Sir, before I close, I would like to reflect briefly on the experience of the Unofficials who had to face constant
The Ad Hoc Group dilemma during the deliberation of this bill, especially the Convener were under tremendous mental pressure from all sides in the past two weeks, We even had to dispel an unfounded theory that this Bill was being used as a polítical weapon against the Convener, A sheer fantasy I might add but nevertheless a damaging one. In short, battle tactics of the jumping on to the Bandwagoners appeared to have worked well
If we succumb to demanda into pushing all of us into a corner.
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which are not backed by adequate reasoninge and wers to delay the third reading until the next session, we would run a real risk of selling H.K. down the path of inefficient administration with pressure groups happily blaring their so called wishes of
If we did not the people in every single issue of the day. concede to the demand that the third reading be deferred, we stand to be accused by vocal and well organised campaigns of diecredit, Por sure we will be accused of acting irresponsibly against the proclaimed wishes of the people.
It was with a sombre realisation of this difficult dilemma that we decided we have to cast away all our emotional
hang ups like pride, fears and prejudices.
all new representations cooly and rationally.
We had to look at
We were not so
much influenced by the numbers of organisation making
representations as we were influenced by the contents of their
We did not measure the strength of any
representations.
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