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Curb your enthusiasm: there is no dissent within Labour

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Mark Camilleri
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The Labour Party has just held its General Conference, during which it reconfirmed its leaders amid the usual propaganda theatrics. Some media outlets and commentators seem excited by the fact that the Prime Minister and Labour Party leader was confirmed with 95.3% of the delegates’ votes, while Deputy Leader Ian Borg was confirmed with 97.7%.

This is not unusual; in fact, it is normal. Labour Party delegates have traditionally been more willing to support deputy leaders in official internal votes as a way of keeping the party leader in check.

What is unusual is that Alex Agius Saliba received just 91.6% of the vote, which suggests that a significant number of delegates are clearly unhappy with him. Alex Agius Saliba was previously imposed on the delegates by Prime Minister Robert Abela as part of a deal with Joseph Muscat to allow Muscat’s faction to remain involved in the party leadership. Under normal circumstances, the deputy leaders would have received an equal or higher share of the vote than the Prime Minister.

However, there is no organised dissent within the Labour Party. The party operates like a criminal organisation, and many of its newer members and delegates are motivated only by jobs and financial rewards. There is no genuine political commitment or sense of morality. It has become a one-stop shop for jobs, power and corruption.

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6 responses to “Curb your enthusiasm: there is no dissent within Labour”

  1. Bastjan avatar
    Bastjan

    The whole country operates on that level. So one needs to curb one’s enthusiasm even further.

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  2. Sparky avatar
    Sparky

    Jobs? Freeloading you mean. Freeloading at some point ends. All cycles end. And given how automation is taking a grip on society, these people will have to pull their socks up and do manual, labour-intensive (pun intended) work just to make ends meet. Enjoy it then. Those who are not diversifying their knowledge-base are in for a rude awakening. And I’m not speaking about the shadowy figures who are crafty enough to be well off by living off the criminal underworld but rather the many and similar who vote for labour because they’re given a 7 to 9 job and still get paid the full 8 hours, their job being then done by “others”. But lets get more tcn’s to backfill. And the same people complain of too many foreigners.

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    1. Bastjan avatar
      Bastjan

      This is the typical “consolation” post which tries to create a narrative to fend off reality.

      I get that life is unfair, and that meritocracy has long been buried under sheer incompetence, but to think, or even worse, hope, for automation to “bring an end” to this freeloading is naive and misguided at best.

      It won’t. These people will find new ways. Even better ways, where they literally have to do even less (if that is even possible!) than they are doing now. They will be on committees and boards to “supervise” this automation.

      It’s only the poor workers who will need to work even harder.

      Knowledge has nothing to do with securing the good life, especially not on this god forsaken island. It isn’t now, and it won’t be in the automated future.

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  3. Sparky avatar
    Sparky

    You chose not to read my post fully. Yes, I specifically referred to the poor workers who keep being blindsided and keep equating party to state and keep accepting a pittance in exchange for keeping labour in power. As for automation, it’s up to you what to believe in. But it is what it is.

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    1. Bastjan avatar
      Bastjan

      I did read the post fully. You are commenting on an article which is specifically about certain well-connected freeloaders. No, those types won’t lose any sleep, or any jobs, with automation.

      But I get that you are specifically referring to those “who vote for labour because they’re given a 7 to 9 job and still get paid the full 8 hours, their job being then done by “others”” – well, if they can get away with that, I’d say they are pretty well-connected, and again, I wouldn’t bet on your prediction. They will also find their nice post-automation cushy jobs.

      Who I was referring to, on the other hand, are the real poor workers, those “others” who do the jobs. Those who are already having the short end of the stick, and who will likewise continue to do so.

      Perhaps we disagree on this, but there is no misunderstanding. I stand by what I said, unfortunately.

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