"Hi, I'm John Tsang Chun-wah and I'm running for chief executive." The financial secretary has not actually said he wants to be our next leader. But it is what people are guessing he will become - all because President Xi Jinping shook his hand at an international meeting in Beijing. Yes, we are back to the handshake guessing game after pan-democratic legislators voted down a supposedly fake democracy reform framework. Hongkongers, instead of having the right to elect their leader from a list of Beijing-screened candidates, must now guess who the anointed one is by seeing whose hand Xi shakes. We went through this before, when then-president Jiang Zemin shook Tung Chee-hwa's hand at a Beijing gathering. Sure enough, Tung ended up as chief executive. But John Tsang? Different story. He's cream puff stuff through and through. Even with his martial arts and fencing skills, he was not fast enough to dodge an egg hurled at him at a public function. It hit him smack in the face. You could say he had egg on his face. The pan-democrats will run rings round the mild-mannered Tsang, which they do not know how to do with the steely C. Y. Leung, who runs rings round them instead.

Say it ain't true. Taxi drivers are actually daring to stake out a moral high ground by complaining of unfair competition from smartphone apps such as Uber, used for hiring private vans and passenger cars. Are these the same extortionist cabbies who cruise around the city with their meters covered on rainy days, demanding rip-off fares from customers with few other options? Are they the same thugs who refuse to pick up passengers in nightlife districts such as Lan Kwai Fong and SoHo unless they are paid multiple times the actual fare? Are they the same sub-humans who will not even deign to stop for disabled people and minorities? And they have the nerve to complain about polite and honest competitors? Go to hell.