We did not need it, but we’ve got confirmation that even the most diehard of spin mouthpieces is suddenly realising that the PLPN system has led us to levels of mediocrity as never have been witnessed before. What future PLPN?
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You know what? The underlying message to j’accuse – that what the PLPN engage in is a race to the bottom based on comparing the mediocre with the mediocre is finally hitting home in some quarters. J’accuse has often been criticised for taking the angle that nothing new is coming out of the PLPN. We criticised the swing to marketing-driven campaigns with no substance. We hit out hard at the monopolisation and consequential dumbing down of the political discourse. We have been calling out that the Emperor has no clothes for as long as this blog existed (and before we even had this blog to document this message). Our calls for the electorate to be wise were not heeded. Our explanations as to why we would vote with our noses pegged were laughed at and scorned by the supposed intelligentsia. Well, ladies and genetlemen it would seem that we were not so wrong after all. Not that it takes the acknowledgement of the Times to prove us right (they’ve been oh so wrong many a time) but it really makes you wonder how far down the pits we must have got for the guys as Strickland House to even notice.
From The Times editorial:
There can be little doubt that both the Nationalist Party and the Labour Party are far from ready to face an electorate and demand a mandate to run the country. The PN in government increasingly appears to be out of control, shorn of new ideas and spending a lot of time managing an internal crisis that promises to continue growing. On the other hand, the PL in opposition still lacks credibility and has yet to come up with a solid and robust programme on how it plans to address the issues it says are being mishandled by the Gonzi Administration. In a nutshell, Labour is still daydreaming and the Nationalists face a nightmare.
Incredibly even down at the Runs they are quoting this editorial. Funny how the exact same message would be scorned during election time, and how oblivious they are to the immense contribution that they have given for this state of affairs to come into play.
Sadly, the realisation by the mouthpieces of the marketing-driven spinmeisters of the sad situation will not do much to change the current state of affairs. The Nationalist nightmare includes a guarantee of internecine struggles while the Labour dream involves convoluted gymnastics of all-encompassing politics that would put
contradictory policies on the same electoral manifesto.
Plus ca change…
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Why now ?? I’m already in conspiracy theory mode.
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Why now?
Something big we don’t know or have we reached the ‘tipping point’?
years in government has eaten away the disk-pads and has taken its absolute toll on the np now seen (by me at least) as rot in progress.
The lp on the other hand is going through a haphazard amorphous yet (in my opinion) challenging phase as the youth of its leader takes the party in all sorts of untested directions as it pushes barriers for the time being in a ‘kitsch’ manner.
The learning-curve is steep. Will it get there? Who knows. I look forward in hope to the gradual formulation, in the coming months, of a somewhat-focused plan of action. It’s the only hope there is.
@ Pots. Isaqsi ghaliex issa? Ghax ghadna mid-term u in-Nazzjonalisti jkollhom cans jirkupraw qabel l-elezzjoni li jmiss. Kif noqorbu lejn l-elezzjoni il-kritika tmut. Kif qal Jacques, ma nbidel xejn spettakolari f’dawn l-ahhar xhur (hlief it-tahwid intern tal-PN sar ovvju lil kulhadd) allura m’hemmx raguni ohra valida ghalfejn din il-kritika ma kellix isir qabel….kif ilha ssir fuq dan il-blog.
Political maturity is crucial vis-a-vis the electorate. One big pot with loads of ingredients but what we need are sensible floaters – not spineless cabbages but people with a brain with an IQ above ornamental type structure. I think that we still have a high percentage of people that believe that they belong to the party and will agree with whatever that party states.
Also crucial is the fact that when all is said and done it’s what people decide at the eleventh hour. We may be bored or even frustrated with the current governing party and are agreeing at the same time that there isn’t much of an alternative. The electorate ought to dictate what it expects of the PNPL and bring them both down to earth.
Gonzi has proved to be a fantastic salesman…still trying to place Muscat…
Muscat….a fresh thinker who needs to learn how to be a leader…How i wish he found a good mentor..