My Take | By bringing students into her tent, Carrie Lam has opened their eyes
Young pro-democracy activists who joined the chief executive-elect’s team learned more from campaigning than simply protesting
Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor says she wants to bring more young people into the next government to bridge divisions in our society. So, as a first step, she hired more than a dozen student assistants to help run her campaign in the chief executive race.
Somehow, I suspect this pseudo-controversy has little to do with their payment, but more with the fact that they had worked for Lam at all. Well, that just undermines the localist and pan-democratic narrative that Lam is as bad as outgoing chief executive Leung Chun-ying who just wants to divide our society and turn us against each other.
Localist luminaries Joshua Wong Chi-fung, Derek Lam Shun-hin and Billy Fung Jing-en have denounced those student assistants for working for Lam.