Hong Kong’s Legco election should priortise substance over spectacle

These are interesting times in Hong Kong politics. Rarely has the city seen the government get so involved in galvanising voters ahead of the Legislative Council election. These things have traditionally been the work of political parties and groups. And that is one prominent feature of the development of Hong Kong’s “patriots-only” political system.
Before the overhaul of the election system, voter turnout was a barometer of sorts for the election outcome. Conventional wisdom was that the…