Labour: is it a political party or is it now a sect?
This phone wants you to join the Moonie Muscatoonies. But be careful: when JosephMuscat.com offers you the spiked Koolaid, just say no.
The Malta Labour Party has gone and turned into a sect while we weren’t looking. They’re coming at us from all sides, stopping us in the street, in shops, at parties, knocking on doors, asking us whether we feel ‘hurt’ and telling us that Joseph loves us and will love us even more if we join his movement and give him our money.
It’s like the Moonies. Or that Jim Jones set-up where all the hurt believers and the ones who feel ignored join the movement and find themselves in the jungle drinking spiked Koolaid from a cauldron and falling down dead.
But really, within two weeks the Labour campaign has tipped already into ridicule, at least among the very audience it wishes to impress.
There’s something called overkill, but when you’re used to overdoing everything from your clothes to your house to your car to your make-up to your jewellery, you don’t know what that is.
They’re spending their money like Saudi housewives, and in pretty much the same way. The result is a Middle Eastern take on an electoral campaign: I want one of this and 10 of that and I must have a hundred of the other, and why not that and we can’t leave that out because we can afford it and it’s available.
Now they’ve even put one of their ridiculous giant iPhones between the tables out on Queen’s Square, bang opposite Cafe Cordina. You can’t even have a coffee without a Labour Dalek looking at you.
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Anke fl-Eden cinemas, tal-misthija, tmur tara film u qabel jibda juruk spot Laburista. Flejjes kbar qed jonfqu f’ din il-kampanja.
How does one get the permit to put something like that in the street?
When you’re a political party, you occasionally become exempt from permits and stuff
And who paid for them ? Surely the whole lot costs thousands .
Well, probably quite a few could fall off the back of lorry bringing in the Euro 30,000,000 rigal the day after the power station contract award on the day after PL issues its invitation for expression of interest in the project on the day after it is elected to government.
All would be made good within the week.
Is it true that the promised reductions will not come in line immediately because the promised “tit for tat” per annum has been given in advance and is going to be directed (or invested?) to finance the campaign?
“They’re spending their money like Saudi housewives…”
I am reminded of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJAJbhC-KAA
Joseph’s Neverland.
It’s a bloody eyesore. Tourists mistake it for a menu.
One of their candidates, a young dentist, has taken to duping people to visit his clinic in Zabbar. He’s promising birthday presents.
I think the electoral commissioner had better look into banning camera phones in voting booths.
The dentist is actually from Zejtun. Another doctor candidate (PL) in the Ghaxaq district is phoning people asking them if they need help to jump skip waiting lists at the general hospital. He is also offering a free blood result service – his nurse takes the blood samples to Mater Dei and the ‘patients’ get the results.
Taking a photo of the ballot paper as proof of voting for a particular party is worthless.
Voters with that bent can play it on both parties by filling the ballot paper in favour of one party, photographing that, spoiling the paper, then asking for a new paper which they then fill in in the name of the party they actually vote for, and also photographing that.
Favours curried whichever party gets to government.
Do you think you can order a tuna toast from Cordina’s on one of those while taking a seat and enjoying the sunshine?
Someone should go round penciling in choice quotes from certain of Joey’s friends:
Charles Mangion:
“In-Nazzjonalisti ghandhom xi haga hazina fid-DNA”
Justyne Caruana:
“Dawn mhux mil-familja taghna”
Helena Dalli:
“Naghmlu Audit”
The above inspires me to shout ‘Nivvota Labour? Inzabbab!’
Let’s build a fleet of Daleks droning “Inzabbab, inzabbab, inzabbab…”
The one near the Sliema Tower had this, among other things, written on it:- “Joseph, mur kakki maz-zizi”.
I think it’s a ‘tal-pepe’ version of something that would be disallowed on this blog.
Talking about too little, too late.
There’s another one outside the main entrance to MCAST.
Are they legal? Shouldn’t they require a permit? Not that the law ever meant anything to Labour.
They’ve also invaded Sliema. There’s one right next to the Richard England sculpture at Fond Ghadir, and another on the corner of St Anne’s Square, where Bonello’s kiosk used to be. There’s another at Qui-si-Sana, and yet another next to the tower.
Yes, but does anyone actually care to read the written message, and of those that do, how many are persuaded to ‘switch’?
Whenever the Daleks appeared they gave an eerie cry of “exterminate…..exterminate…”.
When there was an episode with Daleks in different languages, the Maltese Daleks said ‘eqred, eqred..’.
[Daphne – Marelli, I can’t stop laughing. Thanks for that.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q
put it in the curry
Who owns that space?
Poor Labour. Queen Victoria’s still above them.
L-ewwel Mintoff hexa ir-Regina billi qalibna ghal-repubblika.
Issa ‘Son of Mintoff’ hexa il-pjazza tar-regina.
There is one of those phones at Mater Dei Hospital. Is that even legal – political propaganda installed in a public hospital?
Imagine if the PN had done it.
Who is responsible for allowing it? Or was he afraid to contradict josephmuscat.com ghax ipattuhilu?
Minister Cassar, please take note.
[Daphne – As if a Nationalist minister for health can give instructions for the removal of Labour propaganda from state hospitals..imagine how that would play out on Super One. They use Super One as a blackmail device. ‘Remove our phones and we’ll scream blue murder on a loop 24/7 on One.’]
Well, he can always issue a statement saying electronic devices aren’t allowed in hospitals.
They’ll be damned to admit they’re fake.
Let them stick them where they want. Those phones are true reflection of Labour and its propaganda. If anything they are a reminder of what Labour is all about.
They are false, bigger than life and they don’t work.
Labour won’t work, remember that – just like their phones.
I’d love to have the gutz and time to go round each one and stick a sticker on them: Please Queue Here To Be Seated.
Michelle smiled at me while shopping at Scotts in Burmarrad this morning. Ghax thobbni. Oh joy.
I’m surprised she had enough money to make her soppa tal-armla.
Darb’ohra mur u aghtiha bewsa kif suppost. She’s in need of one.
“Malta taghna ilkoll” – how about not planting election propaganda in public squares which should be neutral ground for the enjoyment of all?
They will be reverse-reasoning to that.
‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ u allura nistghu nimlew kullimkien bil-billboards, strixxuni u izjed.
U la jitilghu fil-gvern, jghidulna intom ivvutajtu ghal ‘Malta Taghna Lkoll’ u issa li hu taghkom taghna wkoll u naghmlu bih li rridu.
Has anyone noticed how Labour is so devoid of ideas for their electoral programme, other than their energy qassata, that they’ve turned to UHM’s proposals for this campaign and made them theirs.
While I agree with most of UHM’s proposals, that doesn’t mean that we can adopt them without providing for their financing.
That’s where Labour are falling short. They’re not telling us what they plan to do to back these plans financially.
True to the Malta taghna lkoll slogan. Of course as Alfred Sant used to say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. And I am morally convinced of this.
U vera PUDINA ser ikollna!
U daqnija u soffrejnija il-famuza pudding li hema Alfred Sant.
Who doesn’t like giant iPhones?! You’re no fun! An intensive marketing campaign is good, as long as it’s focused on positive messaging.
I don’t, in fact, the political association just put me off the product.
I already have to bear watching him distort the ‘Alfista’. He gets driven around in it like some banker, for heaven’s sake.
And no, an intensive marketing campaign isn’t good, not when the brand wants to be seen as sound.
That’s for tacky newcomers who have nothing to sell but the price.
Dear Daphne, they are literally all over the place. You forgot to mention the cinema. Give me a break.
This giant phone is placed just next to a table where Marisa Micallef spends most of her time.
Not surprised that she suggested this site to her Joseph.
After all she has to show that she is worth the salary that the PL is paying her while hundreds of volunteers put in much more work than she does and get f*ck all.
They’re dummies, so they don’t work. Just like Labour.
PN has just launched an application for iPhone/android phones called mychoice.pn which can be downloaded for free. I use it and it’s cool.
That’s all right. But, please, can it be downloaded on Labour’s phoney i-phones?
There is one next to Mosta church. Also lately a Labour candidate on the 11th district (Naxxar) read the second lesson at the Sunday mass at 10.15am at the Saghjtar church.
I have attended this mass for a number of years and this is the first time that this person “appeared” in this church. He is currently a local councillor at Naxxar.
Soon we’ll get to this, I’m sure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q43cvAGBk5M
If people decide to vote Labour because of this hideous junk, then it is only Labour that deserves those votes.
What bothers me however is that the wardens were not around to book the litterbugs.
Imma pacenzja xi trid taghmel, Malta taghna lkoll.
LOL @ Labour Dalek.
Daphne you really make me laugh but spot on as always.
However I really hope that I’ll keep on laughing even after the election is over.
It’s ironic that they’re using mobile phone mock-ups, considering that mobiles were banned during the Mintoffian ‘Golden Years’.
They even had sniffer dogs looking for cordless ones at the PN headquarters – remember that.
I saw one in front of San Gwann church one morning as a funeral was taking place.
The ridiculous eyesore took centre stage over the coffin being carried inside.
When Kurt Farrugia uses Steve Jobs’ obituary, what did you expect?
‘Inbdilna’, yeah right.