This chant is a sound that’s usually accompanied by the clash of pitchforks
Joseph Muscat’s supporters have a way of making the chant of ‘taghna lkoll’ sound like something from the beginnings of a savage peasant revolution (savage here refers to ‘revolution’ and not to ‘peasant’, otherwise savage-peasant would be hyphenated).
It’s not about inclusion but about taking what they consider to be rightfully theirs, and which they think others have unrightfully appropriated for themselves.
But that’s actually how it’s being sold to them, isn’t it?
As soon as they removed ‘Malta’ from the chant, which started with that campaign video so that they could chime with ‘Ob-am-a’, they were screwed.
The sound of a crowd of latterday peasants, minus the pitchforks, chanting ‘taghna lkoll’, is not at all a pretty one.
When they came up with the chant, they should have considered exactly who would be most likely to chant it in the streets.
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Oh look, Reginald Fava.
Isn’t he the one who was given a prime location in Republic Street to carry on the business of running a pharmacy, once that he owned in City Gate square had to be closed down because of the Piano project there?
Has he anything to be ‘disgruntled’ about, too?
Is this the middle class to be? Just in case, please tell us in time, so that we’ll have the time to abdicate. As if being middle class is a switch on – switch off activity. It is a mentality, a ‘frame of mind’ which is not economic in nature. Alla jilliberana.
‘pimps, thieves and scoundrels’ hiding in a mob
That seems to be around 11am (Joseph’s gym time) when the rest of Malta is busy earning a living at the workplace.
These are the people, mostly women whom Joseph expects them to go to work, while at the same time his message is totally the opposite.
Nakita in her ‘taht it-tinda’ speech said that under Labour we will have better paid jobs, all we have to do is try Joseph.
Well … I suppose that if they shout loud enough they may even make it to this list …
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1975807,00.html
Sounds like a very half-hearted ‘Taghna lkoll’. They probably know that there will be nothing for them after all of this.
Glenn Beddingfield seems to have moved up in the world. I wonder what his post will be post March 9th?!
Official caterer to il-ginger’s government, perhaps!
Blocks of ice perhaps
And the video includes some prime samples of Defargean women.
Bears a resemblance to “Alla Huwa Akbar”
There is only one message that we need to pass on before March 9th:
Malta has the second best economic performance in the eu – eu economic report!
We have one of the lowest rates of unemplyment in the eu!
You have a job!
The Maltese socialist party wants you to vote for a change in direction!
That would mean you will be gambling your job!
DO NOT GAMBLE YOUR JOB!
“Jew b’xejn, jew xejn”
Well there actually is something very primordial and savage about this lot of desperate housewives of the Birgu type venerating this vain prat.
Its a brilliant stratagem in that it is avoids any need for logic or credibility.
It asserts that as we become unified and all inclusive the Second Republic will have no longer need political parties. The MUVIMENT has arrived and love is all around.
The MLP has already decided to close all its “Labour Party” clubs by 2014. This is just a rumour going round, but it seems to fit into the scheme of a desirable unitary political system.
Don’t expect that before the first few months of Labour legislature…they would still be under the spell and fever of, issa TAGHNA ukoll.
Then seeds of delusion will start to sprout slowly but inexorably. To uphold a crumbling government they will draw their ‘ pitchforks’ and I assume a well oiled ‘guillotine’.
This is the Malta Taghna Lkoll that we will get if they win the elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjbRHOzoUg8&feature=player_embedded
“Ejjew inhobbu lil xulxin” says il-ginger.
“Hobb il-proxxmu tieghek, halli jkollok x’tghannaq mieghek” would say Antonella tal-Isnobby types!
To me it sounds like “Salbu, salbu!” particularly with all the reverb and echo.
Speaking of O-BA-MA, don;t you think that the 2008 logo he used is the source of the one used by Muscat’s “Moviment”…simply google Obama logo and you’ll see what I mean.
Yesterday was watching the news and there was a film clip about the welcome crowd rounded up for Dear Leader’s benefit.
Apart from the fact that the words ‘Potemkin Village’ flashed right before my eyes, I could not notice the disconnect between the well oiled, coordinated team around Muscat, while this crowd was delivering a ‘Taghna lkoll’ (without Malta) chant accompanied to the sound of clapping and stamping of feet.
They sounded like a Zulu war band on the run.
And the bit about the upside down flag was classic Monty Python hilarity. Would have fitted in nicely in Spamalot.
It was one of those rare moments in my family where we were all watching the same clip at the same time.
Our reaction was: ‘Ara x’gej ghalina hmistax ohra!’
How can we be such a stupid nation?
Malta’s Elite :(
He looks very uncomfortable around the public. He looks like people accused of crimes as they arrive at court mobbed by the press.
“aw dil-mara, tiehodlok b’idejk, tmissek naqa u immorru” Glen Bedingfield…
This is the way they are treating their supporters from the oppostion. I don’t even want to think of how they will treat all of us, once they are in Government.
God forbid.
He’s even fake with his own, not a people lover is he?
And another thing, his wanting to appear young and hip is not working at all, looks like only old women go for him and they don’t seem to realise he cannot stand them.
I finally found a silver lining to cling on to: If thats the new mittlekless, I’m automatically going to be nudged up to hajkless.