Well, depths will look like heights, if you’re standing on your head.

Some questions:

If passport holders have children after being given citizenship, wouldn’t the children have a birth-right for that citizenship?

[Daphne – Yes, because the law as approved does not make provision for that. Britain some years ago changed its citizenship law to make adjustments to the birthright provisions on citizenship, for instance. Before, the children of any British citizen could claim British citizenship too. After the changes, it is only the children of those British citizens who were born in Britain who can claim citizenship – i.e. the British parent must have been born in Britain.]

Would a passport holder have a right to vote?

[Daphne – No. The vote in Malta is tied to residency as well as citizenship. That’s why there are thousands of Maltese citizens in Australia and Canada who are not on the electoral roll in Malta. But yes, if they come to live in Malta they will acquire the right to vote. If they go to live in another EU member state, however, they will have the right to vote there in local elections and European Parliament elections.]

Would a passport holder have a right for free medical treatment?

I think I’ll stick an extract of my Birth Certificate to my passport, for avoidance of any doubt whilst we’re still in, and in protest.

It’s one way of saying when abroad in the relevant countries: “I did not vote for this ridiculous Maltese Prime Minister and I abhor what he’s done to your country.”

From nothing in the “manifest,” to €30 million in the budget, to €15 million when Edward Scicluna spluttered what he knew of the “mistake” in Brussels, to the billion mark.

Yes. The trend is, on average, upwards. And backwards.

That was my first thought… plus a feint try at mind-mapping.

They might not be able to reverse the sale of citizenship, but they can kick us out of Schengen, so the passport becomes useless if it is clear that it has been bought.

It also makes life more difficult for the true Maltese, but wat de heck, mhux laqwa he travels through diplomatic channels.

1. They are emphasizing a cap of 1800 citizenships, as selling only 1800 bad things is better than selling 1900 or 2000 or whatever.

2. 70% of the money will go (after Henley takes its piece and has the money for a minimum of six months to two years) to this fund. Who runs the fund? Where is the fund registered? Where are the bylaws of the fund? Well really what happens with the other 30%. Who gets that money?

[Daphne – We were told that the remaining 30% would be incorporated with government revenue and used on normal government outgoings.]

3. I have never heard of shares being issued by a government. Shares in what? Debt in the form of bonds issued by a government as a loan to the government, yes. But shares cannot be issued by a government because the government cannot sell ownership in itself. So what shares are they talking about?