Manuel Mallia: the new Mintoffian
From his official website as a Labour star candid8:
Emmanuel sar jaf lill-Perit Dom Mintoff fejn, ma kinitx darba jew tnejn, li ltaqa’ miegħu fl-Għarix ġewwa Delimara, fejn iddiskutew kwistjonijiet u inizjattivi politiċi. Anke jekk ma kienx jaqbel mal-Perit Mintoff fuq numru ta` oqsma, Emmanuel jiddeskrivi lill-Perit Mintoff bħala bniedem ta` kariżma kbira u baqa’ jammirah għall-mod kif bena u introduċa l-welfare state u rnexxielu jibni il-middle class f`pajjiżna mill-faqar li kienet tinsab fih fiż-żminijiet mgħoddija. Mintoff min-naħa l-oħra jħares lejn Emmanuel bħala persuna li tista’ titkellem miegħu fuq ħafna oqsma u bħala persuna li jgħid dak li jħoss u mhux bilfors jaqbel miegħek f’kollox. Spiss il-Perit Mintoff kien jissuġġerilu biex ladarba kien laħaq il-quċċata tal-professjoni legali tiegħu, kien wasal iż-żmien li jservi lill-pajjiżna fl-istituzzjonijiet politiċi.
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I’m confused. Who exactly invited Manuel to join Labour? Was it Mintoff or Muscat?
Which begs a further question: who is actually leading the Labour Party?
No wonder all the Mintoffian Jurassic Era people are back in the fold.
“Mintoff min-naħa l-oħra jħares lejn Emmanuel bħala persuna li tista’ titkellem miegħu fuq ħafna oqsma”
Mintoff naħseb lanqas jekk iħares fil-mera ma jagħraf lilu nnifsu, aħseb u ara kemm se joqgħod jeloġja ‘l Mallia.
Introduca l-welfare state? Ma nahsibx.
Zviluppa, jista jkun u minn fuq iz-zieda sostanzjali tat-taxxi tal-haddiema.
Irnexxielu jibni il-middle class? Kompli ohlom. Taf x’bena Mintoff? Mintoff bena ambjent ta hdura, ghira u vjolenza fil-klassi tal-baxx u l-hamalli u taghhom il-poter johorgu fit-toroq ikissru, jaharqu u jsawtu lill dak jew dik li ma kienetx taqbel maghhom. U dan minghajr sarimi.
Il-faqar ta zminijiet mghoddija li minghalik helisna minnu Mintoff ghadu jezisti sal-lum. Dur dawra madwarek u malajr tinduna, aqra ftit il-kummenti li jiktbu certu whud fuq blogs jew timesonline, u ghandek tintebah li mhux talli ma rnexxilux jibni l-middle class il-Perit, izda rnexxielu jitfa’ l-pajjiz hamsin sena lura.
Imbasta “Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox”.
What does his friendship with Mintoff have to do with his candidature?
So to tempt people to vote Labour, they have to have candidates with Dom’s blessing. Isn’t Muscat’s approval enough? It seems like the PL peaked too early for the election and now they are losing track.
I remember Dr. Mallia going around with Professor De Marco and his daughter Giannella. So what happened?
He was Guido De Marco’s canvasser (and Giannella’s boyfriend for a while).
What happened is his ambition to be a part of the country’s leading party.
And as it looks like this is Labour’s time, a whole lot of people who are driven by the ambition to belong to the governing side of parliament are jumping on Labour’s bandwagon.
Whether there are people among them with real grey matter is another issue altogether.
What if the grey matter input source is remaining on the sidelines directing things with Joseph to his own personal benefit first and has been there since 2009?
What if this grey matter counts?
What if this grey matter is the country’s biggest Jekyll and Hyde character ever?
What if there have already been casualties?
Franco’s a dummy: he’s just being used. He’s a diversion.
Very evidently jumping on the Mintoff/middle class bandwagon fronted by Joseph Muscat, but driven by il-Guy, AST, Debono Grech and the rest of the usual suspects harking back the the Zmien tad-Deheb.
Also very conveniently, Duminku Mintoff has long ago gone gaga and so is in no position to contradict Manwel Mallia.
He is good at writing fiction, I see.
“..introduca l-welfare state u rnexxielu jibni il-middle class f`pajjizna..”? That’s when he lowered the existent middle class to the same level of the ‘deprived class’ he created, therefore the deprived class became the ‘new middil cless’.
“Mintoff min-naha l-ohra jhares lejn Emmanuel bhala persuna li tista’ titkellem mieghu fuq hafna oqsma”. Why use the present tense? Does Dear Dom still remember who Mallia is?
Laghqi! Ma kienx jaqbel mieghu imma jarah bniedem ta’ karizma.
Issa qed jghid hekk, imma, ghax bidel il-kulur u sar ahmar. Jew blu? Issa tfixxkilt.
Kull min naf jien u ma kienx jaqbel mal-perit Mintoff jiddeskrivih b’hafna aktar titli dispregjattivi.
U dan iltaqa’ mieghu ukoll. Tghid Duminku urihulu t-Thermos li kien igorr mieghu biex ma jixrobx mill-ilma li jixrob li-poplu Malti?
How sick – sucking up to “Dear Dom”.
He makes me sick. I remember him as a convinced Nationalist, who knows very well what we went through under Labour. His change of heart only goes to show what a warped character he has.
Kif ma kkontestax l-elezzjoni mal-Labour qabel jekk jahseb li Mintoff bena l-middle class mill-faqar li sab?
Darba kien qal li Nazzjonalisti qatt ma saqsewh biex johrog maghhom ghal-elezzjoni. Mhux ta b’xejn jekk kien qieghed imur fl-Gharix tal-Perit.