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and social stability. Mr. Boyd disputed this:
e.g. the housing estates were actually interested in
issues of e.g. transport, inflation, management; this
was politics, even if not at Lu Ping's lofty level.
Furthermore the people in the housing estates would not
have job security and a wage if Hong Kong's innovating
middle class did not go on inventing and investing.
The two points could not be separated. This middle
class needed to see explicitly that it had a role in
Hong Kong's political management. This would not work if,
in turn, there was mismanagement of such issues as Hong
Kong's international communications links or the GATT.
It was all one chain.
4.
Invited by CS to comment further on accountability,
Mr. Boyd said he hesitated to place a personal interpretion
on wording used by the Foreign Secretary in his 1984 letter.
In subsequent discussion of constitutional conventions, Mr.
Boyd noted that a British executive, however strong,
would be expected to resign if it lost the confidence of the
House.
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