NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
acceptable to public opinion as a whole.
(e)
Character of the Legislative Council
We certainly would not wish to see a Council
which did not have the confidence and respect
of the public at large; at the same time we
do not think it would necessarily be a bad
thing if the Council were to contain elements
of permanent dissent from the majority view,
even if there were at times a slight risk that
the President might have to use his original
and casting votes.
7.
We fully realise that the position as
seen from here may not agree with your own
view of things;
OM
but I put forward the above
ideas as a basis for discussion and I should
be most grateful to know what you think about
them. In the light of Hong Kong's
remarkable progress in recent years we believe
that the time has come to consider radical
changes in the present arrangements.
Indeed,
we would not dismiss out of hand the possibility
of enlarging one or other Council (or both
of them) if that would help us to achieve our
object.
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