The stylish and elegant rebel has brought yet another motion against somebody
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October 10, 2012 at 9:34pm
This time it’s against Frank Portelli – or rather, the as-yet-unsigned agreement for the lease by the state of St Philip’s Hospital.
Franco Debono should really draw up a schedule and number his motions from one to 20, so that things might move more smoothly for him.
At this rate, he runs the risk of embarrassing the Labour Party by association. It’s already happening, and Joseph Muscat knows it, which is why he dissociated himself – without mentioning his name – from Franco’s demands for an election to be called instead of the Budget presented.
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Even rats jump ship when it is doomed to sink.
1 to 20? I thought he was trying for 52 to be one up on Joseph.
He has presented more motions against the Government than the opposition has done. He should be ashamed of himself.
Dom Mintoff did not present any motion against the government between 1996 and 1998, even though he had many problems with Sant and finally voted him out.
The name Franco Debono has become the laughing stock of society. I’ve even heard children teasing each other ‘qisek Franco Debono’.
It’s been going on for months, ever since January, I would say. Children have picked it up and it has spread like wild fire. Cry-babies are referred to as ‘Franco Debono’.
Which brings me to something else. Do you remember that educational advert years ago, “Ha noqghod quddiem, ha noqghod quddiem? Le! Post it-tfal huwa wara.” I picture the prime minister and Franco Debono in that.
“At this rate, he runs the risk of embarrassing the Labour Party by association.”
Just today I was thinking how the PL always needs help from outsiders to get anything done.
Does he know that the lease agreement was voted unanimously?
Se jispicca jhaffer ganndot bejn Triq Republika u l-ufficcju tal-iSpeaker biex jipprezenta il-mozzjonijiet.
Ghad irid nisma kelma minghand Franco Debono rigward id-drittijiet tal-‘victims of crime’ ghax sa issa hlief fuq id-drittijiet tal-kriminali ma smajniex minghandu.
“When could it be said till now that talked of Rome,
That her wide walls encompassed but one man?
Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,
When there is in it but only one man.”
(With apologies to Shakespeare, our Parliament and the raging bull in a china shop)
A good habit is as hard to break as a bad one..
Now I understand how Debono will be remembered in political mythology. Generations of Maltese children will be using the expression ‘Qisek Franco Debono kemm tiehu ghalik! Hekk hu go fik!’
This is how these things start.