Inkontri Mal-Genn
Lawrence Gonzi doesn't need lessons in democracy from the man seen between Mintoff and the Chinese leader in this 1972 photograph.
Kif jghid il-Malti, l-ghejra oht il-genn.
So I watched that surreal episode of Inkontri earlier tonight, with that ridiculous berk Debono being wound up by a bunch of Labour dinosaurs, but didn’t rush back to report because I thought I’d watch Jerseylicious for a while to recover.
Kemm waqajt baxx, Franco.
Il-vera hrigt ta’ cuc.
Kollha jitn**ku bik u jimmanipulawk, u int, bil-genn tal-ghejra u frustrastjoni li ghandek fuqek, lanqas biss tinduna.
Not one of your fellow-guests on that show, or even Edward Scicluna in the video-clip, agrees with you or with what you’re doing. They think you’re off the wall, a nevrasteniku in need of Prozac or a good shag with whatever takes your fancy: man, woman or sheep.
It was blatantly obvious from their body language, facial expressions and choice of words, but you’re so far gone you couldn’t see it. They said what it paid them to say, or not say. And they looked like idiots doing it. But that’s their problem.
You know what that show looked like, Franco? A group of men managing the nutter in their midst. If they felt uncomfortable doing it for two hours, perhaps now they have some idea of what Lawrence Gonzi and so many others have felt like for the last four years.
What a surreal, weird performance that was. A bunch of grown men sitting around discussing the instability of the situation while the sole cause of that instability sat with them, wearing a smug expression, delighted to have all their attention.
It was probably his idea of a cabinet meeting made in heaven. He must have felt like he was prime minister for two hours.
And because the sole cause of the instability was sitting there with them, and they didn’t want to upset him lest he lashes out and rounds on them in that way he has, they tiptoed about making out that the cause of the instability is Lawrence Gonzi. Lawrence Gonzi and HIS hardheadedness, if you please.
What a bunch of junk.
We don’t have an unstable government, for God’s sake. We have an unstable member of parliament. We don’t have a democratic problem. We have one MP whose understanding of democracy is so razor-thin that he thinks what he’s doing is actually democratic.
Can I appeal for some sense of perspective?
Then that paladin of democracy, Toni Zarb tal-GWU, decided to do the usual and lay all manner of evil at the door of She Whose Name Shall Not Be Mentioned (me). “Arukaza x’qieghdin jghidu dwar Franco Debono f’certu blokks. Dawn l-affarijiet ma nistax nippermettihom.”
Iva, Toni? Ma tistax tippermettihom, qalbi? Mela x’se taghmel la jitla l-Labour? Taghlaq il-blokk ta’ Defni?
Sorry, ta – ta’ Dik?
Maaaa, kemm huma ridikoli. Believe it when I say that in a perverse way I’m actually looking forward to seeing this scrap-heap in government, because I’m going to have the time of my life laying into them.
They’re sitting ducks.
Then we had a protracted lecture about democracy from none other than Karmenu Vella, who spent the years 1971 to 1987 selling democracy for those Great Democratic Prime Ministers, Dom Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, while negotiating business (for Malta, what did you think?) with other Great Democratic Leaders like Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Il Sung, Nikolai Ceaucescu and Deng Xiaoping.
Li ma kienux taz-zuffjett: Toni Zarb and Karmenu Vella, hej.
Why didn’t they use their joint air-time to tell us about that nice deal they struck between them, with the General Workers Union’s travel agency (believe it) going into partnership with Karmenu Vella’s Orange Travel Group?
Min irid jippriedka, ukoll.
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Kif jghid il-Malti:
”Franco, qed taqta il-bajd biex tinki lil mara ”
More like…
”Franco, qed taqta il-bajd biex tinki lil mummy”
With his mother’s permission tghid?
U fl-ahhar tal-mazzita se ssib iz-zbiba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHA1aRbHgg
The ancient wolverines surrounded the naive sheep and then devoured him.
Jien kif rajt dak il-programm hsieb wiehed gieni: meta fl-1981 wara li Mintoff ma riedx jiggverna ghax ma’ kellux maggoranza il-ministri u d-deputati fosthom Joe Grima u Karmenu Vella marru fil-kazini Laburisti ta’ kull rahal biex ‘ifhiemu’ lil-partitarji imhawwdin il-ghala kellhom jibqghu imwahhlin mas-siggu tal-poter minkejja li l-poplu ma riedhomx.
Karmenu tajjeb meta jitkellem fuq xi busness deal fit-turizmu mhux biex ‘jfiehmna’ x’hini d-demokrazija.
Lil Joe Grima sthajjiltu miexi fuq il-bajd, jew xi minefield.
Franco,
Your ideas of democracy are the ones you learnt by heart from the Systems of Knowledge Module 1. What was your mark then?
They pampered him as much as they could. Franco, how stupid you are.
He could have chosen a better fora where to discuss democracy. As if we are going to take lessons from Joe Grima and Karmenu Vella.
I tried to watch the whole programme but couldn’t stomach all the opportunism running through the whole discussion.
U alaq il blog Daphne, m’intix tinduna liqed taqa an nejk ma malta kolla? lol get a life and a decent education for god’s sakes ;) xoxo
Yasmine, Daphne can teach you a thing or two about a ‘decent education’. It is YOU who should shut up and save the LP from further embarrassment. It has enough supporters of your ilk who have kept it in Opposition for 25 years.
The leaders have not helped one iota, either.
Debono’s bandwagon is another one Joseph & Co are anxious to jump on. How creative!
He had better tell us what Karmenu Vella is scribbling in an attempt to put together some election promises. It is only for this reason that Joseph ‘will act in the interest of the nation and not call a vote of confidence’ – just to give more time for Karmenu to write his programme (a la 70s?) and perhaps run it through a spell checker, just in case.
nooooooo hallija jien veru niehu gost u nittpaxxa naqra l-kummenti taghha, nkompli nikkonferma x’jasal jikteb bniedem meta jkun jinsab frustrat u mdejjaq il-hassra biss li id-dwejjaq taghha qed tinfexxhom ma nies zballjati ghalkemm il-hin taghha qed tahhli ghax hadd ma jikkalkula
“It was blatantly obvious from their body language, facial expressions and choice of words, but you’re so far gone you couldn’t see it.”
Remember Franco’s interview on Dissett some weeks/months ago? It was Franco’s “body language, facial expressions and choice of words” which convinced me that he was a suitable case for treatment.
It’s like having a pressure cooker forgotten on the hob and sooner rather than later, it’s going to blow up.
Is it possible that there is nobody in Franco’s family, relatives and friends who can take him in hand and help him? Or is everybody, except for la Mamma, avoiding him and hoping that the problem will solve itself or be solved by somebody else?
I started watching the programme yesterday but couldn’t bother to finish it. Seeing Joe Grima and Karmenu Vella giving us lessons on democracy.
Il-bravu Franco lanqas biss beda jinduna li l-panel kollhu kien qed jinqeda bih. Hadd minnhom ma kien qed jaqbel mieghu.
Il-vera issa qazzist lil kulhadd, Franco, kemm fil-hajja privata tieghek u kemm dik politika. I for one am not surprised by your attitude. It’s the perfect reflection of your private life, always in the spotlight.
In 2003 I made the mistake of giving you the number 1, but then whilst I got to know you better I didn’t vote for you in 2008, and seeing your attitude now I can say what a good choice I made.
Pity you fooled so many people and that will remain on your conscience.
Ma nafx kif ser ikollok il-guts tmur tghix gol Villa Marsaxlokk (Juno Heights, ma tal-pepe mhux Hal-Ghaxaq, mal-hamalli kif kont tghidilhom), il-post fejn ittradejt tant nies.
The solutiuon is simple: Gonzi resigns as PM, replaced by the vice-PM and Gonzi remains party leader.
Doesn’t matter. Debono will still be OUT.
I thought that those experts of democracy even ignored Franco during the show.
They just used him as their trophy against Prime Minister Gonzi.
Which one is next, Realta’ or TX?
I am not very familiar with the Super One schedule and I really have to keep a note in my diary to remember. I hope Franco memorises his appointments, because last Saturday he was on Bla Agenda.
It’s too much now. Got tired of this tragicomedy. I will not follow it any more.
Off to hear Sandro Zerafa and unwind a little. It will ‘do me good’. See you all there.
At one point Joe Grima was adamant that the era of bipartisan politics and its clear cut boundaries is over.
‘Dak iz-zmien spicca, dak il-passat, ghadda, daqshekk….’
Fine, if that’s Labour’s forma mentis, the least they should do is to make proposals which everyone’s been waiting for these past three years. It’s kind of expected when the stated intention is to blur those lines.
What we get instead, is a waiting game and the appropriation of ideas produced by people outside Labour. This, in the name of Joseph’s real philosophy.
When Franco mistakes his ideas for ‘pariri kif imexxi’ all he does is to confirm the cynical posturing introduced by the other whizz kid who doesn’t have a clue what to do, preferring to rely on others for identity. It seems the style is catching.
What Labour lacks in political capacity, it tries to borrow as motive, blaming Lawrence Gonzi’s resolute leadership as arrogance.
What went largely unnoticed is how Franco didn’t once mention the contents of his proposals and their validity and how Joseph doesn’t even have a clue to these. If they believe themselves that is.
I’d love to know what method they intend to adopt when in government.
Here’s a maths equation for you, Franco.
Franco Debono = Laughing Stock
WELL DONE!