Talking about principle, certainly I would support the pan-democrats rejecting the current proposal for governance reasons, for very practical reasons, because if you were restricted, the competent people simply would not get in and Hong Kong would never get out of these governance issues of putting the right people in government so that Hong Kong would work. In my mind, it's as simple as that. We want the right people, a system that can choose the right people to run Hong Kong. Behind this so-called principle, there's a practical, pragmatic consideration too on whether there's room for negotiation.
Subtle things are happening, despite what Professor Young said. Subtle changes have been made on both the government side and the Democratic Party side. They are now saying in very subtle terms—and only people like us will notice, because we read the papers every day—that instead of rejecting the 8.31 decision totally, the Democratic Party is now saying that it needs to be changed.
In today's newspaper, the Hong Kong Economic Journal, this is really a summary of what many people have said. Many people are ballooning the ideas that it may not be rejected. It may be passed by four votes. There may be more of a compromise offer by Beijing.
So those are the subtle changes that are happening, but nobody is negotiating yet, as far as I know.