My thoughts exactly.

Le, ghax ir-rizenja, skond hu, trid tkun accettata.

Mur arah f’kumpanija jaghmel handover lil dak li jidhol minfloku. Ikollu jitqanna bih magenbu, jirrispondilu it-telephone.

Marija Santa.

Yes, sure. We need more vulgar, inarticulate, smug, conceited, narcissistic people like him. Multitaskers, what.

Ha! Not all Nazzjonalisti are smart. In fact, very few of them are, like the rest of the Maltese population.

Anyone who’s as incapable of humour and self-deprecation as Franco Debono cannot be smart.

yes he’s smart…he is a nazzjonalist remember?

But how is he going to progress what he believes in from outside the political circle? If he opts out, that will be it because he will be back to being Cikku l-poplu again.

It doesn’t make sense to me because I believe that he really does feel strongly about the issues he has raised, irrespective of the fact that he screwed up the methodology. Yes he wants to be seen as being the catalyst; but who doesn’t when his time has been invested?

He was asked about a vote of confidence in the government and said that he would vote against tbut then added that he had no confidence in the PM.

The soundbyte can be heard on Maltastar.

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=19057

[Daphne – I can’t listen to the soundbite because for some reason it’s not coming up on this particular computer. But as I recall – I had heard it yesterday – the question was specifically about a vote of confidence in the government, put by the government. It was not about a vote of ‘sfiducja’ in the government, brought by the Opposition. Franco Debono is a lawyer. He answers the specific question. He said he will vote against a motion of confidence in the government, not for a motion of no confidence in the government. I have been studying the way he way he speaks and have noticed that he does this.]

Agree With Baxxter on this. I must say that once in a while you hear Debono say a point which you might agree with but when you stop to think you notice that most of these comments are gratuitous.

Daphne, one point I’m not agreeing with you on is that you, the leader of the opposition and many others seem to take it for granted that an election now would give an obvious victory to Labour.

Whilst it is surely not the best time I think that Labour would make the same mistake they did in the last election if they think this is going to be a walk-over. I also have a feeling that the shenanigans of MP Debono and the leader of the opposition usually irritate the floating voters immensely so it seems like Labour has still learnt very little about who determines the outcome of elections in our country.

An abstention by Franco Debono would favour the side not presenting a motion. If this is the case it would seem that the Government has won this first round but I’m not very hopeful that Debono will abstain.

I heard him tell a One journalist that he would definitely be voting against the government.