Definitely a very good post, I agree. But what makes you believe that “a self-implosion is not far away”? I doubt it.

During Mintoff’s heyday (1971-1987) it was only Dr Joe Micallef Stafrace who put up a lame dissent when he resigned as Minister (during the first years of Labour’s first term in power) but still remained a Labour MP.

Later on he was a regular contributor to the first version of “ILLUM” in the late 70s (edited by Daniel Massa, I believe). That periodical was a breath of fresh air and was generally critical of Mintoff’s policies. Micallef-Stafrace’s iconic catch phrase at the time was: ‘the sun didn’t rise in 1971’.

As to Marlene Farrugia’s latest comment (‘he should reconsider his position’), it is too vague and loaded:

(a) she’s the Minister of Health’s girlfriend — he who has been ‘ordered’ to remove the tent outside Mater Dei;
(b) she has already declared her decision not to contest the next election;
(c) she started out against divorce but had a change of mind/heart before the referendum.

Hear, hear.

What for? What good is second legislative body if it’s still made up of pimps, crooks and scoundrels?

No. We need the British sovereign as our head of state again. Unlike that jacked-up Labour scrounger whom I will forever hold in contempt, she wouldn’t have signed into law a shameful piece of legislation like the passport scheme.