I read that the National Bank shareholders want a €50 million out-of-court settlement.

Signing over the government-owned shares to individual investors and not to financial institutions would be risky. A cash payout is a better option.

The fact that Mintoff was awarded the Gaddafi Human Rights award (http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080819/local/mintoff-wins-gaddafi-prize-for-human-rights.221360#.UtRYLBRwbIU) is proof enough that he (Mintoff) had no respect whatsoever for human rights.

Well, kev, you are a self-declared Laburist.

Labour just played the anti-Fascist card. They still do.

The PN should have known better. After all, we credit them with intelligence and moral rectitude.

The PN’s anti-Strickland attitude and historical revisionism pisses ME off and I’m not even remotely from the Stricklandlian caste. If you represent the party’s position then it’s no wonder they lose elections.

Oh, please. If the PN did not provide a welcoming ideological home, then what did the MLP do? If they voted Labour even though the MLP isn’t a welcoming ideological home for Stricklandjani, then what can I say? They’re in the right place, with a partit tal-lanzit led by a skifuz koccut.

Exactly. Now she has “the facts” she needed.

Didn’t she famously tell The Times: “I would need more facts on that” when questioned about human right violations under Mintoff?

“But when asked why she never reacted to the human rights breaches in Malta during her father’s time, she said: “I would need more facts on that.””

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120410/local/Readers-have-the-facts-for-Mintoff-s-daughter.414828

When did I vote for Mintoff, La Redoute, please tell me, you seem to know a lot about me.

I know a handful. Literally.

You would have thought that the class which gave Malta all its sensible politicians, administrators, leaders of industry, scientists and artists would have developed into a sizeable force, a demographic to be reckoned with. Instead, they quietly faded into the background.

Who is to blame for this? Mostly, it’s the Nationalist Party, which failed to provide a welcoming ideological home for these people, and never spoke for them.

Partly, it’s their own fault, for no one will speak for you unless you do so yourself, and they had all the right social connections and mental ability to do so. It is also the fault of Malta’s ridiculous intellectual class, which shuns anyone who doesn’t fit the MLP-PN paradigm.

There is something called The Strickland Foundation. Its overall aim is to advance those values espoused by the original Stricklandjani. Is it? Is it ****. It owns Times of Malta, for heaven’s sake. Can anyone honestly identify today’s Times of Malta as a platform for liberal right, good old British values?

Last year, it launched a writing competition. Look at the choice of titles:

1. Does Malta lag behind in the protection and observance of human rights?

2. Are the Maltese generally complacent when it comes to defending their human rights?

3. Is discrimination ever tolerable? When should discrimination become a human rights issue?

B-O-R-I-N-G! Set an obvious title and you’ll get an obvious answer. How about this:

1. Is Dominic Mintoff a political monster?

2. Should Malta be independent?

3. Should English be Malta’s language of government?

Anyway, my point is that if Gerald Strickland were to rise from the grave and lead us, then by god, I’d follow him. Along with the remaining half a dozen Stricklandjani.

A government appeal at this stage is an injustice in itself. The time taken to reach a conclusion is secondary.