His nemesis the United States? L-Ewropa ta’ Kain? The United Kingdom?
[Daphne – Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi, Tito, Brezhnev….]