Anyone who lately has been following Adrian Delia’s speeches must have noted that the leader of the Opposition has raised the decibels of his voice. While up to a couple of months ago he used to resort to shouting bouts during his speeches, lately he has been resorting to bouts of yelling.

The reason for this is obvious. Unemployment figures keep going down. Tourism figures keep going up. Foreign investment projects keep being announced on a weekly if not daily basis.

Eurostat reports keep showing the Maltese people as the happiest in the whole of the EU. And, to cut a long story short, the latest announcement about the surplus for 2017 – the incredible figure of €486.6 million – must have been the last straw for Delia and his moaners.

So there is only one way Delia and his crew believe they have to try and undermine the feel-good factor that one can easily see and feel in our country. That only way is turn each trivial, invented or manipulated story into a ‘scandal’ of epic proportions, as was the ridiculous story about Ferdinand’s Bar, in Siġġiewi. Or the one about a couple needing to do five jobs between them to afford going out for a weekly pizza.

And now, to add to his misery, on April 25, Delia saw eight of his MPs, led by Simon Busuttil, Mario de Marco and Beppe Fenech Adami, voting in Parliament with the government on the Domestic Violence Bill.

Oh, my Delia.