Eldon puts pen to paper online as a happy blogger
Former HSBC taipan and Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce chairman David Eldon seems to have found a second career as a happy blogger and current affairs commentator.
Yesterday, the South China Morning Post broke an exclusive story about how Mr Eldon (below) wrote in his blog that his successor, Lily Chiang Lai-lei, should consider resigning from the chamber because of her ICAC arrest. He said her case 'highlights once again that no matter how hard you want to believe in the integrity of people in high places, you always run the risk of disappointment'.
Mr Eldon appears to have a special interest in writing about court rulings. In the case of High Court Judge Justice William Waung Sik-ying, who recently settled his four-year newspaper subscription dispute in the Small Claims Tribunal, he ridiculed Mr Waung's logic of 'I did not do anything wrong' because the newspaper vendor failed to send him the bills for years.
'So, Your Honour, if I should ever appear before you, please accept my plea of not guilty on the grounds that I didn't do anything wrong; it was the bank that lent me the money in the first place - I used it, but I didn't know they wanted to be paid back,' Mr Eldon wrote.