And then they say that AUSTIN GATT is arrogant
All I could think as I watched Franco Debono this week, culminating in his awful performance on Dissett last night and his attempt at bickering with Eddie Fenech Adami this morning, is ‘And then they say that Austin Gatt is arrogant.’
I really think that the Globish-speaking Maltese need to have arrogance defined and explained to them. Arrogance is not to be confused with directness in speech and behaviour.
Arrogance is an attitude like Franco Debono’s, which was put on magnificent display this week.
It was good to read this:
Contacted yesterday in the wake of a vote of no confidence in Transport Minister Austin Gatt, which was only defeated by the Speaker’s casting vote, Dr Fenech Adami said: “I think it is most unfair on the Prime Minister, who has been delivering, and delivering as best he can and with results. Creating a mess out of the situation is not something I approve of. I dislike it and think it is really unbecoming to create such a situation,” he said.
Dr Fenech Adami added: “It’s what Franco Debono is all about… I disapprove completely, I disapprove of what he is talking about and I disapprove of how he is behaving.”
He also described Dr Debono’s comment, that the national broadcaster was in a worse situation than the 1980s, as “ completely out of this world”.
-The Sunday Times, today
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Debono needs a good spanking with the proverbial wooden spoon on his behind to help bring him to his senses.
He was always a good boy: “ghaddieli ghal-San Alwigi it-tifel!”.
U lahaqli avukat …
U gieli l-ewwel fil-klassi. Ghadda anke lil Joseph Muscat.
U kaxkar il-prizes, xi hlew.
I doubt if Franco was out of diapers in the time of dardir Malta.
His sort are born toilet-trained already and able to give life to stone toy-birds to impress their playmates at kindergarten.
In the last general election, rumours were spread in that constituency that candidate Louis Galea was earmarked to be made president. Another candidate, Herman Schiavone, was the target of malicious anonymous letters. Franco Debono might not have had anything to do with these tactics, but he benefitted from them and was elected, while Galea was not and Schiavone was deselected by the party.
Now we are seeing potential candidate Manuel Delia being targetted.
.Last Friday, Franco Debono gloated on Xarabank that he has virtually no Nationalist competitors in that constituency. Yet candidates have not yet been properly selected yet.
He now conveniently quotes the constitution that he was elected by the people who voted for him.
Those who voted for him now consider him politically “Dead and Buried’ .
His next victim is going to be Minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici. Franco wants to dethrone him to take his place . He cannot see that even if he succeeds in removing him, he is certainly not going to be rewarded with a place in the cabinet.
Yet candidates have not yet been properly selected yet.
I hope that the PN chooses its candidates ‘properly’. Some backbenchers make me sick.
And even Lino Spiteri in his opinion piece in The Sunday Times wrote that “he (Franco Debono) must know he probably has no political future left”.
I feel that yesterday’s Dissett was another nail in the Hon Franco’s coffin. He has consigned himself to history’s dustbin where he belongs.
Debono desperately needs the same kind of help that JPO requires.
Since they obviously both lack insight they will not ask for or get any.
Unfortunately they have to be lumped for a further year after which they will be consigned to the PL skip.
@ J Schembri.
You stand to be corrected, as you stated that “Franco Debono might not have had anything to do with these tactics, but he benefitted from them and was elected”.
Franco was voted for because there were no really decent candidates on the 5 th district, as he was the only option, and this is still today. With Delia or not things will not change much for the NP.
Talking about arrogance, we had enough from the ministers on the 5th district and I am of the opinion that this has also contributed to Franco’s benefit.
If Franco did not mess it up now, he would have added hundreds of votes coming next election.
What about the elimination of Schiavone with an anonymous letter?
If this was proven to be true he would have been kicked out of the PN unceremoniously.I believe he’s already a candidate, and he never stopped contributing in the political field.
Today he was seen in Qormi supporting Dr Gonzi at the PN club.
Thank God that both Mr Delia and Dr Schiavone are not lawyers in the criminal court. That letter served its purpose like the letter MC wrote about Lino Spiteri before the leadership contest with Sant.
The thing about Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries is they get overloaded with work at the ministry while the other candidates do the home visits.That’s what happened to Louis and Ms D’Amato.
@alf , you’re correct in that he’s dead and with one nail or more nails in the coffin he remains dead.The dead can’t open their coffins.He crossed the line drawn by the Prime Minister.
Incidentally, it’s refreshing to hear Karl Gouder on radio talking a lot of sense. Is he an economist?
J Schembri – it is not a coincidence that Herrera is CMB’s shadow … Herrera is Franco’s mentor to my mind. Franco is absolutely naive to put his faith in a wheeler-dealer like Herrera.
Now Manuel Delia has been given a spanking because he was not officially approved as a candidate by the PN executive!
Should Schiavone have a ‘go ahead’ by the party to write articles on the Times like today’s?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111108/opinion/After-the-dust-settles.392846
For how long will this ‘party executive’ appease this arrogant lawyer who does not know the difference between ‘needs’ and ‘wants’?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111108/local/PN-reprimands-Emanuel-Delia.392800
Daphne, I agree 100 percent with your column in yesterday’s Independent. I have met Debono – he is arrogant and full of himself. He needs to be on the front page and in the headlines like the rest of us need water.
I hope he is sidelined and soon, before any more damage can be done.
He should join Malta Today, then.
It is true what you wrote Kathryn.
Debono KNEW what was going to happen last Friday, that the Speaker will cast his vote against the PL’s motion. It was sheer waste of valuable time. He just wanted to be in the limelight for a while, just like JPO.
Franco Debono is totally wrong in saying that today’s state broadcasting is worse than in the 80s . I talked to elderly Nationalists who felt very hurt by this saying.
[Daphne – Elderly as in, say….47?]
Saturday’s l-Orizzont gives prominence to the protest gathering of some 200-odd peoplecomplaining that the ‘south’ had been forsaken by buses and there is practically no longer a public transport service.
This protest featured also on Xarabank as Debono strove to make out he was championing this cause (with a special mention for Hal Ghaxaq).
In the same issue of the newspaper there is coverage of a protest by the Labour council of Paola (through which all buses from the traditional ‘South’ pass) because of the inconvenience to residents caused by the ‘1000 buses’ (I double checked) that pass daily through Paola square.
Will they please decide?
Yes,
the sound made by the automatic doors and the hum of airconditioners is causing great distress.
Jahasra. Bring back the Perkins, running on kerosene….