Wasn’t there a news item recently saying that the government has bought itself the services of a British public relations consultant? Where is he?
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April 27, 2014 at 8:24pm
The Chris Packham/Malta police debacle has made the headlines in the British national press (The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph and The Daily Mail) and the BBC.
What do the Malta government and its ex BBC PR consultant Leslie Skipper plan to do about this? Asking what the government head of communications’ plans are is pointless.
Their idea of public relations and public affairs does not go beyond what is required to shore up their voter base.
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A few days ago it was reported that the British Labour Party has hired the ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod.
In Malta, the news that the government has hired a British consultant took ages to come out, and for a while, it almost denied that he has been engaged.
Incidentally, I don’t like the fact that both British parties now have Obama spin doctors (the Tories have Jim Messina). The political world is still enthralled with the, admittedly impressive, Obama victories but the engagement of these consultants feels cynical.
You work for a party’s election if you really believe in its policies. You don’t work for any party which hires you. It just feels wrong.
Besides, the British system (and the Maltese one) is not a presidential one. I doubt that the Americanisation of European elections contributes towards a better democratic process.
Other countries need to get over the excitement of American elections and focus on their own government set-up.
I wonder how the British public will view the engagement of these consultants. They’re already highly cynical of their politicians. I think this is a bit of a wild gamble for the parties.
It won’t make any difference, rightly or wrongly people have already decided to vote UKIP.
As one who just can’t stand this shooting mania, I think this is an excellent turn of events.
The police, a sizeable number of whom are probably hunters or in cahoots with them (don’t ask me why, but I just imagine them to be the sort of trigger happy sort who love the idea of exercising their power over a helpless creature), will have wanted to bring across the message that they’re going to be making hell the life of anyone from the anti-hunting lobby.
What this will actually bring about though, or so I hope, is more pressure on Malta to put an end to it once and for all.
What the PN in government built in 25 years the PL demolishes in four hours.
If Peter Paul thought he could take on a seasoned BBC journalist without courting a PR disaster of the first magnitude, he is even more stupid than he seems to be.
He still thinks he’s in the 1980s when news did not spread fast.
It will get worse. Incompetents rule.
Ohra bhal tal-passaporti din. Kompli ghoddosna fil-hmieg Joseph. Bidla tassew, imma dejjem ghal-aghar.
Gej xi vot iehor fil-Parlament Ewropew jitkellem dwar kemm nafu nisparaw fl-ajru ?
Our prime minister employed an ex-BBC journalist for his PR expertise and got another one undoing all the work.
And he got it for free.
The PR damage done by the police here is bigger than the harm done by those hunters who felt “provocated.”
Meanwhile, Malta’s High Commissioner in London was having oysters for lunch in Piccadilly Circus. X’nitnejku.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/chris-packham-flees-malta-on-back-of-giant-eagle-2014042886040
The stupider the client the more difficult to find a good angle. Sometimes, when the transgression is so great, keeping mum and putting out hearsay works best. We are being shown how this works by the ‘best’ aren’t we?
Always making headline for the wrong reasons
But we needed a change. Hope most of change needing moaners will one day rot in hell.