My Take | Third time lucky? Regina, go for the top job!
- Given the ‘small shoes’ Regina Ip has to fill, no one in Hong Kong craves to be city leader more and, probably, is able to do it better than her
Out of the blue, Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee delivered in this newspaper this week an erudite critique of democracy.
Titled “Hong Kong must wake up from its blind faith in ‘one man, one vote’ democracy” and referencing Plato and Aristotle, among other heavy thinkers, the Executive Council and Legislative Council member urged local people to open their eyes to evidence that “democratic elections elsewhere have not delivered the good governance they crave”.
Some readers have been scratching their heads. Why a discourse on democracy now, when no one is fretting about it in Hong Kong these days?
The national security law and the electoral overhaul have done their jobs well.
I know of no one in Hong Kong who craves the top job more and is, probably, able to do it better. I qualify the last statement by saying that instead of big shoes, she would have some rather tiny ones to fill from the chief executives we have had so far.
