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25 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 18 NOVEMBER 2018 OPINION This analog y assumes even greater precision when you consider the specific reasons why the British people are finding it so hard to leave the EU CAREER OPPORTUNITY JUNIOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (ICT) JOBSPLUS PERMIT NUMBER: 611/2018 Interested persons are to send a covering le er together with a detailed Curriculum Vitae by not later than 25th November 2018, addressed to Human Resources Unit, Iden ty Malta Agency, Onda Building, Aldo Moro street, Marsa. 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Job Descrip ons - Administer and troubleshoot servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, per- sonal digital assistants, smartphones, so ware deployment, security updates, so ware and hardware. - Maintain, service and repair computers and IT equipment as necessary. - Managing the IT infrastructure within the organisa on including WAN, LAN and server applica ons. - Monitor network resources and their performance to ensure high-quality connec vity. - Document service processes, related installa ons and major set-up of hardware and so ware. - Propose improvements to processes as necessary to the Chief Informa on Officer. - Any other du es as may be required by CEO and his delegate. Commissioner reshuffle… already there is talk of a 'com- mon European army', and the establishment of a 'United States of Europe'. Some of the possible future shapers of this 'new EU' are even talking about 'renegotiating treaties' (German Commission Presi- dent hopeful Manfred Weber) and 'turning the EU into an empire' (former French Presi- dent Macron). And there will also be a second enlargement (and, therefore, a whole new treaty to sign without reading the fine print). So, whatever happens, really… the EU of five years' time will definitely not be the same EU we joined in 2013. And I honestly can't imagine how utterly different it might be in, say, 50 years' time. For all we know, by then it might have blown itself to a billion pieces in a pan-Euro- pean civil war. So ironically – mega-ironi- cally, even – we actually have a much clearer picture of Britain's future outside the EU right now, than inside it. b) This argument is particu- larly obnoxious, because it simply assumes that everyone who voted for Brexit was swayed by arguments brought forward by the 'Leave' cam- paign. How utterly insult- ing is that? And how utterly ignorant of how such things as 'elections' and 'referenda' actually work, too. Unlike the holders of this particular belief, I can't talk on behalf of any British 'Leave' voter: still less, all of them put together. But I'd still be willing to bet that untold thousands of British voters would have flocked to the polls, all fiercely determined to vote for Brexit… with- out having listened a single word uttered by either side throughout the entire cam- paign. After all, the question on the ballot paper was not: 'Do you believe the arguments of the 'Leave' campaign?'. It was more like: 'Do you want to stay in the blinking EU, or do you want to blinking leave it? Yes, or blinking No?' How, then, can the answer possibly be tied to a question that was never asked of voters at all? (One other small addendum to that: if the 'Leave' cam- paign lied – and I've no doubt it did – well, the 'Remain' campaign was not exactly a fountain of truth, either. They denied that the EU was plan- ning to form a common army. And oh, look: it is. So, would the result have been equally inadmissible, had the referen- dum gone the other way…?) I won't even bother with either 'c' or the stark, brutal truth, because the serious- ness of the implications is writ large in both cases. There are many roads that lead to the loss of democracy… but most of them involve a small cote- rie of 'enlightened' individuals who feel they know better than everybody else, and are therefore entitled to simply take decisions on behalf of other people, because… 'they know best'. But no matter. If it's a sec- ond (sorry, 'final') referendum you all want, by all means, go for it. You can always call for a third (but equally 'final') refer- endum if the second one goes the same way as the first: even though – then as now – there are polls suggesting it won't. (Remember? I said that part was significant…) So please: don't let little me stand in the way of history repeating itself. After all, I'm just an enlight- ened superior being who is always absolutely right about absolutely everything… so no need to pay me any mind.