Jeez, they should have done the same with Mintoff. A presidential palance at l-Gharix wouldn’t be half had, plus a dead Mintoff would probably make a better president than the current one.

So what? They’re not in government now.

Could be because the man is not officially dead. For all intents and purposes he is still president of North Korea (which is why both his son and grandson were never granted that title), and his tomb (where he is resting) is still the official president’s palace.

I almost killed myself campaigning to have a Nationalist government withdraw Gaddafi’s Maltese decoration. When they finally did it, the man had long been dead, and it was more of a half-hearted administrative affair than anything else. Typical Nationalists.

Now they’re in Opposition and they want the government to strip Kim Il Sung of his Maltese gongs? Not bloody likely. Why didn’t they do it themselves when they were in government? Have they suddenly discovered a moral backbone? Or is the lily-livered, appeaser-in-chief Lawrence Gonzi finally out of the way?

In other words, as invariably happens with everything that Labour has a hand in, turning the decoration into a worthless “medalja tal-klieb” and insulting those who deservedly already hold the award.

Why did this not happen in the case of Kim Il sung?