Exactly what does this have to do with the stated objectives of the Foundation for National Celebrations?
Public money hard at work: anything that happens to be a personal interest of the prime minister’s strategic communications consultant for ‘national festivities’ is suddenly part of the brief to mark Freedom Day, EU Accession Day, Independence Day and Republic Day – even when it doesn’t.
So far we have had Brian May, a Beatles tribute concert at Smart City, a rock concert at Malta Shipbuilding and now – a World Cup Village with a big screen where you can go to celebrate or weep.
National celebrations? It’s as though our friend has been given a blank cheque to play with for a year, after which he gets to decide whether he will have another blank cheque to play with for the subsequent four years.
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With “friends” like this who needs enemies?
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Lou Bondi should go on stage there with his six-stringer and pretend he’s doing a ‘Live in Rio’.
It’s actually a 12-stringer.
He would reach a larger crowd if he had to advertise in Maltese.
When will they be staging a public performance of the opera”I Pagliacci”?
How original, marelli.
What a step upwards, trid tghid.
A Socialist government where one is allowed to regress rather than advance.
And this is what the people want?
The next catch-up period is going to hurt so bad.
All these spoiled brats around.
Panem et circenses, that is the way to placate the public while the nation is waiting to disappear under the weight of its problems that are never solved but compounded.
Will there be some music during the half-time intermission?
Say, ‘With a little help from my friends’.
Or, ‘For the benefit of Mr Kite’.
Funny how it is always the same people who set up the stage and what not, RVC and Nexos that is, with the help of some ONE TV employees.
Probably because Nexos and RVC are the best stage and light companies around at the moment.
Jien l-akbar wiehed f’kollox, gurnalizmu, xjenza politka, gherf, indoqq il-kitarra bhal Jimmy Hendrix, ghadni nahxi kemm literalment u mod iehor, insomma hafna affarijiet.
Ftit dispjaciri ghandi pero. Qasir wisq u jsmar. Kemm nixtieq kont itwal u gilda cjara. Ghalhekk nitla fuq palk biex nirbah wahda.
It would be nice to see the cheque presented by tv for this useless cause. Besides being totally inaprpriate, it looks to me that the goverment is eating into the privates business cake as well.
Sponsored by Jason’s ONE TV? Is it a a hallucination?
I believe that assertion is wrong. The one showing at Eden Cinemas will be larger.
More iced buns? Is the money coming from the Police Catering Business?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-12/news/150-reserve-constables-to-join-the-police-force-5441388547/
A little bit off topic, but certain people who received their car-related VAT refund just before the MEP elections are now receiving letters confirming that they are, in fact, not eligible. Hearing from colleagues and friends, it seems to be in increasingly common occurrence.
So they will have to refund the refund? X’daqqa ta’ ħarta se tkun!!
Nahseb li jekk jitla fuq il-palk jergghu jibbujawlu bhalma ghamlu fil kuncert ta’ Santana. Dakinhar kull meta bdew jgibu lil bla principji Bondi in-nies ta’ Malta Taghna Lkoll bdew imaqdruh u joffenduh, u li keku setghu jmorru ghalih u jillincjawh.
That’s typical Lou Bondì – it’s most obviously his idea – and he’ll be right there at the front, full of himself and pulling England supporters’ legs on Saturday and till England gets knocked out.
The Fondazzjoni Ċelebrazzjonijiet Nazzjonali should be the LAST entity to set up something that glorifies our penchant for support of other countries’ football teams. That should be left to bars and commercial organisations, not the state entity that’s supposed to be celebrating 50 years of independence and 10 years in the EU (Lou knows the rest of the celebrations celebrate nothing).
I hope they boo him again as they did a couple of years ago. He has joined a very restricted group of people like John ‘Bahamas’ Dalli, Franco ‘Narcissus’ Debono, Jesmond ‘Manwel Dimech Bridge’ Mugliett and Jeffrey ‘Mistra’ Pullicino Orlando – hated by EVERYONE in Malta, whether Nationalist or Labour.
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That looks like a Pop Art poster from ‘Fool on the Hill’.
How very appropriate.
This government claims that it’s all for the people and stuff, but then it organises a shamless event like this, that’s going to clog up all of Paola for weeks.