Good God. Somebody please slip a Xanax into his tuna toast
Franco Debono is on a roll. Now he’s decided to tell us The Truth about what happened when he made a giant scene at the entrance to the Isle of MTV concert.
ISLE OF MTV EP[SODE WAS MARIO DEMARCO’S FAULT
Let me say something which I have never said till now. Ex minister Michael Falzon raised the issue somewhere recently without obviously knowing the truth about the matter. I did not need to be elected to Parliament to attend the Isle of MTV since the previous year I had already attended.
But in 2008 a few weeks after being elected to Parliament as government’s youngest mp I asked Mario Demarco, as Tourism Minister for two tickets for the Isle of MTV. Mhux biss qalali qalbi jghaddini biz-zmien ghal gimghat!
MICHAEL FALZON who has raised again the issue recently please note this now :
MARIO DEMARCO GAVE TICKETS TO MPs even to LABOUR MPs but he didnt give me any! So when I tried to go in I was directed to another place. No one likes to feel humiliated. X’tahseb Michael? Why were Labour mps given MTA tickets whilst I wasn’t? And please note there was a number of other mps too. I wasnt the only one to attend. It was humiliating to be directed to a different section to that where the other mps were!
A simple MTA ticket an mp was entitled to is not a cabinet post! And I wasnt the one to make this episode public but I have to defend myself from falsities.
I never spoke about this episode before today, but enough is enough I think .. .I really wished to keep this to myself, notwithstanding the unfair criticism, and due to the respect I have for mario and even more to his sister, who is one of the most exquisite people I have ever known, but am afraid I must defend myself .. .Since then I have had an excellent rapport with Mario, who I repute as a gentleman.
After this kummiedja the whole procedure changed and it became more formal, because they realissed they had committed a big gaffe.
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Why get Digital TV to watch Days of our Lives when you can read Franco’s blog?
If he had some sense of perspective, he wouldn’t bring this up again.
Seriously, I think he needs help.
”MARIO DEMARCO GAVE TICKETS TO MPs even to LABOUR MPs but he didnt give me any!”
Ahhhhhhhhhh! Kemm bata dak il-povru tifel! X’ kalvarju ghaddewh minnu dawk il-hodor tal-klikka.
Boy, this man is seeing that many people are visiting his site and he’s
over the moon. Overwhelmed by joy, he is very obviously
not realizing that we are not impressed by his claims that he does not
kowtow to the “oligarchy”, but by the unintentional self-revelations which
enable us to understand that he has probably reached the point of no
return, and that when he himself will finally open his eyes he will
scream and shout, and tear his hair out, cursing the day he started this folly.
Eventually, it’ll die out. I think we are overdoing it. But it is
neither here nor there. What really matters is the ability of
our MP to fulfill his duty. One has to wonder. We have
unintentionally revealed a disturbing truth. Given Debono’s
garrulous replies to the smallest of questions, we perhaps
have uncovered the tip of the iceberg.
Could it be that there are others? Could it be that years of
overblown deference to our MPs has led to this? I do not
doubt that if others were in the spotlight, they would behave
entirely in the same way. Let this be a lesson to us all. I am
sure that some good can come out of this, godbless.
Good point, HP. You might be right (again). You make me think:
indeed it really might be our fault, we fed them the belief that
vox populi, vox dei, that they’re some sort of gods and what not,
inducing them to behave as such. Yet, while I do sincerely take
note of your intelligent observation, I must elicit from you a
guileless reply: what are we to do?
Undertake to keep them in check, appealing to the Guardian of the Constitution, the
President of the Republic? Or contrive other ways and means
?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Xh_9o8KaE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q855DlynEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAdadEzBjX8
And of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Simple. Each party seriously and rigorously vets each candidate, no nepotism, no nothing. Evaluate merit, intelligence and political philosophy by unbiased adjudicators of each party.
OK, impossible on the Rock, too small, too close, too entwined.
Thus, we stagger along with what we’ve got. A relatively sorry bunch of present and wannabe MP’s, mostly interested in their own potential ‘riches’.
I hasten to add that not all are assigned to this boat. However, if the electorate does not clean up the majority of this sory bunch, we are doomed.
Kemm huma hodor tal-klikka ma tawhx ticket ghal-isle of MTV!!
Kompli kellimhom Franco u urihom li int ragel ta stoffa…….
Franco does not realize that those who are writing on his block are doing so just for fun. Also he is writing many comments himself.
I think that Franco is becoming obsessed with the present situation that he has brought himself in.
I understand that he is very happy with his achievements but to continuously bring up the subject it is very boring to say the least.
Many Maltese are high acheivers and are making a name for themselves abroad. So Franco must join them if he thinks so high of himself. He is wasted here.
Imma da bis-serjeta? Isle of MTV as well?!
He will be complaining about traffic lights spitefully turning red on him next.
Why should MPs have priority passes to the event? They are our servants not our masters.
They are servants. So they claim everything on the social services. Mintoff invented the welfare state. It must be why he did more good than bad.
Doesn’t he know that in such instances the best thing to do is leave without making a fuss,because if he makes a scene then people will laugh at him and not say ‘ghandu ragun’.
And another thing: what kind of MP goes to isle of MTV? A true man will go to Roger Waters the Wall live or U2 live 360 degreee tour. Imma dawk expensive ahjar free l-Isle of MTV.
Someone who tries to gate-crash any event (he says he had no ticket) deserves all the public humiliation he gets.
Franco, education, sometimes, is a static system.
Further to what I told you yesterday, I need to add that in order to survive, you also have to adapt. Adapt to quicker changing things that you probably will not be able to enforce with your ‘academic background’ alone.
You have to give freedom to people. Such as freedom of expression and to leave it to them to do as they wish. That is if you wish to survive.
Ghandu ragun. Mhux sew MP jigi umiljat b’tali mod li jintbaghat mal-bqija tal-proxmu. Besides, The Bono is not just an MP, as we know…
Tafu fejn ipoggi bit-tickets The Marku, forsi nakkwista tnejn, ghalija u ghal Gigi Cane (a.k.a. as Gigi McCain)?
And I was under the impression that Lady Gaga was at the Isle of MTV in the Summer of 2009 not in that of 2008.
So it’s all clear now and we know who really carried out the 911 plot.
Possibli dan il-high acheiver, kemm hu patetiku, miskin, ghadu ma xebghax jaqa’ ghan-nejk u kulhadd jghaddieh biz-zmiem u hu jiehu pjecir.
Franco is getting his Manglish confused again. When he said he was the government’s ‘youngest’ MP, what he probably meant was infantile.
I think, now knowing Franco’s memtality, he is being given too much space (and importance in his eyes). Leave him alone – he does not deserve any better. I am more than sure that he was waiting with bated breath to hear Gonzi (in his Independence Day speech) to mention him at least ony once – but Gonzi, God Bless him, would not give him the slightest importance. That is how it should be by all those who contribute to this blog – thank you for listening.