Outspoken financial activist David Webb told a Carrie Lam supporter to “get on the right side of history” after the latter published a children’s book promoting social harmony.

Webb told Daryl Ng, who was a deputy director in Lam’s chief executive election campaign in 2017, that he should promote harmony by advocating fair voting in the chief executive election instead of telling children’s stories and participating in a “feudal” system that stands in the way of democracy.

The book, titled “The Story of the Sand and Sea People,” is published by the Hong Kong Community Foundation, a non-profit organization controlled by Daryl and Nikki Ng, the children of Sino Group chairperson Robert Ng.

The book, enclosed with several Hong Kong newspapers on Friday, is about “love, inclusion, harmony, unity and mutual respect,” according to an introduction on Youtube. Webb mentioned the book on his Facebook page and revealed Daryl and Nikki Ng’s roles in its publication.

“For generations, the Sand and Sea People have been living in their own habitats. They have been sceptical about one another, feeding myths and negative beliefs,” the book’s introduction read.

The book depicts the sand people as yellow and the sea people as blue — two colors that have come to represent Hong Kong’s protesters and government defenders, respectively.

Commenting on Webb’s post, Daryl Ng said he believed Hong Kong needed “healing, harmony, empathy and kindness.”

The activist responded by saying that calling for the abolition of corporate voting in the city’s legislature and chief executive elections was a better way to promote harmony in Hong Kong.

“You are a [Chief Executive] Election Committee member in the Hotels sector, elected by hotel companies including those in Sino group, not by the hotel workers,” Webb said.

“It is feudal, and it stands in the way of meaningful democratic accountability. Get on the right side of history.”

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