Another sack of problems for Malta – and they’re going to be managed by Muscat and his gang of thieves

Yesterday’s vote in the United Kingdom is going to have all sorts of immediate and future repercussions for Malta and the government is going to have to begin working now to mitigate the fall-out. But in the run-up to the referendum, journalists in Malta have not pressed Muscat and his government on their preparations for what looked to be the inevitable result. That has been our shortcoming. We need to begin pressing him now, without letting him brush us off with a ‘we have to wait and see’ answer.

There are decisions to be taken in many fields, not least the status of Maltese students, the status of medical students who the government hopes will come from Britain to study at the new private medical school, the status of that medical school itself given that it will be run by a British organisation, financial services, even the sale of Maltese passports (this is the one thing I’m happy to see take a knock).

Maltese passports are being sold largely to people who want access to the United Kingdom. Now that this key advantage has gone, the market will dwindle. Perhaps Muscat and his sleazy business associates at Henley & Partners will begin selling Maltese passports to British people instead, once the United Kingdom pulls out.

They can’t begin selling them to the British now because one of the conditions is that you cannot be the citizenship of another EU member state.

To quote somebody who’s just seen Boris Johnson on television: “Ara, kollu tort ta’ dak il-ginger. Hu genninhom biex johorgu.”