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The Pulse：UK Election & discussion with Kenneth Chan, housing in country parks

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"Pride goes before a fall” as the old British saying goes, and in April, after vowing on seven different occasions that she wasn’t going to call a snap election, UK prime Minister Theresa May, well, called a snap election. At the time her Conservative Party was riding high in public opinion polls. She figured that there was little to fear from the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and that a stronger mandate in the form of a tighter grip on parliament would improve her ability to negotiate Brexit.
But it hasn’t worked as planned – indeed hasn’t worked out big time.
Do birds excrete in trees? Yes they do, well that’s assuming they can find any foliage in Hong Kong’s urban areas, which brings us to complaints about bird droppings and potential falling branches – that led a tree to be pruned this week in Tai Po. This area also happens to be the second largest habitat for egrets and the tree pruning resulted in deaths and injuries to several hatchlings. Generally speaking however the government is not that worried about trees, but, as we have discovered, not all trees are equal.
When the Chief Executive was asked why country parks could be used to develop housing while golf courses and the Chief Executive’s lodge in Fan Ling could not, Leung Chun-ying said it would be difficult as these places are home to “decades-old trees”. That’s a bit strange because last time I looked the country parks also seemed to be pretty full of old trees. However this has done little to dampen the outgoing Chief Executives’ determination to eat into the country parks.
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