Megalomania
This costly and grandiose structure was erected today between the Mainguard and the Palace in Valletta. Media newsrooms have been notified that the post-budget press conference – addressed by Emperor Joseph and his Grand Vizier Edward Scicluna, with a cameo performance by the Wizard of Id, Louis Grech, will take place beneath it.
This is an extraordinary amount of money to spend on the structural framework for a press conference, especially when you already have a beautiful palace right there in which to address the press.
It’s shades of the election campaign, I’m afraid, with everything scripted and produced with a view to the visual effects of the final propaganda video and the spouse of the prime minister’s photo album.
This is the stage-set you would use for a public meeting with a crowd, not a platform on which to speak to around 10 journalists. It is, however, a sure-fire way of intimidating those journalists by placing them in a physically inferior position and making them feel uncomfortable and exposed – the equivalent of a negotiator placing his opponent in a smaller and much lower chair than his.
The vulgar flashiness of it all is just unbelievable. All they have left to do is park Sandro Chetcuti’s red Ferrari outside that thing and have Super One girls walking round with glasses of the JPO set’s preferred bubbles.
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Perhaps they’re planning a budget after-party for those who Are In.
Wow! Looks like we’re in for a celebration later on then. I’m thinking row upon row of Labour stooges, chanting in unison, smiles frozen on their faces, crocodile tears of joy perhaps – just like the ceremony for Kim Jong-Un’s installation as North Korean dictator.
I think I’ll just catch up on Boarwalk & Homeland rather than put myself through Joseph and his Technicolour Charade.
The taxpayer foots the bill for this – and ironically, so that the three wise men can speak about cutting expenditure.
Beware of leaders only willing to speak in crowded squares rather than in the appropriate environment of democracies.
Nexos?
I wonder if the large number of empty billboards, sprouting around the island, will have more PL propaganda supporting the Budget after tonight?
Noticed those over the weekend. It’s a bit early for the EP elections.
Forsi jisthi jaghmilha mill-Palazz il-press conference, Daphne!
Jew inkellha veru tilef rasu dan il-bicca gurnalist tas-Super One.
Probably all set up by Nexos.
“Courtesy” of Nexos?
Who wants to bet that that’s a Nexos set-up?
Ta’ min jifrhilhom il-funtana. Nispera li hadd ma jmur jimla l-ilma illejla.
Illejla mhux il-partit se jhallas imma ahna. Ghalhekk qal li dan il-budget tan-nies. Bl-ispejjez b’kollox.
Incidentally the chief of staff to the Passport Market Minister happens to deal in such structures, as well as the lighting that goes with them. Maybe he is offering it pro bono.
Muscat is a dangerous megalomaniac.
I always thought that he was too rabidly ambitious for my liking, for himself personally rather than for what he thinks he can achieve for others, but he has proved to be much more than that.
And he has the cheek to say that he had to find a way for our ‘children’ not to be burdened by too much taxes.
Liar, scoundrel and cheat.
Here we go. Another “budget tal qawsalla” .
A reduced income tax rate for……wait for it…….(drum roll) part-time footballers.
Kitten from Malta had congratulated Muscat on the ‘imagery’ when he made his appearance at the UN.
Thanks for the explanation, for a moment I thought it was an extension to Manuel’s watershed.
Those speakers are not set up to address journalists unless they are all deaf. Or should I say, hearing impaired?
Mela l-hbieb tal-hbieb ma jridux jieklu jew!
It was intended as a replica of I.M.Pei’s pyramid but Nexos ran out of enemilju and glass.
Zifna tajba mill-Labour Pompom Girls ta’ Stephen Ciantar taht it-tinda jonqos.
Is there going to be one journalist who will be asking whether the erection of this eyesore should be taken as a practical example as to how the Govt intends to cut down on avoidable expenditure.
That thing is like the Louvre Pyramid gone wrong.
If this is a government press conference then why all the stooges sitting behind Muscat?
It was already there Sunday evening. Electricity supply cables running from the Palace to the equipment through the fountain.
Children playing football right next to it, at times threading through the water to fetch the ball.
Not kidding.
They waited so eagerly until at last he came and everybody shouted at the news: Habemus Budget.
Pompous window dressing at a price.