Way before November and definitely not March

The general election is most definitely not going to be in March and will almost certainly be way before November. The clearest evidence of this is that cabinet ministers are knocking on constituents’ doors on workday mornings when they should be at the office.

If the general election were planned for March, cabinet ministers wouldn’t be knocking on doors at all a year ahead (though backbench MPs would), and even if it were planned for November, at the most they would be knocking on doors on weekends and evenings – certainly not during office hours.

At least two cabinet ministers – Konrad Mizzi and Edward Zammit Lewis – were out knocking on doors in their constituencies on Friday morning, and those are just the two who came to the knowledge of this website. For all we know, the whole lot of them could have been out doing the same.

Constituency visits on a workday morning, by cabinet ministers who are meant to have so much government work on their plate, is eleventh-hour action. When cabinet ministers are knocking on doors for votes during office hours as well as in the evening and on weekends, it means they know they are running out of time. If the election were seven months away, in November, they wouldn’t be touring the streets of their constituencies now rather than going into the office.

The general election is a lot closer than that.