Tag: Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
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What did Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici really believe in?
The most fitting way to describe Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici as a politician is as an unwilling servant of the Labour Party, a man whose premiership existed solely to honour the loyalty he owed to his close friend, Dom Mintoff. Whatever the Labour Party is trying to do with the commemorations of Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, it…
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A society for themselves
Yesterday, the Labour Party held a ceremony to unveil the government’s new monument for ex-Premier Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in Castille Square. The ceremony was attended by Heritgae Malta Chairman Mario Cutajar who gave a speech praised the ex-Labour Party Premier. Joseph Muscat also attended the ceremony and was seen in conversation with Prime Minister Robert…
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Revising history (supposedly)
Marie Louise Coleiro Preca wrote an article in the Times of Malta praising Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici and defending his legacy saying he represented social justice and workers’ rights. The article employs Labour’s textbook propaganda tactic of the “dichotomy prerequisite” in political criticism: an approach based on the notion that there are no fundamental truths in…
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Abusing history to serve the interests of the Party
Earlier today, the Labour government unveiled plans to place a monument of Labour ex-Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in Castille Square, potentially just right in front of the Malta Stock Exchange of all places. The monument is an outright abuse of history by the government that exclusively serves the party’s interests. Monuments are meant to…
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Government executives are as much responsible as politicians
This is Noel Żammit, the CEO of Heritage Malta. He’s a superstar who has worked with multinational companies and he is so wonderful and famous that Heritage Malta paid €700 to a media company for publishing a biography of his. Noel Żammit is praising the government’s crass decision to place a monument of Karmenu Mifsud…
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A fitting monument for Labour’s authoritarianism
The government will be placing a monument of former Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in Castille Square next to the monument of ?or? Borg Olivier. Apart from being a direct and crass insult to the nation, this monument is a well-intended celebration of Labour’s contemporary authoritarianism. Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was Prime Minister just for up…
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He was not progressive
The Labour Party is currently heaping praise on its ex-leader and previous Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici. Most of it is a formality since many don’t even remember him except for the likes of Chris Fearne and many who do remember him don’t have much sympathy for him, either. Most of the praise lauded to…
