“That agreement doesn’t hold.”

No, not officially or legally, perhaps, but circumstantially – much in the same way that a party financier can call in favours.

The flipside of calling in favours is carrying out a threat. China has a hold over Muscat. The legality of his MOU doesn’t change that essential fact.

Hence Malta an extention of Africa, just as things were under Mintoff smooching up to Gaddafi.

Then let me make a comment which will cause you to hate me.

Who kept Malta in a state of systemic indebtedness to China? The Nationalist administration. Even after we joined the EU, Malta was still getting annual “gifts” (as they call them in their ever so Oriental fashion) from China under its Aid to Developing Countries.

Yes, that’s right. Developing countries.

If I had been Prime Minister, at some point after 1987 I’d have said thanks, but no thanks.

But I suppose the temptation of ghotjiet mill-barrani was too strong, even for Nationalist prime ministers.

My point? That this shaped the Maltese public to be naturally grateful to China and to view it positively, instead of being cautious and diffident. Or outright hostile, like Baxxer. But then I never was one for PC.

Things are really taking a bad turn and Joseph Muscat needs to come clean and put all the cards on the table so that with the help of the opposition and the EU we do not suffer more than necessary.

It is so obvious that the Chinese have Joseph Muscat cornered and he is struggling for his life.

Having said that, I doubt he will ever admit to having made such a big mistake and will drag us all down in the pits with him.

Give us back higher electricity bills, liberty and peace of mind. We were so much better off less than 15 months ago.

That’s two generations.

Surely this is illegal.

I’m sure China helped the Labour Party financially in the last general election.

If not, then why would Muscat and his party have such an obsession with China and the Chinese?

And why would he go putting Maltese citizenship up for sale? Obviously to help Chinese people gain access to the European Union.

That agreement doesn’t hold.

I don’t give a toss if China thinks a party is the state. So their ambassador insists democracy doesn’t work for China.

Tough.

With hindsight Muscat’s lie about not ever having met Shiv Nair is even more of a lie.

How can the press ignore this.

Muscat evidently knew of the black-listing.

The news had been revealed in the Chinese media on 8 April, but local Labour party media, which had reported Muscat’s visit to China on a daily basis with great prominence, had never mentioned the MOU before then.

See comment under this post here.

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/andanother-one/

The first reactions to the news here in Malta were expressed here:

http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/bow-and-scrape/

When the Labour Party – those who never read your website – realised that this website had let the cat out of the bag, Joseph Muscat had no option but to mention it in his article, but he made sure to keep it as low profile and seemingly as innocuous as possible. So eventually he wrote about on 18 April.

My take on this is that had your website not revealed that agreement, we would never have known about it.