A man who can’t even be arsed to learn how to drive talks about compulsory military service for young people
Yes, if his wife Gillian is free to drive him there or if he can bum a lift off somebody else.
Evarist Bartolo, KullHadd (the Labour Party’s official newspaper), 18 June 2006:
L-Armata
Is-Sibt filghodu ma’ xi parlamentari ohra mort fil-barracks military tal-Forzi Armati Maltin f’Hal Far, fejn spejgawlma x-xoghol taghhom ta’ tahrig u sehem f’missjonijiet umanitarji tal-Gnus Maghquda f’pajjizi ohra. Wara shabi komplew jiehdu sehem f’tahrig li s-soltu jaghmlu s-suldati. Wiehed minn shabi qalli: “Tghidx kemm ghajtu maghna dawk li kienu qed imexxu t-tahrig!” Jien ma bqatx hemm ghax kelli impenn l-istazzjon RTK.
Waqt il-hin tal-mistoqsijiet staqsejt dwar x’jifhmu biha meta jghidu li fit-tahrig u l-edukazzjoni tas-suldati jridu jbidlulhom il-mentalita taghhom minn wahda civili ghal ohra military. Staqsejthom x’jahsbu kieku jkollna s-servizz military ghaz-zaghzagh taghna biex ma jibqax ikollna tant indixxiplina fil-pajjiz.
Il-Brigadiar qalli, bir-ragun, li decizjoni bhal dik jehodha min imexxi l-pajjiz. Semma kemm kien hawn zaghzagh li sarilhom hafna gid bit-tahrig li nghataq fil-Korp tal-Pijunieri flok jitghazznu fl-pjazza tar-rahal!
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Maria l-Maws tad-daqqiet ta’ harta daqs Konrad Mizzi, jekk mhux xi ftit aktar ukoll.
Yes, I do remember the ‘Korp tal-Pijunieri’
Their marching song ran something like this:
‘Bil-pala w bil-fies
b’z**bb f’s***na daqshiex
Tal-Pijunieri’
There were also ‘Bahhar u sewwi’ – which consisted of neither sailors nor handyman, incidentally, but of lazy undisciplined bummers.
There was also ‘Dirghajn il-Maltin’ – and, some say, the female counterpart ‘Bizlejn il-Maltin’.
There was also ‘Id-Dejma’ – reminiscent of Mijju Mekkek, perhaps!
Insejt ”Izra u Rabbi”.
There was also Iżra u Rabbi – Mintoff thought he could take unemployed persons and turn them into farmers.
Incredible amount of spelling and grammar mistakes in such a short piece.
What is a ‘barracks military’?
Later, ‘jien ma bqatx hemm…’.
Again ‘bit-tahrig li nghataq fil-korp…’.
What a twat he is, God help us.
Prosit, mela fil-Lejber ghad hemm il-mentalita tal-Korpi. Tghid Joseph issa jaghmel substitution minflok Evarist, jew kuntent b’dak li qal?
U ghal giehna ser ikun Ministru tal-Edukazzjoni fi ftit xhur ohra.
it has always been Labour’s dream to have a population of “soldiers”, trained not to think for themselves but to obey orders without question.