Last minute desperate measures: first they take your club premises, then they come for your vote

The Vikings Sailing Club – a club for children and young teenagers – was displaced when the army built a large concrete bunker down on the wharf which it used, a couple of years ago. There was a big fuss about it, and properly so.

Now Chris Agius, the Parliamentary Secretary for Sport, has called an 11th-hour press conference about the subject, two years too late.