in 1956 the Maltese people voting 77% to 23% for integration into the UK, Malta would keep itself own Parliament (like NI House of Commons) but election MPs to sit in Westminster and the UK Parliament would control defence and foreign affairs, and would gain direct taxation powers, while the Maltese Parliament would be responsible for all other areas of public life, including education and the position of the church, of course this never came to pass and Malta became independent in 1964 and a Republic in 1974, what if however Malta had been integrated into the UK under this plan, what changes?