How completely inappropriate: the Labour government is advertising itself like a commercial business
Nobody who listens to the radio or uses the internet can have failed to notice that the government is advertising itself like a business.
The sort of advertisements it is using are nothing at all like the way government notices, published against payment in the press, should be. Of course there should be an element of design and even perhaps a tagline, but they should remain, in essence, government notices.
And that means no propaganda messages.
Today, the government’s internet advertisement is: NOW I can receive cheaper bills. There is no mention of what the bills are for – that’s how far the propaganda has sunk in. Cheaper bills = cheaper electricity bills.
But beyond that, this is not a public service government notice, informing the public of something useful and important, but pure self-serving propaganda, paid for out of the public purse.
Today’s radio message is even worse: propaganda messages about the civil unions bill. You hear a man’s voice (because in Malta, even the gay scene is dominated by male chauvinists, and gay = gay man) saying “Now I can form a union and raise a family like everyone else.”
Excuse me?
The government shouldn’t be advertising like this. It’s not selling anything. Or rather, it shouldn’t be.
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So the civil unions bill is meant to be a Trojan horse. When did they ever say anything about it being a bill for same-sex adoption?
Form a union.
Language manipulation again.
NOW I CAN MARRY.
becoz I’m wertit!
The worst bit is when these adverts end with the propaganda message, ‘Il-gvern taghna lkoll’. Nothing is further from the truth, and besides I would like to dissociate myself completely from the actions of this government.
I see the pre-electoral billboards again in those adverts.
Will Labour’s electoral campaign ever come to an end, or are they preparing more iced buns for those faces?
What would Mintoff’s advertising have been like in the same scenario?
“Now I can sodomise my lady without going to jail.”
The incoming President to bid farewell to her constituents first in Luqa and then in Qormi. There will also be a six hour ceremony and a mass under a tent. (TOM)
Tent providers in Malta must be very happy these days. Gaddafi would have been proud.
What an auspicious start to a low-key presidency.
Proset and gotbless.
She wants to give visibility to the presidency among the most vulnerable. How patronising. If anything, the president should give visibility to the vulnerable, but that’s not a president’s role, anyway.
What’s with the Eva Peron complex that infects anyone from a certain sort of background who finally finds themselves in a position of power?
The Malta Labour Party can’t distinguish between private enterprise and government and therefore fuses them which confirms that they are prone to Fascist ideologies.
“Now I can form a union and raise a family like everyone else.” This should read:
“Now I, (a happy and gay homosexual) can sodomize my partner/husband or wife to my heart’s content and pretend that this cosy arrangement is a “family” just like that consisting of a male husband and a female wife who procreate offspring of their own. Moreover, if so inclined I can raid the traditional family to acquire THEIR child and bring it up in the gay environment of sodomy.
How can a lesbian sodomise her wife? Also, if straight people didn’t have children they didn’t want / cannot bring up, then the issue of gay adoption wouldn’t exist.
NOW
I ken clime ledders
I think these adverts are counter productive. They make many people feel angry.
And like a commercial firm selling fake merchandise it will fail
It will fail in the long run but not before it has caused havoc among the foolish multitude such as the foolish multitude that fell for the lies of Malta Taghna Lkoll, meritocracy and transparency in government.