At some time or other, a good number of us have already paid him lots of tribute … when he trampled on our constitutional rights, when he governed this country on the strength of a ‘perverse’ result, when he used violence to silence his opponents, when he used state broadcasting as a political tool, when he put university off limits for a good number of youths, when he regaled us with a wage freeze, when he decreed what we should not be buying, when he left us without electricity and water, when he crossed our phone lines …. actually, when he took away normality from our lives at the time and when he cut short the horizons of our future.

Lots of tribute, sure.

After St. Paul’s shipwreck, it was Eddie Fenech Adami that really impact Malta on the map, and for very good reasons that we are still enjoying all the benefits.

Malta was put on the map by hard working, honest, dignified people who suffered his madness silently.

Mintoff put Malta on the map as much as Hitler put Germany on the map, in the sense, that, yes, Malta hit the headlines internationally, occasionally, but for all the wrong reasons.

Mintoff, a mean, ignorant, self-centred, miserable bastard excuse of a man.

Rot in hell, you shard of evil.

Fuq il-karta tal-incova more likely.

There. Ha ha. Mintoff is a geopolitical pygmy! Pygmy! Pygmy! However big his bronze dinky! Dinky! Dinky!