Isn't this just typical?
X'mentalita miskina, jahasra
We’d practically given up waiting for the Labour Party to come up with some policy initiatives that might tempt us to vote for it. But now Labour has broken its silence with a surprise move.
It announced earlier today that it does have a policy, after all: on promoting Maltese music. And towards that end, it has invited the Croatian Eurovision group Feminem – who appear to have chosen their name by walking down the sanitary pads section at the supermarket – to participate in a song contest at Labour HQ.
The official name is The Malta International Hit Song Contest and it will be held on the eve of International Labour Day, 1 May, because on 1 May itself the Workers and their Leader will be otherwise engaged in public manifestations of suffering caused by GonziPN.
Clear your diaries for an enjoyable couple of hours of hysterical laughter in front of the television. Sadly, one of the more entertaining elements of the charade has been wiped away: new regulations demand that there be no politically partisan lyrics. So all those ward homor and tremulous workers under some hakma have been driven into history.
And Labour is still unable to leave its dualist thinking behind, six years after joining the European Union and the real world. Like the wine lists of the poorer sort of restaurant, it has divided its ‘Malta International’ song contest into ‘Maltese’ and ‘foreign’. In the Maltese section, 15 singers will compete against one another, and in the ‘foreign’ section, 12 bands and singers from other countries will compete against each other. A point of interest is that they include Anne Marie David, who sang for France at the Eurovision contest in 1973 – that’s right, 1973.
If they devoted as much time to organising their party and its policies as they do to song contests and other Jason-inspired initiatives, then we might get somewhere.
But then I’m afraid that the song contest mentality pretty much sums up the Labour Party and far too many of its supporters. So there you go.
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Wow. Dak l-ezekuttiv gdid tal-Labour?
Well, for Labour it’s all a song contest. Winning the elections is the end goal, with not a clue as to what comes afterward.
I’m sure Toni Abela prefers the Croatian blonde beauties to the teletubies..
After what he did to that rubber puppet and enjoyed it so much, he’d have a heart attack with these.
Don’t be too sure.
Who’s presenting it – Marisa?
@Genoveffa – le hi, Toni Abela.
Tghid mhux John Bundy?
What we have here is another example of Labour culture. The Labour party has typically believed that it represents Maltese culture. They have repeatedly used artists to deliver a political message, be it in music, drama, monuments to political figures, the media. As Daphne reminds us, their lyrics in music repeatedly used words like hakma, jasar, helsien and barrani.
This obsession with a Maltese culture has often led the Labour party to isolate us from the world. In this case it is good to see that there are foreign participants, but then, why separate the Maltese competition from that for foreigners? Do we live in parallel universes?
One girl each for the Leadership trio.
When is the next Labour fundraising telethon? Before or after the International Song Contest?
How can they pay for 12 foreign bands and singers when not too long ago the party still owed Enemalta and the WSC huge arrears?
I would imagine all bands and singers come from the Schengen zone allowing them free movement within the zone. And this is the same party which not too long ago wanted nothing to do with EU membership.
Have they paid the bus-owners for supplying buses for the day of protest against the new tariffs?
Perhaps the Labour Party would enter their own trio to compete in the Maltese section. How about Consuelo, Marisa and Nikita as the PL’s answer to Feminem. Any suggestion for a name down the same aisle?
Is Julia Farrugia of “independent” ILLUM presenting this song contest?
Ridt nghid ta’ Toni Abela …