If Anglu Farrugia can’t even handle a debate with Simon Busuttil, how exactly can he be deputy prime minister and minister of the interior?
He can’t handle a straightforward debate with his opposite number, but then he’s supposed to be fit to be deputy prime minister and minister of the interior.
So the Labour Party has now said, through its stunted mouthpiece Kurt Farrugia, that it will only allow its deputy leader Anglu Farrugia into a debate on TVM with Simon Busuttil if the show is hosted by one of the following:
SAVIOUR BALZAN
GODFREY GRIMA
ANDREW AZZOPARDI
In other words, they want one of their own, to help their intellectually and orally challenged deputy leader in a straight face-off with his sharp and articulate opposite number.
They want Saviour ta’ John Dalli Today, that liver-spotted Labour lizard Grima, or Laburist Andrew Azzopardi to hold Anglu’s podgy hand.
Labour has now become a circus act unto itself. Perhaps Silvio Zammit, if he were not in jail awaiting trial, would consider commissioning Kurt Farrugia as a tumbling dwarf, with Muscat as the ringmaster and Frankie Tabone jumping through hoops.
Labour’s choice of individuals is an indication of what we are to expect on TVM when they form the new circus government on 10 March:
Saviour+ instead of Bondi+
GodfreyMinus
AndrewArriva instead of Xarabank
Oh yes, I almost forgot this bit: another condition laid down by the Mouthpiece Dwarf is that the debate is held on a Saturday night, not Friday, and transmitted live on Super One TV as well as TVM.
Is this an indirect admission that its supporters only watch Super One because they’re brainwashed?
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My question is why this now? There were no such problems two weeks ago when we had the debate between Lawrence Gonzi and Joseph Muscat.
They realised the mauling Muscat got was a PG version of the one Anglu Farrugia would’ve received.
But hadn’t Labour already agreed to send Anglu Farrugia on Xarabank to face Simon Busuttil in a program hosted by Peppi Azzopardi?
And didn’t they send their Great Leader just a few weeks ago to a debate with the Prime Minister in the presence of the same host?
Why are they back-tracking now?
If they cannot commit themselves to what they agreed with Xarabank, how do we expect them to deliver on what they have promised to the Maltese electorate after the elections of 9 March 2013?
Let me add to this that Peppi Azzopardi yesterday explained on PBS the communication that had taken place with Labour, specifically with Anglu Farrugia and the Dwarf Jester Kurt Coconut Farrugia, in the 2 previous weeks to get the debate organised.
If Labour lied and deceived Peppi Azzopardi and the PBS public, how can we have the peace of mind that after 9 March 2013 they will not deceive the Maltese electorate to whom they have been promising the moon?
Would you like the sun instead of the moon?
Exactly, Peppi looked extremely let down.
This is what happens when you keep giving these people chances.
Any self respecting journalist would also refrain from accepting Peppi’s exclusion.
We don’t .
I am a genuine floating voter.
I want to know what are the policies at the next election I shall be voting on.
What has Debono got to do with Labour policy?
Debono’s got a lot to do with Labour policy. They are both IRRELEVANT.
It-tnejn bla sustanza
Since Simon Busuttil’s appointment as PN deputy leader, someone within the PL has pressed the panic button.
I somehow feel this is all part of the PL strategy for the forthcoming election.
Create as much smokescreens as possible, so that people waste time discussing issues like the one we had yesterday instead of discussing more important items as to how the PL will reduce the electricity tariffs or how it expects to run the country in general.
“avventura” sejjhilha tal-bierah Anglu Farrugia. Bilmod hej, Indiana Jones.
Honestly, the Labour Party ought to have some diplomatic sense and send one of their representatives to debate with Dr. Busuttil.
If they’re unsure whether or not they have anyone brave enough to handle a debate, they really ought to get some new people, including a head leader, they’re just being unreliable and immature.
I cannot trust someone like Dr. Muscat with my vote.
I heard Kurt Coconut’s declaration live, that they will only accept to send Anglu Farrugia to debate with Simon Busuttil if there is an impartial presenter and he has three names who fit in the description of ‘impartial’ host.
My husband and I waited with bated breath for the names, but we were soon doubled up with laughter because Andrew Azzopardi, Saviour Balzan and Godwin Grima are anything BUT impartial.
Hello there! Where are you, Mr. Privitera?
I do not hold any grudge but remember that if the PN loses the election it won’t be the end of the world; they won the majority vote in this order: 1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2003, and 2008.
Imma habib, if the Socjalisti PL lose this time it will be the 4th in a row.
X’jaqaw ghan-nejk tal-Labour.
They wouldn’t have to resort to any of this if they had a manifesto surely.
Ergo, they don’t.
Very well said, bystander. The electorate wants to know what the political parties have in store for us so that we would then choose accordingly.
Franco Debono has nothing to do with all this.
Up till now he is neither a PN candidate because he has been expelled and as far as I know he is neither on the list of PL’s candidates.
Labour are demanding that SImon Busuttil and Franco Debono must hold a debate on PBS in the near future.
They are dictating PBS’ agenda while still in Opposition.
We can only imagine the miserable state to which PBS will be reduced during the next 5 years.
You’re forgetting another condition (what cheek) – Kurt Farrugia also demanded that Xarabank must hold a debate between Simon Busuttil and Franco Debono the following day.
He dictated this condition on Super One last night.
Anglu Farrugia should revive his pathetic James Van Praagh alter ego on TV as a lousy psychic who fails miserably time and time again.
It still would be miles better than debating with Simon Busuttil on live TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07UzTcApMI
http://vimeo.com/32408944
They’re putting conditions on free airtime? Are they NUTS? (No need to reply)
I was not sure this time about voting PN. After Labour’s gimmick yesterday, I am sure now.
How can anybody comprehend that after so much advertising the fact about a debate between the two deputy leaders, they end up sending Franco Debono?
I can see Labour ruining their nine-point lead in the opinion polls.
Do we want such incompetent people? They do not know what is right or wrong.
After seeing the theatricals from Franco on TV and all the degenerating of the evening, I was reminded of the 70s and 80s and I am not interested in taking any more of that kind of thing.
This thing really worries me. Did you ever hear the PN say that it will only participate in a programme on its terms including who the presenter would be?
Can you imagine having Xarabank without Peppi or Bondi + without Bondi?
How do they even come up with these ideas?
Can you imagine what will happen to PBS when they get elected?
aaaaa now I recognise him. I thought the guy had a moustache once. He is still the devil he always was.