As a Hongkonger without much knowledge about British politics, I don’t have much idea but I guess support for us is universal across political spectrum.
>The sad fact is that over time, Britain has gradually sacrificed the values it holds dear – such as democracy and free speech
It has never truly held those things dear. Not ever, not once.
We enable and support the worst totalitarian/repressive/undemocratic regimes so long as it is geopolitically expedient for us to so.
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>Just look at Hong Kong, where despite Britain’s profound historic, legal, and moral responsibility, democracy has been systematically destroyed at breakneck speed.
What democracy?
The executive and and legislative branches were a sham long before China got its hands on Hong Kong. It was (and still is) a broken system wholly incapable of dealing with pressing issues of inequality, poverty, and housing. One that is sustained through the naked exploitation of the city’s poorest.
China is not an improvement on matters, but let’s not pretend Hong Kong was some shining beacon of participatory democracy which safeguarded the material wellbeing of its citizens.
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As a Hongkonger without much knowledge about British politics, I don’t have much idea but I guess support for us is universal across political spectrum.
>The sad fact is that over time, Britain has gradually sacrificed the values it holds dear – such as democracy and free speech
It has never truly held those things dear. Not ever, not once.
We enable and support the worst totalitarian/repressive/undemocratic regimes so long as it is geopolitically expedient for us to so.
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>Just look at Hong Kong, where despite Britain’s profound historic, legal, and moral responsibility, democracy has been systematically destroyed at breakneck speed.
What democracy?
The executive and and legislative branches were a sham long before China got its hands on Hong Kong. It was (and still is) a broken system wholly incapable of dealing with pressing issues of inequality, poverty, and housing. One that is sustained through the naked exploitation of the city’s poorest.
China is not an improvement on matters, but let’s not pretend Hong Kong was some shining beacon of participatory democracy which safeguarded the material wellbeing of its citizens.
JURY’S OUT! — Liz