Franco: the expected dignified response
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July 13, 2012 at 1:01am
Franco Debono’s response to being deselected, as quoted on timesofmalta.com:
“It will be very difficult for me to support a government where Austin Gatt is still in Cabinet, notwithstanding the Arriva and BWSC fiascos, and when Dr Gatt was the most vociferous in asking the Executive to ban me from contesting the election because I abstained in the Arriva vote, while he is pushing his assistant Manuel Delia as a candidate in my district. This is horrible in a democracy and unacceptable in a democracy and if they had the decency to resign I would not have had to go through all this,” Dr Debono said.”From an oligarchy this has become a dictatorship.”
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Franco does not know the difference between democracy and freedom, and anarchy.
You forgot to add that he was stamping his feet and tearfully screaming ‘NOT Ferr’ in between sentences.
All three got what was coming to them. They are not happy, no doubt, but true Nationalists are ecstatic.
A lot of damage has been done so I am not ecstatic but glad to see these three PMs humiliated unanimously.
They put their personal feelings, grudges and interests above their country and party.
Wickedly, they claimed that were fighting for noble principles while all along they wanted only to work out their personal problems and settle what they saw as old scores.
Final Result: Joseph Muscat 3, Franco Debono 0
1. Joseph Muscat became MEP three years before Franco Debono became MP.
2. Joseph Muscat became party leader while Franco Debono was not given an important post at all.
3. In a few months’ time, Joseph Muscat will contest the next election with a good chance of becoming Prime Minister, while Franco Debono will not be able to contest the election at all unless, of course, he does not decide to contest as an independent candidate.
Throw in the towel please. What a knock-out.
It’s a triple knock out.
Tghatix kashom Franco. The stork dropped you here for a reason.
Franco’s epitaph:
Miskin kemm bata
U qed iserraħ
Here lie De Bones of Franco.
Franco’s deselection is the straw which broke the camel’s back.
His psychological problems will now become more obvious and apparent, as he will not have an immediate audience where to air his imagined frustrations. There will only be The Times to fill this void.
He will defend criminals with more vigour and perhaps emulates Toni Abela by insulting witnesses and shouting at judges. Oh, I almost forgot – and paying fines.
And, of course, through all of the unfolding political and electoral saga, the PL media will heavily portray Franco, JPOS, and Mugliett as sane victims of oppression. As sane as the rest of the PL leadership.
As a whole, the PL represent an inversion of rationality; and the PN offer the only prospect [although under grievous attack from within and without] of steering Malta in truth and sound judgment in an international context of shared reasonableness within the collaborative responsibility of engaging reality.
Should the PL come to government, they will provide Malta and the EU with a disastrous carnival served with heavy dollips of irrationality, denial, and subterfuge, possibly mixed with unrestrained rage and revenge [and uncontained glee].
Of course, the dangers of this emotional recipe do not auger well for local [or world] peace if the PL should lose the general election: as they have been in a state of general warfare ever since Alfred Sant’s fateful 1998 battlecry against Dom Mintoff.
What we see in Joseph Muscat’s PL-clique is Mintoffian revenge and its hopes for ultimate survival and revival. The only hope for rationality in Malta [and to advert disaster] is to take a sword to the multi-headed PL leadership hydra.
If Franco did not want Austin Gatt to “still be in Cabinet”, then why didn’t he vote with Labour agaisnt him in the first place?
You know what it is aboput Franco? He hogs the limelight thinking the world is his courtroom, and people are all there sitting in there seats to watch him jester away. Once someone challenges him and tells him No, he whimpers away.
It needed doing and thank goodness it has been done. But I can’t believe they will take this lying down.
Someone else said this already somewhere else:
“Hekk, hu go fik, Franco.”
And this is precisely the attitude that got him kicked off the PN ticket. You’d think he’d learn.
Vera miskin because, like someone else commented earlier, with a different personality and a touch of ethics he could have made it to the top.
Franco must be desperately working out his vengeance strategem.
What will it be this time? Colluding with JM in a vote of no confidence in some minister or maybe the prime minister himself? How is he going to control his bitterness for anything that is PN and his lust to damage the party?
Let it be Franco. You have lost the battle. Your super ego should be telling you by now that it’s time to detach yourself and let go.
FRANCO IDDECIEDI!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120627/local/Franco-Debono-pledges-support-for-government.426110
Miisss, Austin Gatt hadli il-gomma.