Comments on: “Defiance will only breed more defiance”

By: Ghoxrin Punt

Ghoxrin Punt — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:28:44 +0000

In reply to Frank. And what use are we to either Asia or Africa without Europe. We are nation of 400k-odd people with no natural resources. We are useless to everyone except for our link to Europe

By: Kkkurin

Kkkurin — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:57:39 +0000

There must be much more to this than we may care to think for the Prime Minister to carry on regardless in the circumstances. It is way beyond inexperience, ignorance and hard headedness.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:04:30 +0000

Let’s put our Labour thinking hats on.

Labour never wanted the EU and even though they say that they respect the people’s vote they believe that they won the referendum.

How about using the EU to get 1 billion Euros+? If it works, Labour wins.

If not, the EU stops the funds, no more Schengen, so why stay in the EU? Heq we were forced to leave! Labour make an agreement with an African or Asian country and saves the day. Labour wins.

Win-Win situation.

By: Piña

Piña — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:56:58 +0000

When the repercussions of this scheme will be too evident to ignore, our PM will tell us that with hindsight he has realised that the scheme was a huge mistake. When it is too late he will wake up and smell the coffee.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:22:53 +0000

A fairly good leading article perhaps, but written in very clunky English. Every assertion is watered down and phrases are sentences are more elliptical than the orbit of Halley’s Comet.

By: ACD

ACD — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:53:32 +0000

In reply to manum.

There’s no way someone could be that amoral – he knew he was wrong from the day the scheme was first discussed (if not they’d have mentioned it in their electoral manifesto).

He may be surprised at the size of the backlash, I’ll give you that, but there’s no way he hasn’t always known this was the wrong thing to do. That’s what makes him dangerous and not just incompetent.

By: Calculator

Calculator — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:29:59 +0000

The history of the EU is often marked by its consolidation in reaction to crises of whatever scale. Hopefully this whole debacle can, at least, act as an impetus for clearer EU rules on citizenship (even if the basis of trust and mutual cooperation underpinning the treaties was always a given).

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:44:03 +0000

The Maltese government’s contempt for Europe’s citizens doesn’t border on despicability. It IS despicable. Sadly, it’s also typical and predictable, except to the hare-brained who thought they knew something everyone else didn’t and so voted Labour.

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:39:21 +0000

“comparisons, it is said, are odious, but the government’s comparisons…”

Those who voted Labour want to be proven right and justified in their decision, so they swallow everything their ayatollah says without making their own objective analysis.

By: manum

manum — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:36:56 +0000

He is too full of himself to admit that he is wrong.