Before the handover: government officials appeared live on stage with rock bands…
…and almost looked born to it.
Today: government officials cover up statues of Queen Victoria with tacky banners…
…and then wet themselves like panic-stricken weasels and change their minds when people complain.
Is it any wonder that Hong Kong has fallen so significantly down the World Cool Index in the last 20 years?
On a brighter note, thanks to huge gains in technology and increased output of source material, satirical videos have hugely improved…
Sorry to grab your blog, Hemlock, but to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, my own celebratory ditty…
You’d better watch out
You’d better not cry
You’d better watch out
I’m telling you why
Xi Jinping is coming to town
Well he’s bringing lots of tanks and guns
And a great big army too
And when he brings them to Hong Kong
He’s gonna drive them over you (splat)
[Chorus]
He knows which books you’re selling
He knows when they’re taboo
He’ll get that filmed confession
And that’s the end of you (oo)
[Chorus]
He don’t like independence
He knows just what’s at stake
So he will change the Basic Law
And a pyre of freedoms make (yeah!)
[Chorus]
There’s National Education
And we are all Chinese
And if you’re not on board with that,
Well, get down on your knees.
[Chorus]
Ahhh Xi Jinping — Hong Kong’s very own Paul Bremner: trying to understand Hong Kong from behind the 10 ft concrete barriers of the green zone. Although the suitcases full of cash that Xi is bringing with him are just to be deposited in the old offshore account – just resting there of course.
I suspect embarrassment and mirth will ambush any convoy into insurgent-held territory.
No, Hong Kong was always tacky. But it wa cheerful. Now it’s so morose. Or is it just me? (Yes. Ed.)
PS: Sorry to pull you up on satire. You can’t judge it as you don’t do it. The motor for satire is righteous indignation. It comes from a moral position, not from a colonial Economist Tory superiority complex. You just sneer. Again, apologies but someone has to tell you.
Gee they are stupid. Ignoring such statues would mean the rest of the populace would do so as well. The stunt where they placed one next to the monkey enclosure only made decision makers look at if they had very small penises.
Whatever happened to Ricky Fung ?
@Joe Blow – On the board of the hospital authority ( http://www.ha.org.hk/haho/ho/ca/v3/abtus_ha_member-en_v2.htm ) otherwise seems to have dropped out of the spotlight since ceasing to be the sec-gen of LegCo in 2008.