Labour adept at land grab
A few days ago, Joseph Muscat had a rare moment of sharing and came out with a proposal: a Labour government, we were told, would go for “land grab” from the sea. Now, like Dr Muscat’s other proposals, this one was also copied – from Dubai, no less – but Dr Muscat is following a Labour tradition here. The Labour Party is well-known for grabbing land, especially if it belongs to people who do not support them. The government headed by Dom Mintoff, for example, grabbed hundreds of hectares of private land that he then magnanimously distributed to the “workers”; in many cases the original owners were not even compensated.
Labour also grabbed several private houses to turn into MLP clubs.
And let’s not forget that they grabbed the Blue Sisters Hospital and expelled the nuns. The Maċina, in Senglea, was also “grabbed” as was Australia House, which they shamefully allowed to deteriorate.
It wasn’t just land, of course: they grabbed banks too and ships, to mention just two.
So, all in all, grabbing is certainly well within Labour’s capabilities.
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Arsenio Ellul
Jun 27th 2012, 12:53
As usual PATHETIC!!!!!
Wenzu Vella
Jun 27th 2012, 09:11
Antoine. I feel sorry for you please for your sake GROW UP.
Victor Laiviera
Jun 27th 2012, 08:42
The usual pn-apologist stock-in-trade; half truths and lies.
- The Macina and Australia Hall were exchanged for the PL's almost-new headquarters to allow the building of Malta Shipbuilding. It was a very bad deal for the PL as Il-Macina was almost uninhabitable - which I know from personal experience.
- The Zammit Clapp Hospital (Blue Sisters) dispute arose because the sisters refused to make a number of beds available to national health patients (on payment). And it was the courts that found they had lost their title to the property
What do you think of th fact that the PN Club at Paola occupies a government owned building right on Paola Square, a building which could be put to a very good use by the Paola Local Council?.
ANTHONY PAVIA
Jun 26th 2012, 19:20
Mr Vella, Have you ever heard of Singapore?
pat muscat
Jun 26th 2012, 16:12
Read today' s Times of Malta Law courts report: Court annuls 1965 land (grab) expropriation. In 1965 we had your whiter than white PN government! 'Grabbing is certainly well within PN's capabilities'!
Antoine Vella
Jun 26th 2012, 18:05
The land expropriated at Zabbar was not intended and never used for political purposes. I am talking about a totally different form of land-grab.
John Zammit
Jun 26th 2012, 15:17
You said that this was copied from Dubai What difference it makes to us id it is a good proposal.AZ|bout the Phrase you used grabbing the land what paet of the sea is yours
Mr Andrew Camilleri
Jun 26th 2012, 12:12
How sick! Streching a analogy like a piece of chewing gum to fit Antoine's war on LP. Miskin. Antoine and his puffi-blu friends are on the attack, doing their best to denigrate Muscat's proposal.
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