Just on the eve of the local and general elections, the Labour-controlled Ta’ Xbiex local council introduced a parking scheme which reserves parking in the area for the residents of the locality during the day and allows parking for not more than 90 minutes for visitors.

Most of the residents in the area leave for work during the day and the parking spaces left during the day are usually occupied by employees of at least 20 small and medium sized enterprises in the area which employ more than 300 people.

It also seems that this topsy-turvy logic was also applied to the signs themselves.