Adrian Delia’s thugs – from Jean Pierre Underwood’s WhatsApp group

You may be interested to know that the crowd of ageing heavies around Adrian Delia at the party headquarters last night included John Dalli’s ex driver and Michael Falzon’s ex driver, and a docker whose assets are frozen by court order under ‘proceeds of crime’ laws. And here are Il-Mackay, Jesmond Il-Hajta and Censu L-Iswed, Adrian’s Scarface posse, in what they think is normal behaviour for the people surrounding the would-be Opposition leader.

What can I say? Adrian the bent lawyer has returned to the milieu in which he feels most at home, and the people among whom he feels most comfortable, after two decades of struggling to keep up a false front by pretending to be something he is not.

He started this race as Malta’s Matteo Renzi complete with outfits, and is ending it just a few weeks later as Wistin Abela, surrounded by thugs and criminals and not even bothering to shave.