The point you make has raised eyebrows in many a European cabinet office. It is being seen as a desperate attempt by Malta to increase its demographic weight in EU decision-making bodies.

2 generations down the road, you have 14,400 Maltese citizens who have never set foot in Malta, never contributed anything to the country but with full citizenship and voting rights – who’s winning?

Read this, oh leaders of ours, and WEEP, if you can understand plain English that is. The bit about Malta is put in the context of the larger media story about the invasion of foreigners to the UK after restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian citizens have been lifted. That means a tsunami of press coverage in the UK.

One yearns for the days of gunboat diplomacy. A short, sharp shelling by the Royal Navy would have gone down a treat.

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