范徐丽泰，香港首任回归后立法会主席，最近抛出了一枚政治炸弹。她透露，一位朋友曾告诉她，90个席位的立法会比60个席位的立法会花费更多，而“我有点同意这个说法”。
Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, Hong Kong’s first post-handover Legislative Council president, recently dropped a political bomb. She revealed that one of her friends had been telling her that a legislature with 90 seats costs a lot more than one with 60 and that “I kind of agree with that”.
这句话背后的基本数学无法反驳：60是90的三分之二。尽管范徐丽泰并未主动提出此话题——她是在广播节目中被主持人提问时才谈到的——但一位资深政治人物竟然公开暗示立法会规模应被缩减，这仍然令人震惊。
The basic maths behind the statement cannot be refuted: 60 is two-thirds of 90. Even though Fan didn’t bring up the topic herself – she was asked the question by the host during a radio show – it was shocking that a...