The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten

Author:Chris Patten
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141999715
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2022-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

Tuesday 25 April

Continuing my campaign on drugs, I visited a gospel-based drugs rehabilitation centre in Sai Kung. It’s rather impressive, but the fact that its appeal is partly based on religion means that it isn’t getting any government subsidy. I think this is daft, a prejudice-based policy, and want to review it. The centre seems to be doing a great job. If you save abusers from drugs by changing their whole personality, what’s wrong with that?

Wednesday 26 April

I got a personal telegram from Douglas. Reading between the lines, he is saying that the Prime Minister and he will support me on the timing of the CFA if they have to and that I will probably win against Michael. But he also asks whether it’s really too difficult to put the whole thing off until October, rather longer after Michael’s visit. The whole row is putting my relationship with John and Douglas into the scales on one side, and my relationship with Anson and senior officials onto the other. I find this extremely difficult, but in the circumstances the only thing I can do is think about Hong Kong and Anson. There is to be a debate thanks to the admirable Jimmy McGregor next week in Legco on the CFA, which should give us some idea of how opinion is forming there.

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