So this cheap, vindictive, ill-bred little man has no shame in admitting that it’s all about him and his desire for vengeance
He says quite blatantly and shamelessly that he doesn’t give a damn if Joseph Muscat, AST, Il-Guy, Anglu Farrugia and Debono Grech get in to run the country as long as Austin Gatt is thrown out.
BECAUSE IT IS AUSTIN GATT WHO HARMED HIM MOST AND NOT ANGLU FARRUGIA OR AST.
Christ, what a freak.
And note the most important factor of all: it is not removing Gatt from government that is important to this vicious little backwoods bastard. Gatt is not contesting the election, so he will not be in government either way, whoever wins.
No, what is important to this rotten-hearted, miserable louse is getting rid of Gatt himself, before the due date, in an ‘hekk, hu go fik’ gesture that is the equivalent of a flick-knife attack, and which will give his screwed-up little ego the satisfaction it needs.
A Monte Bello
Oct 08, 2012 @ 10:49:34
You presume to answer for Debono, and then you presume to speak for all young people, Polly? That’s a tad arrogant, isn’t it? I, for one have no respect whatsoever for Dr Debono.
Besides, the question is for Debono to answer: Where do you see yourself in 12 months time once you have successfully put Joseph Muscat, Sciberras Trigona, Karmenu Vella, Anglu Farrugia, Joe Debono Grech in a position of power. Where do you see yourself?
Franco Debono
Oct 08, 2012 @ 11:19:06
austin gatt will be out? it is he who harmed me most not anglu or sciberras trigona. it is he who has harmed malta in the last years. the others were all out of power
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It was clear from the beginning, almost two or three years ago, that it was all about him.
One does not fail to turn up for an important vote because one is unwell. In the real world, where meritocracy is paramount, and where meritocracy is earned, one stuffs one’s ‘illnesses’ and turns up for important meetings.
That is what meritocracy is all about.
It is not about being elected on a party ticket, with the party’s backing. If Debono feels he is so competent and so deserving of his position, and has proved his ‘merit’ why does he not contest as an independent candidate?
He needs the Nationalist Party – hence his desperate attempts at seeking to remove the obstacles he thinks stand in his way of getting back onto the party ticket. But the Nationalist Party certainly does not need him.
Ahjar jahsiblu ghal biljetti tal-pantomimi li hemm dis-sena, min jaf kemm il-privilegg se jiksrulu.
Now I have lost count of who exactly has harmed Malta according to Franco
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra must have had him in mind when he wrote Don Quixote. Here’s a quote.
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth.”
“What giants?” Asked Sancho Panza.
“The ones you can see over there,” answered his master, “with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long.”
“Now look, your grace,” said Sancho, “what you see over there aren’t giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.”
“Obviously,” replied Don Quijote, “you don’t know much about adventures.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
In the past 20 years (since I have been in Malta), Austin Gatt is probably the most important person (in my estimation) to have modernized Malta’s infrastructure (transportation and IT) pulling the country out of the pathetic legacy of Labour maladministration and into the 21st century, even if some now are still kicking and screaming as they are led into the foundations for Malta’s economic future.
Franco will never achieve beyond himself, no more than form II C, except for a sad legacy of self and social destruction by his abuse of Malta’s democratic institutions.
After this chapter concludes, the likes of Franco will probably never again repeat itself in the Nationalist Party.
Edward Clemmer: For the €50 million spent on the public transport reform, Arriva is probably the most irresponsible expense made this government after the new parliament , the “topless” theatre, the City Gash and the bridge to nowhere !
Most probably you never use Arriva and just rely on what you read in GonziPN’s BEANO.
Fuck off, Mr Privitera. Arriva’s bus service would have been poor in any case, because what you can never get into that wrinkly old skull of yours is that half a million vehicles in a 27 by 14 km island of 400 000 inhabitants is a non-starter. But that’s fine by you, because you are into Mintoffian nation-building, and urban planning is qabda nejk, right?
”topless” theatre?
That’s another Freudian slip if there ever was one Mr Privitera.
You are starting to sound like a hamster with a Viagra hangover.
Fuck off, Privitera. You’re really beginning to grate with your blinkered bitterness. It must be so tiring to be you. Always miserable, always bitter, always waiting for one more Labour government before you die.
Quite frankly, Mr. Privitera, I’m getting sick and tired of you and your ilk’s continual tirades about Arriva.
I have been using them since day one (when, if you recall, around 150 of your Socialist Neanderthals attempted a full scale hijack).
Baxxter’s comments were extremely relevant regarding the size of this island.
I don’t work for the company and have no connection whatsoever with them and I have never, ever made any comments to any media regarding their efficiency and, to be fair, sometimes lack of it, but you and Debono want a whipping boy in the manner of Austin Gatt.
So I suggest you bugger off back to timesofmalta.com and vent your frustrations there.
Dear Eddy,
I use Arriva daily, and because of it my car stays at home and I buy fuel for the car once a month, all for the price of a 2.30 euro weekly bus ticket.
I wish we [Malta] could get rid of the automobile. Public transportation is the only solution.
On the other hand, you are a prime example of why I could not exclude “the likes of Franco” from the (Malta) Labour Party–presently a hopeless case, as you have been for years. I have observed you. No wonder dinosaurs and birds are related.
I had to use Arriva last week as my car was in the garage for service. I bought a one euro fifty cent ticket and the same ticket entitled me to the seven bus trips I needed to take.
I started from Gzira as follows:
Gzira – G’Mangia (old bus fare 0.50c)
G’Mangia – Valletta (old bus fare 0.50c)
Valletta – B’kara (old bus fare 0.50c)
B’kara – Valletta (old bus fare 0.50c)
Valletta – Gzira (old bus fare 0.50c)
Gzira – St. Julians (old bus fare 0.50c)
St. Julians – Sliema (old bus fare 0.50c)
Sliema – St. Julians (old bus fare 0.50c)
If the old bus system was still around, I would have had to pay 4 euros for all those trips.
If I had to use my car, I would have had to spend money on petrol, which I usually don’t mind doing.
But considering Arriva is providing a very good service, I got the bus and only paid one euro and fifty cents for all that. I could have opted to buy a bus ticket valid for one week which costs six euros and fifty cents – this would have entitled me to go where I liked and to do as many errands as I needed, even though I enjoy driving my car.
Cheap innit?
But no one ever mentions the cheap service we’re being given. Instead E.P. comes in and bores us with his cheap opinions.
It-tgergir huwa passatemp nazzjonali specjalment ghax-xjuh.
Eddy, it was either Arriva or another hospital to treat respiratorial problems.
Carry on with your agenda, let the young ones see clearly what you stand for.
Edward Clemmner
That’s the idea, it will however take time, having a car is a fundamental human right on these islands. And, as has been made amply clear this week, occupying public space with one’s private property is its corollary.
The problem with Labour is its inelegant attitude to the material.
Aunt Hetty: My using “topless” instead of “roof-less” was not a Freudian slip, as you thought.
I wonder whether you got the name ” Hetty” because you get so ” het up ” when anybody criticizes your Lawrence Gonzi ?
By the way, I understand there is a “Viagra” for women too, in case you might be interested.
Allan : It seems that it is you who is getting frustrated. Calm down man, it will soon be over for GonziPN and his clique of evil.
Daphne says that she enjoys writing in her notebook. I too. So if you do not enjoy it, then stop. I won’t, as long as my comments are not censored.
Montebello: I won’t ” fuck off”. if you don’t like what I write, lump it.
H.P.Baxter: by now you must have read of Lonon Mayor boris Johnson’s comment on how he “LUMPED” the Bendy-Buses on Malta ! Austin Gatt’ Arriva has “Fucked us” , to use your own language. And you seem happy to be “fucked “, again I am using this term because you used it !
La morna, morna. There is no reason to reason any more.
What a vindictive bastard he is. May he rot in hell along with that other one.
What makes you think that you – with your hatred – will make it to heaven ?
What makes you think that – with your perpetual angry bitterness – heaven with you in it is preferable to hell?
If you are going to be in Heaven, I’d much rather be in Hell.
Me, myself and I…..
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001930/
In other words ‘Franco imqaxxar!”
And even more pointless as Austin Gatt will be retiring from politics at the end of this legislature in any case.
Franco is not very clever. He could have sat through the remaining weeks of this legislature, got himself re-elected, and then enjoyed five whole years of Gatt-free parliamentary life to his heart’s content – on the back benches, naturally.
Do we have a hint on why he hates Austin Gatt so much? Has anyone tried to ask Austin? I think that it is high time the people of Malta knew the truth.
Am I right to guess that Austin was against Franco being accepted as a PN candidate a number of years back?
What shall be unravelling in front of us in the coming days is definitely new to Maltese history. Here we have an undisputed mental case bent on stark revenge. Don Quixote at full pelt. Windmills; here I come. Full speed ahead my dear Roginante.
My personal view is that Austin Gatt could have done better only if he was not so arrogant both in his MO and in respecting the system that is there to avoid some of the howlers he committed.
That, in a way, is besides the point. Here we have someone who is simply cuckoo, someone who simply does not respect his responsibility in parliament and who is betraying the people who voted for him.
Why bother expelling him from the party? Let him stand for elections again and let Tweedle Dum join him as well. Let them suffer the humiliation of not being elected, of not getting any votes, of not being trusted by the electorate.
[Daphne – I don’t think you understand. Candidates who stand on a party ticket stand under that party’s ‘stamp of approval’. No party can give its stamp of approval to individuals like these, or present them to the electorate as safe to vote for. Not now. It would be a serious dereliction, abusive, even.]
I seriously think that there must be something wrong with Debono that is not immediately obvious to us.
I have this vision of him being taken away in an unmarked ambulance to a solitary confinement wing in Mt. Carmel. Poor man.
Let us pray for him.
Franco Debono’s problematic personality showed up from the very first week of this government back in 2008.
In its analysis of the electoral result, The Times had mentioned that ‘newcomer Franco Debono’ was elected to parliament replacing Helen D’Amato.
This cheap guy had the audacity to take it up with the editor, arguing against him because the newspaper had failed to mention he had also unseated Louis Galea.
Trid tkun mimli bik innifsek u mimli hdura biex taghmel xi haga hekk.
Jidher car li Franco mhux qed iqis il-konsegwenzi serji ta’ x’jigri jekk jivvota kontra l-bagit, forsi ghax tant hu naive u ego-centriku dan il-bniedem li mhux qed jikkalkula l-kobor ta’ dawn il-konsegwenzi. Inhoss li anke l-poplu ftit huwa konxju ta’ kif jista’ jintlaqat fil-laham il-haj b’azzjoni bhal din. Huwa aktar gravi li ma jghaddix il-bagit milli li jaqa’ l-gvern. Ghaliex jekk bagit ma jghaddix jigu kompromessi l-progetti fil-pajjiz u ghalhekk hafna impiegi tal-haddiema, kif ukoll hafna decizjonijiet ohra favur il-haddiema u pensjonanti.
Il-bagit qisu l-vit ta’ l-ilma. Jekk bagit ma jghaddix, qisek qed taghlaq il-vit. U x’jigri? Ovvjament jieqaf l-ilma.
Mela jekk il-bagit ma jghaddix l-ewwel konsegwenza immedjata tkun li l-gvern ma jkunx jista’ jonora l-commitments tieghu b’mod immedjat. Irridu nistennew l-elezzjoni tghaddi u jiltaqa’ l-Parlament bi gvern gdid biex l-affarijiet jibdew gejjin lura ghan-normal. Imma Allahares nigu f’dak l-istat ghaliex il-gvern il-gdid ikun irid jibda jahseb biex jitlob bailout ghax il-konsegwenzi huma fatali.
Dan ifisser li mhux biss jigu kompromessi, per ezempju, l-ftehim kollettivi li saru mal-unjons tal-haddiema tal-gvern, imma wkoll nistghu nigu f’sitwazzjoni li l-haddiema tal-gvern jibqghu minghajr il-paga. Il-gvern lanqas ma jkun jista’ jaghmel hlasijiet dovuti lill-kuntratturi tax-xoghlijiet li jaghmlulu jew tax-xiri li xtara minghandhom, u lanqas ma jkun jista’ johrog pensjonijiet jew rifuzjonijiet tat-taxxa.
Dan igib paralizi assoluta fil-pajjiz b’detriment mhux ghal Lawrence Gonzi u Austin Gatt biss imma ghall-dawk l-eluf ta’ haddiema u nies fin-negozju maltin, u l-familjari taghhom, li minhabba l-kapricci ta’ Franco Debono ikollhom ibatu l-konsegwenzi. Ghalhekk il-PM qal car u tond li trid tintrefa’ r-responsabbilta’ tal-konsegwenzi.
Hafna jiftakru li meta fl-1998 Mintoff waqqa’ l-gvern ta’ Sant, ma kienx waqqghu ghax ivvota kontra l-bagit imma minhabba l-mozzjoni dwar il-Yacht Marina tal-Birgu li Alfred Sant rabatha ma’ vot ta’ fiducja fil-gvern. Fil-fatt Mintoff qatt ma vvota kontra l-bagit. Kien jaf x’kienu l-konsegwenzi kieku kellu jivvota kontra l-bagit.
Mela tajjeb li wiehed ikun jaf x’jista’ jigri jekk Franco Debono jaghmel dak li qed jghid li jrid jaghmel. Halli mbaghad naraw x’se jaghmel biex jghin lil dawk li jkunu nltaqtu hazin tort ta’ l-azzjoni tieghu… sakemm ma jkunx diga’ harab lejn l-Italja!
This guy is not merely unfit for politics. He’s unfit for human contact in general. I’ve never seen such a lack of ethics and common decency in a public figure.
Sometimes I get the feeling that Franco Debono really hates himself. His words and actions are mostly harmful to himself.
Is it possible he still does not realise this?
Stop, Franco, before it is too late. You do not care about anybody else so just do it for yourself then, and stop.
Sounds like a play on the title of an old Anthony Newley film: Can Eddy Privitera Forget DCG and Find True Happiness.
Now that he’s crash-landed on your blog, can we assume it’s a matter of time before you give him a ‘guest post’ because he’s just about exhausted every avenue of the printed media?
Incidentally, among my junk mail today I received a tribute to Dom Mintoff – and promptly gave up after the following words of wisdom – to wit – ‘Evident in Mintoff’s politics and speeches were his Christian beliefs and the application of Christ’s teachings of loving ones neighbour and helping the poor and needy’.
A fitting climax to the end of a hard working day which I promptly relegated to the shit house.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121009/local/london-mayor-tells-tory-conference-how-malta-has-been-lumped-with-the-bendy-buses.440310