I say there has to be a link with the current state of affairs in the region around us and its history.

There has to be a future, something to work to. I mention it because perhaps Crispi was right.

Isn’t it ironic how the places claimed as territories of influence remain breeding ground for the worst cultural vacuum?

If the Med has to be restored, North Africa remains the issue. Your conclusion to 1964 may well complement the above; as soon as interests ran dry, this place became the ultimate dead end.

Gonzi to all intents and purposes was the one who concluded the Empire’s remit; he removed the shipyards as the national industry, which is why he remains the one individual who’ll take ages to mature in our history.

Times change, geography remains. We need to understand what we’ll face and how adverse it may sound. We’re discussing this in English, good.

What this got to do with irredentism?

That we are not fit to govern ourselves is fact. That the last time we were governed with the help of someone else was 1964 is also fact.

That some of the worst shitholes in the world are also some of the most patriotic is fact too.

Some of us voted for EU membership so we could finally see some rules imposed by an outside authority, and standards rise. It didn’t happen.

I welcome Chris Packham’s comment, and I endorse it.

Yes that does become the Nationalist dilemma sometimes, how can proper irredentisti rule better than Albion if not by setting la perfida as the benchmark?

Fact is, irredentismo, hence the PN, was the result of the ultimate British plot; finance a certain Garibaldi and help unite Italy to sock it to the French.

Honest.

One could say that the best thing that came out of it was Ellis fleeing to Malta to escape Garibaldi as soon as the mille (suldati tal-azzar) landed in Marsala.

But then, it’s Ellis and his photography which inspired Astrid Vella to see baroque and exiled nobility everywhere.

It’s that bad over here.

Not in the least bit anti-British, but neither am I anti-Maltese. It’s up to us to do the business and not to depend on others to take the responsibilities that should be our own.

What Empire? It ended officially in 1997. In practice, it ended long before that.

But I see you’re just another another anti-British Maltese “patriot”, who would rather be governed badly by “one of your own” than governed well by a “foreigner”. No, we can’t govern ourselves. Even the NP made a hash of it. What we have now is nothing but a continuation of Nationalist philosophy, if not methods.

Most of the world IS NOT fit to govern itself. It’s not just by my token, but by every yardstick. However, it is up to each country to decide how to govern itself. So the other countries are not my business.

But my own country is.

I suppose you think it will all change once the Nationalists are back in power in 2023. No it won’t.

When a moron becomes PM, I think he does become of epic proportions. It definitely feels like it, anyway.