I don't usually read the Orizzont, because its claim to be an independent daily grates ever so slightly more than somewhat.  It's not that it's not a daily, it's the other claim that makes me wince.

Be that as it may be, I was passing the odd minute having a browse, and I came across this breathless announcement, which I translate liberally from Maltese.

"If Gonzi remains Leader, he will not contest the next election on the PN ticket, Franco Debono reveals" the independent daily blared on its website.

Seriously, isn't it about time someone took a reality check? 

If Debono made this statement, then he is really living in cloud cuckoo land, because he has as much chance of being a Nationalist candidate as I have of playing in goal for Juventus.  

Hold that thought, he has even less of a chance than that, because conceivably I could be the twenty-second last person in the world, while it is utterly inconceivable that a turn-coat like Debono would be accepted back into the fold.

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