Tad-daqqiet ta’ ħarta! and Ma jistħux min Alla li ħalaqhom!
These are the expressions that first come to mind within the first two minutes of watching this Labour oriented production (see “Inkontri” clip below). Sure, we have seen a tacky revival of “Tal-Barrani” and “Raymond Caruana” nostalgia from the PN corner of our dumbass political duopoly. I say tacky because although I can understand the argument that “It’s about what has never been said” the result of this PN propoganda campaign is both divisive and alienating. It’s the latest effort at demonisation of all things Labour Past following the infamous “Taste” and “Zokk u Fergħa” campains that risked torpedoing PN’s last campaigns.
Had the PN been left to their own devices then I really believe that this whole “let’s remind the people what it was like to live under Labour 30 years ago” business would have backfired. We would have thought that people did not need reminding. We would have thought that bringing up these matters now would only be a callous attempt at cheap scare-mongering best practised on second-rate blogs. We would have been wrong.
It seems that the people do need reminding. They need reminding because you actually get seemingly intelligent individuals asking “What’s wrong about the eighties?” or shooting off about what a great time the eighties were. For Wham, Duran Duran and Sam Fox maybe. But not for most of us. Hell, I might not have been at Zejtun or sitting at a table with Raymond Caruana but something tells me that going to “school” in your best mate’s garage is not exactly Normality Inc and to people from my generation that is what the eighties was about.
So Labour saw the campaign and did not like it. So they had to come up with their own version of suffering. It’s a bit like the Monty Python “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch – only none of the sides are joking. So you think life under Labour was bad? Let “Inkontri” tell you how bad life under Eddie was then…. And here it is a video that made me want to fast forward to the next election and stick a huge number one next to whatever PN candidate is lucky enough to be first on the blue list.
This is not revisionism – revisionism involves twisting the truth.
This is a lie. A blatant lie.
All of it.
See for yourself and tell me whether you too get that ” Tad-daqqiet ta’ ħarta! and Ma jistħux min Alla li ħalaqhom!” feeling.
Inkontri
Barrani
Monty Python
8 replies on “Daqqiet ta’ Harta”
“Mal-1713 transfer kuljum.” Rounding it up nicely there. Still though, “Its like asking those who lived through the 2nd World War to dismiss a Nazi that seeks power. Forgive maybe, forget never.”, that’s a bit rich.
Nahseb fis-sena biwwa. 15 kuljum.
Agreed with the rich bit. Especially since it’s one thing remembering and not forgetting and another assuming that the current bunch of Labourites are gunning to recreate the halcyon Mintoffian days.
Quite right. Still, if saying ‘madwar’, I don’t expect an ‘estimate’ which ends in 13.
Granted. Approximately 3.147-ish.
Sewwa qed jghidu, taqla fuq wiccek. Facepalms!
Where’s everybody ? “Fejn huma l-Laburisti ?” Tiftakarha din Jacques ? Reconciliation my ass.
He was PM for the greater part of two decades and this idiotic statement is singled out to suggest a lack of reconciliation.
Many Nationalists were baying for blood (figuratively and literally) in 1987. The entire Labour leadership could have, and arguably should have, been locked up. Instead, it was very quickly a return to business as usual (if pluralism could be described as ‘usual’ in Maltese history).
The PN leadership was imperfect, but it takes a brainwashed mind to single out a moment of stupidity to rewrite history.
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