Labour: it’s going to be an election campaign every year, but funded by the public purse from here on in
Yesterday’s performance in Palace Square, Valletta, recalled all those other Muscat/Labour performances during the general election campaign.
It looks as though our government is going to carry on being a campaigning political party, this time using the public purse to pay the bills.
We woke up this morning to driving rain and billboards going up all over the country, boasting about different measures in the budget. It’s all just so Pyongyang.
These tactics are exactly like those Labour used in the last electoral campaign, but now the perspective is different. Putting up billboards boasting about what you will do when you are in government is completely different to putting up billboards announcing what you are doing while IN government.
The later is paternalistic, fascistic, totalitarian: Mr Government He Take Care Of You.
But we’re on for the ride now, aren’t we.
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Billboards: now which budget measure took care of paying for those things?
Very valid point. And which part of the budget is dealing with the setting up of that giant tent?
Labour has more money to spend, now that the deal is done.
Gearing up for the EP elections already – people like that just wear you out. This billboard tactic worked at the last elections so maybe they are repeating it, difference being the taxpayers are paying now and we are fed up of them already. What next? Gone is the peace of mind under PN governments.
And all probably to be financed by mis-directed funds from the ‘good causes’ provision in the IIP Grand Sale of Maltese Passports scheme.
I strongly recommend that your readers become familiar with the Korean Central News Agency style of news reporting.
http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
That was interesting, Ciccio. Thank you.
This struck me:
– S. Korean Conservative Group’s “Election” Fraud Exposed
The current Italian President, who was one of the leaders of the dissolved Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) in the 70s and 80s was involved in the (at that time) illegal financing from the Soviet Union, KGB and the STASI, the criminal secret service of the German Demo-comunist republic. That financing was illegal because in Italy it was a crime, heavily punished.
What about Malta? Is it a crime also here that a party receive unofficially financial contribution from foreign countries or enterpreneurs? Clearly that would alter the political competition and would not be fair and would allow “an election campaign every year”.
PS please note that Malta should NOT take example from the Italian neighbours because they, in order to save PCI and their “compagnucci”, the italian parliament decided to change the criminal code and eliminate the crime of illegal financing to the political parties :-)
PL is and will remain in election mode. There are the EP elections next May and that’s one election PL do not want to lose.
It seems that the government has enough money to erect stupid and meaningless billboards but then it did not find any resources to build a website explaining the new measures and taxes introduced in the budget, like the Nationalist government used to do.
Ah, but that’s not good for the sheep. They wouldn’t understand anything by reading. It is far easier for them to understand if they see a picture.
Typical Labour, they thrive on ignorance.
Now don’t tell me that the Labour clowns will have to find more positions on government boards, commissions, conventions, agencies, for those faces in the fresh wave of billboards?
If a local actor is their idea of a film star, think of what influence Joseph must wield.
The aura is fake, but that’s their reality.
“Perception is real even when this is not reality.”
The “six values medals” of a system have as their quality focus in top-down pyramid structure: Silver, representing the organisation; Gold, representing People (employees and party members/electorate); Steel, representing quality; Glass, representing Creativity and Innovation; Wood: representing politics and environment; and lastly on the bottom left of the pyramid: Brass, representing perceived image.
Typically, in most organisations, perceived image is the weakest.
Knowing this, the focus here has been to destroy the perceived image of the opponent and in any which way possible, strengthen their own.
A value is anything that creates an impact. This can have a negative or positive weighting. Lists can be made under each medal. A gut feeling assessment (not calculation) will reveal whether values new or as yet unnamed have not been identified on your list. The weighting given to each value and then the whole list under each medal should be on a scale from 1 to 4 and /or -1 to -4.
This is where the PN went wrong I’m afraid. They worked hard and had so many projects going, but unfortunately, most of them went unnoticed because they lacked the proper public relations.
Let’s hope they learned their lesson and start showing us common people what their aims are for the future. Simon Busuttil’s speech in parliament regarding the sale of citizenship was a good start.