The 16th and 17th members to pull out of the all-patriots Legislative Council are Michael Tien and Tony Tse. One prominent name remaining on the departure-bingo card is of course the indefatigable Regina Ip. (Or should that be ‘once indefatigable’?)
The body has cancelled its usual end-of-term valedictory motion…
Starry Lee, chair of the House Committee, announced the decision on Tuesday, a day before the Valedictory Motion was scheduled to be delivered, saying that the lawmakers’ final remarks might influence the elections in December. The nomination period will begin on Friday.
“It was a difficult choice,” Lee said. But she added that withdrawing the motion would allow lawmakers to “focus on legislative work and ensure the election’s fairness.”
The Valedictory Motion, a post-Handover LegCo tradition, allows each legislator to deliver a speech within the chamber to say goodbye and reflect on their time in office.
Earlier, on Monday evening, Ming Pao reported that LegCo was considering scrapping the farewell motion to avoid “embarrassing” scenes.
Visions of Reg being dragged out of the chamber like Hu Jintao. And quite right – we can’t have anything that might harm the election’s fairness.
Good headline today. Well done, sir.
It’s exceedingly difficult to give the tineist fork about what’s happening in LeGo, or whatever that puppet theater is called.
That someone as talentless and moronic as Starry Lee has any prominence in LegCo politics is indicative of the dross our patriotic people’s congress is comprised of. A rare combination of extreme homophobes and seat warmers marked only by their ability to do as told except on issues of gay rights which seems to move them to rebellion unlike any other issue.