Settle and work as what? We’re not all doctors or developers, you know.

And a passport is not just a ticket to a job. It’s a whole life history.

I grew up in independent Malta, cut off from the rest of the world, led by a navel-gazing government and civil service, schooled in a school cut off from all sources of enlightenment or world-class culture, and had my hopes and ambitions dashed by my Maltese passport.

A British passport would have opened up a lot more life choices.

It is your sort who are to blame. We had it all, and yet you decided to piss it all away on some downtrodden little Count wanko Roger fantasy. Thanks a fucking bunch.

Baxter what you can do with your “fucking Maltese passport” is travel ,and settle, to any country in the E.U. visit many countries without the need a visa.

Daphne, I suspect we are reading different history books.

According to mine it was 1530 when the knights came to Malta, and 1800 when the British came.

There again,you might have ” something called historical evidence” to prove your date are the correct ones..

Thank you Daphne for spelling it out.

Who would ‘we’ have been?

Anyway, silvio’s brigade has won outright on this one. Now I’m stuck with a fucking Maltese passport. Thanks a bunch, you bastards.

. . . ’round the back, Gorg!

Daphne, O.K I’m thinking.

Just tell me that we did not have a flag before the English GAVE us the Union Jack.

[Daphne – And who would ‘we’ have been before the British arrived in 1801, Silvio? From 1545 Malta was in the possession of the Order of St John. Malta was not a nation and it did not have a flag. Most of Europe’s flags are relatively new in historical terms, so I don’t know what you’re rabbiting on about, exactly. Your beloved Italy didn’t even exist as a unified state before the 19th century, for example.]

Yes I still believe the count Roger episode. Why should I doubt it?

[Daphne – Because there is something called historical evidence, Silvio, and the same historical evidence tells us that ‘the Christians’ who Count Roger ‘liberated’ from Muslim slavery were in fact from other lands – they were put on ships and sent back home – and that it was the Maltese (the people of the city) who were the Muslims. Why else do you think you speak a derivative of Arabic?]

Now when it comes to Father Xmas,I must confess , sometimes I have my doubts, but on the other hand when I see all the road works being carried out in Sliema, I say to myself, could George Pullicino be Father Xmas (there is a slight resemblance) or is it something that has to do, remotely, with the forthcoming elections?

@Baxter.
It looks that you are not on top gear today, maybe something to do with being the 13th.

What wrong with being patriotic?

The Union flag was never our flag, we had our own since 1090. Actually the Union flag was that of our masters.

[Daphne – Please don’t tell me you still believe that rubbish about the red and white flag being ‘Malta’s’ since 1090. In 1090, there was no concept of statehood in the way we know it today, still less in respect of a couple of rocks with a couple of thousand people on them. The ‘Count Roger gave us the flag’ story is a fairly recent bit of fiction and nationhood-building. Besides, if Count Roger gave it to us, and it was his, how does making the colours of a minor Norman count somehow preferable to using the Union flag? Do try to think, Silvio.]

Every nation aspires to be its own master, but unfortunately there will always be those who prefer to be dominated by other countries.

In my dictionary these are the ones that are universally known as’
ARSE-LICKERS>
.

@ Baxter.

Forget it, Baxxter. I am not a C-cup.