The Government, through the Ministry for which Konrad Mizzi is responsible (for now) got onto the highest of its high horses and denounced as irresponsible lies the reports appearing in the PN media that there had been a case of Ebola in Gozo.

On reading the report itself, it is clear that its thrust is not that there was a case of the dreaded disease (a dread fanned by the world's media, that seems to have little else with which to concern itself this summer) but that had there been such a case, the Gozo hospital was unprepared.

The Government's spin-machine, perhaps taking some free advice from its ardent supporter Alastair Campbell, twisted the focus button and poo-pooed the "there was a case of Ebola" angle, ignoring, at first, the more important aspect.

Later, Muscat's boys came out with the line that anyway, Gozo was well prepared for this sort of emergency, only to have the nurse's union gainsay them promptly to say that this was not the case.

As any well-brought up individual will tell you, lying is a bad thing and should be punished with a rod of steel.

Consequently, had the horrid PN media been caught in a lie, Muscat would have been more than justifed in directing Mizzi, Konrad of that ilk (the other Mizzi is busy trying to get the busses to work, poor sod) to point a vengeful finger at the liars.

The snag, for the Mizzi-Muscat combo, is that their denouncing gambit turned itself around, as lies often do, and bit them on the backside.

I wonder, while on the subject of porkies developing teeth, whether Konrad Mizzi is casting an eye over the 'Situations Vacant' columns of the papers this morning. Forced to admit that his, and his boss's, pre-election undertaking that the new power station will be up and running in time seems to have been as true as the allegation (which was not made, but anyway) that there was a case of Ebola in Gozo, he is now frantically trying to spin the story into the obvious variant that "the important thing is that tariffs will go down".

We all knew that come what may, tariffs will go down as promised before the elections by Muscat and Mizzi. It's our money that they were promising to redistribute, and this sort of promise was always one that they would keep, it being no skin off their noses.

But you and I, dear readers, will remember that Mizzi and Muscat had made it pretty damn clear, brave (code for foolhardy) boys that they were, that if the new power station does not come on stream as promised, they would take political responsibility.

Which means that they would have to feel that it was incumbent on them to resign.

Will they now give the lie to this pre-electoral undertaking ex post facto, the facts being what they are? Will, for that matter, the clip of them giving this undertaking ever surface, or has it been lost, conveniently?

I, for one, am not holding my breath waiting for Joseph Muscat to go to the President, but there may yet be developments that will turn Konrad Mizzi from looking like a harassed sheep into a sacrificial lamb.