Oh. My. God. Are they mad?
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August 4, 2012 at 3:32pm
Just look at one of the latest Labour billboards.
Are they mad?
If these are Malta’s most serious problems, warranting an immediate change of government to Joseph Muscat, Il-Guy and Herr Flick, then we really are in total clover.
Waiting for a bus, eh? My, my, my. Mass unemployment, a hopeless outlook for the under-25s, financial catastrophe, repossessed homes, bankrupt businesses, widespread lay-offs…and here in Labour’s Malta, we wait for a bus.
Give me strength, dear Lord, because I’m rapidly losing it.
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I have lost it already. My tickets to Tristan da Cunha have already been booked.
Sad to admit it, but yes, the majority of complaints in Malta revolve around not enough car park spaces and having to wait for a bus.
What are really the people’s priorities in life?
It seems that although living standards in Malta have gone up, no thanks to the Labour Party, now we have people complaining about everything under the sun.
We have become a nation of spoilt people expecting to be given jobs through no efforts of our own, expecting unlimited social services, and not even making an effort to make it through life on our own.
I am speaking in the plural because I personally do not fall under that category.
I have always tried to better myself by further education, and making it on my own when searching for a job that suits my capabilities.
Even to enter heaven”s door we have to wait patiently in the queue.
Really looks like this silhouette is of “elve” Aaron Farrugia…
‘Give me strength, dear Lord, because I’m rapidly losing it.’ If you had to use the buses on a daily bases you might lose it too.
What can Malta do without PN – ‘financial catastrophe, repossessed homes, bankrupt businesses, widespread lay-offs’ The end of the world!!
Sigh!
[Daphne – Basis. Bases is the plural form of base and of basis.]
Sorry for the typo. Then again, propaganda doesn’t deserve proofreading.
[Daphne – Oh, so that’s what your comment was: propaganda. it can’t have been a typo. The ‘e’ and ‘i’ keys are on opposite sides of the keyboard.]
Oh! Now you are an expert in psychology too? From my humble observations. You sure have an eye for detail as well as excellent writing skills. (One would hope so after all these years writing? How many is that?). As for the content, well, pretty much the same as ABC. So predictable and boring. Of course, language is about communication; so eloquence and flawless writing skills are rather useless when you are apparently only able to communicate with a particular kind of people.
I merely pointed something out and added a remark implying that there is life outside PN. Not to mention that mine is but a comment.
ps. (I)t can’t… Don’t lose sleep over it (eye for detail is likely to get worse with age). You are still remarkable when it comes to sophistry though.
A person who does not bother to ensure that the spelling inhis comments is correct means that he/she is just plain lazy.
….in his…
you were saying?
Sorry Rob79 forgot to press the space bar – in his – that was not a spelling mistake.
Oh, so that doesn’t make you lazy then. My bad. Good thing you made sure ‘inhis’ was indeed a word.
Labour needs a Corto Maltese type character to spice up their lame billboards.
http://cortomaltese.com/
This government awarded the transport contract to one of the largest German-owned transport companies in Europe employing some 170,000.
Labour is simply being ridiculous and silly as usual because anyone with a logical turn of mind will tell you that such huge and experienced companies practically always get it right, and if they don’t initially, they are the best positioned to take remedial action.
Labour are envious because the Nationalist have taken Malta to a much higher level in land transportation and it is in the process of successfully restructuring the ailing air transport national carrier as well.
It’s evident that we are in for a sad and pathetic election campaign.
What is even worse is that this campaign probably appeals to at least 50% of the population.
I cannot trust these people as they also seem to have forgotten the 70s and 80s when they were in power.
People who had their property requisitioned for Labour Party clubs are still waiting for the Labour Party to return them to their rightful owners.
Spain’s unemployment’s hitting 5.64 million – that’s reaching up to 24.4% of the population.
And the drama queens are throwing tantrums for waiting for the bus. Here’s what PL should really be looking at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17866382
I don’t know if this has caught on in Malta, but I have often heard the term “first world problem” here in the Uk.
A first world problem is something along the lines of “Oh no, I left my iPad at home. Damn it, now what am I going to do”. Or, “Oh, I haven’t checked my Facebook all day and I have tons of notifications to get through now”.
Whenever someone says something along those lines everyone chuckles to themselves and starts joking about how hard their life must be because of their first world problem. It’s a type of running inside joke with my colleagues at work.
What is funny about all these posters is that they are exactly that, complaining about first world problems since real problems being faced around the globe ad especially in Europe hold no reality to those in Malta.
Yes utility costs are high, but no one is begging in the streets for food like in Greece and young people have all the opportunities they can get.
I guess these billboards are aimed at the comatose and ditsy bored individuals who veg out through their lives and complain when reality hits them, like when they have to wait for a bus, and will vote for the guy who, essentially, is going to promise them a life of passive day dreaming. You’ll never have to wake up with Labour!
You know, that 72% of the country that doesn’t get the basic amount of exercise and spend their days sitting and staring into oblivion.
To be able to resolve any delays, Malta’s roads would have to be redesigned around the system. That implies removing half the cars on main roads without a dedicated bus lane, restricting access to every town centre during rush hour and introducing dynamic traffic management systems where one way traffic is redirected according to the main flow.
All we got from Labour was the pledge to increase parking under the illusion this would satisfy demand. Just the opposite of what a public transport system, operating under private initiative, needs.
Then there’s another minor detail; imagine Joseph faced with Grace Borg and her type lobbying for even more traffic to ‘satisfy’ their catchment.
Who are these people trying to kid? Of course they cannot stand waiting.
In their time, if you wanted a colour TV set you would go to Minister Vincent Moran who would write to Minister Philip Muscat to have you skip the queue and be provided with a colour TV license.
Same applied for import licenses, telephone lines, development permits etc.
Adrian Vassallo u ahna ilna 4 snin nistennew il-proposti, ghajb ghax dan ili siegha jistenna’ tal-linja.
As Edward said before, Muscat has identified several problems which are being pasted on their billboards. Tal-misthija!
Where are the proposals, Muscat?
How are you reducing utility bills by half?
Ilni erba snin nistenna taht gonzipn sabiex nilhaq prim ministru.
If that is what Labour consider to be one of the more serious problems in Malta, then they’re only confirming how, despite the economic turmoil in the rest of the civilized world, Malta’s not doing badly at all.
I’lni siegha nistenna tal-linja’ is one of the Labour Party billboards. I was sorely tempted to write below the message ‘of course, you had to wait, there is no bus stop in this particular area.
Besides the massive unemployment we used to wait in vain for a coloured TV set or telephone or for a bar chocolate and many other basic commodities.
Most Labour voters and politicians have no concept of what is going on beyond their shores in the Med nor further afield.
They have no concept of how Malta fits into the Mediterranean economy nor in relation to international affairs.
So they have no idea of how lucky we are at the moment considering everything that is going on around us.