Comments on: Flashback

By: FAVETTU

FAVETTU — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:24:26 +0000

And here goes a good old Maltese saying: ‘Il-gurnata minn filghodu turik.’

By: Terez

Terez — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:20:41 +0000

I really cannot understand what The Times of Malta’s agenda is with Franco Debono. They are giving him space and forever asking his “opinion”.

If it wasn’t for The Times we would hardly hear about him. And that’s how it should be.

This is the first and definitely last time I will comment about him. Let’s all do the same and let him vanish into the background.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:02:41 +0000

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120312/local/debono-sees.410776

I would like to ask Dr Franco Debono what he did to help the PN candidates in the fifth district, and if he believes so much in the Local Council Elections why is it that informed sources (a PL activist) say that he and his family didn’t go to vote in the Hal-Ghaxaq Local Council election of 2006!
Malta is waiting for an explanation.

By any chance ,did anyone see him voting in Marsaxlokk?

By: mark v

mark v — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:50:46 +0000

Today Franco is giving his own version of the result, he cannot stay away for so long from the limelight.

There is no need for anyone’s version of what they think has happened. It is so obvious. People are fed up of having their TV sets and radios hijacked by the parties’ propaganda machines that they had enough of the bullshit long before the election day itself, and opted to stay away from the polls.

I beleive local councils are useless and are serving only the parties to tighten their grip on peoples’ lives.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:13:29 +0000

And he’s back on the front page of the timesofmalta.com. He seems to be living in a make-believe fantasy and pretending he is the PM or leader of a party giving his reactions to the local council results.

Now we will wait for JPO’s reaction which might not be that far.

By: TROY

TROY — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:43:23 +0000

You certainly know how to kick ass!

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:36:22 +0000

They swept aside the political class handing power to unelected technocrats the same week he declared his longing to settle there. Italians do not like to challenge fate.

By: SC

SC — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:54:50 +0000

Very scary mentality. I have worked with people like this in the past. They literally believe the world revolves around them. The different between my ex-colleague and Franco Debono is that my colleague wasn’t in parliament. Would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

By: rupert

rupert — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:53:52 +0000

In fairness to Italian and Maltese politicians, I think politicians in other parts of the world are not less ‘psychologically flawed’ to use the term deployed by Tony Blair’s spin doctors to describe Gordon Brown.

If one reads the autobiographies/diaries of Blair, Mandelson, Alastair Campbell one cannot but be shocked at the behaviour of the various politicians.

Last week a British MP was handed down a non-custodial sentence for head-butting other MPs in a House of Commons bar. Numerous other MPS were sentenced to prison for fraudulently abusing the parliamentary expenses system.

Numerous others thought it was cricket to use expenses to claim for building a duck-house or a packet of polos. Jeremy Paxman’s The Political Animal makes the point that politics attracts some very peculiar characters.