Ranier Fsadni on Franco Debono (3)
Published:
January 19, 2012 at 3:43pm
In The Times today:
Put to one side whether Ministers Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici or Joseph Cassar ought to resign or not, an important issue but rather beside the point is how or when do ministerial resignations take place in other liberal democracies.
The objective answer: Either at the behest of the Prime Minister (or the President) or else after a media onslaught. (Alistair Campbell’s rule: If you’re not off the front page after 10 days, resign.) I am not aware of any recent episode, or even published political diary, where a resignation was effected on the pressure of a backbencher. If that is mistaken, we should be told.
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Probably, he wants Dr. J. Cassar to resign his position as minister because he needs him badly in his other capacity.
“I am not aware of any recent episode, or even published political diary, where a resignation was effected on the pressure of a backbencher.”
But there has never been such a backbencher before.
You cannot compare an ordinary backbencher with a high achiever who got already in form 2 got 100% in religion and is full of energy and always at the forefront and had the best cock in town.
Alistair Campbell’s rule: If you’re not off the front page after 10 days, resign.
The “honourable gentleman” (in my opinion he is neither one nor the other) has been on the front pages (not page but pages) for quite some time now. He should therefore resign forthwith.