Our reform drama

Who needs to watch TVB’s copycat dramas when you have Donald Tsang and his rivals in town? Last Sunday, Bowtie and his ministers stormed the city (or more precisely, the shopping malls) for a second time in a row to promote the government’s political reform package and it got even more chaotic than before. Our great CE first went to Taikoo and was immediately greeted by an angry LSD mob (0:30). There, he murmured some words into his microphone, only to be completely owned in volume level. It’s reported that he only stayed there for 10 minutes, handed out zero leaflets and left.

Donald then went to a staged event in an obscure public estate mall and got greeted by an enthusiastic crowd for a change (1:50). We don’t know exactly how they managed to get that crowd there to wait for our CE instead of queuing up for dim sum on a Sunday, but we could see how Bowtie went frenzy at 2:11 and told us that the majority of Hongkies support the government’s proposal.

One interesting thing we noticed however, is that the asswhip minister responsible for the proposal package, Stephen Lam, had a much easier ride on Sunday than his boss (6:05). Stephen was in an air-conditioned department store, handing out leaflets to children who are too young and ignorant to know how to give him the finger. Donald, what about feeding Stephen Lam to the LSD mob next time?

As for the views of the HK people, well, Donald might be partly right. According to the latest survey figures by HKU POP, 46% of Hongkies think that the LegCo should pass the proposal, while 37% of us think they should veto it. Of course, only the government has the nerve to call 46% a majority; nevertheless, it seems that we have close to half of the HK population prepared to say yes to the reform package of no reform. No matter how hard the pan-dems are trying to shove it, they only got 570,000 of us to came out to vote in their “referendum” on May 16. That is “democracy” baby.

Hold on! Does it really matter how us Hongkies feel about this? While Donald has been busy trying to appeal to us with his daft shows, the pan-dems have decided to veto the package anyway. Well, thanks for wasting all this tax money on us then. Maybe a better strategy for the government would be to splash out millions of bucks on the 23 pan-dem legislators instead. At least that would put a smirk on their faces.




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