All that rubbish about Mintoff be damned. Life under Labour was so bad that RAI covered the 1987 general election.
How easily even those who should know better forget. Life under Dom Mintoff and his puppet KMB, under Leo Brincat and Karmenu Il-Guy Vella, was so terrible, the situation so fraught, that the 1987 general election was covered by the leading European media.
And today we have a bunch of wasters reinventing the past in their own minds and for the delectation of others.
Il-vera msieken, jahasra. Have they carried a lifetime of guilt for voting Labour in 1971 and 1976, and are now trying to telling themselves that it wasn’t so bad after all, or what?
Of course, journalists couldn’t come to Malta for the actual general election, because of Labour’s Foreign Interference Act, but they flew in when the result was announced and we knew for a fact that those bastards, including the one who’s writing Joseph Muscat’s manifesto – IL-GUY (jaqq) – were booted out.
We thought people like IL-GUY and Herr Flick (the ghastly Leo Brincat) had been booted out for good, that we would never see them again. Now here they are, 25 years later, about to become ministers again.
As they say on Facebook: FFS.
Here’s the report on TG1, RAI’s flagship news.
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And today we have a bunch of wasters. You mean wa*kers. Victory day in 1987 was definitely the best day of my life.
At 2:09 it’s KMB with Alfred Sant and Marie Louise Coleiro conceding defeat. Note how the MLP Torca sits next to the Republic’s furkettun, neatly framed as one.
Remember watching it, forgot it was the main headline on Rai 1.
And don’t forget that when the result was already known, Xandir Malta switched from Josette Grech (Hamilton) and her red carnation to cartoons.
What a glorious May was that. How stupid it would be to go back to those horrible years.
Jum il-Helsien.
OMG – seeing supporters celebrating in those old trucks and cars with that ghastly background, I would have said that was 1946.
Successive Nationalist governments, with all their faults acknowledged, have truly transformed our country.
I had exactly the same thoughts. Malta looked just like Albania under Hoxha – extremely drab and poor.
I can’t believe we looked so bad and were in such a sorry state at the time.
We seem to take what we have for granted.
Eddie missier malta demokratika. JPO, Jesmond and Franco, and other ass-holes within the PN, should look up to him before digging deeper into shit.
If il-Guy, Herr Flick, Joe Debono Grech, Alex Sceberras Trigona and the scum from the Mintoff years are about to become ministers again after 25 years, they owe it one organisation – PN.
Since 1987, PN has sought reconciliation at the expense of justice, and its legalistic, elliptical style of communication has allowed the canker of Mintoff-worship to grow unhindered.
When we floating voters say that we’ll never vote for PN unless it changes, we mean exactly this sort of change. We want a party that puts the balls to the wall, that doesn’t give in to the social benefit whiners and leeches, that makes policy using logic instead of religious sentiment. Some call it liberalism. I would just say it’s European-standard politics.
Of course with a certain deputy leader and leader-in-waiting, it just won’t happen. It will be more of the same. And more of the same is why PN loses elections.
Grey-headed philo-Fascist PN councillors may think otherwise, but we all know who won the popular vote.
U jien, u hafna bhali, lanqas stajna biss narawh it-TGI dakinhar ghaliex grazzi ghal-politika progressiva tal -Partit Laburista lanqas biss seta jkolna sett tat-television.
25 years of progress (minus the chaos engendered by the Sant government in between) are about to be thrown down the drain for the sake of change, a change which will see our country represented by an ex-super one journalist helped into power by a village lawyer who can’t accept the fact that no one gives a flying f**k about his form 2C results.
I wonder how many of these newly turned ‘progressivi u moderati’ would be willing to risk their job by having Joseph replace their current CEO (dak mar l-Ewropa ta, tghidx kemm hu bravu) , but I guess running the country is not as complicated as running maltasart.com.
Mind-boggling.
Notice the video that comes up right after this video posted above: ‘Ceausescu 1980, fine regime’.
Fitting indeed.
It was like being released after years on death row. The relief was indescribable and hope was raging like wildfire.
The PN changed this island from a miserable back-water state to a prosperous, ambitious nation. I shall forever be grateful to them.
Pity they haven’t had as much success eradicating ignorance and the prevailing parochial mentality.
The relief was indescribable, yes, but we were so accustomed to fear and retribution in those days, that the group of friends I was with at the time refused to go out to celebrate.
What a refreshing and heartening memory. Admittedly RAI-1 would have favoured a PN victory anyway, but the reporting is fair and factual.
What struck me was the last sentence, which follows a telling reference to ‘professional violence’:
FORSE DA STANOTTE L’ARCIPELAGO MALTESE E’ CRESCIUTO.
Let’s hope (against hope?) that we as a people, have not only grown up but also matured.
It is like Craxi becoming Prim Minister of Italy in 2013.
The days leading up to that victory were very painful and I sincerely hope we will never go through it ever again
I can clearly remember that the attention on Malta was so great that RAI stopped the transmission of Domenica Sportiva to give a flash news of the PN Victory. It was around 10.45 / 11.00pm.
One could still remember it with great emotion; one of those unforgettable moments.
I’d forgotten they’d painted the Castille woodwork bright red.
Notice Alfred Sant and Marie Louise Coleiro Preca (that other fresh young face) sitting on either side of KMB.
Since the MLP keep saying how fresh and new they are, I thought I’d do some fact checking.
It seemed like an easy enough task, just go to the parliament website and check. I started off with the PN members, and with the exception of a couple which I had to look up on Facebook, the rest all had their dates of birth on their profiles.
Then I checked the MLP ones. Surprise surprise, it was a much tougher job as the vast majority don’t seem happy publicising their age. But your intrepid correspondent was not to be deterred, and much searching later, the results are in. And guess what?
PN – Average age 49.7 – MLP Average age 51.7
Were other Maltese general elections covered by RAI?
[Daphne – No like that, no.]
Remember this news with tears of joy in my eyes.
Il-filmat jispicca: Forse questa notte larchipelago maltese e cresciuto.
Sorry this was already mentioned.