I don’t know how reporters can listen to him, report what he says, and keep their self respect
Can you believe that Franco Debono actually said this with a straight face?
The Times reports:
“By trying to appease some cabinet member at all costs, without considering performance, delivery and responsibilities which have had to be shouldered, and also by neglecting policy disagreement from the backbench, the prime minister could possibly have committed political suicide by having the wrong priorities: appeasing individuals rather than policy and accountability considerations,” Dr Debono said.
“The prime minister should not be held at ransom by some Cabinet member, or maybe his family.
“No one is greater than the party and no individual or clique has perpetual rights. The core values of the party should be loyalty, meritocracy and basic democratic values including accountability.”.
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Tad-daqqiet ta’ harta.
Appeasing individuals, eh? That’s exactly what Debono’s forced the PM to do all along.
He isn’t a cock fighter. He’s a prick.
My Grandmother used to use horrible smelly stuff called Brasso to polish up her favourite brass lamp-stand. It used to come up a real treat.
Franco could use a whole tin of the stuff on that brass neck of his, I’m sure.
What a plonker.
St. Aloysius should sue him for bringing the school into disrepute.
Franco hates certain members of the cabinet and usually one can find a reason for this. On the short list, there is also Joe Cassar which I could not understand the reason for his inclusion. That is until I remembered that Dr Cassar is a psychiatrist.
Unbelievable.
Sieg Heil.
‘Or maybe his family.’
Thanks Franco, you just gave the game away.
Absolutely unbelievable. Even though I am positive he looks into his mirror many times a day, he surely doesn’t understand that it’s as cracked as he is.
However, it is OK to have the Prime Minister held hostage by a backbencher.
Wiccu w’ in-naha l-ohra l-istess.
Ara siehbi, aqbad u ivvota favur il-mozzjoni t-tnejn – ma jimpurtax li twaqqa l-gvern, imma tehlisna minnek darba ghal dejjem.
Just flipper off.
The man has completely lost it. Bring in the men in white coats.
Typical Labour cheek
He has become prime Joey Skip material.
But …
“… he is not quite the position-seeker he has been made out to be. If he were that, he wouldn’t have prejudiced, even destroyed, his political future at a time when it could be taking off.” – Lino Spiteri
Spiteri leaves me more speechless than Franco’s self-delusion.
This is a case of a double personality disorder. I wonder why lately many people are suffering from such.
Pathetic and distressing parliamentarian abusing of a weak democratic majority.
L-aqwa li kollox idur u jaghqad fuq il-meritocracy.
“The prime minister should not be held at ransom by some Cabinet member, or maybe his family” (Dr Franco Debono)
Only a disloyal insatiable.backbencher with exalted ideas about his unappreciated worth should be permitted to do so.
Igibek titkellem wahdek. Sorry no words in English to express myself about this.
The journalist who took this statement must have gone home sobbing.
Elephant in the room? This elephant has zebra stripes and a cuckoo clock on its head. And still no one wants to discuss it directly.