oseph Muscat and his Little Weasels have been banging on and on about how the Nationalists have, shamefully, sought to have Malta’s name blackened at the European Parliament in the context of the debate, and subsequent resolution, about our Government’s prostitution of our citizenship. The debate has been had and the vote has passed, overwhelmingly, against Muscat’s tawdry plan to sell off our citizenship.

The reaction of the Weasels has been to call on the Nationalists to hang their heads in shame, because they didn’t stick up for Malta’s interests.

What utter rubbish: the shame is Joseph Muscat’s and his Cabinet’s, who shoved this horrendous piece of legislation down our throats without even having had the decency, the political integrity, to tell us before the elections what they were planning to do. The scheme to sell citizenship for cash, and not much of it, at that, is shameful, betrays European values and makes our country look like some two-bit outfit that will give a nod and a wink to any shady character that wants to hide his millions here and give them a good scrub.

There’s a line in “Wolf of Wall Street” that is telling: the hero, despicable bit of scum that he is, is trying to park his ill-gotten gains in Switzerland and you can hear him saying “what wouldn’t I give for a Euopean passport right now”. Well, the answer is here in Malta for him: a million or so will get you a European passport, mate, just hand over the cash.

Notwithstanding the stark fact that he and his Government have now been roundly condemned by the European Parliament, Joseph Muscat has declared that he will press on regardless.

Oh wow, what a hero, he will stand up to the mighty European Union and pawn our citizenship, because he’s such a big guy, and he has all the Little Weasels behind him.

What is going to be interesting, of course, is the aftermath.

When Muscat goes to the EU to ask for burden-sharing, are they simply going to laugh in his face or worse? A swift kick in his derriere might be in order, if the mood at the European Parliament is anything to go by. What’s going to happen if we try to get some special treatment for online gaming or financial services or shipping services or any of the other areas that depend so much on having a good name and keeping one’s nose clean? A couple of fingers extended in our general direction, I suspect, and more, we’re going to find our various activities pretty well scrutinised from now on, and no mistake.

I wonder whether come next year we’ll even be still in Schengen, though we’ll have to be in the E.U., because that’s the only reason anyone would want to buy our passport in the first place. What an irony, when you think about it, the man who did his level best (which wasn’t good enough, thankfully) to keep us out of the E.U. now has to keep us in, for all that his Weasels want out, because otherwise his cunning plan will spring a leak and scupper him.

I am ashamed, today, to be Maltese and I am ashamed that my Government has managed to ruin our good name so quickly. I am proud of the fight put up by the Nationalist MEPs and by all those who tried to prevent this sickening result.

But I am certainly not as ashamed as Joseph Muscat and his bunch should be, because it is they who are responsible for this debacle and no-one else.

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