In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Patten's most controversial actions are related to the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. By early May when the war was ending the United Nations estimated that some 7000 civilians had died and more than 10000 had been wounded in 2009 as the army’s noose was being drawn tight around the remaining LTTE Tamil Tiger rebels and hundreds of thousands of non-combatants who could not escape government Chris Pattenlling.

On 7 April 2011 the Queen approved Patten's appointment as the Chairman of the BBC Trust the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. As Governor and Commander-in-Chief Patten presided over a steady rise in the living standards of Hong Kongers while encouraging a significant expansion of Hong Kong's social welfare system. From 1999 to 2004 he served as one of the United Kingdom's two members of the European Commission.