“If there is a gravy train why leave all the gravy to others..”

Typical Labour mentality.

And by the way, you mean “principle” not “principal.”

To add to my last comment, should the Government insist on trampling over the will of the people, Simon Busuttil who will be sitting on the citizenship board should do his best personally contact each person who is buying a passport and warn them of his party’s intentions to revoke it.

The government can’t retreat because it’s got its back to the wall, Silvio, provided the Opposition keeps firm.

Muscat’s scheme won’t fly as long as the message keeps going out that the PN will revoke all the citizenship he sells for cash, as soon as they return to power.

And even if that did work out for Muscat somehow and he managed to flog some passports for cash, he just has to sell one to the wrong sort of person who will later want his head on a plate when the citizenship is revoked.

Well Daphne, you can’t complain that Silvio Loporto is not following your rule about punctuation.

It is bad enough that Maltese financial service providers have been precluded from promoting this scheme on pain of fines but it is really not the place of the Prime Minister to demean himself and his position by so evidently becoming a pawn in the marketing strategies of the monopolistic concessionaire Henley and Partners. Joseph Muscat must have more than a vested interest in all of this. What is it?

He is never the puppeteer and always the puppet. Witness how every time he stands alone, nothing but drivel comes out of his mouth. Even a kindergarten child has more sense not to say that ‘yes sometimes a politician has to tell the truth’ – no matter how true it may be.

Lorry, you have no qualms in expressing your opinions whilst simultaneously being abusive to others for havinf the temerity to express their opinions – presumably because they are different from yours.

In Malta, the ‘for sale’ sign can only be removed by stopping the law with a referendum.

On a global level, that sign can never be removed. Even if the referendum is won, it is highly unlikely that that news would reverberate around the world with the same effectiveness of the ‘passport sale’ scheme.

Oramai, la frittata e’ fatta.

If Tony Zarb were in favour of the citizenship scheme, he certainly would not have had any problem to pronounce himself. The fact that he has not simply shows that he too is against.