GUESS who was first on the line when Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod held his first-ever phone-in on RTHK yesterday morning? Why, the ubiquitous Roger Thomas, of course, who also just happened to be the first caller to get through when Governor Chris Patten held his first phone-in.
Fire-breathing Welsh dragon Roger gave poor Hamish an earful on the question of the airport tax.
When I bumped into Roger later in the day he said he saw former financial secretary Sir Piers Jacobs ''crouching'' on an MTR platform even while the Budget speech was being delivered.
''Would you believe it,'' thundered Roger. ''Sir Piers was performing that same task a few years ago and now he wasn't even bothering to listen.'' He's probably heard it all before, Roger!