The Nationalist Party has been challenged to produce the legal advice its been given to substantiate its position that "Henley Citizenship" can be revoked.

The challenge is being made by the Government, by the Labour Party and by a panoply of Labour's Little Weasels, the ones for whom Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamboat (and I know it's not boat but coat, but I'm referencing "ship" hence "boat" of fools) can do no wrong.
 
According to this motley crew, the PN is in a panic and is doing everything in its power to alienate foreign investment.  
 
Let's analyse this, shall we?   
 
The PN has managed to persuade the whole European Parliament bar a few MEPs who are, to be charitable, a few nuggets short of a Happy Meal, and a few others who had no real choice, to condemn Muscat's Citizenship for Cash Scheme.   
 
The PN has managed to persuade the world's media to take the piss out of Muscat and, sadly but consequently, Malta about the way he's decided to be our passport's pimp.  
 
The PN has managed to persuade one of Muscat's own MPs to say that he's messed up on this one.
 
The PN has done all that and, according to the aformentioned bunch, it's the PN that's in a panic?  Come on, guys, I know you think you can fool all of the people all of the time, and given your election result, I can't really blame you, but seriously, do you really think you can fool all of us all the time?
 
If I might make so bold, I think it's Joseph Muscat who's in a panic.  In support of this thesis, bear in mind the fact that no sooner had he passed the law through the House than he got on the blower from Sr Lanka or wherever he'd gone off to and told his subaltern, Louis Grech, to remove the secrecy clause from the law.   
 
Incidentally, has it been removed, because that Chinese gentleman with the uncouth Italian minder seems to have gotten himself the impression that it's still there, such was his eagerness to remain incognito?
 
Bear in mind also the way Muscat has been twisting and turning all over the place trying to curry favour with the world at large by going through the motions about consulting and discussing and tweaking and modifying, all of this of a law that he passed in such a haste that you'd be forgiven for thinking that there be dragons on his tail.
 
If anyone's in a panic, it's our no-longer so young PM (forty is only young when you look at it from my venerable age) you might say, if you were so inclined.
 
Getting back to that legal advice, while we're at it, what sort of advice is the PN being challenged to produce?  The advice that says the bleeding obvious, that is to say that if you buy something knowing full well that it's compromised, you can't grumble if what you were warned about comes to pass?  
 
Any prospective purchaser of our prostituted citizenship now knows full well that when the Nationalist Party is elected to Government, his passport will be worth the sum total of nada: he's been warned and if Henley and Whoever don't make this clear to him, then it's Henley and Whatsit who shall bear the responsibility and no-one else.
 
"Caveat emptor" chaps, it's a simple concept to understand, if you don't let the Little Weasels impress you with their legal knowledge, which itself amounts to the square root of bugger all. 
 
 

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