It was good to hear bow-tie outlining his plans for a new Hong Kong last week, a new this, a new that... it was so good to hear how he was going to do all these things. I just had to wonder why he hadn’t done them already, he was really orating like a man who had just been elected. There’s not much wrong with my home that can’t be fixed, with a little application and sweat. We have the money to do anything – one financial commentator worked out that the SAR has so much money in the bank we could completely scrap taxes. I don’t know if his figures are true but it does put all those 000,000s into perspective. It also behoves the question “Why aren’t we doing the things we could do?”. The farce that is King Yin Lane Mansion should never have happened. The government is quick enough to buy shares, purchase premium office space, usurp prime land… hindsight is of course perfect but bought in 2004, King Yin Lane would probably have doubled in value by now – and it would makes a perfect museum. What about creating and housing a world class Museum of Modern Art there? Donald, we don’t need a ‘new’ Hong Kong, the old one’s doing pretty well right now thank you, and ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. What we do want from you is a realization that as we become an increasingly more affluent city, the quality of life becomes more important both for the people who call Hong Kong home and in attracting new talent and companies to move here. That tourists want more than just shopping from their visit here – it’s embarrassing that the best the HKTB could come up with to promote the 10th Anniversary was another shopping festival. So rather than building bridges to nowhere and making empty ‘new’ promises, let’s see some action on improving the health service, education and the environment. Donald, as they say, talk is cheap. You’ve talked the talk, so now lets see you walk the walk.