That was the 1980s under Labour. The rule of law was a fairy tale.

If the treaty was secret, and Parliament did not know about it, how could it have been debated and voted for?

In any case it was an agreement between governments and therefore binding.

It was years (actually quite recently) that the affair was made public and therefore it is now that sane minded people should show their disgust and contempt of such action by Mintoff, AST and the Socialist clique and not vote for the stars of the ‘golden era’.

If he or she prescribes psychotropic drugs, tell them to get fucked and spend the money on broads instead.

I was one of a few hundred who had the courage (and the resources, to be fair) to stand up to a brutal, totalitarian and fascist regime.

I was almost starved and bankrupted in the process and had to resort to family handouts. The ordeal lasted nine whole years.

My children ask : Was it worth it pa ?

Worth it ?

It was my finest hour.

I yearn to go through it again.

I blame Eddie Fenech Adami and GonziPN (as always) for denying me the opportunity.

I will never forget what a staunch PL supporter, who was also a colleague, told me when the situation went over the top.

He said to me “the men have been counted”.

How right he was.

US vs UK again.

u used there, a used here.

but they only use a kind of bastardised dialect of our language.

Though I didn’t understand the implications of their presence in Malta at that age, we eventually experienced the brunt of it some years later when they – or the “personnel” they trained – were an ominous presence at students’ protests against the closure of our schools in the early 1980s.

thank you. my bad.
still going to shrink

If there was one thing which Sant did admirably it was getting rid of the old cobwebs, only for Muscat to undo everything.