Mamma mia, unbelievable

Published: November 29, 2012 at 3:03pm

On di-ve.com:

I’m ok with Carm’s return – Franco Debono

“I was so much in favour of reconciliation that I informed the Prime Minister that I would not object if Carm Mifsud Bonnici was once more given a Ministerial portfolio following the acceptance of Tonio Borg as Commissioner,” Franco Debono has told di-ve.com

Dr Debono stated that whilst people like Austin Gatt and Tonio Fenech are out for blood and simply want confrontation, he wants to leave the road for reconciliation open and on the same day that Tonio Borg was getting a grilling by the EU, he repeatedly called David Agius as whip on the Nationalist Party to tell him to inform the Prime Minister that he would not object to Carm Mifsud Bonnic reforming part of the Cabinet.

“My bone of contention was that CMB was not to be given the Justice and Home Affairs portfolio, however I would not object to him being given any other Ministry,” the maverick MP said. He explained how he felt he should inform the Party of this stand as it was he who had backed up the vote of no confidence against CMB. “This also shows that I have nothing personal against Carm,” the MP said.

Franco Debono said that he recalls having these telephone conversations with David Agius whilst travelling to Italy in the same days that Tonio Borg was facing the music in Brussels. “This is totally consistent with my previous actions and with what I had told the Prime Minister in the past that I would not support CMB only in the guise of Minister of Justice and Home Affairs, and prior to the vote of no confidence I had insisted with the PM that I had no issue with Carn being given a different portfolio” he continued, expalining that his disagreement with CMB was strictly about the way he had handled the Justice and Home Affairs Ministry.

“In the light of Tonio Borg’s appointment as Commissioner, Francis Zammit Dimech was given the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, showing that someone had indeed taken Tonio Borg’s place and that I was not fantasising about the possibility of a ministerial portfolio being up for grabs,” Debono concluded.




38 Comments Comment

  1. Grosvenor says:

    Hawwadni ha nifhem. Typical Maltese, u-turns, dejjem ghandu ragun, hu biss ghandu ragun, hadd iktar; ihobb lilu nnifsu, hu biss bravu.

    No, not unbelievable, Daphne – not unbelievable at all.

    • Evarist Saliba says:

      Please drop the word “Maltese”. Franco Debono’s actions cannot be explained by his being Maltese.

      He is suffering from delusions which know no national boundaries.

      More apt would a confrontation between what he said above and the venom in the phrase “Hudha go fik” addressed to Carm Mifsud Bonnici after voting against him.

      • Grosvenor says:

        It is ingrained in the Maltese culture: “you are my equal so you have no right to be successful. I went to school with you, you’re the same age as I am or more of less, and I am as capable as you are.

        You have no right to have more than I own, cause I’m capable of owning as much as you have.

        And nobody has the right to own as much as you have either. It’s either ME ME ME or I’ll destroy you no matter what”.

        This is the well-known tantrum of the Maltese block head. I bet that nowhere in the world, will you find a country, so insecure as our own, so ME ME ME I’m special attitude, as ours.

        And if you examine carefully, you will find, that their problem is, more or less, with people their own age or perhaps slightly a little older.

        No one goes around throwing tantrums about the retired politicians who were successful / who may have not been. Nobody feels jealous about them. It’s their equals whom they’re so obsessed about.

    • anna caruana says:

      Typical politicians, u turns here U turns in Brussels.

      Politics has become the business of the day.

    • John Zammit says:

      @ grosvenor

      speak for yourself “typically Maltese” Who the hell do you think you are! If you feel that you are a cheap Maltese, be my guest, but to place everyone according to your measuring scale , makes me think how typical haughty and snob you are. I think you are joining the likes of dear old franco debono. Some never learn. Typical Maltese MY FOOT!!!!!

      • Grosvenor says:

        My point was to empower people to NEVER become like him: the Typical Maltese Villager.

        Never mind me. I’ve never been to school. I can never compare to him as I don’t even have a Form IIC report let alone a degree in law and a career as a criminal lawyer.

  2. La Redoute says:

    “I’m so much in favour of reconciliation” = “I desperately want to remain in the limelight and am running out of options.”

  3. Grosvenor says:

    Also, cause I forgot to mention the most important of all: No Limits.

    Imagine a car that has no brakes, it keeps moving uncontrollably, hitting what it may find along the way, crashing here and there, is dangerous on the road, then it crashes somewhere and finito – it finally breaks down.

    Does what I just said, remind you fo anyone?

  4. Grosvenor says:

    Then he speaks about his Form IIC etc. report.

    Will someone enlighten me… how can one justify himself with a Form IIC report, when one loses control?

    If a car loses control, does it matter that VRT confirmed it in good working order, that the manufacturer graded it as the ‘best car of the year’, that the model has been the most reliable since the beginning of its production?

    No.

  5. Leslie Darmanin says:

    This creep really thinks the world revolves around him.

    He actually boasts of sending messages to the Prime Minister advising him on cabinet appointments. Why on earth should the Prime Minister want to listen to him? Or to stretch the analogy further, on which planet does this Debono live?

    In any case, Debono is clearly desperate to appear reconciliatory. Even at this eleventh hour he is begging to be allowed back into the party. As you said, pity the PN did not take this stance earlier.

    Incidentally Daphne, ever since you carried a piece on Debono’s reaction to something I wrote on his blog, he has banned me from it.

    I couldn’t be more proud.

    Thank you.

  6. A Montebello says:

    What? You mean Gonzi didn’t even consider Franco Debono for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs?

    Franco, pupu, if you’re really quiet you’ll be able to hear the doors to obscurity squeaking open and see a withered hand beckoning.

  7. Alfred Bugeja says:

    Sure, he had nothing personal against Carm.

    That’s why he turned to him before leaving his seat and told him, “Hekk, issa ħu ġo fik. Ħa tkun taf x’ifisser tgħamilli l-ħsara mal-Prim Imħallef.”

  8. Candida says:

    Complicated matters. Calling the Prime Minister to tell him what to do? What on earth?

    Truly unbeleivable.

  9. pablo says:

    Having played the role of going first for the national interest in the Tonio Borg EU commissioner appointment, Muscat showed a temporary show of statesmanship. I wonder if he is capable of replicating the show by abstaining from a vote on the budget, thus allowing it through. An election is due anyway and a little more patience is needed.

    Such a move would gain him stature, be seen as putting the national interest first and foremost. He would also gain our gratitude in giving Franco Debono what he deserves – what the country deserves – namely the end of of his short but perverted political career.

    I have often fantasized about Labour finally becoming a clever organisation run by intelligent beings. And have always woken up to the same dire reality that it’s too much to hope for.

  10. david anastasi says:

    Me me me it’s all about me…

    This guy needs to get a life.

  11. Neil Dent says:

    ‘Hu go fik………’

    But it was nothing personal. No really. Honest.

  12. matt says:

    Typical bipolar behaviour. This man needs medical help – urgently.

    For Franco’s family: here is the telephone number for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota, USA. 00-1-507-538-3270

    They might be able to help.

  13. Busufu says:

    F***ing psycho! L-ewwel j***ik imbaghad jigi jwieznek ha timxi sewwa.

    Igri, Marija Madonna, nehilsu minnu u mir-rebbieh tal-A***hole of the Year.

  14. anthony says:

    Daphne, it seems to me that deep down you still consider Debono to have intact mental faculties.

    Otherwise I cannot understand what is unbelievable about this latest absurd, bizarre and grotesque outburst of his.

    To me it is very believable indeed.

  15. canon says:

    Is Franco already making preparations to start a new life in Italy?

  16. Peter Mercieca says:

    For God sake, get this poor man a doctor. Can we pool in and help him or his family get him the help he so obviously needs?

  17. Joe Azzopardi says:

    So you morons out there, you have to have excellent Form IIC reports and be an ‘achiever’ to understand that when a Minister resigns there would be a ‘ministerial portfolio for grabs’

  18. Alf says:

    F*** O**, Franco

  19. TROY says:

    This is the reasoning of a typical psychopath.

  20. labour pains says:

    So this c**t thinks it is OK to TELL the PM what he wants as if the PM does not give him what he wants, he will have another tantrum. “look what the prime minister made me do” What a wanker.

  21. Angus Black says:

    Sick and confused, pure and simple.

  22. David S says:

    Unbelieveit – as they say in panto

  23. Dr Francis Saliba says:

    When Dr Tonio Borg’s ministerial post became vacant it was not up to Dr Franco Debono to fill that vacancy or to give the Prime Minister unsolicited gratuitous advice who should fill it and who shouldn’t.

    Anyhow it is a great relief that Dr Franco Debono does not seem to have included his name in the list of those who would be acceptable to him.

  24. Rover says:

    Where I come from they would say that Franco ‘tfixkel fil-gid’.

    He had a lot going for him if he would only bide his time, like many others before him, and play his cards right. A few years in learning mode would have done him a world of good.

    Unfortunately he had no guidance, if not poor advice, and could not see past the tip of his nose. The result has been a complete and utter disaster and in reality there is no way back.

  25. yor/malta says:

    Even the scriptwriters of the English TV comedy ‘Yes Minister’ would have a hard time coming to grips with our Franco’s reasoning.

  26. edgar says:

    I have a funny feeling that this twerp is not going to vote against the budget.

  27. Stephen Forster says:

    I keep being reminded of the Warner brothers “looneytune” intro when I see his name!

  28. Gahan says:

    “I’m ok with Carm’s return” –I can read how a peasant lawyer thinks: “Carm is taking my clients, so please get him out of my way”.

  29. sos says:

    The countdown for Franco has started and he is showing signs of panic., in fear of no longer being in the limelight

  30. Claude Sciberras says:

    “A Ministerial position was up for grabs” this is the way this person looks at a position which is supposidly of service to the country…

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