“Joseph Muscat has bored a rat-hole in the back door of Europe”
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November 17, 2013 at 10:52pm
This is part of an email sent to me by a reader in England:
Joseph Muscat has bored a rat-hole in the back door of Europe and the consequences are potentially alarming. When some ghastly terrorist outrage hits London we will never know if the perpetrators flew calmly into Heathrow on a Maltese passport.
I doubt if Joseph Muscat will hold up his paws in submission and confess. Why should other EU countries have no control over this? Presumably because no one envisaged any leader so perverted in his thinking as to rate his country and its history so low.
I sympathise with the many rightly furious Maltese. I fear that the consequences for Malta may be disastrous both socially and economically.
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I’ve just been told that online petitions to call for a referendum are not recognized by our government and we need handwritten petitions instead. Is this true? And is one happening?
[Daphne – It has to be a handwritten, properly signed petition with ID card numbers, address and so on – the way the abolition of spring hunting petition is being carried out. As to whether one is happening – not yet.]
What Daphne says here is all true, but an informal petition signed by thousands of Maltese people should be a good tool for a progressive, liberal and moderate government which listens.
Birdlife should start the formal petition so no legalities get in the way of a referendum process.
People expect that when the EP elections come round, we will be asked to vote in two referendums at the same time: on the abolition of spring hunting and on the abrogation of the sale-of-citizenship law.
Let’s be honest, what we have here is not so much the sale of Maltese citizenship but the sale of EU Citizenship. In other words one EU country is profiting by selling what effectively belongs in a large part to the others.
I can’t imagine the other counties in the EU will sit back and do nothing about this obvious loop-hole in the legislation.
I personally expect this scheme will be a very short-lived one.