My Take | Don’t waste your time on more fanciful voting schemes Benny, just stick to what you know
If Benny Tai is really concerned about the fate of four lawmakers facing court action over their status, he should just offer his legal services for free
The mind of Benny Tai Yiu-ting must be a bizarre place to inhabit. How else can you account for the weird, usually counterproductive, ideas that keep coming out of this associate law professor?
His latest is a proposal that pro-democracy members on the Election Committee should support a chief executive candidate who must promise to scrap a government lawsuit aimed at unseating four lawmakers over their alleged invalid oath-taking.
A group of lawyers, including several pro-establishment legislators, have written to the secretary for justice to complain that Tai’s plan risks perverting the course of justice, breaking election laws and committing contempt of court. They will complain to the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the University of Hong Kong, Tai’s employer.
Hold your horses, people. Tai’s scheme is not so much “immoral” or illegal as ridiculous. On his Facebook page, he has lashed out at his critics by saying they are being ignorant because such horse trading is how political bargaining is done.
Really?