I really hate saying this, but I TOLD YOU SO
If I can't get at least half of Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici's portfolio, I'm going to scream until I'm sick. Or blow the house down, whichever comes first..
So what did I tell you, my dears? That after Austin Gatt, Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici was going to be Franco Debono’s next target – or concomitant target, he’s in so much haste to turn himself into a fireball.
In a reflex action to not being allowed to speak in parliament tonight – though I hear through the grapevine that he’s borrowed some time from Anglu Farrugia (najs….) – Debono has presented a private member’s motion listing his demands for reform in the justice and police portfolios.
Some of those demands are justified and delivery is long overdue, but the trouble – the very serious trouble – is that Debono’s methods are crazy and his motivation highly suspect.
Does he want the police and justice portfolios split between two different ministries because they should be (and they should be) or is he doing it because he wants half?
Is this altruism or egocentricity gone mad?
This kind of insane brinkmanship will win him no political allies – even the Opposition won’t want somebody so unstable on its books – and it will win him no votes.
But then I imagine he no longer worries about that, because even when carried away by his now increasingly frequent transports of rage he must have worked out that he’s going to be deselected.
Majtezwel take the ship down, then.
I have a strong recommendation for the Nationalist Party – for the Labour Party, too, actually, because the incidence of severe personality problems, to say nothing of psychiatric disorders, appears to be inordinately high in this cabin-fever island.
When selecting candidates for the 2013 election, include a psychiatrist in the panel and make psychiatric assessment mandatory. Politics attracts people who are driven, and people who are driven are sometimes driven for entirely unsound reasons.
Definition of brinkmanship, for my Labour fans: The practice, especially in international politics, of seeking advantage by creating the impression that one is willing and able to push a highly dangerous situation to the limit rather than concede.
Additional notes: A private member’s motion is not the same thing as a private member’s bill. Bills make (or don’t) legislation. Motions are just a general statement of intent (or not).
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So you did, so you did.
Home affairs suits him well.
Didn’t he stay home when he was supposed to be with his parliamentary group yesterday?
Didn’t he run off home rather than stand behind the prime minister after the PN meeting last week?
Doesn’t he love home so much that he refuses to leave even when he is almost 40?
And didn’t he escape the PN whip and hole up at home to avoid a vote two years ago?
Didn’t the prime minister and his wife end up having to visit him at home?
I finally found time yesterday to see Debono on Dissett.
I had never before heard him speak before, nor read anything that he’d written, although I am grateful for his efforts to have lawyers present during police interrogations.
My impression is that he is smart but arrogant.
I was particularly irritated with his patronizating attitude toward the interviewer.
Smart? Reno had him in his pocket throughout the session.
Me too – on line.
What struck me was his immediately angry/antagonized reaction to Reno Bugeja, even as the latter was trying to ask his very first question.
As the programme was literally just getting underway, Dr. Debono was acting already as if he wassubjected to a savage attack.
The interviewer’s own extremely frustrated demeanour throughout the programme was a clear reaction to the very strange way in which the interviewee was (needlessly) conducting himself.
Not smart enough. A truly smart person would have had thought about how he came across to the audience at home, rather than venting his spleen on his interviewer.
My impression is that he is smart but arrogant
“…though I hear through the grapevine that he’s borrowed some time from Anglu Farrugia (najs….)”
What’s this, one Justice/Home Affairs Minister Wannabe borrowing time from another Justice/Home Affairs Minister Wannabe?
Too bad HE put them forward, because his proposals are actually sorely needed in this country.