Simon Elegant

You know, you'll be put in jail for a really long time.

And that's probably the best result.

Absolutely.

I mean, I was born in the place.

I lived there.

My sister still lives there.

I've got family there.

I've got friends, obviously.

And as I said, there is a very analogy.

Yeah, I mean, a goodbye, you know, a sad and very emotional-filled goodbye to some extent that Hong Kong...

for the foreseeable future, is gone.

I mean, already people in, you know, 250,000 people have taken advantage of the British national overseas thing to emigrate to God knows where in Britain, Hull.

I mean, not that I have anything against Hull, but some of the, you know, the places in Britain where even some Brits might acknowledge that the weather's pretty awful and

conditions are not anything like Hong Kong.

So often people with children, because they didn't want their kids raised to be brainwashed in the school and turn into little red pioneers.

And so it is very, very sad.

It had a great thing.

I think I get into it in the book that they had an extraordinary arrangement

with this benign administration by the brits who did a pretty good job of just backing off you know milton friedman admired the economic arrangement a great deal um it just worked it worked for really well so they ended up with a fantastic corruption free civil service they have the longest lived people in the world longer lived than the japanese they had a great medical system medical insurance probably

It just was a place that worked and people were pretty happy and extremely, as you know, productive.