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		By: just me		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[just me]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105775&quot;&gt;H.P. Baxxter&lt;/a&gt;.

I fail to understand your point Baxxter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105775">H.P. Baxxter</a>.</p>
<p>I fail to understand your point Baxxter.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105121&quot;&gt;just me&lt;/a&gt;.

That where you guys always get it wrong. And Libya knows.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105121">just me</a>.</p>
<p>That where you guys always get it wrong. And Libya knows.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105345&quot;&gt;Harry Purdie&lt;/a&gt;.

I intend to go down fighting before it gets to that.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105345">Harry Purdie</a>.</p>
<p>I intend to go down fighting before it gets to that.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105686</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104961&quot;&gt;Bubu&lt;/a&gt;.

It never baffled me. Malta&#039;s Labour isn&#039;t British Labour. That was Paul Boffa. Today&#039;s Labour is Mintoff&#039;s third-worldism. Hence the anti-Western stance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104961">Bubu</a>.</p>
<p>It never baffled me. Malta&#8217;s Labour isn&#8217;t British Labour. That was Paul Boffa. Today&#8217;s Labour is Mintoff&#8217;s third-worldism. Hence the anti-Western stance.</p>
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		By: Harry Purdie		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Harry Purdie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104902&quot;&gt;H.P. Baxxter&lt;/a&gt;.

Hey Baxxter, been fitted for your Mao tunic yet? I got a super deal in Hong Kong recently.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104902">H.P. Baxxter</a>.</p>
<p>Hey Baxxter, been fitted for your Mao tunic yet? I got a super deal in Hong Kong recently.</p>
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		By: just me		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105121</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[just me]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Libya should have given us a discount on fuel PRIOR to the election as gratitude to Dr. Lawrence Gonzi and his government for all the help given to Libya during the civil war. 

Dr. Gonzi immediately took a stand against Gaddafi as soon as the war started while Muscat kept silent till the very end. Joseph only spoke out when it was clear who the victors were.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Libya should have given us a discount on fuel PRIOR to the election as gratitude to Dr. Lawrence Gonzi and his government for all the help given to Libya during the civil war. </p>
<p>Dr. Gonzi immediately took a stand against Gaddafi as soon as the war started while Muscat kept silent till the very end. Joseph only spoke out when it was clear who the victors were.</p>
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		By: Antoine Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoine Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104929&quot;&gt;Alexander Ball&lt;/a&gt;.

I don&#039;t think it would be in China&#039;s interest to have Malta become isolated and irrelevant. They stand to gain much more by controlling an EU member state.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104929">Alexander Ball</a>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think it would be in China&#8217;s interest to have Malta become isolated and irrelevant. They stand to gain much more by controlling an EU member state.</p>
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		By: Edward		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1105027</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Edward]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Asking for a discount on fuel? Lord, here we go with Mintoff-economics. As usual, they expect the world to give us everything.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Asking for a discount on fuel? Lord, here we go with Mintoff-economics. As usual, they expect the world to give us everything.</p>
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		By: H.P. Baxxter		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104963</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H.P. Baxxter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104929&quot;&gt;Alexander Ball&lt;/a&gt;.

Taking any country out of the EU requires no effort at all. All you have to do is withdraw your commissioner, your MEPs, your representatives in various institutions, and stop all payments to the EU. 

Then you get your parliament to declare that EU legislation is no longer in force on your national territory. With a nine-seat majority that should be easy. 

Then you get the president to declare the EU membership treaty null. Bob&#039;s your uncle.

The next day, tmur tinnegozja mac-Cinizi, like the Great Mintoff did, mill-ghada, as the venerable Lino Spiteri, Custodian of the National Narrative, would put it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104929">Alexander Ball</a>.</p>
<p>Taking any country out of the EU requires no effort at all. All you have to do is withdraw your commissioner, your MEPs, your representatives in various institutions, and stop all payments to the EU. </p>
<p>Then you get your parliament to declare that EU legislation is no longer in force on your national territory. With a nine-seat majority that should be easy. </p>
<p>Then you get the president to declare the EU membership treaty null. Bob&#8217;s your uncle.</p>
<p>The next day, tmur tinnegozja mac-Cinizi, like the Great Mintoff did, mill-ghada, as the venerable Lino Spiteri, Custodian of the National Narrative, would put it.</p>
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		By: Bubu		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bubu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104902&quot;&gt;H.P. Baxxter&lt;/a&gt;.

Labour&#039;s dislike towards the EU had always baffled me. The EU is ostensibly a socialist organisation. All socialist parties in  Europe are crazy on joining and the only ones who are against are the conservatives.

And here in Malta we have exactly the opposite situation. At first I though that is was purely the usual Maltese competitive bloody-mindedness with Sant saying no to everything as we had already gotten used to. 

But as time went on and the referendum and elections were lost and won, the anti EU streak never disappeared from the supposedly socialist Labour party.

Eventually I realised though, even by doing some research about Mintoff&#039;s and KMB&#039;s tactics that the MLP were never socialist in the first place, at least not in the international socialist sense. 

I realised that the MLP were nothing but a thinly veiled National Socialist party. Similarly to the Nazi party they reward loyalty with free handouts but are not averse to using violence and/or racist, classist or plain old fanatical discourse to reach their aims. 

And their aims are anything but democratic. Never have been. Never will.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/06/and-its-back-to-begging-bowl-diplomacy/#comment-1104902">H.P. Baxxter</a>.</p>
<p>Labour&#8217;s dislike towards the EU had always baffled me. The EU is ostensibly a socialist organisation. All socialist parties in  Europe are crazy on joining and the only ones who are against are the conservatives.</p>
<p>And here in Malta we have exactly the opposite situation. At first I though that is was purely the usual Maltese competitive bloody-mindedness with Sant saying no to everything as we had already gotten used to. </p>
<p>But as time went on and the referendum and elections were lost and won, the anti EU streak never disappeared from the supposedly socialist Labour party.</p>
<p>Eventually I realised though, even by doing some research about Mintoff&#8217;s and KMB&#8217;s tactics that the MLP were never socialist in the first place, at least not in the international socialist sense. </p>
<p>I realised that the MLP were nothing but a thinly veiled National Socialist party. Similarly to the Nazi party they reward loyalty with free handouts but are not averse to using violence and/or racist, classist or plain old fanatical discourse to reach their aims. </p>
<p>And their aims are anything but democratic. Never have been. Never will.</p>
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