Partit Laburista wine glasses – a bargain at eight euros each
The Labour Party is – wait for it – raising funds by selling WINE GLASSES EMBLAZONED WITH THE PARTIT LABURISTA EMBLEM AND WEB DOMAIN.
I promise you that this is true. I am not imagining things. I thought I was, but I heard the voice of a Super One announcer and realised it was real.
Anybody else who watched the last bit of Inkontri tonight and sat through two adverts for these wine glasses will vouch for the veracity of it.
I sat there on the sofa and an army of the things came spinning and swirling towards me through the screen. Then the twirling wine glasses stopped twirling and stood and looked at me and there on their chests were the words ‘PARTIT LABURISTA WWW.PARTITLABURISTA.ORG’.
I don’t know what it is about Labour but they even manage to make their fund-raising wine glasses look like a bunch of thugs.
And then there was the voice-over: “Wara s-success tas-sena’ l-ohra, din is-sena’…” – apparently, this year’s wine glasses have some slight modifications to make them collectable, so that those who bought one last year won’t say ‘I have one of those already’ and will instead buy another one FOR EIGHT EUROS.
You can buy a good steak for that kind of money.
How did I miss last year’s Labour wine glasses? Damn.
I must watch more Super One.
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They’ve put their old wine in new bottles and now they have new glasses to go with it.
Who’s going to buy their whine? It’s made from sour grapes…
They have been flogging those glasses on the party radio at all hours of the day and night , at least for this last week and a half. Unbelievable, but true.
Thought they said ‘whine’ glasses. Really have to brush up on my Maltese.
Don’t bother….just bugger off to where you came from Harry.
[Daphne – Typical Labour attitude: foreigners go home.]
What’s decisively more typical is your total anti-Labour bias and your blinkered way of seeing things.
As for sending off Harry to his God-forsaken land, wherever that is, its more like doing him a favour as it seems that the only thing he does around here is waste his time on posting his anti-Labour (Malta) comments on your blog. I’m sure his homeland provides for better enjoyment and fulfillment in life.
[Daphne – Damn shame that, unlike reality television, we don’t get to vote you off the island. Whatever it is that’s eating you, a Labour government won’t make it better. Try to love yourself. Get a massage or something.]
Mandango, I’m Canadian, however, I enjoy Malta much more.
Canadians keep their politics in perspective. Here, the political landscape is much more fun, Especially when almost half the island’s inhabitants are raving lunatics, perpetual losers, selfish and blinkered.
I heard that this year’s are especially designed for Monte Kristo “wines”.
What’s wrong with Monte Kristo “wines”?
“You can buy a good steak for that kind of money”.
I don’t think you would normally eat horse meat, Daphne, so stay clear of the Valletta Labour Party Club. For eight euro, they will probably sell you a horse ripeye stake with your choice of sause. Have they ventured into offering a dessert yet?
But seriously, are horses raised for meat?
No. But if they lose their owners a fat bet, they’re dead meat.
Am I right to assume that these are “tazzi tal-Kristall”?
You’ll know that if you see an elephant drinking out of one.
In light of the brouhaha about Sargas and carbon capture power stations, I think the Malta Labour Party will find this article enlightening.
http://www.economist.com/node/13226661?story_id=13226661
Particularly interesting are the lines:
“The problem with CCS is the cost… plants with CCS will need to be at least a third bigger than normal ones to generate the same net amount of power, and will also consume at least a third more fuel. In addition, there is the extra expense of building the capture plant and the injection pipelines. If the storage site is far from the power plant, yet more energy will be needed to move the carbon dioxide.”
“a full-scale one would cost about €1 billion ($1.3 billion).”
“Spills would also be a health risk, since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and so can build up in low-lying or poorly ventilated spots.”
Where exactly is Joseph Muscat planning to build this? At what cost?
How long will it take for Denmark to realise they can charge us any price they wish for polluting their environment? Does Joseph Muscat realise that we’ll still be paying fines for carbon emissions because the power station will be producing them regardless of whether they are captured or not? Does he realise that (in Europe and America), coal run power stations are going out of fashion?
Fitting CCS on an operating coal run power station might be a good idea but why build a new one?
Why can’t I shake off the feeling that if this project gets the green light, we’ll end up with one hell of a white elephant?
The MLP/PL is renowned for building white elephants. The Red China Dock and the Marsa Shipyard immediately come to my mind.
Since they never came up with a significant project when they ran the regime, they always go into panic mode as soon as the PN Governments announce real projects, and keep trying to shoot them down whilst being constructed, always insinuating corruption. For memory’s sake I mention the Gozo Hospital in the sixties, the Delimara Power Station, the New Terminal, City Gate Project, the construction of the arterial roads, new scchools, etc.
Strangely enough they are lobbying for the Sargas power plant, and wonder of wonders, this time they are not smelling any corruption.
They will regret the day they put all their electoral chances in this proposal.
‘Fitting CCS on an operating coal run power station might be a good idea but why build a new one?’
That is, in fact, the reason why CCS was developed; to avoid the expense of having to shut down coal powered plants. This, when the promise was that the CO2 captured would be processed via chemical absorption resulting in carbon and water as by products.
CCS is also being proposed for gas fired plants, and if Labour were genuine, they would ask for a feasibility study to fit CCS onto the existing plant in Delimara.
The EU is considering this as bridging technology until better systems are developed. What has to be noted is that it has commissioned studies for experimental demonstrator plants, planning to commercialise the systems, if successful, in 2020.
Success depends on the viability of existing depleted oil wells, one major sore point of the CCS three stage cycle. No one has produced scientific evidence that these will prove sufficient storage space for industrial scale applications. And given the fact that demand cannot be determined, nobody can.
Indeed, why build a coal fired plant?
Maybe the answer is in the following;
http://www.solutions-site.org/artman/publish/article_364.shtml
Note how Sargas’ system is limited by the pressure of combustion exhaust, incapable of being retrofitted to existing plants using a different combustion process.
The article also shows that the plant in Sweden was also in place before Sargas came along, having the suitable combustion process. Could it be that they developed their CCS system to suit Stockholm’s coal fired power plant?
One crucial detail, CCS, according to its promoters, can also be used for enhanced recovery, ie. pump the carbon dioxide into deplted wells to amplify the potential of a well, extracting oil which until today couldn’t be extracted due the attenuated pressure. That means my previous post is answered, demand creates supply.
No wonder they’re willing to invest 1 billion Euros. The ‘floating’ plant could be employed as an auxiliary oil pumping rig.
Tajba Saviour.
And instead of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy we will have the Marsaxlokk Carbon Dioxide tragedy.
Just watched Marlene Farrugia on TVAM ,what she basically said is that when Joseph becomes prime minister the administration will do what this government is doing .
Then she came up with something which is debatable and typically tal-Lejber: the government through Enemalta will install PV panels for free to those who cannot afford the bills and Enemalta personnel will be trained to do the maintenance and installation of the PV systems.
As usual like all her other colleagues she forgot that Alfred Sant’s twenty two month administration did nothing about power generation and distribution.””ilhom hamsa w’ghoxrin sena fil-gvern u m’ghamlu xejn”.
To be fair with her , she’s got more than a clue on the subject which she’s shadowing, she’s an asset for the PL. She seems to understand the technicalities which the ‘car daqs il-kristall Anglu’ together with Mr Fix-it Joseph didn’t even have a clue about.
You were right about keeping our mouths shut.
Free PV panels? That was suggested in jest a few posts ago.
A true connoisseur would not want any logos on his glass in order to properly see the composition of the wine in light (without distortion).
But then again I wouldn’t expect a loud-mouthed squalid socialist to understand the basics.
With the exception of Bed-in-field……dak issa warrablu ghax sar espert bies jikkummidja b’halqu
and you call yourself intellect….you must be a joker, mela hsibt li ha juzawhom il Hilton jew dawn it tazzi, gej bid distortion delicata
The Deputy Leader (nr 2) is raising funds for his own campaign:
http://www.select-optics.co.uk/elephant-four-wine-glasses-p-368.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFJhNipv60
Vintage Labour.
“I don’t know what it is about Labour but they even manage to make their fund-raising wine glasses look like a bunch of thugs.”
Well evidently, its all in the mind. A totally biased and twisted one in your case.
And for all your attention to detail, its called “One TV” and “One Radio”. Imma probabli tinzilek ghasel tghid “Super one”, ghax tinstema hamalla! Just like Eileen Montesin I guess, her name sounds pretty “hamallu” too. But that’s been rehabilitated I guess, that’s why we never get comments about her from you.
Mur sewwi mohhok!
Man dan go, anzi qed taghmilkom pjacir d li qed taghmlilkom reklam b’xejn. Taf kemm jaqrawha nies dil-blog? Kieku kont flokha kont nitlobkom share mill-qligh li taghmlu.
Being so hard pressed, can they afford wine and more so wine glasses?
And at 8 Euros per glass, when a full set of 6 can be had for 2 Euros, labour party supporters really do have money to throw away.
They would have been WERTIT (kif tghid Gladys tad-Deceduti) if they came in a set of 8 for the price of 1 euro, rather than 1 glass for 8 euros.
Tkun ghamilt aktar deal tajjeb mill-vot li tajt lil gonzipn fl 2008 kieku ciccio …x tahseb ehhh?? ghax b vot wiehed blajt miljun kanna