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

Saviour Balzan is anything but an investigative journalist. His agenda-driven interviews make that other paragon of “journalism above everything” pale in comparison. Saviour “interviews” but he is not interested in listening to his interlocutor in order to build on the next question. He’s busy labelling and selling stereotypes that fit into his idea of the universe. Watch him falter and stutter through this interview (start at 3.38 minutes 5 minute mark – skip the ads) as he hopelessly attempts to trap Mike Briguglio (chapeau) into making Labour sound like a reasonable option.

You might want to keep your kids away from the screens – especially at the point where Balzan asks Briguglio whether he feels comfortable “using the Greece and Italy” arguments when speaking about the economy.

I pity Mike Briguglio. I pity him because he was probably dying to push that table out of the way and jump up and yell in Saviour Balzan’s face the words “Wake Up” in RATM style. It’s a pity that Mike has a set of standards he has to adhere to as the head of a party that has no listeners (let alone voters) but that still aspires to a modicum of decency as well as reasonable politics.

Yep. Mike has standards.

Which is definitely not something you can say about Salvu Balzan.

This post is dedicated to ADpfff.