A group of rowdy young people, with curious names, got the chance yesterday to give lawmakers a piece of their mind on Hong Kong's democratic development.
The teens and twenty-somethings, some of whom called themselves the Snake Banquet Association and the Monitors of Politicos Flattering Communists, took part in a Legislative Council committee meeting to discuss the government's constitutional reform package.
The committee met Hongkongers for the first time since the government unveiled its reform proposals last month. About 100 members of the public attended the session.
In a bid to ridicule the government's televised advertisement, in which a mother promises to make her daughter a dress, a young woman, Li Shee-lin, brought in a dress. 'Hongkongers are grown-ups and mature enough to have universal suffrage ... We don't need the government to make us a dancing dress,' she said.
Chin Wai-lok, who made his name by throwing a bra at pro-government legislator Gary Chan Hak-kan during the RTHK programme City Forum in January, appeared as the chairman of the Snake Banquet Association - not a group that organises snake soup banquets for leftist elders.
Putting a copy of the government's package on political reform into a rubbish bin, Chin told lawmakers: 'This package should be thrown away.'
Eric Tsui, chairman of Monitors of Politicos Flattering Communists, and Au Nok-hin, a student at Chinese University, both said they were dissatisfied with the proposals during the meeting.
