Money talks. And millions talk even louder.
Franco, I would ring you to tell you this, but quite frankly, I’ve had enough of the sound of your voice, grating out of every television station every evening.
And I had had enough of the sound of your voice already before that, when you used to hector me about how much you had suffered and are suffering still, and how nobody recognises your brilliance (not even me).
So I am going to warn you by means of this website. The story out there is that you have been promised money to bring down the government and force an early election which will see Labour in power and a commission-paying deal valued at tens of millions of euros struck with Sargas.
That’s why people are asking whether John Dalli has anything to do with your decision to force an early election, and why he has been uncharacteristically silent.
I think it’s far-fetched. I also think that it’s too complex and that the simpler explanation – that you have been carried away by your personality problems and your frustrated ambitions – is the real one.
But others think that where such huge sums of money are involved, it’s possible.
You’d better clear this one up, Franco. Otherwise you’re not going to be remembered for your fabulous Form IIC report, but for something more sinister.
Just as you talk with such great confidence about a web of evil (xibka tal-hazen), others suspect that there really is a web of evil and it’s not made up of a talk-show host and a blogger.
I will gladly post your written response here, but for God’s sake don’t phone me.
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Show him the money.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2837347967845&set=o.229392367135369&type=1&ref=nf
I guess since you dedicated a whole article about this, then you must have believed some great percentage of that story or maybe risk to say that you have made it up and want others to believe it, so I guess Franco’s response would be simple……”It is up to the people to decide whom they want to believe, a witty blogger or a powerful (up till the general election) backbencher.
We’d need to know what the ‘powerful backbencher’ has to say on the matter.
What does his university transcript say?
BC, this is out in the public, and people are talking about it. Daphne is simply pointing it out.
……”It is up to the people to decide whom they want to believe…”
That’s avoiding the answer – very much like Joseph’s style.
The question is: With Franco’s rants, will his own constituents trust him? The NP does not, the LP does not, the AD washed their hands, but you?
Indeed the people will decide, and how!
This should feed Debono’s paranoia and self-importance.
http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Police-security-outside-Franco-Debono-s-residence-20120110
If the country were to crash as hard as it could because of instability caused by Franco Debono, not to mention a change of government, he would have so many enemies that any money he might make out of the whole debacle would be needed to pay for personal security.
How is that different from BWSC?
The difference is that BWSC won the contract after a public call for tenders, SARGAS was a Dalli-Muscat ‘secret’ deal which probably is behind this artificially created crisis.
If Labour wins, Sargas would get a contract without a public tendering process, with millions paid for unproven and yet to be created technology while ignoring the inter-connector with the European grid.
That’s the difference, Qeghdin Sew. Indeed we are qeghdin sew, ahjar bil-qabda milli kieku nkunu taht gvern Laburista!
Franco Debono qed iserrahkom wahda sew imma l-poplu nispera li jaf xi jkun qed jaghmel f’kas ta elezzjoni. After all, the government Malta ends up with, is the government it deserves, for its good and not so good.
Clearly something is not right, he is making a mountain out of a molehill.
If Franco had some common sense surely he would realise that what he is doing is not going to benefit anyone, in particular himself for the rest of his life. So …why is he insisting on digging his own grave?
The more time passes the more people dislike him (to put it mildly), not only ordinary supporters of the Nationalist Party, but he is also pissing off business people who do not need uncertainty at a time when people are already being very cautious on spending and even established companies are struggling to stay in the black.
Labour’s own people know that he is overreacting deep down and unless the plan is for Franco Debono to join Labour once he topples the government, then he very well knows that he is going to be left with nothing.
After watching him make a fool of himself so many times on TV, I would not trust him to be my lawyer, I can assure you. The more he pushes on, the worse it gets.
He says that he is sacrificing himself and his political career for democracy etc, but what makes him think that labour are going to run the country in a perfect manner? And if he is so convinced that by bringing down the government things will improve, why doesn’t he join Labour right away?
His every move is going to be watched for a very long time to come, if he does get what is promised to him he will not be able to enjoy the lifestyle anyway because he would not be able to justify where the funds came from.
I think Franco needs an exit route. He needs a way to get out of all this mess whilst saving face.
I think there is no way he can do that now, to me his fate is going to be either bad or worse, bad now and much worse if he topples the government.
It may be far-fetched, but it does explain a lot of things.
A lot of things now make sense.
This may make sense knowing that Debono wants to live in Italy.
He cannot work as a lawyer in Italy as his law degree can only be of use in Malta.
I believe he knows some Italian but does not know the nuances of the language to make him stand up in court and explain the fine details of the laws defending his clients in a criminal court.
I can see this pillock repeating the phrase since he was two: “Arani ma kemm jien tajjeb!”
And mummy approves and encourages “mummy’s little child” in whatever he does , no matter how he did it.
I could see this “Arani ma” during the budget speech but this time it is “Arawni nies”:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/view/20111114/budget-2012/tax-cut-for-parents-longer-maternity-leave.393861
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/view/20111114/budget-2012/octogenerians-to-receive-300-per-year.393876
http://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/view/20111114/budget-2012/vat-penalties-amnesty-reduced-tax-rate-for-some-part-timers.393863
I recall that we commented about this clown sitting behind Tonio Fenech who placed himself strategically so that Malta would see him banging in approval on the budgetary measures. Up to then he was still hoping against hope to sit near Tonio.
About the coal-fired Sargas power station in the south of Malta I tried to find comments by Franco on the hot subject, he was conspicuous by his absence. Now he is talking about the dangers of heavy fuel oil and how he is doing this to fight for the safety of people in the south, to protect them against the new power station.
Everyone has a price tag.
Whoa! So it’s not his ambition now?
I think this is all a load of bull’s koko.
By the way, Franco is not the only ill-mannered MP on the PN bench. I can name one or two others whose spiritual home is mal-marmalja lejberista.
[Daphne – Yes, that’s true. MPs are the representatives of the people and most people in Malta have terrible manners.]
I don’t believe conspiracy theories; the simplest explanation is almost always the correct one.
[Daphne – I’m with you on that.]
It’s true that Franco Debono used to be very close to Dalli. An ex-Dalli aide told me that Debono was a permanent fixture at the Ministry of Finance and that, true to character, he used to pester and pester the minister to be appointed on some government board because of his qualities.
However, from what we’ve been seeing these past weeks, Franco Debono has done everything by himself and his greatly inflated self-esteem is genuine enough.
Did he show Dalli his school report? He denies showing it to Fenech Adami – not that we’re obliged to believe what Debono says, of course.
Franco you want to make yourself out as a champion of demoracy, but yesterday on TV you said that that you will ignore the petition that many of those who voted you in to parliament on the PN’s ticket – one of them myself, sorry to say – truly democratic.
Those who voted for you expect loyalty to the party and your constituents.
If you deem fit that you can no longer work within the PN fold the only honourable way is to resign. For your sake and ours end this whole thing and go for a long holiday – maybe at a monastery – meditate and relax.
I’ve always thought this to be a plausible motive.
Let us say that Debono’s threats to Gonzi came too close after John Dalli’s Sargas debacle.
Daphne Caruana as much as I would like to agree with you, I must say you took this one out of proportion as much as possibly Franco debono has.
For a change we have someone possibly sticking up for the Maltese. (Don’t see this often do you)
And best of all, from someone who hangs around the group of PN whom I have always voted for…
If he will succeed or not, I believe he sure has ruffled up the PN feathers…
To be honest the only Issue I see is bad timing for such a blow up, especially with the messed up economy we are in and getting in deeper.
Meanwhile, I think the public have heard out a loud on public media for a change, what people normally speculate, and doubt and wonder..
Meanwhile, either way just like anybody else I would like the very best for this country, and will support anyone who truly fights for his country at the end of the day.
Also keep in consideration the guy is a smart kid, (A shark if you want it in other words) and to be honest id’ like to see anyone take it up against him in a battle of free speech.
[Daphne – Now I know why people vote for Norman Lowell. They have no sense of perspective. You’ll vote for a man who is setting about doing as much damage to the country as possible, because ‘he has a point’. You’re probably the sort of person who, when somebody accidentally breaks a glass after cleaning the entire house, will prioritise the broken glass and complain about that.]
Out of context, if his voice bothers you, why bother listening to him.
[Daphne – Professional obligation, Matthew. Unlike others, I don’t have that luxury. You can’t do this kind of work and avoid the topic of the moment.]
Franco Debono isn’t ‘sticking up for the Maltese’. He is sticking up for Franco Debono.
Money talks. Bullshit walks. Franco’s running.
John Dalli popped up in Dr. D’s early comments to the Times today. He brought the Commissioner up himself to draw a parallel in the context of his being forced out of the PN (or words to that effect).
He saw fit to throw in the point that he has not seen or spoken to Dalli for ‘months or years’. Is it months or years Dr. D? It makes quite a difference when it comes to the rumours brought to light here – although I have not heard or read them anywhere else I must say.
Also thrown in was a comment that his mobile phone has been playing up over the past months (apparently it won’t switch off!) and that he has asked his provider (and others, didn’t say who) to look into it.
Curiouser and curiouser (as uttered by Alice – NOT the Mad Hatter).
Jekk Franco Debono mhux se jsib postu lura fil-PN, m’hemmx l-icken tama remota ghal rebha. Ghajb li l-affarijiet spiccaw kif spiccaw. Nies wara Debono hemm miz-zewg nahat.
Franco Debono’s metaphorical silence is deafening.