I understand. If you have a job and a family in Malta, it may be difficult to leave. But if you have children, think of them. Send them abroad as soon as you can. It’s more expensive than a fully-funded course at the University of Malta or MCAST, but in the long run, they’ll thank you for it.

I mean it. I thought I could do my bit to change Malta, but I can’t. None of us can. You come up against a wall of solid atavistic hamallagni, superstitious practices, bigotry and backwardness that just keeps breeding like a virus.

We had a brief window of hope between 2003 and 2007ish but it’s over now.

Good. Good for you. Excellent.

Let them keep that tiny rock. They can have it. We cannot outbreed them, but we can at least put an ocean or a continent between us and them.

I want to organise a brain drain that’ll bleed the island dry. Let them run the place with an army of inbred imbeciles if they can.

Done it already. As soon as I saw what’s on the horizon three years ago, my wife and I packed our bags and left for the farthest civilised land we could lay our eyes on, Australia. There was no way I would have ever raised my children in such an insular and ignorant environment.

Just wait until Joseph & Co hit you in the pocketbook, then laugh if you can.

True Daphne, but maybe it’s about time all those ‘youths’ shouting “taghna lkoll” find out what real hardship is about. They have no idea what it’s like because they have never had to live in a situation of rampant unemployment.

The tragedy is that we, who already passed through it, must go through it again, whilst these brats can escape the disaster they brought upon us by going to the Europe Muscat tried so hard to keep them out of.

Don’t think I’m not considering it, Baxxter, old chap.

I am sure Malta does not deserve people like you. If you want to leave, Leave as soon as possible. Malta will be cleaner.