Organisers of an anti-Occupy Central march have defended a move to offer free food and transport to those turning up for the pro-establishment rally next Sunday. According to the Apple Daily, the New Home Association – an anti-Occupy Central group backed by pro-Beijing tycoons – is offering a “Day Tour” for HKD20, that would see ticket holders receive lunch, a museum trip and an “activity of Hong Kong Island”, confirmed, according to reporters, to be attendance at the march.
Robert Chow Yung – spokesman for the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, which staged a rally at their Heung Yee Kuk headquarters on Saturday in a bid to attract New Territories residents to the anti-Occupy Central movement – said organisers should not be blamed for “arranging for coaches and lunch boxes for the marchers”, and insisted such actions would not buy participation.
