Comments on: Stop it with the “36,000”. It means jack.

By: kev

kev — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:52:50 +0000

In reply to Vanni.

No, Vanni, do not give up on Simon. Allow me, please, to Sun-tsu you back twofold.

Sun-tsu said:

“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.”

Do you Sun-tsu what I mean, Vanni? Simon has been Sun-tsuing the situation well.

Faith in Simon, brother. In peace. For Simon.

By: GiovDeMartino

GiovDeMartino — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:22:53 +0000

In reply to TROY. jqabbizhieli

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:23:22 +0000

In reply to TROY. He needs to go if PN hope to win the next election.

By: Osservatore

Osservatore — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:09:52 +0000

The party was and still is led by lawyers. This makes them good wordsmiths but not necessarily best at interpreting or crunching numbers.

And it is not only the issue of the additional 18,000 phantom voters that Simon harps on about. The state of the PN coffers also serves as evidences of this.

Alas, for all his strong points, both the swing and the precarious party finances are the legacy of Lawrence Gonzi and his team.

By: Vanni

Vanni — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:47:05 +0000

I am rapidly losing faith in Simon.

Not only is he turning into a Muscat doormat, but he is now failing to protect those he was elected to lead.

May I remind him of a quotation from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

By: Orlando Ellul Micallef

Orlando Ellul Micallef — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:15:51 +0000

36,000 can’t be wrong …. says Simon … but we, who proudly voted the Nationalist Party and believed that it was the right choice in the last election, are wrong?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:55:26 +0000

The phrase “36000 can’t be wrong” is wrong.

Yes, they can be wrong and in the first six months it has been proved almost every day that these 36000 where wrong with their choice on the 9th of March, Democracy is a good thing but it is far from perfect.

By: Lomax

Lomax — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:55:26 +0000

If Simon Busuttil ever tells ME that, I would retort: ask the Jews whether 36,000 (sic) can be wrong.

I’m finding the man insufferable.

By: Josette

Josette — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:54:15 +0000

In reply to Floater. Ehmm, everyone can be wrong, even Dr Busuttil. And this 18K (or as you would have it 36K) is especially wrong and Joseph Muscat appears to be spending all his waking hours giving us further proof of how wrong they were.

By: Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:41:32 +0000

In reply to Enrico Fermi.

What I wrote is not an opinion but mathematical reasoning and it is correct. If you can detect a flaw, please go ahead and shoot the logic — try not to hit me in the process, if you don’t mind. I did not fail my math “O” level, that much and some more I can guarantee. The gist is that speaking of a majority of 36,000 is the same as speaking of 18,000 switchers (barring those who did not switch from anywhere). If your argument is that it takes 18,001 to overturn the 36,000 majority, you’re correct, of course. That’s all there is to it. Mathematical certainty. QED.

[Daphne – Yes. That’s my argument.]