Don’t be disappointed if Joseph Muscat does not resign today, on the day that his self-imposed deadline for the completion of the power station at Delimara expires.

He is a man that enjoys power, did his best to obtain it, and will not relinquish it even if it means that he will not stick to his word.

Two years ago today, the people voted Joseph Muscat into government in a landslide victory, and there will be nothing that will stop the government from carrying on for the next three years until the end of its term in office.

Two years ago, the people voted for Joseph Muscat because he promised them a new power station to be completed within 24 months. A year later, he confirmed his intentions to shoulder political responsibility if the promise is not maintained. But when it became clear that there was no way that the project would be ready within the established timeframe, Labour and its friendly selected media started to twist his words and trying to make us believe that Joseph Muscat never said so.

Two years ago, the people voted for Joseph Muscat because he promised transparency and accountability. But we now know that one of his first deeds was to offer a €4.2 million cheque from the people’s pockets to bailout a company which was losing money, which closed its Valletta establishment named Cafe Premier on the day of the election, and which scandal is so great that the PM himself is getting caught in one contradiction after another to defend what is, after all, indefensible.

Two years ago, the people voted for “Malta Taghna Lkoll”, but we quickly found out that this concept was just an empty slogan that duped the people, as only those with closely-knit ties to Labour – or who sucked up to Joseph Muscat on billboards and ad campaigns – had a red carpet laid out for them. Those who believed that they could work with Joseph even though they disagreed with him – his words, not mine – found out that it was not so.

Two years ago, the people voted for Labour because they were angry that the Gonzi administration had given its ministers and parliamentary secretaries a pay rise which had been kept hidden. But they quickly realised that, apart from appointing a huge Cabinet that is costing the country’s coffers much more than the honoraria increase, backbenchers were given lucrative appointments which amply made up for their not being given a place around the huge table at Castille.

Two years ago, the people voted for Joseph Muscat because he promised them that there will be no patients waiting in corridors at Mater Dei Hospital. But they soon understood that Labour did not have the magic wand they said they had before the election; the situation worsened day after day, week after week, and it looks likely that it will not be resolved anytime soon.

Two years ago, the people voted for Joseph Muscat, but they did not vote to have their citizenship sold to foreigners; they did not vote to have hundreds, if not thousands, employed in the public service to keep unemployment low; neither did they vote for ministers to request social partners to surrender mobile phones before meetings or to carry out illegal works on their property.

Good things? Of course there were. All governments do good things, and the Labour government is no exception.

But Joseph Muscat has failed in all of his major promises.

But don’t expect him to resign.