Ordinary Gweilo

A strange story, already covered by Phil, is that the leader of the DAB has offered to resign.

To paraphrase the unlinkable SCMP:

Tsang Yok-sing offered his resignation after the party suffered its worst ever election result on Sunday, winning only 78 of the 206 seats it contested in Sunday’s district council polls

or you can read the full story here

Why is the guy only offering to resign? He made such an ass of himself in the summer with his stupid comments about the July 1st march, and now Hong Kong people have demonstrated that they remember what he said and they didn’t like it. If he goes then the DAB have a chance of achieving a respectable result in the next year’s Legislative Council elections. It really doesn’t matter how much support he has in Beijing, he is an electoral liability. If he is really hoping that the party will talk him out of quitting, as they did earlier this year, he is an idiot.