By Larry Ong, Epoch Times | October 21, 2014
Last Updated: October 21, 2014 10:52 am
It’s not a good day to be Lau Kong-wah.
The unpopular pro-Beijing politician is already the butt of jokes on the Internet after a humorous picture of Lau’s campaign poster being obscured by a rubbish bin started making its rounds.
Later, local designer Maxwell Ip did an illustration of Lau in the style of Roger Hargreaves’s “Mr. Men & Little Miss” children picture book series.
On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Hong Kong’s government’s Under Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs was one of five Task Force on Constitutional Development representatives at the student-government talks.
Leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (L-R) Yvonne Leung, Eason Chung, Nathan Law, Alex Chow and Lester Shum arrive for talks with Hong Kong authorities, aimed at ending weeks of rallies, on the same day the city’s leader ruled out democratic reforms, in Hong Kong on October 21, 2014. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
Hong Kong government representatives (L-R) Edward Yau, Rimsky Yuen, Carrie Lam, Raymond Tam and Lau Kong look on before long-awaited talks with leaders of the Hong Kong Federation of Students in Hong Kong on October 21, 2014. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
Seated on the far right of the government representatives, Lau kept mum throughout the entire ninety minute dialogue.
Netizens quickly caught on to that fact that Lau was a passive spectator, and immediately got their creative juices flowing:
Caption: No one can see me.
The chat title reads, “Dialogue for Political Reform.” In the chat, it says that the “Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS)” created the “Dialogue for Political Reform,” but immediately after that, “Lau Kong-wah” left the chat.
The government members are depicted as Teletubbies, and Lau remains in his “rubbish bin” guise.
Lau Kong-wah’s script at the dialogue.
And this brilliant meme shows Kim Jong-un and his generals having a good laugh at Lau and the Hong Kong government representatives.
The yellow text reads, “top oral exam candidates”; green, “only questioning HKFS representatives”; blue, “rehashing what they’ve said a month ago”; blue, “said absolutely nothing.”
Only three government officials, Carrie Lam, Rimsky Yuen, and Raymond Tam spoke at the dialogue. Edward Yau remained silent.
All five HKFS representatives, Alex Chow, Lester Shum, Eason Chung, Nathan Law and Yvonne Leung, made speeches.
Yau is represented as a flower vase (in Chinese, calling some one a “flower vase” suggests that they are just “for show”), Lam, Yuen and Tam by an old cassette tape player (indicating that they are merely repeating an earlier government stance), and Lau as an orange rubbish bin.
The text reads: “I feel like a zero.”
And Maxwell Ip takes the cake with his updated “Mr. Rubbish Bin” cartoon.
