The rewriting of Labour’s history seems to have had an effect even on Lino Spiteri
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October 7, 2012 at 10:08pm
“To continue to govern when another MP is making it clear he will vote against the Government is beyond words.”
– Lino Spiteri, writing in The Sunday Times, today.
He seems to have forgotten that he formed part of a cabinet of ministers who governed for five years and six months – from December 1981 to May 1987 – when it was the Nationalist Party, and not Labour, who won the majority of votes.
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Selective memory appears to be quite rampant among the reds.
Lino Spiteri is a good, wise man. Leave him alone!
Sorry, Baxxter, Will clean up my act, if he does.
That is exactly why it is so irritating when he writes and talks trash.
To support the party leader in the electoral campaign when he said he will remove VAT is beyond words.
In fact, you will live to regret it.
Am I right?
If Dr Debono resigns from PN they lose their majority and will have to call election?
If he will lose his place as an MP after the next election, maybe he is hanging as long as he can for the perks?
If the answer is yes and yes then what a wanker.
If he resigns only from the Nationalist Party, the government will lose the majority, and fall. Franco Debono should do the decent thing and resign his seat altogether.
If he resigns his seat, another PN candidate (the next in line) takes his place, and the government stands, minus half the bickering (Jeffrey will still be there).
. . . then don’t write any, Lino – God knows your droning on and on has bored the pants off one and all.
Lino Spiteri is a good writer and it is not possible for him to stop doing so. When VAT was on the books for removal, if I am not mistaken, Lino got to know of it at a coffee shop and not from the mouth of his leader – I might be wrong but this is how I remember it
For Daphne to write such a stupid comment is expected. She knows that in 1981 the electoral law stipulated that the party which wins the majority of seats , wins the election. the same still happens in the United Kingdom which Daphne likes so much.
In 1971, although Labour had a majority of around 5,000 votes over the PN, Labour just won the election by a mere 6 votes or so, which were inherited from a PN candidate. Had labour not inherited those votes, the PN would have won the election as it would have won the majority of seats !
That the PN was ready to govern although it knew that Labour had a majority of votes was glaringly evident when Dr. Guido Demarco, kept calling for a recount of votes to make sure that Labour had indeed won that Qormi district !
Coming to more recent times, when it was obvious that Dom Mintoff would not allow Dr. Sant to continue governing as he couldn’t rely on Dom Mintoff’s vote, Dr. Sant called an election after 22 months in office . But Dr. Sant was, and is, a gentleman. Not so seems to be the incumbent one !
[Daphne – Go ahead and carry on making yourself ridiculous, Mr Privitera.]
You had no reply for what I wrote about the election of 1971. I I happened to be there, but you were probably still in your nappies. Don’t tell me you have never read or heard about this, do you ?
The really interesting comment made by Lino Spiteri in The Sunday Times is: “A new style may be in the offing – that of exploiting deficiencies in one’s personal life. That tactic has already been floated by PN fellow travellers.”
Interesting! Whose personal life and what?
He can’t even write, for heaven’s sake, and he presumes to bestow his wisdom upon us.
“One’s personal life” means the personal life of the person doing the exploiting, not someone else’s. And “fellow travellers”? Jesus, I can’t believe this man is paid 200 Euros per drivel-filled column.
He thinks he is such an intelligent person when in fact he is no better that all those Labour idiots. Ipokrita.
Why does Mr Privitera open his mouth, because it’s always stupidity that comes out. In Maltese, bla sugu.
Lino Spiteri forgot that even though he knew it was not possible, he approved Alfred Sant’s promise to remove VAT in 1996 only to resign as soon as Labour gained power after the great CET mess.
I cannot understand why he is given so much credence, when his brilliant and impressive track record is that of a minister in the cabinets of Dom Mintoff and KMB, and then somebody who hitched his way into Sant’s cabinet by seeking election on a VAT-removal promise, only to resign when VAT was ‘removed’.
And if I remember well, he was the Minister of the “Budget tal-Impjiegi” and the “Budget tal-Qawsalla.”