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sir gordon needs bridge as long hair brings prospects of troubled waters

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Whatever your political persuasion, there can be no doubting we will have a lot more theatre in the new Legislative Council. The question is whether the return of 'Chiu Chow angry man' Chim Pui-chung and 'Long Hair' Leung Kwok-hung means law-making descends into tragedy or comedy.

Engineering magnate Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung is in his own way a radical non-conformist but he declared last month that he would pack up and leave Hong Kong should Mr Leung win a popular mandate and enter the hallowed halls.

The man who once advised filling in Tolo Harbour declared Hong Kong would go the way of Cuba should gullible voters choose a man who, the horror of it, dresses himself in Che Guevara tee-shirts.

Alas, Sir Gordon did not return Lai See's call yesterday seeking his emigration plans.

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Presumably he could move to the other side of the Pearl River Delta should his grand Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge win approval. That decision will of course require approval from, among others, a scruffy chap in a tee-shirt.

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