One fallacious argument was that maintenance fees should come out from rent collected from commercial premises because tenants made the land prosperous.
I would like to ask these
pressure groups to rent a flat or office above the shops in Central and ask the landlord to pay the maintenance fees out of the huge rents collected from the shops. Perhaps, the landlord would be naive enough to distribute the surplus after paying maintenance fees to them each month.
This break in logic may best be illustrated by someone who went to a bar and ordered a cognac then he apologized and exchanged it for a whiskey. After drinking the whiskey he wished to leave. The bartender asked him to pay for the whiskey but he said it was
The the bartender asked him to pay for exchanged with the cognac. the cognac, but he said he did not drink it and had returned it to the bartender. The catch was, of course, that the cognac did not belong to him in the first place, so is the land and the public housing blocks which stood on it.
With these observations, Sir, I hope the Government would adopt a firmer line should the softer line fails to keep things
straight.
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