The Government has postponed the privatisation (properly, change in operation, they've been virtually privately-run for yonks) of a number of car-parks, regarding which the Opposition had presented a motion.

This did not prevent the Opposition getting all hot and bothered and insistent on an urgent debate of the motion, onto which, true to form, their faithful acolyte Debono had gleefully jumped.

So utterly, utterly urgent and of imperative national importance is this matter of how car-parks should be run that it has been deemed necessary by Labour that the nation must stop in its tracks and the question debated, even though nothing will happen before it is debated.

Do the Opposition think that we're all totally stupid? The only conceivable reason, from where I'm sitting, why they want this ridiculous non-issue debated immediately if not sooner is because they know very well that they will win it, because the motion has Austin Gatt in its sights and Franco Debono will be at his usual vengeful best.

Which means that we'll get another nauseating bout of "yah, boo, sucks to you, Gonzi this and Gonzi that", with Debono preening and prattling about how he is nothing less than Churchillian in his statesmanship, rather than being simply a pitiful adjunct to Labour's pitiful efforts to embarrass the Government whenever the opportunity presents itself

In fact, Debono has actually gone one better than Labour and presented his own motion, one of no-confidence in Austin Gatt.

Clearly, his raw hunger for Gatt's head will not be satisfied by mere coupling with Labour's motion, he wants it all for himself.

There was a time when Debono had the comfort that despite his methods, there was some trace of justification in a few (very few) of his theories, even though he rapidly eradicated these traces by the way he went about things.

Today, apart from Labour's Lil'Elves, who egg him on while laughing uproariously behind his back, and assorted people who populate his blog, no-one sees Debono as anything but a loose cannon, an unpredictable political bully.

Frankly, the PM deserves better than this, way, way better than this.