A day following an interview with Alex Agius Saliba in which he stated that political parties need to lower tensions in society to address national divisions, he gave us more of the same by running his mouth with a populist attack against the PN MEPs who attended a vigil for Daphne Caruana Galizia outside the European Parliament.
Alex Agius Saliba attacked Peter Agius specifically for his failure to turn up to an Internal Market Committee meeting in which he could express his opposition to the €3 tariff on parcels from China. Alex Agius Saliba can’t spend a day without making a fool of himself even when he tries to say the right thing.
I still have to understand the kind of reasoning and thinking that comes from a parallel universe that assumes opposing tariffs on retail packages from China is more important than commemorating our own dead journalists who were murdered.
On the other hand, others in the Labour Party seem to be willing to actually act and not just to posture for the press. CEO of the Labour Party Ivan Falzon sent a letter to Neville Gafa censoring him over his blog which he uses to attack Labour Party critics, journalists, dissidents, women, gay men, transgender people and the LGBT community in general. Alex Agius Saliba had previously defended Neville Gafa’s activism within the Labour Party. Neville Gafa is a well known Joseph Muscat propagandist and part of his criminal network having done his dirty bidding when Joseph Muscat was in power. He was allowed to go scot-free by the Attorney-General over his cash-for-visa deals offered to Libyan citizens.
Ivan Falzon told Neville Gafa that he will lose access to the Labour Party’s headquarters if he doesn’t moderate his tone. Neville Gafa admitted that he received the letter by the Party’s CEO and said that he will disregard it.
Let’s make this very clear The letter was either approved or commissioned by the Labour Party’s leadership through the Prime Minister directly or the Executive Committee. The CEO does not have the authority to make political decisions since his role is purely administrative and operational. This letter was definitely supported by the Prime Minister and true to his character, he wants to hide his hand behidn a potential reigning in of Neville Gafa and Joseph Muscat’s faction.
Such a letter should have been sent and signed both by the CEO and the Deputy-Leader of the Party affairs. Alex Agius Saliba already defended Neville Gafa.
If the Labour Party intends to have a showdown with Joseph Muscat’s network in the Party it should do this openly and forcefully as half-measures will only consolidate Muscat’s power and influence within the party. There was a time in the 1990s when the Labour Party actually compelled some of its members, such as Lorry Sant, to withdraw from all party activities over their past corruption and involvement in political violence, despite Lorry Sant still enjoying ample grassroots support.
Today, Labour can’t even expel members who explicitly act as its ideological representatives while advocating for the exact opposite of what the party claims to promote, as in Neville Gafa’s case, with his homophobia and misogyny.
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