It wouldn't be Legco without the odd conspiracy theory or two. Martin Lee had one as he kicked off the attack on the Policy Address.
The Democratic Party leader sought to link everything from the ousting of Director of Broadcasting Cheung Man-yee to the recent reinterpretation of the Basic Law. He saw these as part of a concerted campaign to turn Hong Kong into a haven for crony capitalism.
The connection between such disparate events may be tenuous, but given Tung Chee-hwa's cavalier attitude to press freedom and the rule of law, such charges at least have a grain of truth.
The same cannot be said for Philip Wong's latest contribution to the art of paranoia. More than two years after the end of colonial rule, it is getting harder to blame Britain for the SAR's woes.
But where there's a will there's a way. And the business representative and National People's Congress deputy tried his best. 'Before the British retreated they planted a lot of traps,' he warned. The ever-vigilant Mr Wong was keeping watch for these on Hong Kong's behalf. And he had identified yet another one - to add to the long list he has cited in previous years - in a seemingly innocuous part of the Policy Address.
Mr Tung had complained banks prefer to focus on the safer business of granting mortgages, rather than offer loans to small businesses with promising prospects.