Read this, please, everyone: Franco, you definitely belong with Labour
Franco Debono repeats incessantly that he is a “true Nationalist”, the biggest Nationalist of them all. But he is not. He is totalitarian, oppressive, bullying, anti-democratic and illiberal.
He is the quintessential Mintoffian, and culturally, politically and in all other respects, that is the party with which he belongs: the new Mintoffian party, led by neo-Mintoffian Joseph Muscat.
Franco Debono’s psychological and behavioural similarities to Dom Mintoff are astounding. He has the same chips, the same complexes, the same personality flaws and the same sociopathic tendencies.
He is unpleasant, awful, bossy, bullying, foul, chippy and intolerant. He is self-centred, egotistical and narcissistic. He is insensitive to the plight of others and has absolutely no sense of context or where he fits into the scheme of things. His is a mammoth ego but, like Mintoff’s, it is an absurdly fragile one.
Like Mintoff, he is ill-mannered, rough, crass and vulgar. Like Mintoff, he uses politics to exorcise his personal demons.
And above all, like Mintoff, he is humourless and stupid.
Only a stupid person, a person lacking in real intelligence, would have done what Mintoff did. Only a stupid person, a personal lacking in real intelligence, would do what Debono is doing now.
In both cases, loudness, brashness and brazen, bullying self-confidence mask the fact of their low IQ. But a low IQ it most definitely is, and that is why Debono struggled through the untaxing law course and had his thesis almost failed by Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici’s father. That’s why Mintoff only managed to scrape a lowly third at Oxford.
They’re not bright. They’re loud.
I almost forgot another similarity between the two. Both Mintoff and Debono are spiteful, nasty, vindictive, ill-tempered, and bear a grudge against those they believe are their social betters, or those who they believe have had privileges which were denied to them.
Debono is not a Nationalist. He is the ‘made in a sweatshop’ knock-off version of Dom Mintoff, but luckily for us all, this is the 21st century and the Nationalist Party,and the chances of a horrible person like this tearing his way into the leadership by claiming that the current leader slept with his daughter, as Mintoff did to Boffa, are nil.
DEBONO IS A LIAR – HERE ARE THE TRUE DETAILS OF HIS DEMANDS TO THE PRIME MINISTER
Franco Debono is also a liar, like Mintoff before him. He claims to The Times that it is not true he asked to be made Leader of the House after Carm Mifsud Bonnici stepped down from that position.
He did ask for that, through a mediator. He also asked to be made deputy chairman of AZAD, and to accompany the prime minister and Simon Busuttil to their meetings with various associations.
He made another demand, one that is intolerable and cannot be countenanced in a democracy. It is, when you think about it, the very worst of his demands because it shows that he does not know what the role of the media is in a free society, that the prime minister cannot hinder the free press, and that he belongs firmly with the Labour Party, under whose watch The Times building was burned down, journalists terrorised, Opposition clubs destroyed, and press photographers assaulted. Like him, the Labour Party even in the present cannot tolerate the free press, or this website, or even me, and feels sick and frustrated at the thought that they cannot stop me legally or legitimately, because this is now a free country.
Franco Debono’s last demand to the prime minister was that he condemns me publicly for writing about him and his wretched mother, that stupid, irresponsible woman who brought up her dreadful son so very badly that the whole country is now held to ransom to his ego and his spite.
How can the prime minister of a liberal democracy do something like that? That is the sort of thing you would expect from the children of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, the Malta Labour Party.
Quite frankly, Franco Debono can go and f**k himself. At this point, it is most unlikely that he will find anyone else to oblige, unless he goes to Albertown and pays.
I refuse to moderate my writing or my views simply because a sociopath who doesn’t know the meaning of freedom of expression or flawed ego is holding a gun to the prime minister’s head.
To do that would be to give in to bullying, blackmailing and oppression, something which I have never done and am not about to start doing now.
There is no difference between ceasing to write about Franco because Franco is holding a gun to the prime minister’s head and ceasing to write about racists because I’m afraid they’ll set fire to my home again, or ceasing to write about Labour because they’ll be in power soon and heaven knows how they’ll seek their revenge on me and mine.
I wasn’t bullied at school and I’ve never been bullied in life. I’m not about to start now because of a ruddy peasant in a suit who got a free education thanks to the policies of the party he’s going out of his way to destroy.
The road to hell begins with giving in to fear of what threatening individuals will do. That’s how Labour was allowed to do what it did for 16 years. You have to stand up to dirt like that and not cower, give in or appease.
Franco Debono has everything to be ashamed of, but unfortunately, nothing in his mental framework allows him to know it.
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Well said, Daphne; you have hit the nail on the head.
Snippets from timesofmalta.com’s report this evening:
“Debono said today that his contacts with the prime minister yesterday, before the no-confidence vote in the minister of home affairs, hinged on Dr Mifsud Bonnici’s resignation from Leader of the House” – very clear.
On the strength of this alone, we know that the position of Leader of the House, already vacated by Carm Mifsud Bonnici, was a major feature in the discussion.
Therefore, it was either asked for by Debono, or offered by Gonzi.
“Dr Debono told timesofmalta.com that he never asked to be appointed Leader of the House” – OK, so we take it that the position must have been offered to Debono by Gonzi, right?
Wrong, as he continues, “and he made it known that he would not have accepted had the post been offered”.
‘HINGED’ on the position of Leader of the House, but neither requested by Debono, or offered by Gonzi. So just how the hell did that conversation go Dr. D?
Yes – he is a liar. He even lied on Bondi+ about something so stupid as his blessed mobile phone being switched off. Just as Dr. Gonzi repeated several times in his speech yesterday evening, ‘X’wicc jirid jikollok…..’
Thank you.
Amen!
What a powerful piece. His initials really do define him F**king D*ck.
Persons who speak dangerously, like Franco Debono, have no place in the politics of modern democracies. And he should have no place in the PN structures. He is totally Labour.
Is he really suggesting that the PM should single out an individual and attack that individual, in Parliament, the cathedral of our democracy which Franco thinks he is defending?
Or is he going to say, once again, that this is not what he said?
If he had an issue with what was written with a sense of humour and fair political criticism on this blog, then he should have sought the due legal process. Isn’t he a top criminal lawyer, a top student, a high achiever, biezel, and with an excellent Form 2c report?
Daphne, I feel like a coward because I do not sign my name but you are rendering a major service to persons like me who are afraid to speak out publicly, and your service is appreciated, and Franco Debono should know this.
I do not come here to talk about my suffering, but Franco Debono seems to think that he is the only one who suffers.
His suffering is out of his own choice, because he is a public figure and he is behaving himself like a form 2c schoolboy. Others have suffered politically in the privacy of their life for many years.
And Franco Debono is doing no service to those persons. He is indeed exposing them to the risk of Labour’s far right mentality by helping Labour score political points.
Wenzu Mintoff said on “Bijografiji” that Mintoff once tried to challenge the very rough sea of Delimara.
When everybody told him not to jump in, he decided to and he had almost lost his life struggling to return to the shore. He was badly scratched and bruised. It was in his destiny to stay alive, not that he is superior to nature.
King Canute move over. Big Dom is here.
Daphne, he wants to give more freedom to the criminal, but then he is trying to shut you up. Keep it up
So it wouldn’t have been enough for him to be on the board. He would have wanted to be deputy chairman. What a joker.
Not to mention the fact that AZAD is just not the place for him. Other than Simon, those involved are not politicians and are hardly people who like being in the media so Franco would soon lose interest.
Some would also be reluctant to define themselves as Nationalists. Not because they don’t share the same ideals but because they do not define themselves by political allegiance.
That they may have consistently voted Nationalist over the past 30 years or so is because the Labour Party hasn’t been and still isn’t a viable alternative.
There is nothing that this country needs more than a real alternative to the Nationalist Party but this lot certainly is not it.
At the very minimum every single person associated with Labour in the ’80s should be dumped. Until then they cannot even be considered. In any event if Franco were appointed to AZAD he’ll probably be alone as the ones I know who are involved wouldn’t stomach his ego and antics and would leave to spend their time better elsewhere.
One may think that this man is eager to give a contribution but it seems that all he is interested in is titles and being above others. How about making him Head Inmate at Mount Carmel – now that would be totally appropriate.
Franco is so Eric Cartman.
Franco Debono:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4jn77VKlQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H9SAzANXjQ
He failed miserably.
He failed his consituents who chose him primarily to regenerate the political spectrum in two districts where Labour expects to have the last say. This is just about him.
He failed Lawrence Gonzi who trusted him with the difficult task mentioned above as well as the numerous tasks and roles he was supposed to move forward. It’s a thankless job, the glory, as they say, comes with retirement.
He failed the country’s reliance on his judgement to see that a single seat majority doesn’t degenerate to this. We’ve been there before, no thanks.
He failed himself, what with his misguided notion that being obtuse and hardheaded is something to be proud of. Failure shouldn’t be sublimated in this manner, it soon becomes a one way street.
Franco Debono would fit perfectly within the PL.
The PN does not have the mechanism to deal with people like him.
It will never have. I hope.
On the other hand the PL is perfectly equipped to control his waywardness.
A short phone call or even just one wink would suffice.
After which, being yellow through and through, he would toe the party line for the rest of his life.
And wear nappies.
We need to have a word with Adrian Vassallo to understand what methods Labour used to change his attitude. Then we can publish the details here as free advice to the PN.
Joseph Muscat has just proved you right.
“Meanwhile Opposition leader Joseph Muscat, when speaking in Gudja this evening condemned Ms Caruana Galizia and said there should not be any personal attacks.”
– timesofmalta.com
Maybe Opposition Leader Joseph Muscat would first do well to control his own party’s newspapers who daily dish out doses of hdura, lanzit and envy at all those people whom they consider to be their enemies or those who do not agree with them on any issue, and be a gentleman and instructs them to stop this – if he does not, well it means he condones and likes it too.
Unless he works on two weights and two measures of what consists a personal attack. As if there are no personal attacks from the PL side – just read their newspapers or hear their news both on their TV and on radio stations, if you can stand the martrydom of doing so.
I do not consider your writings as personal attacks, just pointing out what is so very evident, also at times doing it with a touch of sense of humour but that I am sure is beyond their level of intelligence. They do not have a sense of humour at all, only a vulgar way of expressing things, but it seems they cannot do any better.
He can start with ‘Varist, a future minister, no less.
I am going to re-read Anatoli Sharansky`s “Fear no Evil”, as it has been a long time since I read it and thank you, Daphne, for having the guts to speak up.
He’s too afraid to challenge you in court because he knows full well that you’ll floor him any time, so instead he tries to use others to shut you up.
[Daphne – What’s he going to challenge me in court about? ‘Mr Magistrate, this lady said mean things about my mummy?’ It’s not an offence. And imagine the laughs in court.]
Cut the bullshit, Franco. The only support that you delusionally say you have is in reality only coming from Labour sympathisers wanting you to bring the government down.
[Daphne – Ah, but here’s the thing. He thinks he has support from within the Nationalist Party, at the law courts, and among those schmuck lawyers who have spent the last couple of years dissing him behind his back while patting him on the back and offering him coffee. I hold them responsible.]
The ONLY chance of you ever being elected to parliament again is for those same Labour sympathisers voting for you. And guess what the odds are of that happening.
I don’t care how you’ll vote on the confidence motion. Here’s my motion of confidence in you together with my vote in one sentence: You’re a worthless piece of shit, and the sooner Gonzi get rids you, the better it is for all of us.
Please Daphne, don’t stop with your articles. @ 4.00am I turn on my laptop to see your notebook.
PULL! Blam……hit.
Bullseye.
Brava!
I admire you courage Madame.
Take that, Debono. Bet he goes home and wrings his cock’s neck tonight.
A well deserved tribute to an “honorable” member of parliament.
“Meanwhile Opposition leader Joseph Muscat, when speaking in Gudja this evening condemned Ms Caruana Galizia’s comments on Dr Debono’s mother and said the prime minister should act to stop such attacks.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120531/local/yesterday-s-contacts-hinged-on-leader-of-the-house-resignation.422190
There, you have it. Franco Debono is so Labour. Or Joseph Muscat is so Franco Debono.
Question: why did it take so many months for Joseph Muscat to condemn what he calls “attacks”?
keep it up
Very well said.
And Labour stays the same:
“Meanwhile Opposition leader Joseph Muscat, when speaking in Gudja this evening condemned Ms Caruana Galizia’s comments on Dr Debono’s mother and said the prime minister should act to stop such attacks.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091011/local/unfaded-memories-of-black-monday.277047
Well done, Daphne.
Of all the demands he has thrown at the prime minister, the most recent one and the one with the least chance of success, is the one to shut up Daphne.
Clearly the little twerp has lost it completely.
The boring shit isn’t even amusing any more.
He’s the sort of thing that used to be locked up and poked and prodded with sticks for the amusement of the masses.
Too bad for him that he’ll never know that that’s exactly what the Labour Party – and his particular nemesis who leads it – has done to him.
I am starting to look forward to the next general elections for one reason alone – whichever way it goes, the senseless political nuisance factor that Is Franco Debono will cease to control the public limelight and waste this country’s time with the pettiness and irresponsibille behaviour we have suffered in the last year.
When Franco is not emulating Mintoff, he is having a go at trying to be Napoleon Bonaparte, his other hero.
At the end of the day, he turned out to be Donald Duck.
You forgot to mention that they both love cocks and grew up playing with them.
He said the Labour movement was growing because society was realising that it needed to forget the problems of the past and focus on the future. Labour movement? What is this, the 1910s?
And that is a smart play of words he’s trying to trip us all up in. Forget past problems? Sure, but not when those past problems involve murder and chaos, phone tapping and all the other joys of Communism.
Actually, Dr Muscat, the PN and the government have had the people’s interests at heart this entire time.
Greece is on its way out of the Eurozone, Spain might be doing the same, there is mass unemployment in the UK, and yet Malta seems to be floating by practically unscathed. And they have managed all this and still had time to deal with Debono and his blessed school reports.
And if the PL cared about the country it would be busy trying to figure out how on earth it was going to run the country when it gets elected and not constantly jumping on every opportunity to bring down the government and create instability, which they will then blame on the PN just for more brownie points just to get into power.
Muscat is a liar. He is hiding his party’s past because he knows he cannot justify it. He manipulates people to “forget the past” by creating a stigma against people who mention it and getting everyone to think that bringing up, if not Mintoff and KMB’s antics, his opposition to EU membership to name but one thing, is a stupid and unfair thing to do.
Muscat talks about “doing the right thing”. Well, Dr Muscat, why don’t you take your own advice. Do the right thing and issue an apology for all the acts of violence that your party and its supporters have committed in the name of your party in the past.
A past the people do not need to forget, they need to remember.
Why should Muscat issue an apology for Labour’s past crimes now? He can do that upon retirement, so that he has to do it only once and it will cover the past and the future ones.
By then, it would mean absolutely nothing. Why doesn’t he get it?
People won’t let go of that past, because it hurt. It hurt a lot of people, and that pain is not going to go away until someone in that party stands up and takes it on the chin- that would be a fine gesture for the good of the Maltese people.
Why should I forget actions that hurt my parents and ruined their lives?
Mintoff ruined everything and there are people within that party who are guilty of cowardice if nothing else.
Edward, of course I know what you mean, and I agree with you that justice needs to be done before those who have been hurt die or pass their pain to the new generations.
If anything, what I’ve learned on this blog is that there are many open wounds, and the mere mention of Mintoff causes so many different deep emotions.
Yes, we have a lot of victims of Labour’s political past, and we are still carrying the scars of it.
That past can only be closed if there is a process of admission of guilt, request for an apology, and forgiveness, correction or compensation.
Joseph Muscat should have apologised immediately he was elected as Leader of the MLP. That was the proper time to impress us that he really meant business when he said that the MLP/PL had changed and are now moderate, liberal and I do not know what else.
That was the right time but he decided to pamper the old guard who no doubt took great pleasure that they now have an immature and inexperienced so-called politician.
Ciccio: But do you think that having an amnesty in Malta on the whole thing would be possible? Would people be open to it?
etil, I totally agree. The point I tried to make is that Labour is ready to inflict that hardship all over again, on anyone who dares to disagree with them, after they win the general elections.
Joseph Muscat did not apologise for Labour wrongs, and moreover, he brought back the perpetrators.
An apology is not enough.
He must make sure that none of the old scum he surrounds himself with is out of politics, and that includes any relatives.
Edward, I did not mention an amnesty, and I did not mean it either.
The way I see it, an amnesty is like a forgiveness without conditions.
But I emphasise that there needs to be “a process.”
As you know, those guilty of war crimes in WW2 were subjected to a trial and processed.
However, such process can only be truly effective if it is done quickly after the event, and it must be short and focused, so that justice is done and seen to be done.
What we need is a process of closure and reconciliation – a process that should normalise our society.
Let us be frank – no one benefits from a divided society.
It is clear that if such process cannot practically be carried out, then the next best alternative is, as “me” suggests, that all the perpetrators of the atrocities of the past must be made to step aside.
He cannot apologize for the past because he is living the past NOW and will in the FUTURE, since he embraced the same atrocious Socialist policies of the 70s and 80s.
You just have to look at the mob he invited back and appointed to key positions!.
Brilliant article. Shame on the rest of the Maltese media for not standing foursquare behind you.
I admire your courage and resolve. Keep up the good work and show this nation the truth. Thank you
How is it that the Times always believe in what Franco says. Today’s report contradict what you wrote about the demands i.e that it was the PM who proposed.
Well what ever you cannot trust The Times any more.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder – Franco fits into every single trait that make up this disorder.
– Reacts to criticism with anger, shame, or humiliation
– May take advantage of others to reach their own goal
– Tends to exaggerate their own importance, achievements, and talents
– Imagines unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power, intelligence, or romance
– Requires constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
– Easily becomes jealous
– Lacks empathy and disregards the feelings of others
– Obsessed with oneself
– Mainly pursues selfish goals
– Trouble keeping healthy relationships
– Is easily hurt and rejected
– Sets unrealistic goals
– Wants “the best” of everything
– Appears as tough-minded or unemotional
more info in any DSM-IV.
Using bullying and harassment to silence enemies of the regime is anathema to the freedom and democracy you claim to be a martyr for.
This constant propaganda insinuating that anyone who disagrees with the PM must be mentally ill is worthy of Soviet Era politics. Whether you are directly on the payroll or not, you clearly benefit from this regime holding onto power and are becoming increasingly desperate to safeguard your privilege.
[Daphne – Sweetheart, if I have no power, how can I bully Franco? He, on the other hand, is a legislator with power. Secondly, I benefit ‘from this regime’ only inasmuch as everyone else does, from having a normal European life, which we did not have before. The so-called privileges I have do not come from any government, and I will still have them under the next Labour government just as I had them under the last. I am not the creation of any government, but of a particular family background, upbringing and genetic heritage. Deal with it. If you think that I will disappear under Labour, you are as mistaken as you are when you imagine that with Labour in power you or the likes of you will suddenly and miraculously become the likes of me.]
This blog entry often devolves into lists of mindless insults – ‘rough, crass, vulgar,’ ‘irresponsible, stupid’ – to the extent that it’s unintentionally amusing in its desperation.
[Daphne – When was the last time you read anything not published in Malta or Libya, Mr or Ms What? Or are you one of those people who makes a special case for this island because, at some level, you think that ‘we’re different’? If a politician can’t take the heat, he knows where to go and what to do. It is only in dictatorships and tyrannies that people are prevented from saying things that upset those in power. And yes, might I remind you once more that Franco Debono is in power. It is safe to say that he is the most (negatively) powerful person in the country, and yet you think he should be protected against a woman with a blog. Il-vera rgiel bla bajd, ha nghidlek. Sex appeal zero.]
I see you’re crudely insulting il-Perit again. I don’t think the backlash you’re trying to engineer (pardon the pun) will be sufficient to discredit your enemies or generate sympathy for yourself. You seem to really love using the word ‘Pavlovian’ but Labour supporters may not be as predictable as you hope.
Nevertheless, I trust you’ll enjoy many spiteful hours hunched over in the sickly glow of your computer screen filtering these comments, calling people peasants and deluding yourself that you’re still a journalist.
[Daphne – Girls from my sort of background don’t hunch, What. We have early and rigorous training in sitting and standing up ramrod straight. And I’m actually somewhere rather nice right now, but I don’t wish to incur even more of your spite and envy, so I won’t be telling you where.]
This is a keeper, for sure.
One hopes that gems like the one above will find their way into a collection of superb essays by Daphne.
This is not entertainment, this is serious business few can handle like Mrs. Caruana Galizia can.
*Reads article, and comments, and shakes his head in despair.*
I guess each country gets the government it deserves; and opposition too. Low IQ, loud, vulgar, ill tempered and bearing a grudge – you have defined the vast majority of the red-blue spectrum, Daphne. Well done.