Franco brings out his submachine gun and begins spraying the room before turning the gun on himself
You know, it’s a damned shame Franco Debono didn’t hit on the idea of a blog around three years ago.
Had he done so, more people would have discovered for themselves what only a few have known for all this time: that the man is seriously screwed up.
Up to now, when people like me pointed it out (because we had direct experience of it and weren’t making it up), others thought: Hmmm, well, they would say that, wouldn’t they.
They want to portray him as a psycho because it’s in their interests to do so, because he’s standing up to the government.
Now, through reading his blog, they know that the situation wasn’t quite like that. We portrayed him as a psycho precisely because he is a psycho.
Some of the things he’s writing, some of the comments he is allowing for upload (and he almost certainly wrote them himself anyway) are quite beyond belief.
He is in the realm of Taste Your Own Medicine – in fact, he is even uploading some of the worst links from that terrible site. But he is a member of parliament pushing 40, not a member of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti operating behind a cloak of anonymity.
He is mad and bad. To say that he is two sandwiches short of a picnic does not do the situation justice. He is not benignly loopy, but viciously dangerous.
Of course, the greatest danger he poses is to himself. He has wrecked his political career and his credibility, and his future is long behind him.
His behaviour now is that of a man who knows this, who has (metaphorically) taken a submachine gun into the crowded dorm or common-room and has begun spraying and peppering those about him because he feels they snubbed him, abused him, ignored him, or didn’t acknowledge his great value.
When it’s all over, and before the police arrive, he may or may not turn the gun on himself.
But in a way, he’s long since done that already.
His latest is that there’s no need for parliament to debate or vote on any more bills because we’re in the middle of an election campaign. Actually, we are not. The campaign starts when parliament is dissolved.
Until parliament is dissolved, parliament must work.
Franco Debono’s absurd claim is that there will be plenty of time to discuss these bills – which include the pressing IVF regulation bill – after the general election.
Really – and how so? These are bills in the Nationalist Party’s political programme, brought before parliament by the Nationalist government. The next general election will almost certainly see a Labour government, with a different programme and its own white papers and bills.
The incoming government is in no way obliged to follow through on the bills brought by the outgoing government. It can withdraw them.
Debono asks, sarcastically I suppose, what’s the hurry when parliament has been a talking shop for so long? The hurry is that if they are not debated now they will probably not be debated at all.
And if they were not debated before, because parliament was reduced to a talking shop, whose fault is that?
It is entirely the fault of Debono himself, plus that of the other hysterical member of parliament who married today after wreaking as much destruction as humanly possible. Perhaps he’s got whatever it was out of his system now.
Over the last couple of years, these two have effectively hijacked parliament and turned it into their own personal playground, a place in which they vent their personal frustrations, bitterness and anger, while the rest of us watch.
Between them, and aided and abetted by Muscat’s party, they have halted progress in parliament.
There should be a special place in hell for people who are this self-absorbed and neurotic.
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“There should be a special place in hell for people who are this self-absorbed and neurotic.”
No! No! screamed Lucifer.
FD is really unbelievable. He wrote on his blog “Franco Debono
Aug 11, 2012 @ 16:55:24
@ stephen :
i would have got the education I wanted anyway under all types of governments
most times i was first in class so no one could have denied me that. no mintoff or kmb.
i dont owe anything to anyone, neither academically, nor professionally nor in politics, except to my parents sacrifices, since i coem from a workers family.”
I was just 1 year older than FD at college. I cannot forget nights when my father, together with other dads slept at college because there were rumors that the college was going to be targeted by thugs. Cannot forget that for three months, I attended schooling clandestinely at a friend’s house because KMB closed church schools. At the same time, my dad temporarily lost his teaching job because he went on strike. Cannot forget how my mum cried when Kmb announced on tv that church schools could reopen.
Has FD forgotten all this or is he really that daft to think his 1st in class he could overpower KMB or his puppet master ? Kemm hu injorant? Ara b’min twikkejna jahasra.
I always did very well at school and managed to get a prize every year, I also ended up with about 10 O Levels and 3 A Levels with grades ranging between As and Bs.
Despite this, however, I still never managed to go to University because I lacked the Ghoxrin Punt, so Franco, you might recall the schools not opening and private lessons in peoples houses, but you were lucky to be young enough to miss the real impact of this, you were lucky enough that by the time you came to go to university, Mintoff and KMB were out of the picture and the Nationalist Party were running the country ensuring that MERITOCRACY won the day and not some sponsorship, so if you really are a Nationalist, just SHUT UP and be grateful that its the Nationalist Party who allowed you the education that you got…..even though in your case it has been totally wasted.
Well said. Both are vindictive people. They want to cause as much collateral damage as possible. They couldn’t care less about the country..
Franco Debono does not need to threaten his party , he is a threat himself with which the Prime Minister has to live constantly .
So , where does this all leave the Prime Minister, and parliament?
The Bills will be presented and if Muscat wants to be led by the nose by his ex-schoolmate, he will vote against them , leaving his party in an awkward position .
From what I see there’s nothing fundamentally controversial between the two parties on these two laws.
On the other hand Prime Minister Gonzi will be seen as a victim, who did his best in spite of Franco and his collaborator Joseph.
If the opposition votes against a bill ,the bill will pass with the casting vote of the speaker as we witnessed Madame Speaker Spiteri Debono do several times when Alfred Sant was Prime Minister twelve years ago.
Worst case scenario for the PN will be if Joseph’s Party gives a free vote to its MP’s.
All things considered we got used to Franco’s vicious threats and no one is losing sleep about them.
One thing’s for sure,by next December everyone would be looking forward for a Christmas without Franco Tabone(?), he won’t be in parliament, because it would be dissolved and Franco will be the proverbial sacrificial lamb,or scape goat, (stinking billy goat fits him better) if the PN loses the election.
Now I have to turn to the vernacular: Jekk qatt ma kellna ezempju car tal-qawl “Min qatt ma libes qalziet, l-ewwel darba li libsu hara fih” harsu lejn x’ghamel dan l-hekk imsejjah onorevoli, u tkunu tafu xi jfisser dan il-qawl.
“Throwing pearls to swine” comes to mind.
Gone fishing.
“The incoming government is in no way obliged to follow through on the bills brought by the outgoing government. It can withdraw them.”
More than that. When Parliament is dissolved, all pending bills are, so to speak, discarded and the incoming Parliament starts afresh. For example, if a bill reaches Third Reading, the work done to reach that stage will be lost upon dissolution.
A new minister would want to put his or her own stamp on legislation. A new labour government would almost certainly want to initiate a new process leading to an eventual IVF legislation.
As amusing as Franco’s writings may be, this is a very sad situation.
This is a person who is in a downwards spiral. He already got himself delisted and at this rate he will also get himself expelled from the PN. (Actually he has done more than enough to get himself expelled except this was not possible because he is an MP in a one seat majority).
His writings on the blog confirm that he is screwed up.
Elections come and go but the consequences of what he has done and will continue to do will stay with him for many years to come. His blog is making him into an object of ridicule. He is thus undermining his future and that of his professional office.
The saddest thing is that he has no clue that he has a serious problem.
The PN needs to find someone he can trust to talk to him at length.
He needs to be told why his writings are inappropriate.
He needs to be told why his fixation with school exam results is irrational and ‘meritocracy’ is about skills and tangible achievements, and not school results.
He needs to be told why being vindictive against others does not produce results – it only produces casualties especially himself.
Above all, he needs to be told that he needs help.
The PN should do this not for political reasons but for the sake of Franco Debono, for him to re-establish some credibility and to salvage his professional office.
So true and so sad. I am sure Franco Debono read the above but will it make him think about it? No, I’m sure.
HPD is a very serious matter. I hope a good friend of his will have a very serious talk about this comment above.
He definitely needs a proof reader before uploading his blogs.
That blog is like going down the rabbit hole. Madness is become normalcy. Apparently I’m part of the evil click too now. Where do I apply for some corruption money?
Why is this guy never happy? After complaining for years that nothing has been done, NOW he wants to wait and there’s no rush? Dan bis-serjeta jew?
“The next general election will not be the end of time, no?” It certainly will be for you, Franco.
You couldn’t have explained it better. Some psychos killed themselves after mass murder.
Others simply waited to be picked up, still hoping they can still steal some more media exposure while they ‘explain’ themselves out in court. Which way will it be with Franco?
This latest offering by Debono shows that he is seriously unhinged.
First he lambasts the government and parliament for not doing their work, and now his knickers are in a twist because bills are to be debated. The sooner this pernicious dullard is neutered and neutralized, the better it will be for everyone.
‘Which were the darkest episodes?
I think one of the biggest mistakes was not immediately accepting the result of the EU membership referendum.
Not the policy of being against EU membership, but the response to the referendum?
Once the referendum showed the majority of the Maltese people wanted EU membership, the party should have accepted it straight away rather than accept it after losing the election.
What about EU membership itself? Did you support it?
The question of the way one votes is always something personal. But in my family there were people who voted for membership and others who voted against.’
Chris Fearne on the The Sunday Times this morning.
He had just said the time of arrogant politicians is over, that we need technical people who know what they’re talking about.
So who’s mediocre?
Somehow he reminds me of Peter Ustinov’s Nero in Quo Vadis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EVZwTMmk8c
” A special place in hell ”
It might interest you to know that I have lately enquired whether such a place already exists.
Not only does it do so, but they also have a section reserved for Maltese politicians and their lackeys.
Unfortunately, there are presently no vacancies, so an extension is being considered owing to the large demand.
Doesn’t any future goverrnment have the right to repeal or amend any laws enacted by a previous government?
[Daphne – Government doesn’t legislate or repeal or amend laws. Parliament does. Governments deal in bills, not legislation.]
Franco Debono: injorant liebes Rolex. Egoecentric and threatening – somebody who thinks he deserves praise and reward because he managed to get a seat in parliament. He demands respect yet does nothing to earn it.
Ghandu ic-certifikati, r-report cards, u l-lawrija mill- Universita ta’ Malta. Jilbes hwejjeg designer. Ghalih bizzejjed ‘to prove himself’. Ic-chavs hekk jirragunaw.
“Until Parliament is dissolved, parliament must work”.
Good one! Is it working? I hardly think so.