Oh dear, how very hysterical. Is your country surviving, darlings, because it looks to me that it is.
The man who plans to sell Maltese passports to a bunch of crooks and shady characters from suspect jurisdictions has found himself quoted indirectly in The New York Times:
Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, described the large numbers of immigrants arriving on his shores, including many Eritreans and Somalis, as posing “a question of survival” for his country, according to a senior European Union official who briefed journalists on the condition of anonymity because the talks among the leaders were private.
Somebody should explain carefully to Muscat that hyperbole is effective in campaign/propaganda situations where people are poorly educated, unsophisticated and highly excitable. It does not work in diplomacy and negotiations.
He is not speaking in a vacuum. It is perfectly possible for any EU observer to see that Malta is surviving very nicely, thank you, and has been pretty quick to actually use African refugees to its advantage, doing the jobs no Maltese wants to do.
Such falsehood and hypocrisy – the single greatest threat to Malta’s comfortable survival right now is not African and Syrian refugees but the government we’ve landed ourselves with. Joseph Muscat and his people have the power to cause maximum damage in a way that no number of refugees ever can.
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If it were up to Joseph Muscat, he would inundate the EU with the poor African immigrants about whom he wants to assume no responsibility.
And he would inundate the EU also with rich shady persons from shady places, but only after his government cashes euro 650,000 per passport.
Excellent immigration policy.
And then he went to the UN to tell the President of the UN Assembly – who incidentally comes from Antigua and Barbuda (another territory which sells passports) – and he didn’t utter a word about the sale of citizenship whereas he boasted that we must be part of the immigration solution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GZCeopviFg
What a political hypocrite. Fit only to walk the dog, but not to walk the talk.
Oi, Ciccio, don’t be offensive, I walk the dog everyday. If only Muscat was fit to walk a dog.
Every time things aren’t so rosy on the home front or one of his minions fucks up, Muscat plays the immigrant card to whip up some support from the considerable Maltese redneck population.
All this sabre ratting and posturing is a prelude to the MEP elections in March next year. The battleground is going to be “illegal”emigration and Muscat is going to go all out to show the rednecks how tiny Malta and its prime minister can fight the might of the EU.
The falsehood is compounded by another matter: A large part of Malta’s stock of houses and dwellings are vacant. Statistics vary, but all seem to concur that a significant percentage of houses are vacant, probably above the EU average.
So how can we tell African immigrants that we are ‘full’ when so many dwellings in Malta are ’empty’?
Speaking of hyperbole, the CNN interviewer referred (twice I believe) to his calling Europe’s stance as ‘hypocrisy’….he obviously did not repeat the word just outside the Summit building…..
The ironic situation of life and the power of money…. Malta is complaining with EU to have the “irregular” immigrants’ burden shared (presumably because Malta does not have enouogh space), but then Malta will soon sell passporting rights (including to stay in Malta) for those who can pay with hard cash. Not sure what, if any, out of the funds received by Malta, how much we would share with EU.
I am not talking about politics but about the irony of life. Isn’t it incongruent?
I find a high level of contradiction or egoism in these two conflicting policies of Joseph Muscat. If you’re rich, crooked, shady you’re welcome..but if you are poor, fighting for survival, escaping war….then sod off.
You’re getting way out of your comfort zone, Joseph.
“Somebody should explain carefully to Muscat that hyperbole is effective in campaign/propaganda situations where people are poorly educated, unsophisticated and highly excitable. It does not work in diplomacy and negotiations”
VERY WISE WORDS!
Immigration: Joseph Muscat’s Iraq.
Imagine Muscat dealing with this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23747322
Did you hear his interview that was aired on the radio on Friday. Unfortunately I can’t find the link, but it was utterly ridiculous.
Ah Daphne the irony of it all, now the capos are going to open a sort of job centre in Marsa so prospective employers can pick up the workers they need more comfortably, you know…
This goes beyond hyperbole and melodrama. Joseph Muscat is now repeating what Norman Lowell has been saying for years.
If immigrants are threatening the very survival of Malta, racists will feel justified in fearing and hating them. Muscat’s words verge on the illegal: they provide the perfect excuse for racism.
So let’s jolly well crucify him then as we did with Norman Lowell. Or are politicians above the law?
This country is not willing to accept any sort of migrants be they on boats in our SAR area or birds which happen to pass over these barren islands.