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July 06, 2004

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Accountability: Liable to being called to account; answerable. See Synonyms at responsible.

Another helpful service provided by me to Tung Che-hwa and his "accountable" Government. While the Health Secretary, Hospital Authority chairman and CEO, not to mention Margaret Chan, can say sorry about their mis-handling of the SARS, if they were truly sorry they would resign and accept that fundamental aspect of accountable Government. If Tung Che-hwa had even a single cell of political acumen in his brain he'd be asking these men to resign. Instead it looks like he'll fight it out and damage his own discredited adminstration further. It is impossible to sympathise with politicians who constantly score so many "own goals".

On the subject of listening to people, Beijing has politely told Hong Kong to f**k off after last week's march. As predicted, the media are accepting the 530,000 level as accurate despite evidence the numbers were lower.

 posted by Simon on 07.06.04 at 10:20 AM in the




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Excerpt: Now we have yet another report on the SARS crisis, and this one attributes blame to certain individuals (which the previous two did not), specifically Yeoh Eng-kiong, Lam Ping-yan, Leong Che-hung, Ho Shiu-wei and Chan Fung fu-chun. They have offered
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It's always interesting how the figure (for the march numbers) crystallises and then is accepted as gospel, despite a huge variance in the estimates. Both this year and last year it seems the SCMP (whatever their faults may be) opted for the highest figure in the range and thereby ensured that this indicator of popular discontent is made as impressive as possible.

posted by: fumier on 07.06.04 at 12:56 PM [permalink]

Accountability, much praised, rarely demonstrated. If it were, the entire Bush regime would dissolve itself.

 posted by: richard on 07.06.04 at 02:10 PM [permalink]




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