Or yours is bigger than mine, depending which way you look at it.

For the Labour Party, anything that Labour has done is of greater importance than what was achieved by the Nationalist Party, while any scandal in which the PN is involved is conversely more disgraceful than the mishaps committed by Labour. At the other end, the PN thinks that all its work has brought about superior benefits to the people, while indignities suffered by the party and its officials are insignificant when compared to Labour’s.

That’s the way politics go in Malta. We have even had the farce last week of Labour coming up with everything imaginable to try to hijack media and public attention away from the Nationalist Party’s organisation of the European People’s Party congress in Malta. The EPP general secretary said that PM Joseph Muscat was frantically calling EPP leaders for a photo opportunity. How silly.

Now that we have entered the last months of the legislature, we will be getting even bigger doses of this kind of politics.

I don’t believe Joseph Muscat when he says that the election will be held in March 2018. He has been deceitful on too many occasions for him to be taken seriously, so my guess is that the election will be held anytime but March, probably in November. He will emulate Eddie Fenech Adami in this respect.

What is sure is that although we are not yet officially in an election campaign, the two parties’ verbal fencing has already reached new heights. The Labour Party keeps on holding press conferences to repeat the same things over and over again, grabbing little attention from the media other than those that are close to the PL. On the other hand, the PN has also upped its tempo in a bid to raise its supporters’ hopes that not all is lost in spite of the huge defeat the party succumbed to last time round.

The thing is, neither party is impressing anyone, except the diehards. What they are doing is further alienating the people, and I repeat what I wrote a few months ago – people have grown so disillusioned by politics that I predict that we will have the lowest voter turnout in the next election. There will still be many who vote either side, but there will be many others who are not happy with either the PL or the PN, and will not even bother to vote for the smaller parties, given how ineffective they are.

It is sad to say that the number of politicians who could be trusted, and who carry no past or present baggage, keeps on diminishing. It is even sadder to note that political parties are failing to attract the kind of new blood that would inspire some confidence.

Both parties are drawing up their list of new candidates, but it cannot be said that they have made a positive impact. And, to be honest, if the more notorious of them make it to Parliament, then we would really be scraping the bottom of the political barrel.