How The Bow Tie could capitalise on his housekeeper's barbecue
It doesn't seem fair that a live-in housekeeper who invited a group of friends and relatives to a barbecue at Government House has been put on leave. He was found out, or rather he literally told everyone about it, by putting photos of the event on Facebook.
Presumably Donald Tsang Yam-kuen and his wife were peeved because they weren't invited to a party in their house. But the blogosphere is already ablaze with ideas about how the chief executive could have exploited the incident better to salvage his plummeting popularity.
Suggestions and comments for The Bow Tie include: Bring people into your own home, instead of having to go out to them. Why waste millions of taxpayer dollars a year just to keep the Tsangs comfortable but isolated? Open the front lawn for people so they can barbecue and enjoy the flowers. Make them pay so there is something to contribute to the government coffers.
As a blog writer puts it: 'Hire back the housekeeper and make him the chief events organiser.' Having top officials like constitutional affairs chief Stephen Lam Sui-lung, the least liked secretary, drink a few beers with ordinary people should do wonders for popularity ratings. This is, assuming officials like Lam could stomach being so close to the unwashed.
As a spokesman said: 'Government House is an august place and visitors should show respect.' In other words, don't get too close, even though it's your money we use to run the place.
