Hong Kong's "Parliament" stormed by pro-democracy protestors

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Hong Kong's "Parliament" stormed by pro-democracy protestors

Hundreds of thousands continue to protest against an ever more sinister Peking

Quite something: protestors pin British colonial #HongKong flag to #LegCo President’s podium. Hard to imagine anything more incendiary to #China. (Pic: @AFP) pic.twitter.com/tMuRLbolGB

— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) July 1, 2019

Tensions rise as Hong Kong riot police fire tear gas and charge protesters in street after demonstrators gained access to Legislative Council building https://t.co/ZaRsgDe2hO pic.twitter.com/fgRQyFaBlz

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 1, 2019

Again the British colonial flag of Hong Kong, seen draped over the central chair in the fake Parliament.

The British government should make a unilateral offer, as it should have done pre-1997, of full British citizenship to all former subjects of Hong Kong. Highly educated, westernised, culturally part British - offer them an escape and drain Hong Kong of its talent.

And impose sanctions on the communist ghouls of Peking who are spitting on the treaty we signed with them.

[FlyingJesus]

You say offer citizenship to the former subjects but it's the youngsters who are protesting

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You say offer citizenship to the former subjects but it's the youngsters who are protesting

Anyone aged 22 years or older in HK lived under British rule.

[FlyingJesus]

The protests are led by the student unions

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The protests are led by the student unions

I'd offer to those born after the handover too. We owe it to them, as Hong Kong in its entirety should never have been given over.

[FlyingJesus]

You want to import 7 million people just to piss off China

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You want to import 7 million people just to piss off China

Oh yes that is entirely my reason, nothing of course to do with the fact we shamelessly abandoned these people - our people.

We imported 3.7m EU immigrants who had no loyal or cultural connection to this country. It should have been Hong Kongers, Rhodesians and Afrikanners who were granted British citizenship. As Australia has done with many as they make great farmers in harsh conditions.

And as France did when it left Algeria with the return of the Pied-Noirs to the homeland. As we did with the expelled Ugandan Indians.

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"The relationship has been damaged by interference of the British government on Hong Kong."

China's ambassador Liu Xiaoming says the UK should "reflect on the consequences of its words and deeds"

More on this story here: https://t.co/MniJmGYxg5 pic.twitter.com/Lm1tBheMRJ

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 3, 2019

Time to hit back.

If I was PM, I would go on television and reel off a list of treaty breaks the Chinese government have committed over the Anglo-Sino Agreement on Hong Kong, and draw comparisons to Tiananman Square which China hates being talked about. Will our weak and spineless politicians do anything?

[FlyingJesus]

We didn't abandon anyone, we endured the expiry of a 99 year lease on the area which is in itself a pretty horrible way to go about things - a remnant of the old colonial wishes to simply OWN people. They were only "our people" in the possessive, as they weren't British citizens and even after applying to be a British National Overseas all they'd get was a different looking passport which still didn't grant them the right to live and work here. You're labouring under a delusion that the empire was a big happy family of equally well looked after folk who all loved their governors.

As for "they make great farmers in harsh conditions" just wow. Does the shape of their heads also make them docile and receptive to feelings of caution

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We didn't abandon anyone, we endured the expiry of a 99 year lease on the area which is in itself a pretty horrible way to go about things - a remnant of the old colonial wishes to simply OWN people. They were only "our people" in the possessive, as they weren't British citizens and even after applying to be a British National Overseas all they'd get was a different looking passport which still didn't grant them the right to live and work here.

Firstly, the lease only applied to *part* of the territory. The rest, like Gibaltar, as handed over by the Qing Empire in perpeptuity. Secondly, did China respect treaty/history with Tibet, Taiwan and the other numerous territorial disputes it has with India (signed with the British Raj), Vietnam and others when it tries to claim the Himalayas or the South China Sea, an international sea, as its own? The Chinese Communist Party doesn't respect agreements when it comes to any other power.

Finally, those types of passports were only introduced in the 1980s to make it harder for people living in the remaining colonies to head back to the homeland before independence. It was a disgraceful trick which de facto stole people of their right to be (true) subjects of the British Crown. Prior to the 1970s, there was no real distinction between someone residing in the United Kingdom itself and the wider British Empire - all were considered British subjects. The government can change the status of citizenship all it wants, the fact is that the people of Hong Kong were British subjects for a long time and as a democratic country with the rule of law, it was their right to continue to decide whether to exercise that right or to become citizens of a Chinese republic. The fact they were not given a say, and handed over as though we were some defeated power, was and is an outrage.

You're labouring under a delusion that the empire was a big happy family of equally well looked after folk who all loved their governors.

Are you claiming that Hong Kong wanted to be handed over to China...?

If you actually watch the handover ceremony, Governor Patten and Prince Charles were waved off by Hong Kongers with tears.

As for "they make great farmers in harsh conditions" just wow. Does the shape of their heads also make them docile and receptive to feelings of caution

You really are ridiculous sometimes. Rhodesian and Afrikanner farmers farm in some of the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, and are very good at it having done it for a couple of hundred years. Australia, Canada, Mozambique, Zambia and now Zimbabwe have all invited the farmers to their countries because the farmers are so damn good at what they do. These people are an asset and are our own. And the same for the people of Hong Kong who are educated, culturally western and loyal.