I,on the other hand, do not pity him at all. I am disgusted by his appalling behaviour and I wonder how he can stand the sight of himself.

Moreover, I certainly do not think he is intelligent; his actions do nothing but prove the contrary. He is unbelievably full of himself and a total and complete fool if ever there was one.

He is trying to hang on but I think that he will not be allowed to contest in the next general election on the PN ticket.So to save his face he will resign before the election.

I pity him. He is not credible any more and his political career is over. The positive results he got when he was in Form Two were useless.

Yes, if you follow the Buffett philosophy. But not if you follow the Maltese mentality.

Unfortunately he is not the only one, and there are characters of similar nature on both sides of the political divide, though I must say that Labour has a clear majority of this type of character, and even worse their leader seems to be one of these.

This whole issue goes back to ministers’ salaries, where the idea behind compensating ministers with a commercially competive salary was to attract the top achievers into politics, rather than the private sector.

The Prime Minister never really argued this issue properly and the public perception of the politically disastrous M.P salary increases was that of a bunch of crooks lining their pockets while everyone else suffered the impact of E.U backed economic measures.

The reality now is that neither party will ever have the guts to try to compensate themselves at even close to market rates, so we are going to have even more charlatans, misfits, washouts, and generally unsavory characters trying to run the country.

The only solution to avoiding such an outcome would be to abolish all salaries for M.P.s and like this one could attract wealthy individuals into politics, who are less inclined to have the same personality type as Franco Debono.

As things stand C and D grade lawyers, economists (and other professions) are attracted into politics like flies to s….t, since all it takes to eventually become an M.P is shamelessness, persistenc, blind ambition and patience.

After 5 to 10 years of this, the likelihood is these third-rate characters make it as an M.P; they have struck gold. The rest is history, and Malta remains as it is. In the 1960s the both Malta and Singapore got independence, both are small nations, but the difference is between them is huge.

I’ll leave you with a simple question, which country do you think had the best political leadership?

Just let him alone with no attention or attacks and he will resign after the summer recess.

A conundrum which must not be taken lightly, as obviously what do you with a person who is so clearly self-deluded without putting your own position and ethos as the “nationalistic” sic vision into jeopardy?

Yes indeed, he prefers to work with a 3.4% backing while ignoring the 96.6% who repudiated him.

Such is this man’s self-delusion.

And someone should tell him that the price of gold is at an all-time high at the moment, so it’s a worthwhile investment.

[Daphne – It would be a worthwhile investment if it were at an all-time low.]

Jekk dan Debono ghandu lil xi hadd qrib tieghu jghawwieh zgur li jaghmel dawn it-tip ta’ buzullotti.

Naf wiehed li l-gharusa u niesha kienu jibbumbarjawh fuq il-politika kull darba li jirfes l-ghatba ta’ dar l-gharusa, sakemm ceda u ‘dar’ maghhom!