You know what you can do with it!

The Lunar New Year, celebrated by Chinese everywhere, is coming up (February 19th) and Hong Kong's opposition Democratic Party had plans to raise some money by selling a special novelty item. It looks like this.

Yep, it's toilet paper, or as it's known in Chinese, lu wad. [Are you sure about this? Ed.] The image printed on these special varieties, designed exclusively for use in Hong Kong, is that of the HKG CEO,  the oft-ridiculed C.Y. Leung. Mr. Leung is unpopular with ["despised by", surely! Ed.] much of the Hong Kong public, and products mocking him have sold well in recent years.

But not this year! Agent 78 regrets to report that Chinese Communist authorities, not known for their sense of humour, have seized 7,600 toilet rolls and 20,000 packets of tissue from a factory in mainland China on Friday. The confiscated tissues depicted the pro-Beijing leader with a variety of expressions. Some printed the word "lying" on his forehead, while others showed him with fangs - a reference to how his opponents have described him as a wolf.

Lo Kin-hei, a vice-chairman of the Democratic Party said the toilet rolls sold out at Hong Kong's annual New Year fair last year, and called the seizure a violation of the right to freedom of expression supposedly guaranteed in Hong Kong's basic law, adopted at the handover by the British in 1997.

Walt expects that Mr. Lo will soon be reminded that he lives in China now, and that if he persists in that kind of talk he will become Lo Hong-hai.