The Labour Party gears up for another bout of anti-Papist frenzy

When the monument commemorating the Great Fire of London of 1666 was completed in 1677, it carried an inscription on its base, blaming Catholics for starting the conflagration that left 70,000 of London’s population of 80,000 homeless and destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 churches and St Paul’s Cathedral.

The inscription read: …BURNING OF THIS PROTESTANT CITY, BEGUN AND CARRIED ON BY THE TREACHERY AND MALICE OF THE POPISH FACTION… POPISH FRENZY, WHICH WROUGHT SUCH HORRORS, IS NOT YET QUENCHED. It stayed there for 150 years, until it was quietly removed some time after the emancipation of Catholics by parliamentary rule in 1831.

Should you be one of those who revels in pleasurable fear of Muslims, on whom you blame the world’s ills (just like Donald Trump), bear that in mind. You are just as ridiculous, irrational and dangerous in your thinking.

Meanwhile, as a side-note, back home in ‘Popish’ Malta we have the Labour Party and the government encouraging their hare-brained and not-quite-right-in-the-head supporters – quite frankly, their people on the comments-boards come across as though they need a prescription for diazepam or are heavily dosed on anti-anxiety pills already – to insult and denigrate the Archbishop and go all anti-clerical on us again.

They’re so progressive and liberal that they’re incapable of understanding that religious leaders of any stripe are entirely free to express themselves under human rights provisions which guarantee both freedom of expression and religious freedom. They claim not be religious and then become unbelievably worked up when the leader of the Catholic Church says something they don’t like, taking it personally and accusing him of interfering in secular matters.

That simply shows they never cut those apron-strings with the religion in which they were raised, and for all their protestations to the contrary, they have never really grown up.

The weirdest thing is watching them tussle between their twin lifelong programming: loyalty to il-Partit and suġġizzjoni mill-Knisja. Il-Partit always wins. That’s where you realise what a bunch of no-hopers they are: they’re incapable of forming their own opinion, and that’s one of the reasons why Malta is in the mess it’s in right now.

Partit jew Knisja? Knisja jew Partit? How about neither of the two, and make your own mind up for a change.

The monument to the Great Fire of London of 1666, which for 150 years carried an inscription on its base blaming Catholics (the “Popish faction”) for burning “this Protestant city”.