Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Why are our political elites SO obsessed with gender identity issues, and trans rights? One answer comes from Malta, the LGBTQ+ movement's poster child, where an inquiry has just accused the tiny nation's entire political class of enabling a murder. 👇theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…

2./ Ever since the election of a Labour government in 2013, Malta has pioneered radical LGBTQ+ policies including Self-ID of gender. Malta's adoption of such policies was sold as the new global benchmark others should reach. Uncritical plaudits rolled in.👇time.com/4597632/malta-…

3./ But had these policies really been thought through? When journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated, in 2017, leading politicians were accused of involvement and being linked to gangsters. Did the LGBTQ+ movement or its "allies" pause for thought? What do you think?

4./ This despite the fact that one of the most consistent themes of Daphne's work was that woke policies were being used to distract attention from what she described as a cesspit of corruption, mafia behaviour and larceny at the top of Maltese political life.

5./ But why should all this matter to us? Only that identical policies to those first championed and adopted by politicians, now officially condemned of enabling murder and undermining the rule of law, are being promoted in Britain, not least in Wales. 👇gov.wales/consultation-l…

6./ One reason Malta's Left embraced LGBTQ+ was it yearned for its glory days in the 70s when its leader Dom Mintoff 'bravely' hung out with Gaddafi and sung the praises of the proletariat. Its activists needed a new agent of social change, a new pet underdog. Bring on the LGBTQ+

7./ Labour particularly needed a new cause celebre because its actual economic policies (those that used to define the Left) were a total capitulation. Labour now advocated making Malta a centre for deregulated international finance, online gambling and the sale of EU passports.

8./ As the Left's ambition to materially change the fortunes of the working class withered, LGBTQ+ rights became a low risk proxy; virtue signalling for peanuts. Tho you've got to hand it to the activists still trying to make trans rights feel like an anti-capitalist struggle.😂

9./ In Malta, Daphne said woke policies were prioritised not DESPITE the fact they were hard for the public to grasp but BECAUSE of it. The more voters struggled to get their heads round legends like "no a la carte intent to fight transphobia" the less they'd spot corruption.👇

10./ To understand what she meant, try playing this famous psychology experiment which tests attention. The trick is to try to count the number of times the players wearing white pass the ball. It's surprisingly tough. And there's a surprise.

11./ Only 50% of viewers spot the big guy who isn't passing the ball and almost no one notices subtler things. When human beings focus hard on something we miss other really big things. Now everyone is able to spot the gorilla that was dancing amid Malta's carnival of wokery.

12./ One of Daphne's main targets was PM Joseph Muscat whom she accused of Self-ID-ing as an LGBTQ+ hero while massaging his dubious financial links with Azerbaijan, a deeply homophobic nation. At least their abortion policies are more liberal than Malta's, where it's banned. 🙄

13./ Equalities Minister @helenadalli didn't bother to tackle abortion but focused on LGBTQ+ policies instead. Daphne claimed Dalli played a key role laying down smokescreen (or wokescreen) to distract from what she said were the Cabinet's real priorities, including nepotism.👇

14./ Dalli is such a moral exemplar that when the guy who wrote her Self-ID bill was found guilty of distributing revenge porn she defended him. Muscat called him a "soldier of steel" which sounds like a porn genre. Of course Engerer is now an MEP. independent.com.mt/articles/2014-…

15./ When opponents in the EU Parliament raised Engerer's sending of nude images to an ex-partner's workplace he denounced it as hate speech. "Nothing will deter me from continuing to work in favour of human rights and equality.” Not even my own idiocy. 🙄lovinmalta.com/news/news-poli…

16./ The Daphne inquiry now asserts that Engerer, Dalli Muscat, and the rest of their dodgy cadre fostered a state culture in which her murder was almost inevitable. 'Tentacles of impunity spread to ..regulatory bodies and the police, leading to a collapse in the rule of law".

17./ The judgment should be no surprise. Malta was denounced iby the EU & anti-corruption groups. In 2018 Panorama's @johnsweeneyroar drilled into Muscat on the clandestine selling of passports, a major claim of Daphne's. He was back selling them a week after her murder.👇

18./ His lack of shame was shared by the global LGBTQ+ movement. @ILGAEurope voted Malta, Numero Uno for LGBTQ+ rights every one of the 4 years the Inquiry was sitting including 2021.👇 The message appears to be, "great place to party, shame about the car bombs & dead feminist."

19./ A year after that Panorama about Daphne's murder and suggestions of mafia like corruption among Malta's leaders here's LGBTQ+ charity @GiveOut_Org being hosted for Pride at the Maltese High Commission in London where @helenadalli spoke. Of course she did. £20K was raised.👇

20./ One trustee, Michaela Muscat, dismissed Daphne's work as gossip after her murder in now deleted tweets. Muscat cites "the emerging correlation between Malta's economic growth and its progressive social model". Oh do give us a break.👇

21./ She obviously failed to get the memo that LGBTQ+ tourism's contribution to Malta's income was mere window-dressing compared to the billions from online betting companies, some accused of mafia links, that Labour encouraged to set up in the country. forbes.com/sites/willnico…

22./ Of course, Malta's politicians didn't embrace LGBTQ+ policies ONLY to disguise corruption. Dalli, a sociologist,seems to believe some of the daft Queer Theory ideas driving the LGBTQ+ movement. Here she is publicly supporting a magazine edited by a Maltese Foucault scholar.

23./ Ironically that editor, Meinrad Calleja, is a convicted cocaine trafficker jailed after selling coke to a killer who'd used Brazilian brothels as a front. Only in Malta! His book on Foucault examines the poseur's work on jails. Well they do say, write about what you know.

24./ Queer Theory's dark moral relativism (and its claim most social norms merely disguise power relations) found its perfect expression in Malta's Labour Party, helping individual politicians justify their blatant abuse of power, their nepotism and greed. independent.com.mt/articles/2019-…

25./ These fashionable but toxic ideas helped hollow out what remained of the moral core of Malta's Left. Even worse, its complete lack of concern about Malta's descent into barbarism shows the LGBTQ+ movement has lost its moral compass. Malta is far from a model. It's a warning.

26./ Addendum. If you want more info about the sewer run by woke Labour here’s some gobsmacking details from an earlier thread about Dalli’s best buddy and Cabinet colleague Chris Cardona who gave her sons jobs. How @helenadalli ever became an EU Commissioner god alone knows.

27./ Some of Daphne's righteous anger came from her being incensed by Labour hypocrisy. In 2014, newspaper revelations exposed Chinese owned factories in Malta were using imported slave labour. Wasn't that an issue that should concern "socialists"? 👇daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/10/chines…

28./ Neither Labour or @helenadalli spoke out. They had MUCH more important concerns. The same month the story broke about slave labour, Dalli was immersed in the campaign to impose gender identity BS on Malta. Priorities darling.👇daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/10/perfec…

29./ But don't run away with the idea that Gender Identity policies had ever been voted for by the Maltese public. Dalli was caught joking on video in 2018 at a UN Conference that Labour misled voters by only saying they would fight for LGBT "equality". 👇timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…

30./ Despite all this Malta still has stalwart fans. One is @APPGLGBT, our own LGBTQ+ legislators' lobby group, who only last year lauded it. John Nicolson MP even cited Malta as a "mature democracy". I suppose mature can mean thoroughly rotten. 👇