Salagadoola mechicka boola
bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
It’ll do magic believe it or not
bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
(Turn up the volume on your speakers and click here for some (irritating) background music while reading this post.)
Just throw a few nonsensical words together and a catchy (ish) tune and you have a bit of magic (believe it or not). So said the Fairy Godmother in Disney’s Cinderella. So will some EP candidates try to bamboozle you. When they are not speaking about their strong nationalistic position on all things immigrant or some weird environmental credentials, the MEP candidates seem to be at a loss as to which bandwagon to jump onto in order to attract attention.
What we end up getting when reading cut and paste articles or following supposed fruitful campaigns is the electoral equivalent of “mechicka boola” – a whole lotta garbage.
Enter Claudette Abela Baldacchino who has just called for a referendum on divorce. The erstwhile PL candidate seems to believe that Joseph Muscat’s attempt at political mileage early in his revolutionary tenure as head of the scatterbrained reformists was not enough. So in order to get her own place in the spotlight of star candidates she goes ahead and kicks off a campaign to have a referendum on divorce.
Cavalier as it may be the whole effort stinks as an electoral bluff as of day one. Much like the myriad MEP blogs that have polluted the net with nonsensical info that could very well have been produced by any monkey with a typewriter (mimicking the cut and paste action), this “campaign” has all the signs of a passing fad.
Why? I hear you ask. Well, to begin with divorce is a national issue within national competence. The European Parliament has absolutely no say on whether the Maltese state chooses to introduce the right to divorce (for its own nationals on their own soil) within its legislation. If CAB wanted to make a fuss about divorce then she should be sitting in the Maltese parliament along with that revolutionary Inhobbkom Joseph.
As it is, it might as well have been Chiara calling for a referendum on divorce. This “campaign” only serves to expose inexperience and naivety. It also reaffirms the J’accuse perception that MEP candidates from whichever party not only do not do their research but believe firmly that they can con the voter to believe anything.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Odds are on for the first PLPN candidate to call for a referendum against Stem Cell Research, or to call for a referendum for a Numerus Clausus on Mosques in Malta.
In this world of magic and boola even this candidate should feel at home…. it’s all about parapsychology!
His aims at the moment are two. He has submitted his candidature for the MEP elections; however his pet project is that of establishing a college catering exclusively for gifted people. The college will not cater solely for gifted children he believes, as does Nietzsche, that gifted children who have had to conform to society and have degraded and suffocated themselves, can reinvigorate and rebalance his psyche and via meditation, self awareness and knowledge of self, regain that which was lost in mainstream education. – Reuben Attard candidate for Imperium Europa
5 replies on “Bibbidy Bobbidy Boo”
nonsensical info that could very well have been produced by any monkey with a typewriter (mimicking the cut and paste action)
How do you mimic cut and paste on a typewriter?
Yes. I admit I tried to paint too many images in one sentence. Then again you can ask David casa.
Che schifo tutti questi bandwagonistas! La politica maltese e ormai in mani ai charlatani!
I enjoyed reading this. You’re a better writer when you’re angry. Keep that blood boiling! God knows things are going to get worse.
No worries. It comes nowhere close to being the Worst Mangled Metaphor of the Week. Which, by the way, is this:
Mr Attard is a bookworm in the true sense of the word.
And then:
he spends his spare time restoring the said books