I may not always agree with what you say, but you have the guts to really say things as they are.

That’s why you’re hated down at Mile End. But never mind, you’re respected by people who have more brains cells than hairs.

A client is a client and a lawyer has the right to refuse a client when the client’s objectives are diametrically opposed to the lawyer’s core morals and values, for eg. a client who wants to file a garnishee order against a business partner with whom he has a serious conflict, just to ruin his wedding.

A lawyer also has a duty to do so when the client’s aims might run counter to the lawyer’s beliefs and allegiances.

Yes, it is a matter of choice, definitely.

Lawyers are accountable, first and foremost to ourselves, to our beliefs and values.

Franco Debono is a lawyer and Nationalist MP. He has no right to allow one sphere to conflict with the other (to say nothing of ethics).

I daresay he has no right to use his profession to let down the people who voted for his party.

I say this to the likes of Franco Debono, JPO and all the other “merry men”: we voted for you because you’re on a PN ticket. We wouldn’t have done so otherwise.

We don’t want you to topple the government or in any way undermine its stability. Make no mistake about it: you topple the government and you’re politically dead. You won’t even be successful in Labour because nobody trusts a backstabber.

And Franco, frankly, you have no right to tell Austin Gatt to resign. He’s one of the stalwarts of the PN and you have the freedom today to say what you please because it was people like Austin Gatt who, when it mattered, had the b***** to stand up and be counted.

So, please, cut the crap and do what you were elected to do: act as a decent MP on the PN ticket. Or else, do the honourable thing, and resign yourself.

erm, if only one PERSON in the PN parliamentary group is whinging/threatening to abstain, then it IS an erm, PERSONAL issue, Redoute.

It’s not a difficult concept, you’ll get there.

Arriva’s routes and timetables are not a personal issue. They’re a petty issue.

Yes, many of the complaints are legitimate, but the constant carping, whining, whinging and complaining are not. It only takes a shift in perspective to see that if that’s the sort of thing that dominates someone’s life, then they’ve really got little to worry about at all.

A moribund Uni/MCAST now thrive and award internationally recognised degrees and diplomas. We can now buy Mars bars, toothpaste and pasta (and anything else). The infamous ‘Korpi’ are absolutely unexplainable to today’s youth.

And this guy is prepared to jeopardise all this progress because of a bus service that, to be fair, ain’t great?

If we don’t see the bigger picture come election time, and just vote on narrow personal issues, we’re doomed.

No, Franco and Jeffrey can no longer be assets to the Party. They have crossed the line and their disloyalty will eclipse their former popularity with NP voters.

They are better suited to run with Labour since it is embracing every disgruntled person possible. Proof of this is Joseph’s tolerance and silence regarding Sant’s humiliation of him in the EFSF debate in Parliament.

The Labour Party gladly accepts loose cannon and JPO and Franco will be a perfect fit.

Unfortunately they are not alone and two or three others will complement the duo quite nicely.

There may have been other reasons as well. We just don’t know all the machinations of the MLP then.

How does one having been touted as a successor of Mintoff, become expendable?

[Daphne – Yes, but the reasons he retired from politics were much the same.]

Don’t let Labour use you to harm the party and the Prime Minister. Dr.Gonzi is the right man to run the country. The country has problems but gradually they are being tackled. Under MLP the country will go backwards again, and ruining the lives of many young people in the process.

Please use your position wisely.