Agree, Mila. The term ‘Labour Movement’ was coined by Mintoff to describe the new Lejber incarnation in the form of the statutorial fusion of the MLP-GWU.

After 16 violent year of Mintoffian socialism, Alfred Sant liquidated the previous fusion and brought the MLP back to a normal political party as understood in a democratic country.

Muscat borrowed back the idea of a labour movement under completely different circumstances and connotations. The party proper now embraced a hotchpotch of a handful of prominent ex-Nationalist MPs and members of traditionally PN voting sections.

The heavily-marketed new ‘political movement’ was successful in the last elections but the glaring contradictions and crony appointments are fast eroding the credibility and sustainability of the ‘movement’.

The latest Malliagate saga is a clear sign that Muscat’s re-invention of the ‘labour movement’ will eventually implode and explode in their face.

The use of the term Movement gave the illusion of an unbrella to gather all those on the Labour side of the scale. It also helped to persuade those that were increasingly seeing politics as dirty by pointing to the Nationalists as a political party while the Movement was pictured as above and beyond politics, thus above and beyond dirt, a clean, new alternative.

The Movement was a gimmick held together by spin. It was meant to win them the election which it did. They knew that they needed a plan for the marriage, not just the wedding, so they assured everyone they had a roadmap. They probably thought that no one would leave a winning team once they got to power and that everyone would tow the line.

They forgot that when one makes a pact with the devil, there is always a price to pay, in fact the hangers on now want their share of power, fame and fortune.

Dak ghal Codruta kien qed jghid. Dik m’ghandiex x’taghmel u olive oil toqghodilha wkoll.

The Labour Party promises change as a way of keeping things the same.

Read Mallia’s letter again and also what Marlene Farrugia has said and written.

The Moviment is only a ‘faccata’ (not that we didn’t know). It is used by Muscat to look cool and good but the tactics and administration are all old Labour.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-11/local-news/Nothing-has-changed-Marlene-Farrugia-says-as-PL-turns-down-request-for-extraordinary-conference-6736127141

She calls him “our little boy”. I suppose compared to her grossly fat (and old) husband, he is.

The more that things are promised to “change” by the Labour Party the more they remain the same. That is the huge elephant in the room that won’t go away and that is too bulky to be swept under the carpet by any inquiry.

Bernie,

Nahseb li dan mhux talli huwa kaz ta’ korruzzjoni, izda wiehed kriminali.

Meta tisma persuna f’kariga gholja bhal dik jghid lil persuna l-ohra ghandux jirrapporta l-kaz jew le, huwa att kriminali oxxen.

Mur gib lil Toni Abela kien jaf b’xi haga simili li grat go kazin Nazzjonalista. Kieku x’kien jaghmel? Ghidlu ma jitnejjikx bina, ghax ma twelidniex il-bierah.

[Daphne – Mank kont ghadni Olive Oyl, siehbi. That was some time ago now.]