Partit Laburista: Post il-mara huwa d-dar
Time to make some gingerbread men, just in case my good friends the gay make-up artist and the gay Sorbonne professor come calling while I am being interviewed in a sea of teddy-bears.
For a progressive party, the Partit Laburista certainly has a disproportionate fondness for right-wing sentiments. Cutting across and underlying much of what it says about the economy is the belief that women work only if they have to, and that in an ideal world without water and electricity bills, they would stay home where they belong, where they want to be, and wash the floor.
Take this extract from the latest leading article on the Partit Laburista’s news website, Maltastar, for example:
All in all quite a gaffe from a Gonzi PN Finance Minister who, would you believe,expects women to come out to work to help fill up the pension pot.
My god, what a nerve. Would you believe that the finance minister actually expects women to work? It’s unheard of. Sack him.
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The minister expects women to “come out to work”. Presumably he thinks they shouldn’t work indoors.
The vast majority of women from the working classes worked for a wage (not a salary) in the mid Victorian era.
That was at least 20 years before Rerum Novarum and the living wage.
The PL is fast going back in time with its progressive policies.
We are now in the 1870s.
Now am getting confused. Thought I read somewhere that Labour hounded Tonio Fenech as he was is NOT in favour of women going out to work as his wife did not. Cannot bother to check.