Debono Franco u Muscat Joseph: the two weirdo mummy’s boys who want to take over the country

Published: January 7, 2012 at 7:20pm




42 Comments Comment

  1. Anton says:

    Can we have a photo of the mummies too, please?

  2. Anton says:

    Joseph looks as bloated as my castrated cat.

  3. Lupin says:

    This evening during the 6pm TVM news, there was a preview clip from Reno Bugeja’s interview with the prime minister tonight.

    I felt Lawrence Gonzi will be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to spare the country from what it does not need at the moment…a general election.

    And then PL supporters point fingers at this gentleman and say that he wants to cling to power. A brainy lawyer from Brussels might already be packing his luggage.

    • Antoine Vella says:

      I’m not sure I would agree with giving in to Franco Debono’s whims yet again.

    • Albert Farrugia says:

      This is incredible. Here we are, a generation after “democracy was saved”, and people talk of the need to be “spared” an election.

      But what’s the big deal about having an election?

      I think of Malta as a normal, functioning, Western democracy, where elections are the most normal routine thing.

      But it seems that many Maltese, and those supporting the government no less, think of Malta as a failed state where elections are something which instil fear, uncertainty and instability.

      Unbelieveable.

      • La Redoute says:

        Elections *out of turn* are destabilising. Italy is a prime example of that.

        You know, as much as anyone else here, an election in Malta brings the country practically to a standstill because of the uncertainty of its outcome – itself a sign that people fear the effects of change, no matter how much they say Malta needs it.

      • Stefan Vella says:

        The prospect of a Labour victory handing the reins of power to yesterday’s has-beens like Karmenu Vella, Anglu Farrugia and co., is more than enough to instil fear, uncertainty and instability.

      • Albert Farrugia says:

        @La Redoute
        “…an electon in Malta brings the country to a standstill because of the uncertainty of its outcome..”

        Oh really? So you mean to say that we should have elections only when we would know the result beforehand?

        Kim il Sung anyone? And these are PN supporters. Unbelievable!

      • La Redoute says:

        @ Albert Farrugia

        You are being disingenuous. I didn’t say there should be no election. I said that elections *out of turn* are destabilising and that Italy is a prime example of that.

        You know that very well, having lived through many yourself.

        What we’re talking about here is not a regular election, but an *early* election.

        A grandiose but fragile ego may demand an early election, it’s hardly worth the cost in terms of political instability, social uncertainty, economic turbulence and reduced investor confidence.

      • Jozef says:

        Oh pretty please.

        How convenient, a snap election in March to spare Labour further embarrassment. Which reminds me, how’s Karmenu doing with Joseph’s vision?

        Noticed how neither Joseph nor Franco want to have anything to do with motions of confidence and non?

      • Jo says:

        Did PM Sant call for an election when Lino Spiteri resigned because of his disagreement with the prime miniser?

    • Mercury Rising says:

      I cannot see Dr Gonzi winning another election, regardless of how much he has actually delivered, but a fresh face, a trusted one with results under his belt unlike the ex MEP, might just pull another PN victory from the hat.

    • Albert Farrugia says:

      @Lupin

      And do you really think that, a year after the divorce debacle, the PN is prepared to go through once gain those interminable Executive Council meetings, from which the members emerge saying that the “debate was held in a very civilised, cordial atmosphere”, to choose a new leader, when the election is anyway months away, even if the government had to survive its full term?

      Is this the stability which Dr Gonzi says he wants to give the country?

      • Lupin says:

        Yes, Mr Farrugia, Lawrence Gonzi is the man who is ready to sacrifice himself for his party and for his country for the sake of giving the country the stability it needs at this moment in time. Lawrence Gonzi was the prime minister at the right time for Malta.

  4. Mike Ellul says:

    Joseph Muscat looks like the chubby boy in the film Bad Santa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwfaxZcLW0w&feature=related

  5. Lupin says:

    I’m following an article on this blog questioning Joe Vella Bonnici’s credentials in calling himself an ‘ekonomista’. He is now calling himself ‘opinjonista’. Partit tad-dilettanti.

  6. Jozef says:

    I don’t think it’s Franco.

    It may be JC who had a tendency to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.

    Poor Franco, his photo replaced by someone else’s by mistake. Ghalhekk mahruq.

  7. Ghoxrin Punt says:

    What can I say? Joseph, wicc tad-daqqiet ta’ harta, then as now.

  8. worried says:

    I thought Dr Debono participated in a vote of confidence in the government.

    So you might have been wrong in thinking that he wanted a ministry after all: he wanted to be the prime minister.

    [Daphne – That’s what I wrote on 29 December, that the ministry would have been just the means to becoming party leader.]

    Additionally he is showing something worse than narcissism now, he has delusions of grandeur as well.

    No wonder he has no confidence in Dr Joseph Cassar, the minister. The latter probably gave him some professional advice free of charge and may have disturbed him further.

    Maybe taking the wind out of his sails would be if Dr Gonzi goes to the party and seek a vote of confidence within the party.

    I am sure the dottore from Qrendi would still say that the country as opposed to the party has no confidence in the PM.

    The other ‘dokter’ in the picture seems to be holding back an explosive gaseous emmission, possibly from some bulk-bought beans.

  9. Taks Fors says:

    The more I see Franco Debono acting the way he is, the more I see him as a pawn in Johnny Dalli’s hands.

    Dalli will use any means, including mad men, to try to get back in the race for the party’s leadership, which he so ungracefully lost.

    The Party should really take the bull by the horns and do away with such people, once and for all.

    We all remember when John Dalli said that a number of PN MPs find solace in him and he always readily offers his shoulder for support – read, mutiny against the same PN.

  10. Kevin Galea says:

    The photo of Franco is actually my photo, I believe that was a mistake in SAC’s annual from Prep 2. I’m sure there are more photos in the following years that show the “real Franco”, not that we’re not having more than enough of him lately…

    [Daphne – Oh dear God, he must be furious. We should have noticed from the eye colour, though.]

    • Jozef says:

      Hi Kevin, I thought it was James C.

    • BC says:

      Daphne, you’ve been doing too much mistakes lately….please don’t use the statement that it is the schools mistake not yours because you should have double checked not relying on just one photo……that’s what professional columnists normally do……but I will spare your ignorance

      [Daphne – Mistakes are made, not done. And yes, it is the school’s mistake.]

  11. JPS says:

    Watching Debono on Super 1 live now on ‘Bla Agenda’ when it’s clear that they have one main agenda: to take advantage of this self-centred primadonna and use him as a scapegoat by giving him two cameras and airtime.

  12. edgar says:

    Once a nerd, always a nerd.

  13. mario farrugia says:

    i love your way of thinking – great, don’t change ….

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