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very charitable way of describing the whole situation 1s to say
that the blind had been leading the blind.
Sir, in these circumstances,
can our people be
blamed for suspecting that these two surveys had been conducted
for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong with the sole
object of ensuring that the results would not justify the
introduction of direct elections in 1988? Can our people be
blamed in tying these two surveys to the Green Paper
and taking
Chin a
to the
into account the very strong objections from
introduction of direct elections in 1988, and conclude that
this political review is nothing but a fraud.
Sir, this Administration owes much to our people to
assure them that it has not been party to any dishonest scheme
in deceiving them and that it can and will come to a just
decision which takes fully into account the wishes of Our
people.
For these
reasons, I
who have spoken out on the 2
surveys
share the view of the experts
in urging this
Administration to totally reject A GB McNair's findings to
Questionnaire in relation to the
Sections F3 and F5 of the
issue of whether direct
introduced in 1988.
elections
should or should not be