February 10 will no longer be the feast day of St Paul’s Shipwreck Day, and will instead be known as Delia’s Shipwreck Day from today onwards.
The government made the decision to reallocate the public holiday following the ongoing crisis in the Nationalist Party, with the Opposition led by Adrian Delia being likened to a sinking ship.
“To commemorate the glorious shambles the PN are in, we are renaming February 10 to Delia’s Shipwreck Day. Instead of celebrating the arrival of Christianity in Malta, we’ll be celebrating all the work done by Delia to turn Malta into a one-party state led by us,” a government spokesman said.
As part of the feast’s rituals, devotees will carry a leaky wooden boat containing a statue of Adrian Delia through the streets of Pietà, starting at Dar Ċentrali before dumping it in the sea near the Msida yacht marina.
Delia himself has used the shipwreck analogy in recent days, saying that as captain, he will not abandon ship.
“Usually ship captains don’t blow holes in their own vessel, throw their crew overboard and pretend their ship isn’t actually sinking, but I suppose with feasts like this there are always things that don’t make logical sense,” a nautical expert told Bis-Serjetà.
