A British snooker player called Ronnie O’Sullivan does a video with the Immigration Dept boss promoting the LegCo election. The Brit (who sounds like thug in a Guy Ritchie movie) probably has no clue what LegCo is. He has briefly been a resident of Hong Kong, courtesy of a talent visa, but some reports suggest he is decamping to oh-so classy and wholesome Dubai. It’s all here.
Top officials at the Customs Dept do a similar vid, featuring themselves in a barber shop.
Reminder: in Hong Kong, while it is legal to encourage people to vote, it is illegal to encourage them not to, even though it is legal not to vote. Has anyone worked out how this equates with any sort of legal logic?
Is there a commercial deal the HKSAR government has with Mr O’Sullivan. If there is, surely it should be made public. I understand full details would not be released, but what exactly is happening? Is Mr O’Sullivan a registered voter? Is he even qualified to vote? Will he be in Hong Kong on the 7th of December?
I’d suggest that Ronnie only ‘moved’ temporarily to HKG for tax reasons and possibly for lucrative contracts and snooker competitions in China. He’s quite a famous personality – I’m sure if he really was active about town people would post about seeing him or meeting him in some capacity
In HK, it is legal not to vote, but it is illegal to encourage people not to vote. However, it is not illegal to not encourage people to vote. So you can not encourage people to vote but you cannot encourage people not to vote. IS THAT CLEAR? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. MHKGA! DJT.
P.S. SO SAD that your LegCo vetoed a BEAUTIFUL BILL that would have registered overseas same-sex marriages such as those in USA or Taiwan, because that would have been subordinating HK law to the USA or Taiwan, although nobody in your LegCo seemed to realise that!
“Barber shop” on the mainland is usually code for Happy Ending Center.
Dear Democratic Alliance for the Progress and Betterment of Hongkong,
I believe it, I believe it, I believe it, I believe it!
Hong Kong is a Democracy ( of high quality tailored to Hong Kong’s unique circumstances!) !
Please do not spend so much money on Mega Advertising, Megaevents, Mega etc etc
As a matter of fact, would Hong Kong’s unique circumstances not permit to use some of your money to promote Regina’s ( she earned it, no?) New People’s Party? To leave no doubt that not only is Hong Kong a Democracy but a MULTIPARTY Democracy.
I’m low key disappointed he didn’t go full thug Guy Richie character mode and stared straight in the camera shouting “YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO, OR IM COMING FOR YOU”
More wasted tax dollars on Ronnie. Everyone knows that as soon as he had the HK ID in his pocket he decamped to Dubai. Probably working on some scam to avoid paying tax here as well as in UK. Not a bloke who supports Xi’s mantra of Common Prosperity.
The English free to air TV channels have been instructed to run nothing but the Games with nary a word of commentary in that language in breach of the llicence agreements. Election related coverage axed. So watching members of the public sidestepping the street booths has been replaced with endless tossing balls over nets and executing the same old same old twirleys on the diving board.
More reach for the remote.
Nice to see and hear Cambodian Space Project get a second airing; lovely counterbalance both in tone and beauty to the scruffiness of O’Sullivan who couldn’t even be bothered to iron his pants.
@Mary
“…nary a word of comment in that language in breach of the licence agreements.”
It’s endearing to know that there are people out there who still believe that quaint phrases like “breach of licence agreements” carry any weight whatsoever in a rule of law society of with Chinese characteristics.