There’s a lot of money in gas
Published:
January 13, 2013 at 6:25pm
Spend, spend, spend – Labour’s really going to town. Four days into the campaign and it’s spent a fortune already. Shame about the inappropriate glitziness, because it’s such a turn-off.
Take this giant fake ‘on message’ iPhone they’ve put up against the Mosta church parvis.
They’re just asking for a Nationalist Party (or Citizen Action, quite frankly) board with the message: ‘Vote Labour, and two tanks, each the size of this church and full of dangerous gas, will go up next to somebody else’s village. Call yourself Christian? Then don’t do it.’
19 Comments Comment
Reply to canon Click here to cancel reply
Niextieq jien inkun naf fejn hu l-ghaqal ta- Joseph Muscat f’din il-kampanja elettorali. F’daqqa wahda nesa kollox.
Il-Karnival beda kmieni fi hdan il-Labour.
They’re all over the place with their Malta Taghna Lkoll.
” Earlier, Dr Muscat toured several national monuments where he laid wreaths marked with Labour’s campaign slogan ‘Malta for all’
http://www.timesofmalta.com/…/Muscat-promises-breakthrough-for-same-s...
They’ve also placed one outside the children’s play area in Marsaskala. Looks like they’ve really hit rock bottom this time.
It seems they’re putting up these fake iPhones in major towns next to the main entrance to the church parvis. I’ve seen them in Paola and San Gwann.
Those phones are littered all over Malta taghna – money clearly no problem.
Well, Labour is full of it.
So far, JosephMuscat2013’s campaign has been the exact opposite of what he has been preaching for 5 years:
1. “Tberbiq ta’ flus.” In the first week of his campaign, JosephMuscat2013 has already spent 1 million euros in razzmatazz.
2. “Hela ta’ flus f’konsulenzi.” In proposing the gimmick of the century, Muscat spent undisclosed amounts on consultants DNV Kema. And it is not clear what role PCubed may have played in this also.
Is it legal to use an iPhone for advertising purposes? There copyrights/patents etc that need to be considered. Would one need Apple’s permission?
They’ve got one of these up at the university too. I wish the Nationalists would respond with something that says “The reason you are able to go here for free, and with stipend, is because of us. If you went to a private school, you’re probably here because of us as well.”
Glitziness: just what we saw at the PN meeting at Ta’ Qali on the eve of the 1996 elections: a big illuminated (?) Vote Louis Galea balloon.
I wonder if Labour’s iPhones ring when they are switched off.
Only on selected iPhones in and around Ghaxaq.
iPhones, of course.
It-tfal tal-poplu diga’ meqrudin u qed isoffru hafna bil-heavy-fuel oil. Bl-ispluzjoni tal-bomba tal-gas jistriehu ghal dejjem.
A fake iphone in front of Joseph’s prototype gas tank.
Come on Daphne, let’s be serious. Do you really believe that the size of the tanks will have the same diameter of Mosta’s rotunda?
[Daphne – There is nothing to ‘believe’. It is a fact. I don’t think you can possibly have any idea of the volumes involved.]
Tonio Fenech said they will explode. Do you really believe that the tanks will explode?
[Daphne – He did not say that. He said there is an explosion risk. He pointed out that part of legal procedure involves a security risk assessment. Do you know what this gas is? Have you ever seen the result of, for example and on a much minor scale with different gas, the result of a household gas-cylinder explosion? It can bring down a house. There is a scene in the latest James Bond film – the final scene – in which he blows up the house and overflying helicopter by throwing two ordinary gas cylinders into the fire. You can cause quite a lot of damage with an aerosol can, too.]
He looked like an imbecile saying it on Xarabank .You will place a bomba he said. Making an ass out of himself.
He could have at least washed his hair, it was so visibly greasy with dandruff on his shoulders.
My, how shallow he is.
[Daphne – Yes, because of course we think with our hair. It’s you who are shallow, Luigi, and as with people who are, they are incapable of knowing it.]
By the way,if Konrad was head of IT as he said, and now he has a Phd, which Phd Tonio Fenech has?
Please elucidate me.
[Daphne – How exactly is a PhD either required or beneficial in these circumstances, unless it is specifically related to this kind of power station?]
It’s not a fake phone. Fake phones work, at least. That’s a dummy phone.
They’re all over the place. A friend tells me there’s one installed close to his parish church.
A dummy phone just to tell everyone ‘Malta taghna lkoll’? What the hell?
They could have saved themselves the cost and instead printed that line on cheap cardboard – everything will be over in two months’ time.
Or if they wanted to impress or look professional, they could have called iPhone’s Apple to order an interactive one or two, programmed just for them and could have placed them in the most central areas like Paola or Valletta, to encourage people to get acquainted to their proposals on interactive life size iPhones.
If this is the way they are going to be spending public money, then watch out.
I am waiting for the tear-jerking songs and ballads on both sides. However, we must remember that in the UK Labour had to reinvent itself as New Labour to get elected.
[Daphne – Well, that worked well, didn’t it. The tension carried on right until the far left, in the form of Ed Miliband, won again. And in between the whole edifice just crumbled over Gordon Brown.]
As for the reduction of fuel bills by 25% for all baffles me. A huge loss of revenue, so what then – higher taxes and VAT?
They should do like the UK and give pensioners a heating/cooling allowance. Two lots with each bill that arrives and make sure that they are fuel vouchers not cash.