Quinton Scerri and Ronnie Pellegrini

Ronnie Pellegrini (right) with Jonathan Brimmer of Super One

Ronnie Pellegrini stands guard over his ‘boss’ Lorry Sant as he does verbal battle in public with Wenzu Mintoff during an AD debate. The man in the middle is Georg Sapiano. This was in the early 1990s.

I’m not going into the details of this spat at the Haz-Zabbar local council which led to its (Labour) mayor Quinton Jo Scerri being forced to resign by his (Labour) colleagues.

Quinton Scerri was, for a long time, Nuxellina’s boyfriend, so you can hardly say that he’s not part of the Taghna Lkoll in crowd. Nuxellina is Rosianne Cutajar, the Labour mayor of Hal Qormi, who famously rang Police Commissioner Peter Paul Zammit to have him order his underlings to allow her to queue-barge at the Gozo ferry.

But I’m certainly going to say this: in any ‘difference of opinion’ between Ronnie Pellegrini (a Labour member of that council) and anyone else, the odds are on that ‘anyone else’ being in the right.

Ronnie Pellegrini is a gangrenous legacy of the Mintoffian era, who for years was Lorry Sant’s henchman and one of his fixers. Lorry Sant was the most corrupt and dangerous politician Malta has known this side of the Age of Enlightenment.

Even Dom Mintoff was frightened of him, and we know why. Ronnie Pellegrini would have known of the contents of his padrone‘s brown envelope, and there’s a good chance that he also encouraged Sant to use those photographs against Wenzu Mintoff in parliament.

I have a first-hand eye-witness account of how Ronnie Pellegrini, then a GWU section boss, led a gang of thugs to a factory where they assaulted employees, Pellegrini himself beating one almost into unconsciousness with a crash helmet.

This was in the Golden Years of Mintoff and Lorry Sant.

Now the scum has worked to reinvent himself, in suits and ties and a BMW he cannot possibly afford off his GWU salary and with Jason Micallef as a consort. This government insanely champions him, and has appointed him to the board of Malta Freeport Corporation. But he remains vicious scum, not to be trusted and not averse to using the methods of his Lorry Sant days against anyone who gets in the way of his probably corrupt and undemocratic intentions.

I pity Labour newbies who are wet about the ears and with a genuine belief in the party, because they really have no idea what they are up against. They think that I’m the bad one because that’s what their elders told them, but they swim among vile and wicked stop-at-nothing scum of the earth and have no chance of surviving.

There is no place for decent people in Labour, for prople with principles. They literally cannot survive. The party is a magnet for the bad, the evil, the wicked, the corrupt and the amoral, and fresh-faced juniors like Quinton Jo either learn quickly to join in or they get shafted and eaten. Principles are a really serious threat to those who don’t have them.