I am utterly convinced that Adrian Delia’s speeches are causing untold embarrassment to many PN voters endowed with even a modicum of intelligence. The ridiculous arguments he made while speaking on Radio 101 on June 9 were no exception.  Delia described the €50 million project for social housing, as “another deceitful trick” (ħadma oħra).

He added an even more stupid argument when stating: “Business people are creating wealth while the government is creating poverty”, when business people are creating more wealth due to the government’s “pro-business” policies and incentives.

The government has taken innumerable measures which are leaving more money in the vast majority of people’s pockets. This is why we now have much lower income-tax, record low unemployment, many more thousands of women who have joined the workforce through the establishment of free childcare centres and so many other initiatives of a social nature, such as in-work benefit etc..

Is this how to “create poverty”? Just a couple of more “gems”, such as when Delia kept asking “where is the surplus?” And his latest one, when he said that pensioners are not having enough money “to buy a second pair of shoes”. The €300 annual grant they receive is enough to buy 15 pairs if not more. While thousands who continue to work after reaching retirement age, are better off now than before.

No wonder public opinion surveys are showing that Delia simply cannot realise that by making such absurd comments he is demeaning himself. Instead of convincing those who had left the PN or attract new voters, he is even embarrassing those who voted PN in June 2017.