is unusual. In most cases, leaders are unpopular because of their policies but they are not hated.

Chris Patten was unpopular in Britain because he pushed through the unpopular Poll Tax.

That was partly to blame for his defeat in the 1992 parliamentary elections but the voters in his Bath constituency did not hate him, they just didn’t like his policies.

He was highly popular here as the last British governor of Hong Kong even though he lost his seat in the British elections.

The late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, however, was deeply hated by Britain’s far left for her policies but admired by hard-core conservatives.

The late US President Ronald Reagan was well-liked by all sides of the political spectrum despite his conservative values.

President Barack Obama was highly popular among ordinaryAmericans at the start of his presidency.

He has lost a lot of that popularity but is not hated as he approaches the end of his second and final term because he failed to bring many of the changes he had promised. That is common in politics.

Tung Chee-hwa became unpopular and disliked in his second term but he was not hated.

Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was highly popular when he became chief executive after Tung Chee-hwa resigned.

He became highly unpopular towards the end of his second term due to allegations of corruption but people did not hate him.

C.Y. Leung was not popular when he ran against Henry Tang Ying-yen in 2012 and was deeply disliked by some who believed he was an underground communist.

Tang Ying-yen’s popularity quickly faded, but he was