Toadying up to the toad
I suppose that it is symptomatic of Franco Debono’s psychological make-up that, after colluding with Labour to bring down a cabinet minister out of personal spite, after his spiteful outburst was reported verbatim in the press, and after he has been roundly vilified in public and private by thousands of people including those who voted for him, he would go on record this morning in praise of those who, he thinks, are conciliatory towards him.
It doesn’t even occur to him for one moment that this is wholly inappropriate, that they are doing it because they think of him as the berserk individual standing in the middle of a crowded mall with a submachine gun in his hand, and that it is HE who should be conciliatory.
This man’s self-absorption and self-delusion are pathological. He seems to divide humanity into those who praise him and those who criticise him, those who serve his interests and those who don’t.
I am left with the impression that he will hound and pursue for years those who he thinks have done him ill, and that even after he has been removed, by the electorate or the party, from politics, he will viciously and obsessively pursue those who he believes have hurt him.
I don’t think it is only because they fear his unstable nature will lead to yet another tantrum in parliament that his colleagues in the Nationalist Party don’t grind him underfoot in public instead of just talking about him behind his back.
I think it is also because they are typical Maltese cowards, protecting their own back. They don’t want to provoke this individual into a personal crusade against them.
Well, that kind of lily-livered behaviour carries a far higher price, as we have seen.
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It serves little purpose to run Franco out of town and surely the ‘lily-livered behaviour’ will be gone as soon as an election is called. Kicking Debono out now will accomplish only one thing; an early election which results in an incomplete mandate.
There are Nationalist MPs who have spoken out and yet the press have chosen not to say much. Beppe Fenech Adami, for one, has quoted Franco’s confrontation with Carm Mifsud Bonnici after the vote and seems unafraid of Franco’s implied threats.
Yes, banishing Franco from the Nationalist Party would have been preferable years ago had the PM the luxury of more than a one seat majority.
This morning The Times reported that Debono will vote with the government in tonight’s vote of confidence.
And what about this gem:
[ But in a reaction to Nationalist MP Charlò Bonnici’s comments, who told MaltaToday on Sunday that the “doors should be closed with the keys thrown away into the deep sea” with respect to Debono, the rebel backbencher said that unlike Bonnici he had not been elected through a by-election, and that he had “garnered double Bonnici’s vote count on my own steam”. ] – MaltaToday, 4 June.
If you, Franco, think that garnering double Bonnici’s vote count entitles you to act like the insatiable selfish bastard constantly on the lookout for the next back to stick your knives into, how does that compare you to those who garnered TRIPLE your vote count and more but know how to bring about the changes they believe in through the proper channels and NEVER put their party loyalty in doubt and would NEVER allow their political opponents to use them against their own party?
Get lost, why don’t you?
“I am left with the impression that he will hound and pursue for years those who he thinks have done him ill, and that even after he has been removed, by the electorate or the party, from politics, he will viciously and obsessively pursue those who he believes have hurt him.”
At least, whether he shoots his hostage or not, he will no longer have that machine gun in a few months’ time.
“I am left with the impression that he will hound and pursue for years those who he thinks have done him ill, and that even after he has been removed, by the electorate or the party, from politics, he will viciously and obsessively pursue those who he believes have hurt him.”
I can’t agree more,
Some proof here, from the timesofmalta.com comments board:
“franco debono
Oct 25th 2011, 19:25
@ j schembri
are you the same j schembri that a few days after the last election had hoped for and predicted on another site that as a consequence of my election to parliament this country will have “a Lady Speaker and a President as a side effect of your unseating of Dr Galea and Ms D’amato.”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:om1t2iM2j-wJ:www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111025/local/Debono-softens-stand.390650
That was THREE YEARS earlier.
Thank God for pen names.
Ironically, I’m afraid of cowards.
People in our area don’t argue much; they express themselves with what they call gentle persuasion.
On di-ve news now:
“After a brief, rambling tirade about bloggers and journalists whom he accused of lying about him, Dr Debono said that the Nationalist government – which he referred to as GonziPN – needed to embark on a series of important changes. He said that the Opposition did not have a great track record of democracy either, and pledged to vote with the Government tonight.”