and now I feel like a fool…

Is that a bad thing? I think it’s quite a good thing.

It’s the bit in parentheses that is the most important to Franco Debono. He’d have been happier to be made Minister of Justice and Home Affairs than to have the ministerial portfolios split and handed to others.

No, I am not joking.

His lifelong dream has become the dream of many others.

It isn’t. He can join the ranks of oddballs who are wheeled out at every election believing that they’re going to take over the world – like Emy Bezzina and Norman Lowell.

And now that I’ve taken a second look at that report card, I can see that it doesn’t say ‘plays well with others’.

Franco Debono wants to beat Joseph Muscat at his game.

It’s got EVERYTHING to do with the current saga. Debono uses that report card as a benchmark.

It’s the one he pulled out to show the world what he’s really worth. You’ll note that he didn’t flash around his university certificate, or remind us – yet again – that he unseated a long-standing politician when elected to parliament.

There’s the tragedy that is Franco Debono. He’s done so much since that report was written, but it’s still the scale he measures himself by.

So, no, it’s not petty to remark on its content.

That it’s not particular impressive is his final undoing. No one’s admired him for showing it off on national TV at prime time. Instead, everyone is mocking him.

What has that got to do with anything? You’re comng off as petty as he is.