The looming election on May 25, which could mean the beginning of the end, if not the end of the beginning, of Adrian Delia as Nationalist Party and Opposition leader, is quite obviously continuing to turn the leader of half of the Opposition into a surreal politician.

On the same day a MaltaToday report revealed that Air Malta would be announcing its first profit for so many years and just a day after Standard & Poor’s issued another very positive credit-rating report about the economic success our country is achieving, Delia, in his inimitable hysterical way, had this to say: “Labour’s administration’s policies and lack of planning had taken the country to the brink of disaster.”

As if this was not more than enough to prove that Delia is living in cuckoo land, the leader of half of the Opposition continued: “The PN will not shy away from cleaning the mess which Prime Minister Joseph Muscat will leave behind him when he bows out of local politics.”

When Muscat decides to step down he will leave behind him a surplus instead of a deficit year after year, a record low unemployment figure, much cheaper utility tariffs, incredible tourism records, undreamed-of progress in the health, education, social and infrastructure sectors, Enemalta and Air Malta making a profit instead of being on the brink of bankruptcy and among the happiest people in the EU, according to Eurostat.

How is it possible that no one has as yet persuaded Delia to stop talking nonsense?