Note to Government: “stop being negative” doesn’t work any more. It’s past its use-by date.
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October 8, 2013 at 11:49pm
Simon Busuttil unleashed a torrent of criticism on Labour’s ‘budget surprises’ and the Labour Party reacted in the most predictable way possible.
Please somebody, buy Corto Farrugia a new slogan for Christmas.
PL REACTION
In a reaction, the Labour Party said that Dr Busuttil was being negative and trying to scare the people.
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Well Simon can describe it as a ‘ qahbata triomfali’.
They have a Word template for PL reactions. It’s a stock sentence which fills in the blanks even when they have nothing else to say.
Sometimes they swap it for the ‘The PN has learnt nothing’ template, and when they want to be really clever they combine the two in the same reaction statement.
You left out the one about the PN isolating themselves.
“learned_nothing.dot, negative.dot and isolated.dot” are the Word templates.
Muscat’s Labour was the most negative opposition ever. And then they speak about being positive.
With the help of bitter Nationalist MPs and a series of circumstances which were beyond control, negativity towards Gonzi and his party became part of the majority’s psyche.
Then, in the last weeks before the election Labour started to be ‘positive’… but their ‘positive’ message was built on the negativity they themselves had instilled throughout the previous four years.
First they invented the problem, then they made you believe it, then they told you that they can solve it for you.
Full marks for this comment.
In opposition they actually voted against the same budget proposal which they adopted when in Government – how’s that for negativity and obstructionism.
Whores.
Totally spot on.
If I could add an extension to this last line:
“First they invented the problem, then they made you believe it, then they told you that they can solve it for you.”
The only way that it could have worked completely was:
Psychologically, the tactics entailed the need to first get people to think in this mode/frequency of thinking – or to reduce an operation to that game – and only then was the strike made possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
Malta’s More screwed than the US….
and they are shutdown….
http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-october-7-2013-kathleen-sebelius
This negative thing is a a classic of emotional bullying – the PN does well not to reply to this sort of behaviour.
The devastating effect it had before the last election is dying out by the second and in a few weeks it will haunt the bully himself.
It’s a bit rich coming from Labour about being negative and scaring people. That’s what the Labour Party has done for the past 25 years.
That does not mean the PN has to do likewise but it has to state the facts, which unfortunately turn out to be negative for the present government.
The strategy being used is to create so many of these instances, that no sooner has one been exposed, another is on the horizon. What actually happens to the issues other than a cemetery of still active and ongoing issues?
The confusion is so designed for the focus to be lost.
Labour’s thinly veiled totalitarian mindset is becoming more and more overt with each passing day. ‘Negative’, ‘36,000’, ‘Ma tgħallimtux’ are tossed about by Labour voters and Government officials alike whenever their party or their electoral choice comes under scrutiny.
Criticism, however valid it may be, is immediately avoided rather than refuted in a logical manner, as one would expect from a supposedly democratic government, in a supposedly civilised, European nation.
Joseph Muscat has set us on a very slippery slope here. If this keeps up, we might very well bear witness to Malta’s devolution from a democracy into a tyranny of the majority.
Since this is happening on a claim to a mandate, the logical thing to do would be to have enough instances shown up which are not part of that mandate and thereby institute a challenge to the mandate, hopefully before the five years are up or the constitution has been changed.
Dear Daphne, don’t forget the just as frequently used “Simon qed ikompli jizola ruhu”.
I always believed that Labour will be victim of its own propaganda, but I never thought it would happen so soon.