1. How many of these “scary” foreigners will you kick out and how will you decide who to kick out? Employers are already facing challenges when it comes to finding staff so they would need to plan ahead.

2. Will you ban new iGaming companies from setting up in Malta to address the concentration of foreigners in Sliema and St Julian’s or will you force some of these companies out?

3. One in every five married Maltese couples is composed of a Maltese national and a foreign spouse. Are those scary too and will they be forced to leave the country? And what will we tell their children when other children start picking on them because of their nationality?

4. Don’t forget what I said about how your proposal for a four-day week proposal would require 50,000 more foreign workers. We would actually need closer to 60,000, but I reduced it by 10,000 to take into account the potential, although dubious, potential effect of AI being able to deliver pizza to us, clean our elderly in peace, serve us at restaurants and collect rubbish from our streets.

Muscat said that Delia should have limited himself to calling out abusive landlords who pack their apartments with an excessive number of foreign tenants and the minority of abusive employers.

He praised the GWU, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri and Parliamentary Secretary Andy Ellul for working on a collective agreement for food delivery couriers, but was less kind to “so-called socialist commentators”.

“I am amazed at how several people whose commentary gives the impression that they are the greatest socialists ever, even though they have never actually worked a minute to help workers, haven’t uttered a word about this, just as they haven’t uttered a word about Delia’s ‘tat-tkexkix’ comment.”