How nice – why not erect this right next to Ronnie Pellegrini’s monument to Lorry Sant, and have a third monument – to a brown envelope – installed between them?
Times of Malta reports that a site has already been chosen for the new Mintoff monument which will be unveiled on “Freedom Day” next year.
The design, the newspaper reports, will be chosen from among casts exhibited at Labour HQ this month.
So, no site-specific design, then. And the national monument’s trial run is at the party HQ. Imbasta monument nazzjonali ghal pajjiz maqghud.
It’s like a recurring nightmare where you try to outrun the 1980s but can’t escape.
Pack up and leave, those of you who can. This place is going nowhere fast. It’s a damn shame that a Labour government always, but always, functions like a spanner thrown in Malta’s works. But it’s a fact, and no amount of hoping built on contempt for the other lot seems likely to ever change that.
Twenty-six years, and all they’re capable of doing is keeping their finger down firmly on the rewind button.
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What’s Sandro Chetcuti’s role in this?
Financed, judging by the photo, by Mr.Sandro Chetcuti.
Spot on, Daphne.
The problem with Labour is that they’ll want things in a way they can understand. Or better, the way ‘iz-zghir’ understands.
It’s a bit like being cornered by someone you have nothing to share with at some function. Discovering you’ve got ‘new’ friends.
Tibda’ thewden kif tehles minnhom minghajr ma jiehdu ghalihom. Ghax Allahares jiehdu ghalihom.
Good idea. Hmieg ma’ hmieg.
Taht il-Labour qisna qeghdin ghaddejijn min hedila.
Isn’t his tombstone enough as a monument?
It’s really a shame that all we have accomplished during the last 25 years is going down so fast. I’m not saying that everything was perfect but for sure things were done in a much more professional way and we, as Maltese, were never embarrassed by our PM when reading foreign newspapers.
To make things worst, it’s like the PN has vanished from the face of the earth, it’s nowhere to be seen or heard.
The PN needs a good leader fast. I’m sorry but till now, I don’t see Simon Busuttil fit for purpose. Maybe it’s just me, but even when I hear him speak, all I want to do is to change the channel. When EFA or Lawrence Gonzi made a speech I used to be totally pinned in front of the TV. But again, maybe it’s just me.
Why don’t we start our own Mintoff statue competition?
We can find poses and other human figures with which the great leader can be symbolized – kif jixraqlu wara kollox.
My vote goes to a statue with Dom in his swimwear and hairy chest.
In that case, there’s already a good one standing in the middle of a roundabout in Luqa.
My thoughts exactly!
I just cannot wait and hope that when unveiled, apart from the great petit himself there will also be mementoes of his achievements such as karti tal-incova, 20 punt, etc. and might I humbly suggest that he is depicted holding some rosary beads identical to the ones inside his coffin?
I suggest Mintoff’s Munument should be erected in Pjazza Gavino Gulia Bormla, where Mintoff called the Drydocks workers – ‘Bla Bocci tal-Laham’ u ‘li ma huma kapaci jaghmlu xejn l-anqas bicca frejgatina’. Li ma qalx Mintoff kien li l-aqwa inginiera li kellna Malta hargu mit-Tarzna!
Isn’t that one on the right Sandro Chetcuti? The construction magnate who hit Vince Farrugia? Isn’t he still under trial?
I am totally against the Mintoff monument but if we are going to have one then shouldn’t it be the government rather than the Labour Party that decides where this monument will be erected?
[Daphne – Don’t you understand? They see no distinction between party and government.]
I would rather the PL organized and executed it, at least one does not need to feel that it somehow represented our ‘gratitude’ for Mintoff.
After all why would I need a statue to again give me a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach when ever I saw it. Of course all those who got positions and wealth without working for them feel otherwise.
Is there a law against intent to vandalise? Then arrest me now.
There is a plaque with Mintoff’s name on it at the entrance to the Tigullio car park. Many a time have people got a frog in their throat while passing by it …
The sheer evil that is Mintoff deserves something far more powerful. I’m talking self-immolation.
Someone mentioned to me that they might put it as part of City Gate.
Nothing bad in having a monument to a past prime minister; however, I think that such a monument to a past prime minister should be in the sphere of the government and not the Labour Party. If the Labour Party want a monument to Mintoff they should have it erected in the lobby of their HQ.