You’re absolutely wrong Mr. Vassallo. Mintoff’s father did not hail from Ghasri but yes he may have had some relatives in Ghasri the only village in Gozo where this surname exists. You may also wish to know that most of the Mintoff families in Ghasri are Nationalists.

Actually the word he intended was ‘mediocracy’ but he just couldn’t get his tongue around it.

We got exactly what he promised.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mediocracy

He’s enshrined in our current prime minister and his way of doing things.

We will have at least three copies of the one mentioned here. Then there’s whatever rubbish the Labour Party is going to produce. That makes at least four, twice as many as you fear.

Mintoff was half Gozitan.

His father was from Ghasri, Gozo, where even today, the most common surname is Mintoff.

To which I would reply that the whole of Malta is a living monument to Mintoff.

By his fruits you shall know him.

I had already suggested the Maghtab Mountain. Should be quite visible there.

Dear Maltese Public,

Kindly stop putting words in my mouth and going on and on about this “meritocracy” business. I never said that dirty word and it is really not my fault if you misheard.

What I promised you during the election campaign is PERITOCRACY and I assure you I am doing my very best to humbly follow in the footsteps of our beloved Salvatur ta’ Malta in everything I do as I lead the country.

Yours,
Joseph Muscat