COMPETITION: bring out your calculators
This family will be Maltese within the next three months. The winner is the one who works out:
1. the number of applicants (those paying Eur650,000 – clue: they are men, but not all the men are applicants);
2. the number of grandparents and in-laws paying Eur50,000;
3. the number of sons and daughters of applicants who are over 25 and paying Eur50,000;
4. the number of sons and daughters of applicants who are under 25 and paying Eur25,000;
5. the number of women who are paying the spouse rate of Eur25,000 (but who are not grandparents or in-laws).
I’m sure I’ve left something out – never mind, you know what to do.
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First prize: supper with Joseph Muscat and his friend Shiv Nair
Second prize: high tea in the presence of Mrs Michelle Muscat and the Infantas of Castille
Third prize: breakfast with the power station bandits
Consolation prize: a game of cards with Kitten from Malta
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The calculation is a simple one.
Whip out your tape measure, find the length and breadth of your mattress, and multiply. The answer gives you the number of euros “injected” into the Maltese economy, in billions. Centimetres or inches – it doesn’t matter. Nothing else matters.
Second prize should be two suppers.
Runner-up: a trolley rush round Lidl with the Minister of Homeland Security
That won’t net you very much. He’s not exactly light on his feet and he’s tight-fisted to boot.
Do you agree with selling Malta’s citizenship?
5 quick questions: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8BFJVY9
Please complete and circulate.
Welcome to Malta.
Is the long spoon provided with the first prize?
This family should be on one of the Labour government’s billboards, with the words “Se ntukom ic-cittadinanza Maltija.”
“ilkoll ahwa Maltin” would have been more appropriate.
Taghna lkoll
How much for the Westerner?
You left out the discount
And the “fast-tracking.”
“Roughly” 46 million euro, or any number of zeros added on after that:
Perhaps Manwel, as an incentive, will only process 60 main applicants at a time, translating to “roughly” 300 passports a go, as per the lead off this picture that matches the stated initial target already covered.
Since it would require 17 such intakes to reach the figure of 5000 passports, and since this is not a nice round figure for monthly accounts, my bet is that the minimum objective is 600 passports a month for a minimum target reached of 10,000 passports a year.
This should eventually give them a very comfortable margin, and eventually is relative in consequence to how much the Maltese electorate allows them to get away with. This could happen sooner, or if pain tolerance levels are high – and they are in Malta because we have already suffered the immunity induction under Mintoff, later.
If this Labour Government lasts for two or three terms, it would have succeeded in changing the base Maltese DNA, as it seems to aspire to, from Phoenician to Chinese etc.
This Labour Government will be into bulk buying all right. Besides Keith Kasco into sugar, the rest will all be needing mattresses and warehouses for these.
For the record, is Keith Kasco also supplying the paper for the passports?
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For those who think 650,000 euro is a whole lot of money, place this in the perspective of those people who risk 100,000€ per game of backgammon or even 25,000€ as opening stakes in a poker game.
Or millions of euros over the years backing a Labour Opposition.
Or stashes into the multiple two digit billions of Libyan money.
Or Mugabe’s personal diamond account money passing through Malta.
Or Shiv Nair operating tightly and secretly with Joseph Muscat and partners on behalf of the very well endowed Chinese Government, with additional Somali, Nigerian, Azeri, Georgian interests etc.
Just because Joseph Muscat doesn’t mention him and hasn’t answered the questions, it doesn’t mean that Shiv Nair has ceased to exist.
All these are real and happening scenarios.
First prize – the waiters will be provided by Peter Paul Zammit.
Il-Consolation prize kien iktar jaghmel sens kieku kien barmil ilma minn funtana.
The cosequences of this scheme is unimaginable. This is worse than illegal immigration!
I wonder what KMB and Norman Lowell think of this lovely scheme. Just in case I missed out , could somebody update me please?
But would one also need to calculate the commissions, fees and also money under the counter for fastracking?