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And just let me add this point, which I think reflects the extent to which your views represent majority concerns. There's a very distinguished academic who's quite often on the radio called, Mr DeGaullier, who runs a project called the Transition Project at Baptist University. Now one of the surveys they did recently showed that when people were asked whether they were concerned about their livelihood after 1997, on balance they weren't. Only about 7 per cent thought that their livelihood would suffer after 1997, but 57 or 58 per cent were concerned about the sort of things you've mentioned. They were concerned about their freedoms, they were concerned about their civil liberties, they were concerned about the increase in corruption. Now what we all want to do is to have the self-confidence to stand up for our institutions so that we can go on living in a fair and free and decent society and I think that when people like you speak out on the subject, it's helpful in ensuring that Hong Kong remains a decent, open, Chinese city.
Question: Good moming. Well, first of all I'd just like to say to the Governor, as a few of the others have said, I do hope that his successor takes the time to go through the same exercise as he has today. I think that's very healthy and good for the transparency of Government.
Having said that, I would just like to say that listening to the other callers, it's clear that what's important to Hong Kong people are the grassroot issues, are the bread and butter issues. Education, health etc., etc. We all know what they are. But this to me makes it even more incomprehensible that the Governor, by his own admission, should decide to completely change this year's Policy Address, and instead of going through these kind of issues, basically turn it into an hour and a quarter or whatever it was, of his political philosophy and polemic. I mean I'd just like him to give his reasons for changing the whole set up of the policy speech at this very, very late stage.
Governor: Well, he didn't actually and I'll make sure that we send you a copy, not only of my Policy Address but of the policy commitments and the progress report which ---
Question: I have a copy.
Governor: Well, you'll see I think if you look that the policy commitments are about 270 pages, that the progress report is over 200 and if you go through my speech, what will you see that I talked about? You'll see that I mentioned the crime in Hong Kong has fallen over the last, now just over the last four years, but is actually lower today than it was ten years ago. You will see that we've cut taxes. You will see that we've managed at the same time to increase the amount of money in our reserves. You will see that we've increased spending on the elderly and the disabled. You will see that we've managed our economy in a way which earns the plaudits of the IMF. Now I could go on, but all those issues seem to me to be very germane to people's livelihood. The lowest level of inflation for ten years, at the same time as we've got continuing growth at five per cent a year, strikes me as being a pretty good sort of record and in other societies is the sort of record on which Government's get re-elected.