OUTSIDE the building, the male chauvinist pig farmers were making a statement. But since, even under Chinese customary law, pigs cannot fly, they chose to make their point with chickens.
As a former correspondent for Poultry Week, From the Gallery knows startled chickens not only leap into the air but also leave signatures.
So we decided to duck out gracefully and leave the police to cope with the flap. We escaped though the hallowed portals of the Legislative Council building to watch the battle of pigs and pigmen from the safety of an upstairs window.
However, Legco is no shelter from manure of the bovine variety . . . But let us not be tempted to stoop to unparliamentary language.
The truth is that some members now pose probing, waffle-free questions. And on the government benches, a number of spokesmen have learned to give evasive answers, deliver themselves of terminological inexactitudes and economise with the truth with terse aplomb.
Attorney-General Jeremy Mathew's method of coping with awkward questions is to stonewall imperturbably.
