Looking at British politics now is serious and funny, there is both an outdated and conservative emperor ascending the throne, and there are also anti-party noises. The leader of the main opposition Labor Party in the UK said that once the Labor Party came to power, it would try to renegotiate the “Brexit Agreement” with the EU. He also said Britain needed a better “Brexit deal”.
Brexit is entirely the result of opposition politics. The Johnson faction in the Conservative Party took advantage of Brexit to seize power, and Brexit made the British economy a mess. The opposition proposes a dreamy “better Brexit deal”. The UK wants to renegotiate, the question is why the EU wants to renegotiate with the UK. These fanciful opinions are just to stimulate voters’ desire to vote, but they are completely divorced from reality. It has been 26 years since Hong Kong’s return to the motherland and 25 years of opposition-style politics. As a result, there have been repeated filibusters in the parliament and street riots, and finally declared the last nail in the coffin of opposition politics.
Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao has made a major move recently, but the public seems not to have noticed. He upgraded the question-and-answer meeting of the Chief Executive’s Legislative Council to an “interactive question-and-answer meeting”, which will be held for the first time this Thursday (May 18). In the past, the chief executive’s question-and-answer meeting was a meeting where members of parliament beat up the chief executive. The new interactive Q&A will have two features: 1. Emphasize interactive communication and build consensus instead of playing opposition politics; 2. Set the topic of communication, exchange opinions on major macro policies, and enhance Hong Kong’s overall overall view .
At the first exchange meeting, Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao made it clear why he needed to change. He said: “I often think about what is the highest state of patriots governing Hong Kong, and what kind of construction power they can create. For patriots to exert greater power and value in governing Hong Kong, there must be at least three elements. The first is to work together and gather strength. Cooperate and work together for the only goal; the second is interactive consensus, members and officials build consensus through interactive communication to achieve the same goal; the third is the height of vision, patriots governing Hong Kong look at problems not only from trees, but also from forests. Starting from the overall situation, the national outlook, and the international outlook, we will jointly build Hong Kong and strive to create a world-leading winning force.”
The first chief executive interactive exchange question-and-answer meeting demonstrated how the new format works. First of all, the theme of the meeting was determined, which was “the spirit of the 20th National Congress and the Two Sessions”. The Chief Executive raised questions from two perspectives: first, security and stability; second, development and happiness. Members raised questions in response to these two areas. This is a way to raise the level of political discussion and seek consensus, which is completely different from the way of “playing scolding” in the past.
Looking back at the question-and-answer sessions of the Chief Executive’s Legislative Council held after the return of Hong Kong, they all imitated the Western parliamentary style, and the idea behind it was to engage in opposition politics. Members express themselves by questioning the government, hoping to gain support from the public and eventually come to power. This mode of opposition politics was supposed to encourage parliamentarians to monitor the government. But then there was a twist, from questioning to cursing, from verbal to physical, Leung Kwok-hung and Huang Yumin began to throw bananas and cups and harass the parliament. After that, it became more and more intense, and in 2019, the meeting was repeated frequently, and the chief executive’s question-and-answer meeting became a venue for radical performances. In the end, the chamber of the Legislative Council was no longer enough for the radicals to give full play, and it eventually turned into a chaos of throwing petrol bombs on the streets.
This political distortion has completely lost the spirit of democracy. Originally, a democratic political system seeks the best decision through rational discussion. But when it evolves into opposition politics, where parliamentarians oppose for the sake of opposition, and even radically obstruct every policy of the government, and use violent means to overthrow the government, this system will simply explode.
Since the reunification, Hong Kong has wasted too much energy playing opposition politics, so that it has not focused on development at all. In the past, Hong Kong’s per capita output value has been ahead of Singapore for a long time, and then surpassed by Singapore, and now it is far behind Singapore. Hong Kong people All ignorant.
The chief executive switched to a new interactive question-and-answer format in the Legislative Council. It seems that he wants to establish a brand-new executive-legislative relationship, so that Hong Kong can concentrate on improving the quality of decision-making and start anew. Just want Britain to enjoy Brexit brought about by opposition politics, let the United States enjoy the debt crisis, let’s not play with these.
