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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987
HE ADDED THAT HE DID NOT INTRODUCTION OF A LIMITED NUMBER OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL NECESSARILY MEANT
PERSONALLY THINK
THAT
THE
DIRECTLY ELECTED SEATS IN THE THAT POLITICAL PARTIES WOULD
MUST FOLLOW BECOME INEVITABLE AND THAT CONFRONTATIONAL POLITICS ALTHOUGH WHAT WERE SEEN IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER WEEKS MIGHT LEAD TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY WERE ALREADY HERE.
OF
OF
IN RECENT
THE SO-CALLED PRINCIPLE AND IN THE SYSTEM
"I THINK THERE IS A DANGER THAT THE CLAMOUR A MATTER PRESSURE GROUPS FOR POLITICAL REFORM AS REGARDLESS OF THE LIKELY RESULTS ON PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
MEDIA AND CONSIDERATION IN THE
IN MAY BE GIVEN DISPROPORTIONATE
то THE VOICES WHICH CALL FOR THE PUBLIC DEBATE AS OPPOSED
LESS OF GRADUAL CHANGE IF EXCITING BUT IN MY VIEW MORE REALISTIC POLICY
外
CHANGE IS PREFERRED, HE SAID.
HE SAID
PRESSURE GROUPS
WERE
INDEED LEGITIMATE,
ESSENTIAL
BUT PRESSURE GROUPS DID NOT NORMALLY VEHICLES FOR PUBLIC OPINION
AND QUITE OFTEN DID NOT REPRESENT A WIDE CROSS SECTION OF OPINION
THEIR VIEWS ARE REPRESENT LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE. "I SUGGEST THAT CONSIDERED IN THAT LIGHT, MR CLYDESDALE SAID.
HE NOTED THAT HONG KONG WOULD NEVER BE A SOVEREIGN NOR ELECTED GOVERNMENT, HAD NEVER HAD A DEMOCRATICALLY CHINA IN ALL ITS HISTORY.
ENTITY AND INDEED HAD
KONG YET HONG
HAD ENJOYED THE
OF FRUITS
A DETERMINED + CARED ENLIGHTENED, EXPERIENCED AND NON-POLITICAL GOVERNMENT WHICH HAD FOR THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG AND WHICH HAD SUCCESSFULLY ENGINEERED DEVELOPMENT OF ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC ENTITIES THE HAD EVER KNOWN, HE ADDED.
THIS
THE
WORLD
AND DIVERT
IS SYSTEM
FAR KONG THAN COULD DIVIDE BOTH RESOURCES,
MATERIAL BETWEEN DIFFERING POLITICAL GROUPS,
MORE
THE
THE
AND
n
HE
"I SUGGEST THAT THE MAINTENANCE OF IMPORTANT TO THE REAL INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF HONG INTRODUCTION OF A POLITICALLY ORIENTED SYSTEM THAT COMMUNITY AGAINST ITSELF HUMAN, INTO CONFRONTATION SAID.
HONG MR CLYDESDALE ALSO URGED VIEWS ON THE GREEN PAPER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
KONG PEOPLE TO
EXPRESS THEIR
"WE MUST ALL HELP THE
GOVERNMENT то
GET THE FORMULA RIGHT
FIRST TIME.
MISS METHOD "WE CANNOT AFFORD A HIT AND PROCEEDS BY TRIAL AND ERROR, HE SAID.
NOR
A
SYSTEM THAT
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