Well, I may have nailed it, Another John, but Lowell’s acolytes haven’t.

You mentioned the Roman Empire. Ask Arlette Baldacchino. She tried to tug at my heartstrings with her piece on the “Turkish” conquest of Constantinople and then got it all wrong with her “Saint Sophia”.

Lowell’s posters for his activity at the hideously non-European Montekristo estates include a generous helping of “lasagna” in the menu. Ave indeed. And three cheers for Kevin Ellul Bonici, the Mintoffian, the story of whose connivance is yet to be written.

Why should we let these fruitcakes, creeps and cretins claim the right to own the Right? The Right is somewhere else entirely. And something else too. Of course if the Nationalist Party is now Left-Wing then it is our job to rebuild a Liberal Right.

Baxxter, you have nailed it. Political correctness has gone, or rather, has been pushed too far; as has the gravy train. Anyone remembers the Roman Empire?

National governments are increasingly finding ways to circumvent the EP, and its powerlessness is rendered most evident when it comes to crisis management such as the euro crisis, where it plays little part in the mechanisms that have been put in place.

I do not really expect objective debate in this forum but this article’s naïveté is truly striking. Malta has 6 MEPs in Brussels – Six. Any power or influence Malta can expect to have comes not from the EP but from the Council of Ministers and the soft power generated from the trust Malta slowly builds up over time – trust sadly dented in the passport debacle.

Maltese governments know this the moment they are elected and start dealing with ‘Europe’. This writer should be questioning how the increased powers of the EP since Lisbon tie in with the principle of subsidiarity, which is crucial for non-core small economies like Malta that must thrive on competitive advantage and would be badly affected by more centralisation in key areas such as tax.

These matters are more effectively dealt with in the Council of Ministers, where Malta is one voice of 28, then in the EP where our 6 MEPs are lost in a chamber of 500 + MEPs.

I agree – the EU is our ‘upper house’. And we DESPERATELY need that.

However, any EU ‘upper house’ input (especially if seen to throw a spanner in the PL government works) will have people crying ‘indhil tal-barranin’…..and the PL know this very well, and will use this tactic – don’t underestimate them.

“Muscat found a loophole (citizenship, although European by its very own nature, is regulated solely by nations. The EU is not a nation)”

Turning citizenship into a financial instrument was key to Muscat’s approach through that loophole.

This loophole was identified and singled out as far back as 2006 by Muscat in his role as MEP.

Dragun b’valuri totalitarji terribli, egemonija mondjali u megalomania kommunista.

If there’s someone in the room who must mention the unmentionable, then let it be me.

Norman Lowell is the only MEP candidate to have fought his campaign on European issues. He is the only one to have stated in clear terms what he will do in the European parliament if elected to the European parliament.

The others may have a better plan, and a better position on European issues, but they have largely failed to articulate it, preferring to concentrate on domestic and local issues.

I won’t be voting for the fringe parties but I see Another John’s point.

The way I see it, the EU needs to be led by the Right. And please do not think for a moment that I am referring to Farage or Lowell. They are just self-aggrandising loonies. I mean a Liberal Right convinced of the superiority of the European civilisation (or we’d be adopting another way of life) and convinced of the EU’s original aim, as stated by its founding fathers: peace and prosperity for its people. For its people, mind.

At some point we forgot the original aim and started to solve everyone else’s problems, when back home it’s a mess.

Lowell often says that he hates the EU but loves Europe (and then he supports Mintoff and the party that destroyed our European identity).

The other politicians seem to love the EU more than they love Europe.

They are convinced of their racial superiority. To them we are subhumans. They are also convinced that it is their historical destiny to rule the world. Everything they have done has one aim only: to damage the rest of the world and place it at a disadvantage.

They are greedy, duplicitous, cynical, have no respect for human life or liberty, have no respect for animal life or the natural environment, and have no respect for history either. They imprison, torture and oppress their own people, they hold human rights in contempt, and they abhor democracy and free speech. They seek to confound our plans and to inflict damage on anyone who stands in their way.

Is that enough or do you need more?

The European Parliament is powerful but it has its limits. Muscat found a loophole (citizenship, although European by its very own nature, is regulated solely by nations. The EU is not a nation) and used it. The European Parliament was screwed.

The latest EP foray into Maltese politics is not the IIP scheme. That’s just the one which made a splash. Hundreds of decisions are taken every year by the EP. These get integrated into Maltese law without people even realising.

I’m sorry to hear that you are going to waste your vote on a fringe party. Your reasoning is skewed. Voting for someone whose ideas you don’t agree with doesn’t make any sense. Those are the ideas they will try to implement if they get elected.