Whoever wins, let’s celebrate in the appropriate manner

Published: March 10, 2012 at 5:18pm




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  1. Ian says:
    March 10, 2012 at 5:21 pm

    Is that Mrs Muscat?

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  2. John Schembri says:
    March 10, 2012 at 5:36 pm

    Every party will quote the election statistic which suits it.

    Normally they will pinpoint the adversary party’s failures and put a magnifying lens on their successful areas.

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  3. BC says:
    March 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    Celebrate? For Christ’s sake these are local council elections; why are we to celebrate in the first place. God that mentality, can’t believe it.

    [Daphne – The nature of the video should have given you something of a clue that I wasn’t to be taken literally. But then I forget that you vote Labour, BC. I didn’t vote. Why would I celebrate?]

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  4. SA says:
    March 10, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    What a video! Where did you dig that up?

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  5. P Borg says:
    March 11, 2012 at 10:57 am

    One interesting analysis to make with local council election results is in absolute terms. If we were to take the numbers (rather than percentages) who came out to vote how do these compare with the previous election.

    I am quite sure that the number of PN votes have decreased, but that would be only natural as most of them may have “protested” for some reason or other.

    [Daphne – Don’t see it only as a protest vote. Many are like me: they couldn’t be fagged. People need motivation to vote as well as NOT to vote, and in a local council election, there is little or nothing to make you bother. It’s completely different to a general election. If I lived in Sliema, with all that’s been going on, I would probably feel differently in this particular council election. But that would be because the antics of the previous council would have motivated me to go out and clean it up – even though, strictly speaking, the mess was created by people who voted for individuals they didn’t really know, and look what happened. Well, it happened to me in the general election, so I’m not surprised.]

    With the PN being in government and having the responsibility of making decisions (some of which could be hard-hitting), that is only understandable. And these are only local council elections, one would argue, and not the real thing. Therefore, why not make our voice heard through not voting.

    However, if absolute numbers are eventually produced, I am also quite sure that Labour votes have also decreased. And how would one analyse that? If we are currently living on hell-on-earth (as Labour is trying to project), how come didn’t the Labour elves come out from their shells and vote to push forward a very loud and strong message? Against what are the PL non-voters protesting?!

    I would analyse that as being the “skip effect”. Labour supporters themselves are now recognising that the party is becoming one big skip.

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  6. Angus Black says:
    March 11, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    I have always advocated a purely independent candidate voting system. Why political parties get involved at all is beyond comprehension. If the Local Council results influence a national election, then Labour should have governed from the LCs inception to-date.

    Political division within Councils can only work negatively for local communities as it did in Mosta and other localities mainly headed by Labour majorities.

    Let individuals run on their own merit and not by party affiliation. That would attract better experienced and better qualified individuals and not just party favourites, many of whom are not even known within their own community.

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