My Take | Forget about localism, now it’s narcissism that’s at play
Youngspiration’s Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung are blaming everyone but themselves for being thrown out of the Legislative Council
Mr Justice Thomas Au Hing-cheung of the Court of First Instance has delivered a stunning rebuke to every key point fought for by the pair from Youngspiration in the government’s case against their disgraceful oath-taking.
His judgment is a model of common sense and judiciousness. Those who have tried to defend the indefensible on behalf of Yau and Leung would do well to study Au’s ruling.
The judge wrote that the pair’s oath-taking was a willful attempt to insult China, advocate independence, and mock the Legco oath itself.
Not only did they not swear solemnly and sincerely under the doctrine of common law, they showed outright contempt for the “one country, two systems” principle.