Overnight, that 36,000-vote gap between the parties has shot to at least 60,000

They want to make their party glorious and victorious again, they said: and then they picked a leader who is already bleeding the core vote away. I have never heard so many committed Nationalist Party supporters say that nothing will bring them to vote Nationalist with that scoundrel at the helm.

This is truly a nation of half-wits who can’t even do simple maths – which is probably why they looked at Adrian Delia’s statement of affairs, if they looked at it at all, and set off the overstated value of the house in which he lives against his personal debts of almost a million euros, and concluded that he is in the black.