What the….?
Franco Debono, interviewed by The Sunday Times today:
He added that he asked the Prime Minister to criticise columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia because current libel laws were inadequate.
I don’t know what’s more cracked: his reasoning, or the fact that he’s not embarrassed to admit to it. So now, having the prime minister attack journalists at the request of one of his MPs is a substitute for the rule of law. And this, if you please, from a lawyer and self-professed reformer.
And then there are some people who can’t see that Franco belongs with Labour, who have spent decades, in government and Opposition, proving that this is exactly how they think.
And then, this:
He pointed out that he never apologised for his stand against Dr Mifsud Bonnici, although he never intended to hurt him.
Unbelievable.
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This man is completely nuts. He does not even realise that some people are taking him for a ride when they give him the impression that they agree with him.
The Times would do well to give us a break from this man because this is becoming like an unending soap opera. –
A good piece:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120603/opinion/Death-by-a-thousand-buts.422521
A new style of doing politics, yeah right.
That was before the late night meetings began, to be indoctrinated why he was put there.
The current libel laws are inadequate because they do not protect him against those in the media who have the balls to name and shame him and those like him for the dangerous people that they really are to our country and our freedoms.
Now imagine him, just for a moment, being anywhere near the ministry of justice or home affairs, using the powers of that office to push for amendments to the current libel laws to make them “adequate”.
The really sad thing is that the other patently incompetent lot are just as dangerous.
Dr Gonzi is between a rock and a hard place. If he were to kick one out, he’d be kicking the others in in one fell swoop. i don’t think anyone envies the PM right now; I surely don’t.
Franco Debono seems very Berlusconi-like to me, wanting to customise laws to suit his personal needs and desires.
Despite that, he has the brass neck to lecture about the democratic deficit of the country.
As usual you only get comments from the usual cuckolds singing your praise. Pah!
[Daphne – Do you actually know what a cuckold is? I rather suspect you’ve confused it with ‘cuckoo’.]
No, TCB means ‘kurnuti’, so cuckolds would be a correct translation, but way off target metaphorically. Incidentally TCB has diluted his/her comment, when I suspect that he/she intended to convey venom and ‘hdura’.
TCB here’s a little example to help you with your confusion.
Cuckold = Dom Mintoff’s brother.
Oh snap
Burn!
I feel sympathy for the Prime Minister who has to cope with Franco’s tantrums and his vociferous complaints. Good for Dr. Gonzi though, he’s starting to bare some teeth.
It is about time Maltese politicians grew a thicker skin. I hope Dr Debono learns to deal with journalists rather than try to silence them. That would be the end of democracy otherwise.
Dr Debono should feel flattered that he is the butt of your jokes. The likes of Dr Debono are essential in a democracy. I would be suspicious of a party which has no dissenters.
Who Franco Debono, trying to silence journalists? Try asking some of them who are called many times at all hours in order to make sure that his name appears on each and every case he defends and which makes it in the news!
Debono is never flattered when he is on the receiving end of a joke. He is a moron, self centred, narcissistic and to a degree, sadistic as well.
Today’s The Sunday Times editorial is pathetic.
Oh, come on – wouldn’t you be angry with the Prime Minister if he didn’t put your Form 2 results on the table of the House?
Taking pride in never doing the gentlemanly thing, boasting about it, and saying that he never apologised for his wrong-doing, is the absolute nadir in Franco Debono’s ingloriously brief career in politics.
His plea that “he never intended to hurt him” is an insult to the intelligence of his readers.
By voting out Carm Mifsud Bonnici, Franco gave the PN a star candidate they desperately needed.
One wonders when the PN is going to get rid of this clown.
What size straitjacket, Franco?
If I were from Ghaxaq, first I would be totally humiliated and embarrassed, then I would find some choice four letter words (not the nice ones, either) and tell you where you can get off, although I suspect you already know where and how.
“He added that he asked the Prime Minister to criticise columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia because current libel laws were inadequate.”
What he meant is that it is Daphne’s fault that the current libel laws are inadequate, and he only wanted the Prime Minister to criticise Daphne for that fact.
I couldn’t believe that Franco could stoop so low. The Labour Party is unwise to associate their views and votes with his. I doubt the genuineness of his apparent reforms; he seems to be using them as an excuse to justify his follies.
The Labour Party already has a Franco Debono in the making.
I believe that the end (ie keeping Labour out of power) does to a certain extent justify the means (keeping Franco relatively appeased).
But at this stage, I think the PM needs to show his true mettle and officially ask him to formally resign from Parliament. Franco will refuse, but will be eventually considered as an independent MP.