Barrister tackles FCC board over unsporting TV rules
Who says club politics are boring? The Foreign Correspondents' Club makes its internal wrangling even more exciting than the upcoming Legislative Council by-elections, or referendum, as pan-democrats prefer to call it.
Feisty barrister Kevin Egan, who is running for an associate governor post in the club's coming election, is having a right old rant claiming that there is a lack of democracy in the club.
Egan is accusing the board of governors of ill-advisedly deciding to curtail what were previously sensible 'ad hoc' understandings about access to sports television programmes, mainly via the television set in the southwest corner of the main bar.
'We now have a regime that reminds me very much of painful days at boarding school,' he writes in his election manifesto.
Lai See understands that, before changes were introduced, any member could walk into the FCC at any time and ask for programmes they wanted to watch. Sometimes it was the racing from Sha Tin or Happy Valley, sometimes a cricket or football game.