The stone bleeds!

At long last, after concerted and repeated efforts by huge numbers of their electors, and after a couple of brazen attempts to fudge the issue, the UK Government has finally done the decent thing and fixed the outrageous rules which denied thousands of people the right to live in the country for which they had fought and risked their lives.

Hubert van Es – RIP

Another page has turned in the history of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (where I am but a lowly “associate”) with the death of Hu van Es, one of its best known members.

Extending the farce

Hemlock sums up the situation with today’s release of the detainees. Not content to quietly let a bad mistake fade gradually in the memory, the government has decided to make a big song and dance about their release. You couldn’t make this stuff up!

The Hong Kong Government Face-Saving Department swings into action today, led by its famous Molehill-Mountain Conversion Team and the highly capable Laborious Over-Dramatization Unit…

Brilliant!

Protesting the incompetence of the HK Government

I’ve decided that someone has to start standing up and making a noise about how absurdly incompetent the HK Government is in its response to one person testing positive for a mild form of the flu.

Here we go again!

I hope to address the current institutionalised panic in more detail when I have time later. But I just have to say that the government’s imprisoning of 300 people against their will in the Metro Park Hotel for no rational reason whatsoever is a gross violation of their human rights, and I hope that they were take appropriate legal action for false imprisonment when they are released. I hope that a good number of them are foreign citizens who will be fully supported by their governments in this.

It is a crying shame that Hong Kong has been made the laughing stock of rational people worldwide by the actions of the administrative class in Hong Kong. These people were very well trained to administer the city under other people’s leadership, but they are totally and utterly out of their depth intellectually when it comes to providing the leadership which this city has been so sadly lacking for the last 12 years.