Manuel Delia’s latest piece in The Times of Malta, titled “Maybe the politics comes later,” is a masterpiece of intellectual hypocrisy and empty waffle. As always, Delia dishes out his sanctimonious advice to the Nationalist Party, urging it to “reassess its political stance” and craft “coherent policies” before worrying about image. But let’s call out his nonsense for what it is: Crap dressed up as analysis.
While Delia pontificates from his ivory tower, Labour is busy implementing real strategy rooted in one simple principle: “Strike before the enemy is ready; attack his unpreparedness from an unexpected quarter.”
Here is the difference:
Manuel Delia’s Crap
- Preaches patience while the PN bleeds internally
- Calls for unity in a party torn by decades of betrayal
- Suggests “policies first, politics later” in a system where timing is everything
- Ignores the bankrupt state of the PN, whose €30 million debt makes any grand reform fantasies laughable
Labour’s Strategy
- Knows invincibility lies in defence of its track record while victory lies in attack
- Moves swiftly to define the PN’s new leader before they define themselves
- Exposes their weaknesses before they stabilise their fractured party
- Understands the Maltese electorate chooses results over recycled slogans and empty sermons
Delia’s opinion reeks of the same old elitist arrogance that destroyed the PN in the first place – talking down to their own people, preaching moral purity while ignoring the realities of power. Meanwhile, Labour’s leadership understands that politics is war by other means: it’s about seizing momentum, not waiting for your enemy to recover and regroup.
The truth is, the politics Delia dreams of will never come. His beloved PN is beyond rescue – and every time he writes one of these self-important pieces, he reminds the country why it should never trust the Nationalist clique again.
