Welcome to yet another tired debate.

It is morally wrong for Malta to have the same voice as, say, Germany, which is practically saving Silvio and his children from being sold into slavery in China or Qatar.

And yet it does, in many international organisations. A good dose of humility and a large-scale atlas would perhaps garner us some respect.

@ Dust

I never implied that we Maltese are above-average or exeptional specimens.

I believe that even though we are the smallest nation, we should still be on equal footing with all the other nations.

Qed thawwad il-hass mal-ba#$, Silvio.

Even if ALL of us Maltese were above-average, even exceptional, specimens of the human race – our country still could not, and should not, expect to be treated as if we’re the centre of the universe. That PL leaders spout inanities about ‘EU membership re-negotiations’ (following up on the fictitious ‘EU partnernxipp’) just demonstrates incompetence and/or populism.

Baxxter is right – until we are no longer hindered by people such as il-Guy and yourself, Malta will not be in a position to punch above its weight.

Go on, keep on propping the PL – a party that’s so confident in our country that their approach to EU memberships was best exemplified by their cry “Sicilian hairdressers will take our jobs!”.

Well, guess what, many of us work/ed with foreigners in and outside Malta and kick/ed ass – so your patriotic posturing is about as convincing as Bill Clinton claiming he only met Monica Lewinsky to teach her knitting.

@Baxter.
Unlike yourself I do not consider my country to be a NON-ENTITY. It take persons with an acute sense of INFERIORITY COMPLEX to do so.

One of the ways we can “start dragging ourselves into modernity” is be proud of our country and convinced that we have all it takes to do so. Unless you have a minister who considers us all to be CWIEC.

Coming from a P.N. minister I’m sure you agree with this remark, but I can assure you that Malta is not only full of Cwiec, like the ones you see in your mirror every morning.

Daphne,as always you are right, but this time only if you consider earning less than100E a week, as being employed.

I really cannot accept that to critciise one has to be destructive.

No one of you has been honest enough to refer to the fact that what il- Guy mentioned, specifically, was he wanted to see some changes in BURDEN SHARING,
Who wouldn’t?

Maybe some of our contractors who are finding it a good supply of cheap labour. I am sure that will leave them with more money to donate to CHARITY.

[Daphne – Silvio, you contradict yourself. On the one hand you say that people with refugee status are in paid employment, and on the other hand you say they are a burden. If they are working, they are not a burden. The true burden to Maltese society are the roughly 40% of women between the ages of 25 and 60 who feel entitled not to work, which means that they are, effectively, non-productive and a burden on society, except when they are actively engaged in looking after young children, when they are still economically non-productive but contributing in another more important way. But then, being a far-right-winger, you probably think that women’s place is in the home.]

Sod off, Silvio. You and your sort are the reason this country will forever be a third world Sicilian province. The sooner we realise we ARE a non-entity, the sooner we can start to drag ourselves into modernity.

Oh, I know, they’re stupid.

I was just repeating what this member (doesn’t mean he is as you say a gentleman) was reported to have said which you have to admit is what they think of us.