Labour has seen the future, and it is Il-Guy. Again.
It’s 2012, and Labour is selling Karmenu Vella as ‘the future’.
This morning, the Labour Party held a press conference. This is the photograph timesofmalta.com showed us. So Karmenu Vella is the future.
That’s so encouraging.
Here are some more pictures of the future.
1972 (that’s right, 40 years ago): Karmenu Vella in China with Dom Mintoff and Alex Sceberras Trigona
30 years ago: Karmenu Vella with Prime Minister Dom Mintoff
The mid-1980s: Karmenu Vella with Leo Brincat (wearing one of that decade’s fabulous jumpers)
The 1987 general election campaign: Prime Minister Zero with one of his star ministers (the others were Lorry Sant and Joe Grima), Karmenu Vella
30 years ago: Karmenu Vella and Alex Sceberras Trigona sign an agreement between Malta and Libya
26 years ago: Prime Minister Zero’s Ministru tal-Industrija, Karmenu Vella, meets his Gaddafi counterpart.
27 December 1981 (you know how Mintoff loved Christmas): Karmenu Vella on a truck with Prime Minister Mintoff and the Labour Old Guard, at a big demonstration to celebrate Labour’s electoral-victory-that-wasn’t.
30 years ago: Karmenu Vella, the future, with Prime Minister Mintoff
Ah yes, of course – how can we forget this lovely 1970s photograph of The Future doused in coconut oil and getting up close and personal with the randy old goat who ran the country?
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Karmenu Vella. Il-passat huwa garanzija tal-Futur.
We will let you work and KISS.
With Joseph, their puppet on a string.
Anyone noticed that Anglu Farrugia is being faded away as the old guard from the Golden Years pushes itself to the fore?
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
The cutting quoting Mintoff’s election speech of December 1981 makes shocking reading.
Some of your readers might not understand the reference to the counting agents in blue jackets.
Those men were dragged to court for wearing blue jackets. The charges were dismissed, but their trauma lasted for months.
Such was democracy in those days.
Min ser jkun ix-xufier ta Karmenu Vella din id-darba?
Daphne…any idea who the other two chaps taking part in the coconut party are?
[Daphne – Silvio ta’ La Spiaggia and Carlo Seychell. The latter was a Valletta footballer at the time. Now he’s in retail.]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120916/local/Busuttil-will-stand-for-election.437047#.UFWM0_oDJCA.facebook
Charles J. Buttigieg
Today, 09:55
Dr.Busuttil insists it would have been easier for him to enter the party’s parliamentary group after an electoral defeat if he were merely pursuing the party leadership. There’s something intrinsically wrong in that statement. How can he join the PN Parliamentary Group after his party’s defeat at election time when if he is not an elected MP?
Forsi bhal ma ghamel Joseph?
”iL -FUTUR LI JAQQADNA”
As the egg-yolk said to the olive oil before they were whisked into mayonnaise in the blender.
The thing is that they come up with a slogan like this, because it sounds nice, but then they have no set of coherent fundamental principles to convince us how they will do it. And in fact, how can they do it if they are resorting to the same people of the past?
Jahsbu li kullhadd imbecillit kongenitu jew bid-dimenzja akuta bhal dawk il-fidili li johonqu il-ONE phone-ins jew jafsu il- ”like” button fuq il fbs ta’ Luciano Busuttil u Joe Grima.
Bidu Gdid.
It is quite extraordinary that in forty years this miserable and dejected party has not succeeded in attracting anyone who holds more promise than Il-Guy.
Can you imagine Karmenu Vella getting to terms with the implications of the fiscal compact or the technological criteria of energy generation?
Can someone like Karmenu Vella create a program where both conditions could be economic to each other?
Let’s hope people see some sense behind these faces because it seems they are like sponges swelling with all their lies at the country’s expense.
All I can see is grey hair. X’futur futur.
I think the only “Futur li jaqq-adna” for those three is one at Saint Vincent De Paule Home for the Elderly, a Kartanzjan each, and a pension.
Where is my comment does it bother you so much to show it????
Labour is still stuck in the past and the past is Mintoffjan. NEW PEOPLE OLD TACTICS, ARGUMENTS. nothing new labour