The summer silly season is usually a time for politicians to unwind, take a vacation, collect themselves for the coming autumn and to basically give themselves and the populace a break from it all. It is a time not only for politicians but also for the public at large to let go of the politics that tend to define many of our everyday lives in this heavily polarised country.

But not so this year - and if the country ever needed a silly season, that time would be right about now.

The country at large appears to be on the verge of severe and simultaneous bouts of electoral fatigue, political fatigue and scandal fatigue. And this summer there appears to be no sign of any of these sources of fatigue abating.

As far as politics are concerned, the country has a new government with new ministerial portfolios, ministers and new junior ministers - and each and every one of these will no doubt be keen to make their mark.

Added to that is the fact that Parliament will continue meet into the summer, until somewhere near the first week of August, after the break it had when it was dissolved for the election campaign.

The country also saw the passing of the landmark same-sex marriage law, for which the country has been applauded the world over, but which has created a deep and bitter divide between the country's more liberal-minded segments and its arch-conservatives.

As far as election fatigue goes, there has been little respite either. Both the main political parties have been forced to hold their own internal elections, the residue of the 3 June general election. 

The Labour Party last night wrapped up its own internal election to appoint a new deputy leader for parliamentary affairs, who will also become the country's deputy prime minister, to fill the vacuum left by Louis Grech who chose not to recontest his parliamentary seat this time around.

The Nationalist Party, on the other hand, is to elect not only a new party, and Opposition, leader after its harrowing defeat at the general election polls, but also two new deputy leaders and administration members, all of whom stepped down. Those contests, however, will not be held until September, which means that campaigning will persist until then. 

And while the two parties' internal elections may matter little to the average man on the street, it is only the parties' delegates who will be lobbied for their votes. News of the campaigns have and will continue to inundate the airwaves, newspapers and online media, leaving people with little choice but to remain involved in the country's political life to a certain extent at a time the year when politics are pretty much switched off or at least placed simmering on the backburner.

And finally scandal fatigue, a syndrome most of the country has suffered an acute case of over recent months. In fact the country has been inundated with scandal news since last year's outbreak of the Panama Papers and all that came with it. That is, after all, what essentially led the prime Minister to call an election a year early and to effectively ask the people for a vote of confidence in him and his government, which he got.

But in the meantime there are a number of related magisterial inquiries underway, inquiries that could be concluded at any given time and rest assured that once that happens, everyone can forget any hope they may have harboured of a traditional escape from politics in these hot days of summer.