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hope in the professional competence of AGB McNair HK Ltd.; ΟΙ
perhaps they had been too trusting of our Government.
Report of the Survey Office has woken us up from our day dream,
that the British administration here in Hong Kong has our
interests at heart, that it will take a stand at some point and
refuse to kowtow to China, that the Iron Lady will keep her
promise to us that Britain has a moral obligation towards Hong
Kong.
If this Government really wants to find out from the
people of Hong Kong what they really think in relation to the
introduction of direct elections in 1988,
there is only one
thing it should do: give the people a referendum.
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When I first raised this question in this Council
earlier this year shortly before the publication of the Green
Paper in May 1987, the Chief Secretary ruled out any such
possibility by saying that as the Green Paper would.contain
over 30 options, it would be totally unrealistic to hold a
referendum.
But as we now know, 96% of the submissions received
by the Survey Office dealt with the question of whether
direct elections should
Hong Kong have chosen to
elections
in 1988.
or
not
introduced in 1988. The people of
be
concentrate on the issue of direct
There is no more reasonable excuse to deny