Franco Debono hasn’t done much for AD’s chances
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June 9, 2012 at 11:14am
Michael Briguglio, chairman of Alternattiva Demokratika, in The Times today:
“(…) the recent primadonna posing of the Franco Debono type and opportunistic manoeuvring by Labour were uncalled for in a context of global economic, social and environmental crisis”.
Yes, and those scenes also did AD’s chances of winning a seat a great deal of damage, as people watched – after all the nice talk – a coalition government, formed of a majority party and a party with a single seat, in actual operation.
And it’s pointless telling those people now that AD would never behave as crazily, irresponsibly or in as egomaniacal a fashion as Franco Debono.
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Bull’s eye.
Typical unfounded scaremongering.
Briguglio didn’t help himself by being so quiet about Debono’s insane behaviour.
People will think twice before casting their vote to AD.
Alternattiva Demokratika still exists? That’s very good news. I thought they had folded and gone to heaven.
Their perseverance is admirable. And I love their motto: ‘Think local, act parochial, love global, be provincial.’
Kevvy still exists? That’s very bad news. I thought he had folded all the clothes and gone to bed.
His persistence is admirable, (somewhat). And I love his motto: ‘Think ‘big’, act ‘small’, love yourself, be stupid.’
Sorry, but what a stupid comparison, Daphne!
Franco Debono is an MP elected on a party ticket which he decided to completely ignore and undermine, for his own personal reasons, once in Parliament.
An AD MP in a coalition government would have to first agree to a compromise legislative plan, then, if a workable agreement is reached, would clearly want to do his best to prove that AD is a reliable government partner.
Unless that AD MP is Franco Debono himself, of course!
[Daphne – It is not a stupid comparison at all, but particularly apt.]
What puzzles me, watching the Malta story unfold from afar, is why the PM and his team have held back on broadcasting this very point: that the public don’t want – and they definitely don’t need – the uncertainty and instability of an early election when Europe is in the middle of its worst financial crisis ever.
While Franco Debono, Joseph Muscat and their respective acolytes have been busy playing silly buggers, governments, businesses and financial institutions around the world have been preparing contingency plans for a complete collapse of the Eurozone.
Debono is quite simply mad, but Muscat’s behaviour is reckless and reprehensible.
Muscat is also too stupid to realize that if he had poured some cold water on his party’s urge to overthrow the government at this untimely moment, and rallied alongside the PM as he battled the economic storms that rage all around Malta, he would have come across as a reasonable, sensible patriot, with an understanding of the gravity of the current situation.
Had he just done that much, he might have stood a chance of positioning his party as a credible, viable alternative. Instead he has made it devastatingly apparent that he has yet to put aside childish things.
But then, I suppose, what should one expect from the man who considered it wise to establish himself as Dom Mintoff’s natural-born successor and number one hagiographer?
The nonsense that Malta’s parliament has been living through these past few months is crystal clear evidence that what the PM needs for his next term in office is a clear, absolute majority, with a margin of more than one seat.
The balance of power for the entire country cannot ever again rest in the hands of a lunatic like Debono, or the sole representative of a fringe party like the AD.
“Yes, and those scenes also did AD’s chances of winning a seat a great deal of damage, as people watched – after all the nice talk – a coaition government, formed of a majority party and a party with a single seat, in actual operation.”
Then don’t give AD a single seat, give AD a double seat.
Own goal.
You hardly leave anything to be said on this one.
At least they are honest about the truth. Now that is something we are not used to.