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Sir the title of this White Paper should contain three extra words at the end so that it should read, White Paper, The Development of Representative Government The Way Forward- See Basic Law.
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Sir, with respect to honourable members, it is wrong for them to support the Government's decision on direct elections without
into detail. giving any reason for supporting it. I will not go deeply by way of
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a reply at this stage on the speeches made to oppose my motion because I do not wish to abuse your indulgence, Sir. But I have spoken at length as to why, in my analysis, each and every reason given in the White Paper for denying direct elections to the people of Hong Kong cannot possibly hold water. Nobody has demonstrated or tried to
demonstrate that I was wrong. Members use all sorts of excuses
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Members also try to make themselves experts in public opinion 24 polls.
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Lon. public opinion better than these experts. Of course my honourable friend Mr. Andrew Wor friend Mr, Andrew bees a great scholar when it comes to that. I cannot profess to understand the entirety of his speech but I was
that his inclucocon glad at the end the resort happen to accord with what the experts
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reported speech more carefully when it is contained in the Hansard. member said: "Well, look, that does not accord with the views I gather from my friends, from the people I mix with." That honourable member of course is a very successful business man, so one does not expect him to mix with the other strata of the community as it were.
And so members very cheerfully disagreed with all the views of the experts,
Norman not just one gentleman by the name of Webb but all the experts in
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