The Law Commissioner comports himself with dignity at Cafe Cordina
So apparently there was a bit of a scene at Cafe Cordina this morning when the Law Commissioner ripped himself away from his tuna toast to ask Simon Busuttil, who was there having coffee with Jean Pierre Farrugia, whether he had removed himself from his aquarium yet.
He has the personality of one of those male bitches who used to strut around Valletta with a flick-knife in their pocket, looking to pick a fight with a sailor.
A really suitable appointment, I must say. A hamallu (and an unbalanced one at that) for Law Commissioner, a hamallu for Speaker of the House…chavs rule.
And that’s a reference to their behaviour, and to nothing else.
These are typically Mintoffian tactics of Muscat’s – debasing important constitutional roles either by filling them with thoroughly unsuitable people or by leaving them unconstituted.
A long memory and a sense of historical perspective is a blessing in these matters. It is so easy to see that he is doing exactly what Mintoff did: weakening the pillars of democracy and democratic systems by debasing them through appointments such as these.
Under Mintoff, the speaker of the House was a man who plastered walls for a living, and the president was a vulgar and common savage called Agatha Barbara, who swore in public and prided herself on behaving as coarsely as possible.
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Unbelievable behaviour by the man in whose hands our Prime Minister has entrusted the future of our Constitution.
Joseph Muscat’s Second Republic started off on the wrong foot. This certainly does not augure well for the sort of Republic we will get. Malta deserves better.
And who needs a Law Commissioner when we are back to the Law of the Jungle?
Makes perfect sense to me. We have a Law of the Jungle.
That is why we have an elephant-riding Speaker of the House.
No lions in government though, just monkeys and snakes. And a prime-ministerial couple with the manners of Tarzan and Jane.
Min ghamlu mhux hamallu ukoll?
Hamallu int.
Mhux biss hamallu, imma hamallu giddieb, u dizonest ukoll.
Hanzir taqtalu denbu hanzir jibqa.
What an unbelievable boor.
And people fault Norman Vella for his treatment of the Debono interview for TVHemm. He should be lauded for keeping his cool as much as could be expected in the face of such a caveman.
I would definitely have ended up hurling my chair at his head if I had been in Norman’s place.
Simon is too much of a gentleman. I would have got up, bought the most creamy ‘pasta’ and slammed it in Franco’s face.
And then we get Lino Spiteri in today’s Times saying that this “controversy (over Franco’s appointment) was unwarranted”. And he continues inter alia ” the Government will certainly ensure things are done properly”. Apparently he is not au courant with the earthquake that Joseph promised.
The government? It is the Law Commissioner himself who should be capable of doing things properly. Toddlers who need supervision have not place in positions of responsibility.
It’s almost April’s Fools Day, this year dedicated to those who believed the slogan Malta Taghna lkoll.
And let us not forget that April 1 is the real Jum il-Helsien – li tant ihobbu. The British forces left Malta on April 1 and not on March 31, hence their Freedom Day should actually coincide with April’s Fool.
It seems to me that Joseph muscat is striving to change Malta to a banana repulic.
Respect
http://www.taghnalkoll.com/?p=271
The Prime Minister has planted the seeds of his own destruction in choosing Franco Debone for the role of Law Commissioner.
I can only assume that he has done so to depict the opposition as still being at war with itself. This was a decision firmly rooted in divide and rule politics which is hugely at odds with assurances of wanting to eradicate division.
Wanting to work with anyone now simply translates as wanting to be surrounded by ‘yes men’.
And would you think that Franco is a yes man?
I am waiting for the honeymoon period to be over and see what happens. With a personality like Franco’s I would not be surprised that he will create another earthquake. And then they will say that he is still relevant.
We just have to wait and see.
Still just the dorky prick back in the school playground. What an idiot.
Still he’ll ‘keep good relations’, just joking, honestly, please.
A miserable failure who can’t let go of the PN.
Why did this unbalanced bully pick on Simon and not on someone the calibre of Austin ?
Franco back to being an asset for PN
Did Franky ask Simon with his mouth full ?
Imsieken ! Ahfrilhom O Sinjur, ghax ma jafux x’inhuma jghidu !!!
X’lahqek Joey lilek, Eddy?
Kummisarju tal-lokijiet?
Tghidlux Joey, ghax miskin ma jifhmikx – ghidlu Pinocchio – izjed jifhmek.
F*ck off, Privy
Ahfrilhom O Mulej lil – tal-muviment – ghax altru li jafu x’inhuma jaghmlu.
U henn ghalina ghax lanqas nafu l-gwaj li se nkunu fih. Amen.
Forgive Privy, he had a typo, he meant:
ghax ma jafx x qed jaghmel”
Boycott the bastard!
Possibbli ma hemm hadd minn dawk li riedu kappriccozament jippruvaw l-PL u ga qed ihossumhom deluzi, li lest jikteb hsibijietu fuq is-sitwazzjoni? Nixtieq naf kif qed ihossuhom issa li qed jidher li l-PL ma nbidel xejn.
Tghid mhux se jammettu li ghamlu zball?
U fuq kollox, hemm primadonna Privitera jaqbez ghall-gvern ‘taghna lkoll’.
Bil-mistħija probbabilment marru jinħbew!
Mintoff was called a traitor by Alfred Sant for voting against his party but Mintoff did not cross over like Franco did.
Also he never got a Eur24,000 euro part-time as a reward from the Nationalist government. What then, should Franco be called?
Dottore
della minkia.
Guda
Eh, imma Guda 30 bicca tal-fidda biss ha, mhux 24,000 ewro. U Guda tahomlhom lura u ddispjacih.
Which proves only that the Hon. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and Dr Franco Debono, between them, have outclassed the Sanhedrin and Judas. Nothing to be proud of.
And went to Potter’s Field to do the decent thing.
@sowerberry
It was only the original Judas (not any local copycat) who was so remorseful and ashamed of his wicked betrayal that he hanged himself (not a decent thing to do) and not before he returned his “thirty pieces of silver” which were then put to better social use by acquiring the Potter’s Field for use as a burial ground for foreigners since it was the price of blood and unfit to be accepted back in the treasury.
There is no hint that any local Judas, or his paymaster, intend to divert any returned blood money for a socially beneficial purpose in the general interest of Malta’s society.
An even more appropriate question would be, ‘what should Joseph Muscat be called?’
“Under Mintoff, the speaker of the House was a man who plastered walls for a living”. Your such a snob!!
[Daphne – Don’t be idiotic. It’s got nothing to do with snobbery. I’d say the same if the roles were reversed and the Speaker of the House were employed to plaster walls, something about which he knows nothing. The difference is that situation is not of national concern, and the present one is. Disapproval of a plasterer being made Speaker is not to do with snobbery but it’s about fitness for purpose. The role of Speaker is specialised.]
Hsibtha gejja din.
Issa meta tmur Mater Dei, ghaziz Zanzi, itlob biex minflok tabib jarak il-plumber.
Ghax ahna m’ahniex snobs u kullhadd ghandu dritt ghall-opinjoni, heqq, mhux hekk.
I have lived in Soho London for 36 years now and have experienced the the UK’s NHS first hand from A&E on Saturday night in deepest ‘Sarf’ London to Chelsea and Westminster for treatment, in comparison Mater Dei offers a better service.
Go and play with your model airplanes
Perfect and most appropriate reply.
Zanzi, you really are unbelievably stupid. You understood nothing of my reply.
Soho? It figures.
Zanzi,
“Mater Dei Hospital” offers a better service than you obtained in London because MDH is staffed by competent doctors giving medical treatment in an ideal environment not by plasterers doing the work of speakers of the House of Parliament.
Zanzi,
“Mater Dei Hospital” offers a better service than you obtained in London because MDH is staffed by competent doctors doing a doctor’s job in an ideal environment not by plasterers doing the work of speakers of the House of Parliament.
To be appointed speaker of the house is not a right, but a privilege, same if you are a notary, same if you are a lawyer, so the argument here boils down to the right to fly a commercial plane and then learn to pilot it?
Speaker li la kien jara u l-inqas jisma l-appelli tal-oppozizzjoni. Qisu ma tkellem hadd.
Oh, things will sort themselves out. On their own.
An administration that doesn’t know whether it’s coming or going in charge at a time when sh*t will hit the fan soon.
Why do you think Schauble summoned our eminent professor for a meeting with the Cypriot finance minister? So that Scicluna could have his five minutes of fame in the local papers?
Our banking deposits to GDP ratio is even higher than the Cypriots’.
And beneath the veneer of plastic smiles and stupid jibes, Labour is already panicking. Look at the permanent secretary they kept on: Alfred Camilleri, the one at the Finance Ministry.
It will be a bloody mess, but in the end this lot will be imploring the Nationalists to come back.
Dr Franco Debono’s appointment as Commissioner of Laws and coordinator of constitutional reforms is an unforgivable insulting slap to the face of the whole nation, not the least to the Labour Party itself. He callously mocked that party for months on end by the tantalizing prospect of prematurely bringing down a Nationalist Party government. He devoted those months to wreaking vengeance on opponents but refrained from accommodating the Labour Party until this was a futile gesture near the end of the legislature.
This recompense for that evil deed is strongly reminiscent of the “thirty pieces of silver” paid to Judas Iscariot, two millennia ago for betraying his Master. It exposes the deception of the slogan “Malta Taghna Lkoll” and it should spell out the death knell of any hope for the birth of any “second” republic that would need the support of a Nationalist Party insulted so atrociously and without provocation.
What was Joseph Muscat thinking when he appointed Franco Debono to such a delicate position? One which requires finesse and diplomacy, characteristics that F. Debono has not demonstrated, if he has any.
My guess is that he was thinking many other things rather than the requirements you indicate.
And, for goodness sake, do not ever expect that Ghaxaq irrelevent non-entity to demonstrate them any time in his life.
He can’t – simply because he does not have any!
Verbally agressive behavour supported by intimidating physical conduct towards an opposing politician in full public view is only the beginning.
The people fuelling these uncivilised and undemocratic actions have the authority of the Prime Minister of Malta. We have worse to come.
The PN should state up front that it will in no way cooperate with FD in his new posts; the word that comes to mind is “ostracise”, politically, professionally, socially, in whatever way.
How long do you think Judge Giovanni Bonello will last in his dealings with the Ghaxaq wunderkid? What will the judge make of the ever ringing smartphone, even when switched off?
Franco Debono has already told Judge Bonello that he cannot interepret his own judgments. It will be interesting to see what’s coming.
You forgot to mention that the prime minister himself has no integrity at all, like his idol – Mintoff, he is simply a dishonest liar.
Shall one say “Amen” to that? History will tell!
The TRAITOR as the Commisioner of Law and the BETRAYED as Speaker of the House. New season of Days of Our Lives.
So a run-of-the-mill story of a drug addict sentenced to jail makes the news at the ‘Times of Malta’ but Franco Debono bullying Simon Busuttil in a public place goes unnoticed.
Mabel is turning in her grave at the levels of incompetence and bias which HER Times of Malta has fallen to.