Keith, Kurt, Konrad and the Prime Minister are going to organise “a media event” to tell us about the new power station deadlines

You can’t make these things up. At a press conference this morning (official subject – justice reform), the prime minister was besieged by questions about Air Malta and its pilots. So far, so fascinating.

Then he was asked a question about the Delimara power station which has yet to materialise, three and a half years after the general election and corrupt accountant Brian Tonna’s initiation of the process to set up three companies in Panama (for Keith Schembri, Konrad Mizzi and Lord Egrant) and another two for himself and Shanghai Electric’s negotiator, Cheng Chen, in the British Virgin Islands.

Konrad ‘I’m Too Busy Playing With My Rubber Dinghy To Answer Your Questions’ Mizzi’s umpteenth deadline has come and gone, last month, and we are none the wiser as to what is happening.

But not to worry, because when journalists asked for an update at the PM’s press conference today, Muscat replied: “We will be organising a media event soon during which we will give fresh deadlines for the Delimara power station.”

Gosh, a media event – and what do you know, with new deadlines to be missed.

“Hello, and welcome to our media event. These are the new power station deadlines. When we miss them, we’ll give you new ones. And please don’t remind us that the Delimara power station is a privately-owned venture and not a government project and that the people who should be addressing press conferences, giving updates and justifying missed deadlines should be the Gasans, Fenechs. Apap Bolognas and Azerbaijanis of Electrogas Malta Ltd. The government of Malta is the client and not the supplier.”