HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 1 March 1990
香港立法局 ——一九九○年三月一日
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OMELCO Members are not radicals, neither do we want confrontational politics. A middle-of-the-road and gradual-increase-as-we-move-along approach has been adopted. If the OMELCO consensus has been brushed aside simply because of face or in order to prove who Hong Kong's sovereign master is, it is totally unnecessary. It would only discourage Hong Kong people from expressing their views, knowing that China has no desire to heed their cries. This will further erode confidence in Hong Kong. Is this what China wants, I wonder? Is this what the British Government wants, I wonder? Sir, is this what the Hong Kong Government also wants?
Sir, to be very honest, I do not accept the political model that has now been proposed and cannot commend it to the Hong Kong people because I do not see how the model could achieve the ideals which are underlain by the spirit of the Joint Declaration to allow Hong Kong people to rule Hong Kong with a high degree of autonomy.
However, paradoxically, the realities of politics are such that we in Hong Kong will have to live with this model for the time being, however dissatisfied we may be. But I would not like to give an impression that Hong Kong people's pragmatism is to be taken for granted. The fire of our aspirations for a more democratic political structure will continue to kindle and spark. If we are able to prove, for the benefit of those who are less democratically prone, that democracy is not an evil to be stifled at all costs, maybe the Government will have an easier job in persuading the Chinese Government that more democracy for Hong Kong is not just desirable, but also beneficial to Hong Kong's long- term development.
Thus, it is all the more important that we as a community should face up to the challenges of the acid test in the 1991 Election. I appeal to all those who are eligible for voting to register as voters and to vote for those who can really represent their interests and the interests of the community as a whole. Only through active involvement of ourselves in the election of our representatives will we, in time, be the masters of our own destiny.
Sir, with these words, I support the Senior Member's motion.
周美德議員致辭:
主席先生,本人是支持理覺議員的動議。麥理覺議員的動議內容清楚顯示出我們直至今日為止 ,仍然是支持兩局共識方案,支持政制方案應該有一個清晰的民主發展時間表。我們要知道,今 日的辯論,雖然未必能夠對未來政制起很大的作用,但我們的一言一行都是記錄在案,並要向市 民負責,向歷史負責。除非有人認為今日基本法政制方案已經是既成事實,而他已放棄支持兩局