Forget the fact if you agree with Delia or not.
My questions are:
(my previous thread 2 years ago was, please explain the two-party Maltese political system, so this is a follow up question to that)
Are PN (hardcore) voters happy PN shifted more to the right since 2018 and are going for this ‘blame all on the foreigners’ grand political strategy? (or you don’t think they did?)
And how do you feel that Delia (but also Maltese media) is always adding words like ‘only’, ‘just’, ‘chilling’, ‘shockingly’ when presenting numbers, influencing how the audience should feel about a statistic?
Is this a populist way that can incite hatred against foreigners? In other words does the GWU have a point?
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To add to my questions above 👆 I understand the PL party, but am really clueless the direction the opposition party PN is taking or what they currently represent.
Any insights? (and yes, I know Delia is no longer party leader)
Would also love to know why asking this is downvoted 🙂
Don’t worry too much about what you read in the news. Keep in mind that politics in Malta always has two versions for the same story: one that they tell the locals, the other which they use abroad. And besides, Maltese also have their own minds, so doesn’t mean that the mood of the rhetoric is actually that of the people.
Hi,
I don’t want to sound dumb but are they referring to EU citizens or illegal migration ?
> And how do you feel that Delia (but also Maltese media) is always adding words like ‘only’, ‘just’, ‘chilling’, ‘shockingly’ when presenting numbers, influencing how the audience should feel about a statistic?
Yep, this is classic propaganda tactics. They tell you how they feel about something and it influences the monkey part of your brain – so even if you have no personal opinion, if you see it enough you’ll subconcously accept it as fact (it’s an actual tactic in marketing as well). Often we don’t sit and think critically about headlines etc and we just absorb the sentiment from repeated exposure.
The ‘blame all on foreigners’ strategy ignores the question of ‘who sold out to the foreigners?’ and well, it’s generally the ones trying to shift blame.
Malta is a small island with limited resources to go around; this is true. In a globalised world, foreign investment is needed to improve living standards – also true. That this foreign cash wasn’t pumped into the infrastructure needed to maintain a good quality of life for existing and new populations alike is the problem.
Oh… I think Labour is just trying to pick on whoever they consider to be a weak link at the moment, or whoever is likely to garner support of floating voters – Labour is the architect of the mass migration of third world migrants in Malta, any expression of unease at the shitshow we see around us is an attack on them, so they immediately reply with their typical manner
And they use all their media power, and their allies, to take a man or woman down. “Johorgu l-ghajta”, and everyone just attacks.
Not that the opposition has been in any way coherent or consistent since 2010…
This is simply a game of chess to shift the government inefficiencies, over spending and corruption onto a scapegoat – this time the foreigners. As I understand delia mentions overpopulation not specifically referring to TCN workers (although we all know TCN workers is the result of this challenge).
Are Maltese people unhappy with overpopulation? Id say the mojority YES OFC. Joseph Muscat opened the flood gates for development, and foreign workers and as a result we have over development and over population. It was not planned properly and with ease.
THIS IS IMPORTANT!! Foreigners who have come in recent years need to understand that before 2010, life was chill, it was an island life, a mediterranean style, where we mainly had local shops that used to observe their siestas and hardly worked. In summers people who lived centrally, used to move to their summer houses in bugibba, mellieha, wied iz zurrieq to be closer to the beach. Mostly worked half days so they could enjoy the sea, and walk along the promenades. This does not happen anymore, because those same summer houses are now rented for big $$$ but people miss it.
So there will always be People who are in favour of this progress and chaotic city like life, while the older generations who lived through easier times will hate this current lifestyle and overpopulation.
I would start immediately. It’s not racism, it’s reality.
Malta is a 14km by 28km island. Gozo is smaller. Capping of people never was in their minds, instead they had money. This is not a long term thinking but if we look at all Europe, it’s kind you can understand why and how European law makers and governments are thinking.
And please don’t take those news as a copy of what people say. It shows they use words to turn everything how they want.
We’re never going to get anywhere economically if any serious discussion about migration policy is going to be lobbed with accusations of racism.