WHERE CHRISTOFIAS GOES, TASSOS FOLLOWS: Last week Demetris Christofias was in Greece meeting the President, PM and leaders of political parties. This week Tassos Papadopoulos followed suit.
Seems these days wherever Jimmy goes Tassos treads too – with one or two significant differences. One person Christofias did not meet was Karaztaferis, leader of LAOS, an extreme right, nationalist and racist movement.
Papadopoulos did meet said leader. While Christofias held several mass meetings in Athens and Thessaloniki, Papadopoulos went to lend support to victims of last year’s tragic fires. Our contribution was praised by the President, who said Greek Cypriots know full well what catastrophe means – obviously a tactical reference to 1974.
While the President’s commitment to the victims of the fires is commendable, it’s also a reflection of double standards as significant numbers of Cypriot refugees still live in squalid sub-standard blocks of flats, dating back to the mid-1970s that are literally falling apart by the minute.
All the presidential candidates need to think again. Stop using refugees as political fodder.
Peddling hope when we all know most of you are hopeless is nihilistic in these times.
Papadopoulos should have also visited the tenement slum blocks in Ayios Mamas, Lakatamia, just to see what’s happening on his own doorstop as a result of decades of state incompetence, in which his own government, despite their claim to being the angels who said ‘No’, have played a significant part.
NO ASHTRAYS ON THE SET: Nicos Anastassiades is a rugged politician who stands up to all kinds of adversity. Staying up late last Tuesday night to see him on Kenevezou’s show, up against three other CyBC sanctioned hacks was a challenging thought.
Arsenal had also lost 3-1, so Nick on Rik was a bonus for a Spurs supporter without a refugee card. Bias and foul play were everywhere. The content of the questions asked on the show… What a let down, deeper than the Khyber Pass.
The allegedly ‘diverse’ panel of journalists sounded so scripted and dogged by irrelevancies.
Almost all the questions were about why Anastassiades supported the ‘yes’ vote in the referendum, with one hack even positing the imbecilic question ‘do you feel the need to apologise for your decision?’.
Talk about setting the agenda with such a banal reversed verb – in biased journalism ‘do you’ also equals ‘you do’. So what were the other 10 per cent of the questions about? Why did Kasoulides vote ‘yes’!?
Anastassiades was getting riled but he dealt with it effectively. It is a question of everyone’s individual democratic right to vote whichever way they want – that’s the basis of democracy.
It’s apparent that such staged scenarios of partiality by the state broadcaster reflect the complete opposite – a violation of freedom of expression. Further evidence of this exists through a CyBC list of censored persons and personalities which include Takis Hadjidemetriou, former Minister for EU Harmonisation under Tassos; Ex-Mayor of Nicosia Lellos Demetriades and George Vassiliou, former President of Cyprus.
What do all these people and many more people have in common? They are all supporting Christofias or Kasoulides in the presidential elections. I also guess by revealing this to you, my dear readers, that I am on the list too – nothing new and no fear. I’ve been on them lists for a number of years… and not just at CyBC.
The price of critique is not as high as the value and righteousness of speaking your mind on a plantation dominated by mediocrity.
SO WHERE’S YOUR BILLBOARDS, MATE? Kasoulides has them. Christofias too. Themistocleous, is unlikely to engage in them as his campaign is exceedingly low budget but highly oppositionist.
Papadopoulos, however, stated a few months ago that billboards would not be a priority in his campaign, presumably for environmental reasons. So that’s why Perdikis embraced rejectionism yet again. One village sophist posed the question to a leading DIKO politician in the coffeeshop this week. After getting the routine PC environmentalist line, the koumbaros made a semantic correction.
“I know why he is not doing them,” he boasted like a true old school vragaman. “It’s simple, he is too scared of what people will write on them!” Just this thought alone makes one wonder, is Tassos really that unpopular? Not so, according to Lillikas, Votsis and other Presidential backers on election shows.
Their arrogance baffles even the most logical person. Lillikas even tried to rewrite findings by one of the leading election researchers in Cyprus, Bambos Papageorgiou, live and very direct on SIGMA TV. Clearly any one trying to distort matters in such feeble ways needs a revealing session on the couch with psychiatrist Yiangos Mikkelides.
I really expect more from the Tassians than the average 32 per cent in recent opinion polls. Their new spin on hope a UN initiative allegedly coming next March, conveniently one month after the elections. Talk about the biggest fable since Aesop! It’s a bit like George Bush Jnr saying there will be peace on earth by Christmas as long as you vote for my party’s candidate next year.
Ironic then that we are waiting for a plan from outside, which our President has already told us he will reject because it’s another ‘concoction by foreigners’. What all the presidential candidates are failing to see is the plan, the solution, if it ever comes, and if it ever is real, must first and foremost come from within and until then the UN will not engage in anything. Tassians of the world disunite, tell the truth and retire gracefully.
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