My TakeBeauties in politics? A pretty good idea

If porn stars are not to Cheng Yiu-tong's liking, would former actresses and beauty queens meet the old Beijing-loyalist's high political standards in running for public office?

Erica Yuen Mi-ming, a top-five finalist in the 2005 Miss Hong Kong Pageant, was both. She is the new chairwoman of People Power. A successful entrepreneur whose multimillion-dollar business specialises in beauty products, Yuen promises to bring to the radical group what it is sorely missing so far: beauty and brains.

The boys of People Power have managed to get rid of ruffian lawmaker Wong Yuk-man but gain a savvy ex-beauty-queen-cum-businesswoman. As a political party, it suddenly looks a lot more attractive. Not bad!

As Yuen has rightly pointed out, People Power does not have "clear economic policies". Come to think of it, it does not have any clear policy platform on anything other than shutting down officials and disrupting Legislative Council meetings.

Yuen, who does know something about business and finance, promises to develop a more sensible "pro-free-market" platform to tackle economic issues that would also achieve social justice and economic equality.

She is no neophyte when it comes to electoral politics. She co-founded Power Voters and was on the winning ticket with People Power's Raymond Chan Chi-chuen in last year's Legco election. Chan secured a seat but there were not enough leftover votes for Yuen to join him. She looks set to be a formidable candidate in the 2016 Legco election.