I'm accused of harping back to the past by the PL assorted Lil'Elves and Cheer-Leaderettes, but in truth, it ain't me, babe, it ain't me.
Not only did Joseph Muscat wheel out Mintoff's mildly eccentric (for which read, Loony Left) daughter for the amusement of the masses last week, with her jokes (jokes??) about "Smellimara" – and the dear lady should really not talk about smells when invoking Mintoff, since most of us still have the stench of "Waterboy" in our nostrils from when his abysmal management of the country left us without water – he's now got no less than an MLP Hero of the Past telling him he "does not know what he is saying".
Dr KMB, for it is he of whom I write, came out against Muscat all guns blazing because of the latter's audacity in gainsaying a position the PL had taken in the Eighties. With a disregard for accuracy that underscores his panting lust for power, Muscat compared the current trials and tribulations of the PN and that lawyer from Ghaxaq with the flagrant disregard by Mintoff and PL for the wishes of the majority of the electorate in 1981.
In 1981, the majority of the country had voted for the PN but Mintoff, followed by KMB, and with the support of current MLP MPs Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, Leo Brincat and Karmenu Vella, in their various capacities at the time, had clung to power for the full length of the legislature.
The three named are now frantically trying to find an accommodation between their positions then and their Leader's position now, and we'll leave them at it, since they're doing little to edify themselves.
The situation in 1981, Muscat is now saying, with not a trace of embarrassment, was as bad then as it is now.
He's wrong on two counts: it was bad then, for sure, but it is not the same now, both because the PN is in power because the majority of the country voted for it and because the confidence vote in the House, proposed by the MLP, did not muster sufficient votes and Muscat lost.
That is the stark truth and no amount of twisting and turning will change it.
And let's have no guff about Gonzi and his vote about divorce, shall we? The majority voted for its introduction and it was introduced, a few short months after the referendum result was announced and after Gonzi had immediately said that the will of the people would be given effect. His personal vote is as immaterial to the outcome as anyone else's, given that the law is in place. Compare his behaviour with that of Muscat's more immediate predecessor and his "Partnership Won" declaration after the EU Referendum.
I suppose this will also get me a nice little featurette on that rag, KullHadd and on Super One News, another dose of cheap MLP-style intimidation, to which I extend two digits, suitably arranged.