They talked about change in 1992, too
Twenty-one years ago, in the 1992 election campaign (gosh, doesn’t time fly), Super One radio had just been born, along with Radio 101, and this was the Labour Party’s favourite song.
DJs like Tony Camilleri il-Kampanjol played it night and day. “U issa ghandna l-ISSSSSSkoRRRRpjinnSSSS, Wint offf Cheych!”
The ruddy record grated on my nerves so badly that I haven’t been able to listen to it since.
Interestingly, nobody in the Labour camp had worked out what the song is actually about. It was released a year previously, in 1991, and was all about the change that was taking place behind the former Iron Curtain, after the fall of the Berlin wall a little over a year before.
Typically Labour, they missed the irony completely: using a song that celebrated the downfall of their friends and allies in the Ewropa ta’ Kajin (or was it Abel?) as their own battlecry for the return of Labour to power.
And do you remember who led the Labour Party in that election? That’s right: Zero, KMB, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici. And he still got 45% of the vote. Yes, 45% of the electorate (but Labour, mind, so what do you expect) voted to replace Eddie Fenech Adami with KMB – in 1992.
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If KMB was zero (and I agree) then in the modern world, GonziPN is zilch. You are right on EFA, I don’t know what possessed people to vote for KMB. But they have a vote as well. At times you sound fascist and not liberal at all, when you say that these people have a vote. As if you are insinuating not to have one. Good evening and have a good supper.
Is 45% a reasonably accurate figure for the core Labour vote?
You know, folk who would vote Labour even if all the candidates were hamsters?
Yes, it’s more or less 45%. Against PN’s 39%.
Scary.
You forgot the song Profondo Rosso, but it seems that so have they, they wouldn’t be seen dead in red.
At least it’s better than Run Rabbit Run