COME TO THE PARTY
So, according to a turncoat who is “deeply involved” in Labour’s organisation, Yana Mintoff Bland is to contest the elections on behalf of, well, wait for it, the Labour Party.
So far, we only have Cyrus Engerer’s word for that, and we all know what that is worth. A few weeks before he decided that his true home was within Labour’s ranks, he had given the impression that he was swearing undying fealty to GonziPN, so I think I’ll be forgiven for wondering whether a bucket of warm spit is worth more than his word. Perhaps we’re going to get another Grace Borg, as soon as the comment-storm this particular candidature has kicked up gets noticed.
Honestly, just as Dom Mintoff fades from the scene, allowing Labour to get some respite from the horrors his memory evokes in the hearts and minds of those who had started to forget the Seventies and Eighties, along comes this specimen, with her woolly hat and woollier ideas, to serve as a peg on which to hang a myriad of reasons to say that Labour sure hasn’t changed since the initials were MLP rather than PL and they weren’t shy to have the flaming torch as part of their emblem. In the wake of the announcement that Debono Grech is to contest as well, this is rich.
The Mintoff years, for all Labour’s revisionist history, were years of horrendous denial of basic rights and violence, both moral and physical. Yana Mintoff Bland was nowhere to be seen in those days, daddy having made sure that his nearest and dearest were well shielded from the trials and tribulations the rest of us suffered on a daily basis, but her condescending faux-Socialist attitude and air of superiority came out very clearly when she addressed the Labour General Conference recently.
Can you imagine the derision that would have been poured over anyone who dared speak in her curious accent and mish-mash of Maltese in her father’s day? She’d have been pilloried and ridiculed, at best.
This woman knows nothing of our country’s past and she knows even less of its present: she is obviously there simply to keep the warm glow of Mintoffian memories kindled in the hearts of Labour’s core. I suspect Labour will live to regret trundling out another Mintoff for our amusement, because the name Mintoff is anything but amusing.
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Antoine Vella
Feb 26th, 08:35
Joseph Muscat does not make any national proposals "in case they are copied by GonziPN" but then goes around assorted towns and villages proposing initiatives that are almost always COPIED from what Government or the Local Council is already doing.
Victor Laiviera
Feb 26th, 14:40
I hope that you are not referring to the WiFi business, cos it has been shown conclusively that Gonzi was - at best - bending the truth when he claimed it was already in place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4BDvpi3rhU
Try again.
Francis Saliba M.D.
Feb 26th, 23:15
@ Victor Laiviera.(today at 14:40)
Once more, according to you, some "hope" of yours " ... has been shown CONCLUSIVELY" - and therefore, let no dog bark! Most people would agree with philosopher Bertrand Russel when he wrote:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts"
You should try it, sometime.
Ivan Grech Mintoff
Feb 25th, 16:54
@il-bocca
If you think your blog(sic!) is funny, you should REALLY enjoy the comments in this thread...
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120225/local/pn-leadership-ballot-under-way.408409
Only a few of you left kidding no one but yourselves, it seems..!
Hang in there, won't you?
;)
Ivan Grech Mintoff
Feb 25th, 14:52
that you on the right, bocca...?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deep_Purple_-_Burn.jpeg
d. attard
Feb 24th, 11:42
I do not see any somewhere in between here...just old untreated chatter
Ms.D. Galea
Feb 23rd, 22:18
Bland MintoffYana conjurs up the unhappy visions of Christmases-past under her Scrooge dad''s regime.
Thanks , but NO THANKS! .
Andy Farrugia
Feb 23rd, 21:21
A "political animal", an appartchik calling others apologists. Hilarious this Laiviera chap, absolutely hilarious! And a revisionist to boot! Endlessly hilarious!
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Feb 23rd, 17:44
And in the meantime, Dr. L. Gonzi, PM, continues to ridicule Parliament. All that talk and not one vote taken. What is he scared of?
Angus Black
Feb 24th, 16:58
No, Andrew Camilleri, the question should read, "What is (or are) the one calling for Gonzi's resignation afraid of? Why did he not contest the leadership? He cannot face reality this little bully, but he is just happy creating trouble. He just does not realize that 'what goes around, comes around' and the trouble he has caused to his Party, will come to haunt him for the rest of his uninteresting life.
Dr Gonzi has nothing to be afraid of, as a matter of fact, he called for the leadership review himself, threw the contest wide open, and subject to a secret vote so that if there are those who oppose him can do so privately and without pressure from anybody else. Unlike what happened in the Joseph/George Labour leadership contest when the (M)LP Secretary General openly campaigned (on National TV) against George Abela. Now that was scary.
Joseph Calleja
Feb 23rd, 16:37
God will be waiting for you outside heaven's door with a birch in one hand and a cat o nine in the other Dr ABC. HE will not have mercy on you.
Angus Black
Feb 25th, 00:05
Judge not, so you will not be judged.
A list of names comes to mind, but since I gave you the advice of not judging others, I shall not go ahead and tell you that those on the list shall be spared God's wrath but will be led straight to the unpleasantly warm place especially prepared for them. Some of them are still living.
Joseph Calleja
Feb 26th, 18:46
My dear Angus, it was never my intention to pass a judgement as I believe this is only God's domain and no one should interfere. The only way I have left is to formulate an appraisal of the blogger. However I happen to be on the other side of the wall. Terrible isn't it.
Mark. Galea
Feb 23rd, 14:44
ohhhhhhhhhh the golden 70's ... how we all wish they are back ...
David Bezzina
Feb 24th, 22:41
IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE 70'S,YOU WILL HAVE NO PENSION TO LOOK FORWARD TOO,NO FREE EDUCATION,NO FREE HEALTHCARE,NO SOCIAL BENEFITS !
Andy Farrugia
Feb 23rd, 14:33
Let us hope (and pray) that she doesn't decide to embellish our House of Representatives with ......horse dung!
Franco Farrugia
Feb 23rd, 12:08
The people who are likely to vote for her, will do so just for the sake of her surname, and for nothing else. She will grab a few votes, especially from those troglodyte - cavemen, if you don't know what that means - vermin who look back with nostalgia at those bygone years when they were not at the wrong end of the stick. Oh well. Wonders never cease.
Victor Laiviera
Feb 23rd, 15:19
How typical of a PN apologist to refer to those who do not agree with them as "vermin". The new "marmalja"
Franco Farrugia
Feb 23rd, 19:46
I am no 'PN apologist'. The writer of this blog can affirm to that.
Why is it that just because one writes and criticises Labour, it is tantamount to being classed as 'PN apologist'?
Mr Laiviera, how old are you?
No, actually they are the old 'marmalja'. That is the 'vermin' that I am referring to.
Andrew Borg-Cardona
Feb 24th, 11:30
He's right you know, Laiviera. Say sorry. Oh, my mistake, you're a man of the Left - sorry is not in your lexicon.
Franco Farrugia
Feb 24th, 12:24
@ Victor Laiviera: You know, people like you make my blood boil no end!
I KNOW that you read the comments that I frequently profer through this medium: hence, you know how much I bash up - with good reason - the present Government.
And you DARE say that I am 'a PN apologist' just because I call a spade a spade! You stand silent, probably enjoying yourself, when I am criticising the Party in government; yet, as soon as I emit a syllable against your beloved partit, you call me names and denigrate me.
No wonder many people simply shut off when you have something to say.
Let me challenge you and see what kind of gentleman you are, Laiviera. Go on, say sorry! Like a brat!
Victor Laiviera
Feb 24th, 14:32
@ Franco Farrugia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger_management
Franco Farrugia
Feb 24th, 16:53
@ Mr Laiviera: I have more taste than merely using 'Wikipedia', thank you very much.
I got your answer.
As I said - just a brat.
Victor Laiviera
Feb 24th, 23:19
Franco Farrugia has called me a brat!
Not a twit or a twat, but a Brat!
He should know that my skin
Is quite thick, and not thin
And he’s just like a bite from a gnat.