Comments on: Europe’s brief hiatus of peace after the destruction of the fascist jackboot and the fall of the Iron Curtain may be over

By: james micallef

james micallef — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:05:00 +0000

Brexit is worse for EU than for Britain. Britain will mostly do fine. Remember that a lot of Malta’s financial services was built on tightening regulations in UK in eg gaming market forcing firms to look elsewhere and relocate to Malta. An ‘independent’ UK can attract all those firms back.

EU has to take note that underneath the Brexit xenophobia there were solid reasons for discontent, and reform it’s institutions accordingly.

And for both sides… chill out! the doom and gloom with regards to the result is being overblown. The final outcome will depend much more on the actual implementation (which is unprecedented and therefore mostly unknowable) than on the referendum result.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:32:00 +0000

That is way too long ago. Whatever I feel about the freedom of movement of people now, it’s most certainly not because of my extremely numerous migrant ancestors.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:58:00 +0000

In reply to G. Boris Johnson, great grandson of a Turkish man, and still dying his hair Icelandic blond and playing at being more English than the English as a subconscious reaction to that.

By: G

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:44:00 +0000

Scotland? Really? I live in Scotland, in Glasgow to be precise. I’m surrounded by university students and young post-grads who are only just beginning to make our way in the world.

The mood this morning is that of anger and frustration. We’ve been outnumbered by an older generation who are reminiscing and pining for “a Great Britain of years gone by”. And now it will be us who suffer the consequences.

I work with the NHS. I pay income tax. I pay council tax. Hearing Boris Johnson speak about “EU migrants scrounging on taxes and ruining the NHS” is plain insulting. He and Nigel Farage have succeeded in making racism acceptable again – that is their legacy and this disaster is what they will go down in history for.

By: Olaf Bartolo

Olaf Bartolo — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:22:00 +0000

Cameron foolishly and flippantly counted on people’s good sense. In truth he ought to have known better and should be politically lynched for this gargantuan error of judgement.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:22:00 +0000

There is no cure for irrationality. I’m 51, and my passionate views in favour of the European Union were shaped largely by growing up (to the age of 25) in a Europe where half the population was imprisoned behind the barbed wire fence of communism. And for the first part of my life, Spain and Greece were under the fascist jackboot, too. A very small part of the Europe of my childhood was free.

By: Benny Hill

Benny Hill — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:21:00 +0000

What Ireland? Northern Ireland. Be precise.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:07:00 +0000

“Brussels is threatening stability”

Do grow up.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:05:00 +0000

In reply to Jabbade Hutt. I know, and that's what makes it more shocking to me.

By: Jabbade Hutt

Jabbade Hutt — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 08:00:00 +0000

In all fairness Daphne, the vote towards Brexit was swayed by people who remember the Soviet Union and a divided Berlin. Young men and women whose livelihood will be affected the most by this vote, have voted in favour of the UK’s EU membership.

Rather than not appreciating the safety and security Europe has enjoyed since the early nineties, it is the bigoted, ignorant fat man at the pub that made the vote what it is.