High society, my left buttock!

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Or that the Eternal Flame is to be be lit only on a part-time basis?

A list of the Labour Party’s respect for culture, heritage and history in the golden years of Mintoff and KMB would include the following.

1. The threat to bulldoze the war graves (for which he got a rollicking from Mrs Thatcher) which he considered as depriving Malta of land that could be “developed”.

2. What was known as Hubbard’s Flats (now looking like a slum area) which replaced part of the Cottonera Line.

3. St Saviour’s Bastion, also in the Cottonera Line, given over to a family member to turn it into a Pre-Stressed Concrete Factory.

4. Many of the historic gates in the Cottonera line turned into pig-farms or chicken farms.

5. Parts of the historic bastions pulled down for more ”utilitarian” use.

6. The statue of Manuel Dimech in front of Auberge de Castille, one of the finest architectural creations of Girolamo Cassar.

7. The Freedom Day monument that disfigures the noble façade of St Lawrence Church in Birgu.

8. A nightclub and swimming-pool at Fort St Angelo.

9. St Michael’s Training College for Teachers sold to Gaddafi.

10.The Main Guard turned into a Libyan Cultural Centre.

11. The filing down of VR (Queen Victoria), GVR (King George V) on red postboxes.

12. The destruction of works of art at the Curia. (to say nothing of the desecration in the same place).

Whatever the criteria, it is my privilege and honour that I do not qualify.

Neither does my wife, bless her.