In Debono’s case, substitute ‘ego’ for ‘conscience’.

Labour’s flaws have already been amply exposed. They elected Joseph Muscat when they could have chosen George Abela.

And they still don’t have a policy to speak of and won’t for at least as long as Karmenu Vella ta’ Orange Travel has to deal with the Concordia fallout.

Labour don’t need three months. They don’t have enough material in their electoral manifesto to fill up three months.

And the more time passes, the more projects this government finishes. So the more time passes, the more people will realise that the Nationalist government wasn’t that bad, after all.

Labour wants it quick. Because if people had to take the time and reason things out, they wouldn’t choose Labour.

Now, Franco Debono’s conscious is telling him to vote against this administration. Even if, for argument’s sake, the majority of voters in his electoral district are against his decision, shouldn’t a man’s conscious prevail, as instructed by the PM?

[Daphne – It’s a conscience. Conscious is what you are when you’re not unconscious.]

Same here, but even many Laburisti I know do not like his behaviour and consider him nonsensical.

Maxxkalzun, tajba.

Several politicians are thin-skinned and instead of being shunned by the media, they are glorified for their thin skin.

In the US, once the media senses that a politician is over sensitive, they will do their best to devastate him/her. Such politicians are easy prey. In Malta, several politicians are in for the glory, ego trips, power hungry, adulation of the villagers (who beg them for any favour under the sun) and limelight, but god forbid if one criticizes them.

The same politicians regard themselves beyond scrutiny and criticism.

Maltese journalists are the worst enemy of the profession.

They use the profession to strike deals with individual politicians in order to form part of ‘the elite’ circles.

Rather than regarding journalism as a profession, they see it as a means to an end. They scratch the politicians’ backs (Franco Debono harassed reporters to report his court cases0 and in turn they will receive leaks, and be invited to cocktail parties.

[Daphne – Franco Debono does not throw cocktail parties, and most journalists I know would have done anything to avoid him, before this current outburst.]

There is no respect for the profession. When did the Maltese media ever follow a cause without any fear of stepping on somebody’s toes? I wonder if the University course instils in them a degree of respect/love for the profession.

Thanks, Daphne, for this website. It is the only website I follow. After the picture of Kim il Sung, I stopped reading The Times. That was too much.

It was an insult to our intelligence and complete lack of respect for the North Korean victims who live in a nation-prison with an erratic leader.

Shame on the journalist who was shallow enough to write that story. No wonder he is a fan of another shallow politician.