Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
Australia learned a lot from the ‘efficiency’ of the British bureaucracy.
A study of the original government of Hong Kong is a very instructive insight into what happens when ‘crazy’ people with independent views decide not to impose ‘wisdom by British government’. Had the poms known what their unsupervised bureaucrats were up to, Hong Kong could have been regulated into an economic backwater.
Perhaps not, if the Swire Group had predominated then?