Please share this: my new design for the market stalls
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January 31, 2015 at 3:49pm
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I think this is one instance where perhaps the public can speak effectively with its feet.
May I suggest a “Boycott Valletta” campaign (at least for shopping and clubbing, and starting from the day the first market stall is set up at City Gate) until the flea market is moved completely away from City gate.
Even a few percentage points drop in business would put tremendous pressure to remove the market from its planned location, and in the long run the established businesses would gain because a smarter city will result in higher long term business.
[Daphne – I don’t agree. Other businesses should not be punished because of the market traders. Punish them, if you must, and if you ever bought from them in the first place. And punish the government with your vote.]
It is not a punishment. It is a temporary sacrifice similar to when workers strike (a temporary drop in income results in a permanent increase).
[Daphne – Not at all. Your comparison is wrong. Other shops and businesses are not involved, and if they want to strike, they can choose to do so themselves. A boycott imposed by others is just sheer bullying of uninvolved parties so as to coerce them into doing something else. I can’t approve.]
My guess is that the established businesses don’t like the new market location any more than the general public does, even if it’s just because of the new competition from its now more prominent location. If I had an established business in Valletta, I would just sit tight during such a boycott until it (very rapidly) resolved to everyone’s (except the stall traders’) benefit.
[Daphne – They are perfectly capable of taking up the matter themselves. They shouldn’t be boycotted into it. That reasoning is typical of Labour bullying which does not respect the rights of others.]
When there is a strike there are very often un-involved persons who suffer (e.g. patients in a doctors’ strike or students in a teachers’ strike). But it is temporary and in the end everybody gains when the situation becomes closer to the ideal. In particular the un-involved “victims” end up getting a better service from happier providers.
In this case it’s even more justified, since the established businesses are very much involved and would stand to lose out in a very direct manner from the impending new status quo.
The alternative is putting our tail between our legs, grumbling and complaining, and accepting it. One does not win a cause by finding reasons not to go the extra mile. And as I said before, smart business owners would be secretly rooting for such an action (while hopefully protesting very loudly).
Just my two euros worth. I won’t push the point further.
In every face there is a lie.
I will not boycott Valletta. I am happy for the Merchants Street shop-owners who will, at last, get rid of the market traders.
I always avoided their shops in the mornings because of the shabby and bulky stalls and cheap items. But I am aghast at their removal next to Piano’s masterpiece.
Wahhallu cinetta.
Be careful with that suggestion, these stalls will then be mistaken for pissing booths.
Issa jrahhas il petrol u diesel b 4 centesmi , u il lejburisti jidikjaraw lill Konrad Santo Subito u lill Joseph Imperatur tal Pjazza tal Monti ta Piano.
Biddilt salib b’salib ieħor.
Il-hin kollu naqghu ghac-cajt. This has become chronic now.
I dare not think about CHOGM Malta 2015 next November.
Are they afraid to face the press? Konrad Mizzi has issued a statement. If a two cents reduction deserved one, four cents deserves a TVM programme or a flash news item.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150131/local/updated-fuel-prices-to-go-down-4c-on-monday-opposition-says-prices-still-fourth-highest-in-europe.554169
It looks like a Halloween pumpkin soup stall, complete with jack-o-lantern designs.
Presenting Daphne’s ‘Full Monti’
Good one!
Minn salib ghal iehor.
I was finding it difficult to upgrade my dart board. Thanks for giving me the solution.
That’s better now. Problem solved. Our Dear Leader will be delighted with this new design.
Joseph Muscat: is-salib ta’ Malta.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2015-01-31/local-news/Simon-Busuttil-promises-to-remove-Monti-from-near-Parliament-as-petition-is-circulated-6736129803
Musumeci, fejn hu? Il-konsulent tal-prim ministru, Bondi, almenu ha brejk mill-kitarra. Izda l-konsulent Musumeci ma lissinx nofs ta’ kelma u ntilef ipingi fuq il-Facebook.
My loft for racing pigeons looks better, although somewhat similar, than those market stalls.
Make a 3D version of the face so people can slap it on their way in and out of the city.
Shouldnt someone be asking how much William Lewis got paid fpr ‘designing’ those stalls? Did he copy the stalls from the market on Eastenders ?
Perfect! A coconut shy.
Here is another video I think Muscat should watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c
1. I agree with Daphne that a boycott will be unfair to Valletta businesses.
2. I do not totally agree that Merchants Street businesses will be all that pleased with having got rid of the hawkers. I think that they will now experience a drop in potential customer traffic.
3. For all Valletta businesses to benefit, the market needs to be somewhere either in the heart of Valletta or else towards the rear side of the city. Definitely not in the entrance of the city, for God’s sake!
1. Floriana is Valletta’s suburb. They are not two separate entities. It was planned that way and built that way until the Maltese came along with the parocci and kunsilli lokali and the silliness won.
2. The outskirts or “rear side” of Valletta is therefore Floriana. Valletta is the city centre.
3. If we really want tat on show and for sale, then we should move it to one of Floriana’s many East Ends. Triq Balzunetta. That should delight the likes of Oliver Friggieri.
4. Valletta’s streets are too narrow for a street market anyway. The place is clogged up enough to drive you mad. For the same reason, those hideous sandwich-board shop and restaurant adverts should be removed. The STREETS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE, NOT THE SHOP OWNERS.
5. This is all in vain and no number of Konvenzjonijiet Ideat and V18 committees will suffice. All we do is persist in error.
The six faces of Joseph il-King:
https://www.anonimg.com/img/dc3e78b17af79f7152652176b57a1792.jpg
How to make an attractive City https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c whic
This explains clearly the problems we are facing in Malta and the urgent need for the government to regulate and improve our built environment rather than leave it all to the building industry and developers.
Yes, we are in dire need of planning, regulation and aesthetics as fundamental. What are our architects doing?
Xi dwejjaq ghandkhom qaddsa madonna hahaaaaajjjj!!!! Viva l-Labour…Viva Joseph Muscat!
L-intelligenza tixghel fik!