So art is more important than democracy to this granfalloon movement or ship of fools captained by cunning old Communists
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Did you hear the latest fron Kenneth Zammit Tabona?
Kenneth wants the new parliament to be converted into a museum of contemporary art (i.e. his personal ego struggling to stay suppressed inside), while parliament, the institution representing democracy, be relegated to the Mediterranean Conference Centre (out of sight, out of mind).
I understand that people in Malta have no real understanding of democracy, but this is beyond belief.
Kenneth impies that it is not he who has such a wish – but a certain unnamed movement. The concept of movement as a buzz word is already being abused.
Kenneth might have more self-control and good manners than Franco Debono, but I am afraid that the differences between the two stop there.
What is it with these mammoni in Malta?
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Kenneth Zammit Tabona is not an artist. He’s a pseud.
This description fits josephmuscatdotcom’s “movement” to a tee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_movement
Granfalloon…
I’m impressed.
It’s bad enough that so much money was spent on that project at a time when it should have been spent more wisely. Turning it into a museum now would be the cherry on the cake.
[Daphne – How does one spend it ‘more wisely’ than on building our country’s first-ever parliament house half a century after independence? You don’t need to travel – you can use the internet – to discover that where democracy is most prized, parliament houses are grand, costly and prominent edifices located on hills, rivers or magnificent squares. They are the cathedrals of democracy.]
Labour gives no value to democracy. How can they value a parliament house?
Interestingly, the grandest ever was built by Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania’s former dictator. Another of the world’s most impressive parliament buildings is in Bangladesh, which until very recently was ranked at the bottom of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index.
[Daphne – The world’s most iconic parliament building is in the home of parliamentary democracy. Would you recognise Romania’s parliament building, or Bangladesh’s? No. But you do recognise the one on your sauce bottle.]
It does have over a century’s head start over the others and as you pointed out, it’s image is also plastered on sauce bottles. The point though is that there isn’t a correlation between a country’s respect of democracy and the magnificence of its parliament building.
[Daphne – Yes, Sandro, there is. And the Palace of Westminster’s iconic status has very little to do with its ‘headstart’ or even the sauce bottle. It is precisely because, in truly democratic states, parliament buildings are grand and conspicuous that undemocratic states, where they have something that purports to be parliament, mimic this.]
What’s worrying is that the concept of a ‘movement’ has come to mean a ‘mixed but totalitarian group’ in the minds of Labour’s old and new aficionados.
Prayer for Good Humour – St Thomas More
Grant me, O Lord, good digestion,
and also something to digest.
Grant me a healthy body, and
the necessary good humour to maintain it
Grant me a simple soul that knows to
treasure all that is good and that
doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil,
but rather finds the means to put things
back in their place.
Give me a soul that knows not boredom,
grumblings, sighs and laments,
nor excess of stress, because of that
obstructing thing called “I.”
Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humour.
Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke
to discover in life a bit of joy,
and to be able to share it with others.
Amen.
Of course he heard Richard England on the radio about this.
England said his suggestion would have been to move Parliament to the Mediterranean Conference Centre, but only if the Piano project hadn’t been chosen…. what a difference.
And how pray, does one move around the chamber itself, designed to maximise floor space with its tiers and narrow passages circling the upper gallery?
I suppose the idea being A4 sized squiggles should become the obligatory standard format.
Ara vera patatu.
Yes, featuring glitter pen and mounted with extra large “gold frames” in true contemporary art style..
Just imagine Ken and Franco as a couple – absolutely bitching.
As of yesterday my family decided to stop buying The Times because we can always browse the lead stories online anyway.
It seems that the Labour elves commissioned to spew anti PN propaganda and spinning negativity whenever the PN is featured are still in frenzy mode.
They won…. but the hdura and lanzit is still burning.
Today, I stopped buying The Times again after the past three months I broke a promise to myself that I would not buy this rag.
This is final. I hope The Times goes to hell.
“Kenneth wants the new parliament to be converted into a museum of contemporary art…”
I suggest that the new parliament is retained, but that Kenneth Zammit Tabona is appointed Speaker of the House.
There are enough masterpieces on the government’s side to put this parliament on a par with the finest contemporary art museums in the whole world. And although they are feminist, the government’s side is dominated by men, so Kenneth should be happy.
Communism and socialism ideologies are dead, although I must say their policies are still practised in many countries. Malta’s own budget expenditure has a strong element.
The problem with defunct communist ideologists is that believers are like headless chickens trying to find their bearings, lost in an identity search.
It seems the model the MLP is emulating is the Asian capitalist system of China run by a perverse communism regime which somehow still survives.