Oh what a shame
Published:
December 3, 2012 at 2:14pm
“This blog is heading towards its final days. I have much more important things to do than keep a blog. But I had to do it because of oppressive media in this country and a parliament that hasn’t got decent means of communication.” – Franco Debono
Note to Franco: it is perfectly possible to do “important things” and still write a blog. If I can manage it with a home to run and a scary work schedule, you can do it with neither of those things.
You’re not running the country (and you never will).
I’m not betting on you ever being the sort of man who changes nappies or brings in the laundry.
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It’s getting busy for ghost writers at Mile End eh? Bet they get a free mobile. tsk.
You’re not very far away from what i think is the truth.
His ghost writers are probably people from within Labour structures.
Franco has no-one left to criticize.
Most Nationalist Party MPs have been criticized by him for one thing or another.
It is strange that he has not found time to attack any member of the PL.
Last victim, Simon! Would you believe it?
Raising fighting cocks and bird-breeding are exhausting.
He can take up tweeting instead. It’s not late. The Pope just started today.
I like the ‘bird’ breeding bit.
“…it is perfectly possible to do “important things” and still write a blog.”
Not if you have to write the blog post and some 200 comments beneath it.
Good one.
Whilst “astro-projecting” oneself onto what one thinks are available women commenting on one’s blog …
He’d probably take a baby shitting in his presence as a personal insult.
There goes my preferred comic book …………….. :-(
It is much harder for him, than for you, to run a blog in English, since everything has to be proof read for him. Besides this, he knows that he is irrelevant now.
Perhaps with the high cost of living he can no longer cope with the demands for pay increases by his ghost writers, hence he is closing down.
Daphne I think you are the only follower of Franco’s blogs.
[Daphne – Definitely not. He’s very high in the rankings.]
I bet this comment by Daphne will feature in Franco’s blog soon. “You see? Even Daphne says my blog is very good, but.”
I’m a regular there too. My posts are signed as Trevor 80.
Today he is ranking in position number 69.
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries;2/MT
And if that is not enough, it’s just 4 notches below xhamster.com.
And Facebook is right at the top of the list – number 1. How shallow. I refuse to open a Facebook account.
I must admit I have an anonymous Facebook account which says nothing about me.
He should become a stand-up comedian now, his followers will miss the fun.
I AGREE with you completely.
He has simply realised that his 15 minutes of fame are well and truly up!
He becomes nothing more than a used toy thereafter.
A used, thrown away, and trampled upon toy.
I do hope Franco will read this:
Franco, I think you may possibly spring a surprise on us all – and heap coals of fire on our head in doing so – if you vote in favour of the budget and then resign from Parliament and from the PN (whilst please refraining from saying ‘Ha, hudu go fikom’).
In this way, you will show us all that some of your diatribes and bitter criticism were (possibly) based on principle and idealism and the final verdict will be : ‘ Franco wasn`t a bad sort after all – ma kienx mill-aghar sa l-ahhar – and that ‘in fondo in fondo’ he is a Nationalist at heart’.
If you do so, we will forever suffer pangs of guilt for having lampooned you for so long after every outburst of yours.
If, on the contrary, you intend to vote against the budget and against the Government, you will forever go down in the annals of history as a despised turncoat.
Franco, I do admire you to a certain extent. In the long run your contribution to politics will be more noticeable. I think Malta needs more people like you (with less self flattery). I am suspicious of ‘yes’ men in politics and we get too much of this in the LP.
Voting against the budget will not earn you anything but spite from the PN. Once elected, the LP will treat you with contempt and brush you aside.
I, for one can barely stand to read his intelligible rants for more than a couple of minutes, so I can’t event really say ‘good riddance’ to the idiot.
Unintelligible rants.
…lapsus
I can understand him and sympathize with him.
He can’t continue to write 95% of the comments.
His continuous chatting with Eddy Primavera is so boring, to say the least.
He won’t be using his hotline any more, with the Red Tower of Babel.
By voting against the Budget, Franco will prove that Lawrence Gonzi is strong and will not give in to blackmail.
Franco won’t be deciding the date of the election, that’s going to be probably on Saturday the 9th of March 2013, on the 10th it would be Mother’s Day.
Franco can’t decide the election date as much as he can’t change the 10th of March from being Mother’s Day.
With his vote against the budget he will betray all the PN voters who preferred him more than Louis Galea.
If he votes against the budget, from then on, he will be known as Franco Guda Debono .
He will suffer the consequences through the rest of his life.
When Franco coerced everyone to transmit his parliamentary (whatever) committee meetings live on the internet, I’m pretty sure there weren’t more than fifty viewers watching.
People take interest in this Russian roulette player because his behaviour is not normal.
My guess is that he’s leaving his blog because he’ll start competing with Pope Benedict on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pontifex.
Unlike Franco, Pope Benedict has a lot of time on his hands to communicate with his followers.
The truth is that he’s exhausted and now he has realised that his days as an MP are numbered and he has no time left to spit venom at his personal enemies from his privileged parliamentary seat.
People here and in other blogs I read say that in a year’s time we will be asking “Franco who?”. I beg to differ, ‘Franco’ would be a name which everyone will start avoiding – people with that name will be telling you: “Call me Frank”.
Truly, would anyone name his child Franco nowadays?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121203/world/prince-william-and-kate-expecting-a-baby.448032
Good riddance, Franco. You shall not be missed.
This is the beginning of Operation Barbarossa for Franco.
Poor sod.
My heart sank as I read the following words on my smartphone: “This blog is heading towards its final days. I have much more important things to do than keep a blog. . . . ”
I honestly thought that you, Daphne, were throwing in the towel and I was about to be deprived of my primary source of local news.
I was unable to access your site for a couple of days and I began to fear the worst.
He might as well stop the blog because it will fade into oblivion anyway just as its writer will.
Once upon a time there was a narcissistic fool…
And now, the end is near…
He should organize a farewell party … and invite us all.
The way I see it, Franco should be the REASON why disgruntled Nationalists should return to the fold and vote PN into government. Nobody loves a traitor.
I’m very active on Franco’s log.
I meant blog.