With apologies for the headline to those who don't get Maltese ("it's obvious, innit?", approximately) I'm moved to that statement of the bleedin' obvious by the reaction to the PM's comment that the Nationalists are committed to energy price reductions.

Don't you love longish sentences, they really must get the Lil'Elves and Peculiar Pundits going?

Even this online newspaper came over all breathless, almost giving the impression that the PN were endorsing Joseph Muscat's "very, very confident" plans to dump the old and raise the new, all within a few months and on the back of some thus-far mythical private investor, for whose name we wait with breath we must bate, man.

All we needed was the Malta Employers' Association to come out with a multi-paragraph gush of appreciation for the Nationalist plan. They shouldn't have found it difficult to do this, given that they managed a pretty fulsome paean of praise for the Muscat-cum-Mizzi "plan", with mere hours between Muscat's PowerPoint presentation and their standing ovation for it.

They didn't, though, which is more the MEA I know than the one which snapped smartly to attention to laud that which most thinking people were questioning deeply.

You'd think they'd been given an advance copy of the Muscat Masterpiece, such was the alacrity with which they burnt incense in its elevation to scripture-like goodness.

And if you don't like my quasi-religious wisecracking, blame Muscat: apparently he thinks that wisecracking about other people's faiths is OK, good evidence of the extent to which he really believes in inclusiveness.

But forsooth, isn't it really flipping obvious that the PN is all for reducing energy prices? Does anyone give even one moment's credence to Muscat's snide innuendos about the PN in Government recklessly raising prices just for the fun of it? Really, are you that shallow?

The thing is, while Muscat and his side-kick, Bat(e)man and Robin if you want to use Muscat's own standards of weighty discourse, pose the question by giving the answer and then frothing up a cunning plan to get to it, the PN tries to ask the right questions and get answers that work in the real world, not just in Never-Never Land.