Yeah, her name is Starry Lee. If the mere fact that she’s a member of DAB doesn’t sway you against her, then perhaps the logic that she thinks that “Starry” is the sort of English name that would be taken seriously might.
I actually kind of like some of what she has to say:
Rise Above Conflicts, All For Hong Kong
Hong Kong is our home and needs our protection.
We must rise above the fray and join hands to implement universal suffrage.
We must care for those left behind in social and economic developments.
We must create opportunities for all, and not only for those in finance and property business.
We must ensure resources and services for local residents WON’T be eroded in an open economy.
We must safeguard the interest of Hong Kong people by maintaining proper functioning of all political institutions.
But I don’t get this whole thing of “rise above the fray.” What fray? It smacks of the whole Beijing thing of social order being the priority. So, what, no debate, no disagreement, as long as you agree with her?
In her favor – one of the few candidates sending out this sort of spam “vote for me” email who sent me something in English.
She says:
“We must create opportunities for all, and not only for those in finance and property business.”
I agree with that – But what does she have in mind?
HK does well at FIRE (Finance / Insurance / Real Estate) and also at Tourism. But it no longer has much of a manufacturing industry – it has moved to China, where factory wages are lower. And HK doesn’t offer many employment opportunities to its graduating engineers and scientists – One professor described HK as a “jobs desert” for scientists.
So what does she have in mind? Some truly creative thinking on this would be welcome, but I suspect that she has offered up a soundbite, to appeal to Envy that some lower-paid HongKongers have towards their better-paid brethren in FIRE jobs. But I will keep an open mind.
In Hong Kong politics, one only needs a slogan. An actual plan only complicates things.