They do.

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….]

[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.]

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?

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.

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.”