“Up in smoke” should have been the site’s name.
http://vimeo.com/14720323

When Joe Azzopardi created Xarabank. Back in – when was it, 1992? 1993?

The EU solidarity is very evident. At the moment it is helping get rid of Gaddafi. It is our government that isn’t showing solidarity.

And before we start claiming that the EU started it by not helping us out with the immigrants, may I remind you that illegal immigration is NOT only Malta’s problem. It is a problem found everywhere.

It is not leverage.

So can we stop acting like a bunch of babies crying “it’s not fair” while we totally blinker ourselves off to the problems of everyone else. That’s the problem in this country- we all think we’re something.

What’s even worse is that people believe that because Malta isn’t backing the coalition in any way, they think it’s a great “that will teach you to ignore us” move on our part, and that now the EU is going to feel so sorry about it all and ‘unburden us’ of all illegal immigrants.

The total opposite is more likely: You act like Gaddafi’s secret agents, you don’t back our efforts, you stay out of it all, and now you demand that we come to YOUR aid? No.

And we had better get used to it if this is how this country is going to be run and represented.

But you have to admit that the EU isn’t helping either and that’s why the ire of these people against the EU.

Where is the EU solidarity they preach so much about.

The EU is leaving Italy and Malta alone to tackle the problems. I only hope that the Maltese government has enough spine to do what the italians will be doing… granting travelling visas to EU countries and sending the illegal immigrants to where they WANT to go.

[Daphne – Stop talking about the EU as though it is a foreign entity. Malta has been PART of ‘the EU’ for the last seven years. The EU member state with the biggest immigration problem is the United Kingdom. That’s because it’s the very place where all the people who enter Europe illegally want to end up, because it is so easy to disappear there and because its social services are so good. The next on the list is France, mainly because it is the through-port for Britain. People make their way overland to France en route to Britain and then get stuck there, waiting to smuggle themselves across the channel. There are makeshift camps on the coast, full of young men waiting to strap themselves to the undercarriage of some truck, or get into the back of a lorry. And they don’t include only the ones who enter Europe by sea through Spain, Malta, Italy and Greece – but also the ones who come in overland from the Middle East and south-east Asia. Lots of Chinese are smuggled in, for instance. Perhaps if Maltese people looked more often beyond the bars of their hamster’s cage, they would know these things and be able to keep the situation in perspective. One of the main factors obstructing burden-sharing is precisely this: Malta thinks that the only immigration burdens that will be shared are Malta’s and Italy’s – but you can’t have that discrimination in a European context. So Britain’s, Greece’s, Spain’s France’s and Germany’s etc immigration burdens will have to be shared out too. Malta might very well end up with more immigrants and not fewer, but it looks like nobody’s thought of that one.]

I hadn’t realised we had an emigration problem. I always thought of that as one of the problems (virtues?) of the Golden Years.

And, least but not last doppel walker sounds better.

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=9300

ChavsRus, the fact that you bothered to leave a comment means that you are interested in reading what our dear Daphne writes.

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