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  1. #31

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Using brute force (spending money, barring candidates, paying the media, nullifying LegCo) looks like abject failure. So obviously we can expect more of the same....
    Except that it's working as designed.

    All nominally above board and proper according to rule-by-law and as since the first great purge of democracts from LegCo (the very reason for these by-elections), the pro-dems, despite representing clear majority of the population, will continue lacking even the power to veto bills.

    Pro-democracy camp -2 seats (now total of 26), regime camp +2 seats (now 42).

    I'll quote one response to Hemlock's take on this by-"election":

    What the pan-dems need to do – and have generally failed to do in the past – is increase public awareness that livelihood issues are not something aside from the constitutional issues, as the government’s narrative would have it, but directly related to them. A system which gives undue weight to tycoons and special interests to preserve Beijing’s dominance is exactly what stands between us and affordable housing, a greener environment, decent pensions for the old instead of absurdly expensive white elephant infrastructure projects, and all the other things we so desperately need if Hong Kong is to remain livable for ordinary people.
    The pan-dems also must figure out a way to cooperate as a single entity to have any chance of countering the Untied Front's orchestrated approach and tactics of division. It won't be easy but they really must find a consensus across the various priorities.
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  2. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by Mefisto:
    Since you seem to remain unaware of the actual point of that tweet (originally from VarsityCUHK), it was about poorly or misinformed people voting for DAB (a front for the United Front, an affront to others) despite that organization working against their interests (e.g. minorities).
    First of all, they're ethnic minorities with voting rights and not refugees.

    Second, DAB has a Ethnic Minorities Service Centre in Yau Tsim Mong, which is located in the Kowloon West constituency. The goal of the centre is to help ethnic minorities to integrate into mainstream society.

    Third, DAB has the highest membership of ethnic minorities in the city and even has an Ethnic Minority Committee.

    Next, look at that picture.

    Press Conference on the 2018-2019 Budget regarding Ethnic Minorities | DAB

    Thank you.

    If you want to be informed, follow me. If you want to be misinformed, follow Tom Grundy. It's your choice to make.
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    Quote Originally Posted by civil_servant:
    First of all, they're ethnic minorities with voting rights and not refugees.

    Second, DAB has a Ethnic Minorities Service Centre in Yau Tsim Mong, which is located in the Kowloon West constituency. The goal of the centre is to help ethnic minorities to integrate into mainstream society.

    Third, DAB has the highest membership of ethnic minorities in the city and even has an Ethnic Minority Committee.

    Next, look at that picture.

    Press Conference on the 2018-2019 Budget regarding Ethnic Minorities | DAB

    Thank you.

    If you want to be informed, follow me. If you want to be misinformed, follow Tom Grundy. It's your choice to make.
    Oh look! Common ground.

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    Regina is still pissed off with the results...

    While no one made any alterations to their oath this time around, New People’s Party (NPP) chairwoman and Executive Council member Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee and her party colleague Eunice Yung Hoi-yan stole the limelight by chanting slogans ahead of pan-democrat Au Nok-hin’s turn.

    “Shame on burning the Basic Law!” they chanted, referring to a time in 2016 when Au burned a copy of the city’s mini-constitution.

    The NPP’s Judy Chan Ka-pui lost the Hong Kong Island seat to Au in the March 11 poll, with a thinner-than-expected margin.
    Exco member Regina Ip upstages new lawmakers by chanting slogans at Legco swearing-in | South China Morning Post

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    Party servants (UFWD) tried to use rule-by-law to throw the newly (by-)elected Au Nok-hin out of Legislative Council, but rather embarrasingly failed (this time).

    Yet as part of a relentless wide-spectrum effort every bit helps in intimidating those who think Hong Kong people should have a say in their own governance.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mefisto:
    Yet as part of a relentless wide-spectrum effort every bit helps in intimidating those who think Hong Kong people should have a say in their own governance.
    But not having a check and balance on bad policy will make HK a great as the mainland....

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/03/2...cy-leung-says/

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