There is internal division that is spilling into anger and confusion over Neville Gafa’s return to the Labour Party as an activist and volunteer. The Labour Party’s Deputy-Leader, Alex Agius Saliba told me on record that Neville Gafa is a volunteer and that he welcomes him and his work with the party like any other volunteer who wishes to contribute to the party. Neville Gafa was told to stop his activism for the Labour Party in 2018 by the ex-CEO of the party Randolph Debattista.
When I asked Alex Agius Saliba whether he is concerned about the reputation of the Labour Party with its association of Neville Gafa, Alex Agius Saliba said that Neville Gafa has never been convicted of anything. Alex Agius Saliba considers Neville Gafa as a legitimate blogger and a Labour Party volunteer.
Neville Gafa is not an influential individual in the Labour Party but he is noteworthy because he is the peep-squeak propagandist of Joseph Muscat and his criminal network. He has a blog which mostly focuses on vilifying members of the Opposition, the Judiciary, Prosecutors and the press. Like his fraudulent friend Karl Stagno Navarra, Neville Gafa masquerades as a blogger and a journalist to disseminate disinformation and attack government critics. However, he specialises in defending Joseph Muscat and his rehabilitation with the Labour Party and his main motivation is to attack Joseph Muscat’s critics. This is why Neville Gafa is noteworthy, because his association with Labour also reflects Labour’s tolerance to Joseph Muscat.
Currently, Neville Gafa is focusing on vandalising the makeshift monument of Daphne Caruana Galizia. He has also praising the Police Commissioner and the Attorney-General. He was spared prosecution over serious allegations of visa fraud by a whistleblower. The whistleblower was charged instead. He ha been to traveling to Russia to conduct business and also specialises in Russian propaganda. Neville Gafa is still selling visas to Libyans.
Other top Labour Party officials disagree with Alex Agius Saliba but they insisted not to have their names revealed. One Labour Party official told me that they are very unhappy about the fact that Neville Gafa is suddenly projecting himself as an authoritative Labour voice. They also said that Neville Gafa is obstructing the Labour Party’s official message from getting across the public, and insisted that Neville Gafa does not reflect the Labour Party’s ideas.
Another top Labour Party official, who is also privy to the government, told me that they refused to provide public office space for Neville Gafa when the party was looking for locations where he could meet Labour Party members.
Separately, another top-government official said that many Labour Party officials are unhappy with Neville Gafa’s and Karl Stagno Navarra’s association with the Labour Party and referred me to a Facebook comment by a Labourite which stated, in reference to Karl Stagno Navarra, that “We don’t need PN drop-outs and fraudsters to tell us how to conduct our party business.”
Both Karl Stagno Navarra and Neville Gafa received a lot of criticism from their restricted audience recently as they criticised several Labour Party officials. Their audience expects them to praise and support anything and anyone related to the Labour Party, while cheering them on in their attacks on the party’s critics.
Prime Minister Robert Abela slashed all of Joseph Muscat’s propagandists from ONE bar Charlon Gouder who appears in a breakfast show to “read the news headlines”. The Prime Minister’s move which led to the relegation of Manwel Cuschieri to Smash TV was a clear act of dissociation with Joseph Muscat’s propogandists. However, the Prime Minister began switching his stance following the European Parliament elections and once again pivoted his stance towards further public association with Joseph Muscat. The Prime Minister allowed the return of Rosianne Cutajar to Labour’s parliamentary group and allowed Joseph Muscat’s allies, namely Alex Agius Saliba, to take a central role in the Labour Party.
Heading to the next general election the Prime Minister wants to send the message to Labourites that he is at peace with Joseph Muscat: the Devil’s Pact is intact. This also means that the Labour Party is looking inward and addressing its base without hoping it will add any news votes in the upcoming election. Labour is simply betting on its own audience because it is by now the biggest political group. On a short-term basis, this kind of strategy is opportunistic and considered less risky, but on a long-term basis, this strategy is suicidal and even illogical because a core base, as it is, can only reduce in number over time. Joseph Msucat has been the making of the victorious Labour Party just as he will become its undoing.
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