More about Aaron and The Modernisers’ frindge meeting

Dig those groovy sleeves, man. This funky cat is off to Aaron's frindge meeting. Renato and the Modernisers, my my hey hey.

Moving straight from the gutter (or the 21st-century equivalent) into the B.Com course and taking no interest in anything outside your coursework and your backwater political party creates serious problems.

It leaves you without the tools to understand the world around you, to understand, even, the very work you are supposed to be doing.

The reason that Aaron and The Modernisers, Kurt Farrugia, Joseph Muscat and the rest of the New Labour Chavs are so hopeless is that nothing in their life experience or social and intellectual development has equipped them to cope. They are one-dimensional, uninformed and at a total loss.

They put me in mind of people flailing around and drowning in a large pool, but who actually think they’re doing a great job of swimming and staying afloat. Meanwhile, everyone else is sitting around the edge of that pool, wondering whether to throw them a lifebuoy and prolong the misery for all, or just let them sink and have done with it.

Take that ‘frindge’ meeting, for instance. Aaron and his Modernisers obviously heard it bandied about in some socialist circles and picked it up to sound politically advanced.

Meanwhile, some friends and I are killing ourselves laughing. Fringe meetings are very much a British Labour Party thing. Traditionally, and especially post Michael Foot, they have been used as a way of keeping extremist left-wingers in the party fold while relegating them safely to the periphery.

So at a Labour Party conference in Britain, there will be fringe meetings, for instance, for Marxists and ‘deep’ environmentalists, for raging trade unionists, and for all those bright reds they want to keep safely under the bed lest they scare electors even further away. They’re given stalls and stands just outside the party conference.

That’s why they’re fringe meetings, Aaron: because they are relegated to the fringe. I have a suspicion that your misunderstanding of what a fringe meeting is has its roots in your not knowing what ‘on the fringe’ means.

Examples of people who would be at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party general conference in Malta: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Sammy Meilaq, Sharon NO2EU.

These Moderniser idiots seem to believe they are importing the concept from Britain – to look cool, like foreigners – without understanding it.

Fondazzjoni Ideat are not a neo-Marxist group who have to be petted and fed while chained on the fringe of the Malta Labour Party general conference, on the grounds that it would be politically disastrous to allow them actually into the conference or to let them speak.

Aaron and the Modernisers are at the heart of the Labour Party and sponsored by the party. Their activists are not sitting around in bars plotting how to depose Joseph Muscat and elect Red Alex instead, in a Commie coup.

Instead, they drool over their party leader and have their pictures taken with him as though he were the reincarnation of Che Guevara, then upload them proudly on Facebook.

Aaron, listen to a much older woman, sweetheart, because your own mother clearly isn’t up to it: when you’re in the mainstream and brainstorming on policy for the party, you don’t have a fringe meeting because you’re not on the fringe.

You’re tal-qalba. Deal with it.