You cannot pretend to be someone you aren't forever. At some point, the masquerade cannot be kept up as the lies become so frequent and complex that they would certainly lead to confusion. People will then see you for who you are and you will be judged for who you are not for who you pretended to be.

Labour's mask is falling off. Faster than many of us had thought could happen. But we should have known that the shining glamour would wear off in a short while. The artificiality of the whole campaign should have given the game away were it not for the people's frame of mind which was more geared towards chucking out the previous government than that of assessing the veracity of what was being promised.

Let's take the biggest promise made by Labour in the run up to the general election - that of building a new gas power station by March 2015. This promise was immediately challenged by the Nationalist Party, but people seemed dead set on giving Labour a chance to run the country. Hence its massive victory in March 2013. But alas, what the PN had predicted came true. The Labour government had to admit that it couldn't keep its promise to deliver the power station on time. Eventuality, it was revealed, not by the government but by the media, that the whole power station deal had hit a snag. Whatever the snag was, Labour failed to fulfil a major election promise and cannot just brush this off as if nothing happened. After all, Prime Minister Muscat himself had promised to resign unless he delivered. He has neither delivered nor resigned. Now they have told that told us that they will be delaying the project not by a few months, but by a full 15-month period. But hold on, we still need to know whether this new deadline will be kept.

Meritocracy was another promise Labour has failed to keep. From the very first appointments way back in March 2013, it was evident that this government was adamant on dismantling all systems that guaranteed fairness and meritocracy. Starting from the appointment of the top person in the civil service and proceeding with the fast tracking of promotions in the Army and Police Corps and the appointment of various of people to key positions in many public entities, this government did exactly the opposite of what it had promised. If it weren't for the sheer dishonesty of the whole thing, one could deem it ridiculous

Then there is another example of this grand uncovering of Labour's true face. This is the non-exemplary behaviour of various members of this party in government. Starting off with the Prime Minister who rented his own car to the government rather than using an official car; a Cabinet minister who allowed work to be carried out in her resident despite a Mepa enforcement notice, and continuing with most of the government MPs earning thousands of euro over and above what an MP earns, as well as various officials and former officials of the Labour Party who have all been given cushy jobs paid for by the public purse.

The culmination of this non-exemplary behaviour by government exponents was reached by Minister Manwel Mallia whose driver shot at a citizen while driving a GM car. In the aftermath of the shooting, there was an attempt to cover up the real circumstances leading to the incident. All traces were removed. The low-loader to remove the ministerial car reached the spot where the incident took place before the district police. Indeed, the car was washed and used by the minister the following day! It has also been revealed that the first media release was issued by the Office of the Prime Minister indicating that the initial information released could have been doctored by someone there. This incident has led to a call from many quarters for the minister to resign or to be removed by the Prime Minister. However rather than acting like a Prime Minister, Dr Muscat hid behind an inquiry board.

Labour's mask has come off. People are starting to see the true face of Labour and, by the looks of it, they do not like what they see. Defending his government, Prime Minister Muscat had the cheek to say that as long as people have money in their pockets, they would not bother about anything else. Dr Muscat is wrong. People want to live in a democratic country where people are treated equally, where the police corps is independent of the government, where individual rights are fully respected.

I believe Dr Muscat's poor assessment on what stuff the people are made of will come back to haunt him one day.