Mr I Don't Know raises the temperature
Legislator Emily Lau Wai-hing says she's deeply angry and shocked. What's more, she said it in a deeply angry and shocked tone. Actually, she's always deeply angry and shocked. She wouldn't be Emily Lau otherwise. This time she's deeply angry and shocked over Victor Lo Yik-kee. As the Security Bureau's political assistant he is paid HK$134,150 a month to say 'I don't know'. When he does know something, he reads it from a prepared script. That's presumably to make sure that what he does know doesn't also come out as 'I don't know' by the time it has travelled from his brain to his mouth. To prevent this, he makes sure he knows as little as possible. This way, he can almost always say 'I don't know'. But he so overdid it at a recent meeting with legislators and human rights groups that Lau wrote a deeply angry and shocked letter to Lo's boss, security chief Ambrose Lee Siu-kwong, accusing Lo of being ignorant. Lo immediately denied he was an ignoramus. A way to prove this is to get his head checked at a public hospital. But these hospitals have been so messing things up there's a high chance doctors would erroneously check his posterior for piles instead. Lau should lighten up. Lo was simply doing his best to earn his pay. Imagine how hard it would be on his conscience to bank HK$134,150 of public money every month without saying 'I don't know' enough times. Besides, how else would he get enough practice to be promoted? Those top government jobs are really demanding. Not only must you meet your daily quota of 'I don't know', you must say it just right to make sure Emily Lau doesn't get deeply angry and shocked.
Straight from the horse's mouth
Emily Lau: What is your function as the security secretary's political assistant?
Victor Lo: I don't know.
Lau: Why don't you even know your own job?
