Move to UK like jumping 'from frying pan into fire': Hongkong activists

aziqbal · Aug 30, 2023

beijingwalker said:
Hongkongers in England join protest march in Manchester

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meanwhile in China

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The clean-up in Zhuozhou continues

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People in Zhuozhou have seen their businesses damaged by floodwaters

Nan Yang · Aug 30, 2023

Hong Kong emigrant family of 4 evicted from house shouting human rights to UK police evicting them.

Menthol · Aug 30, 2023

Kuru said:
At least they have a right to protest which wouldn’t have been possible in CCP-Hong-Kong; after it no longer remained British-Hong-Kong.

@beijingwalker do you think UK should introduce National Security Law and arrest these trouble makers? That way these protesters will feel they are in their home country. Problem solved, you know.

That's not true.

In UK, they don't have a right to protest like they did in HK as the article above mentioned.

Before HK implemented National Security Law, UK already had it first.

That is why the article says it is like jumping from frying pan (HK) into fire (UK).

aziqbal said:
meanwhile in China

IMAGE SOURCE, BBC/JOYCE LIU
Image caption,
The clean-up in Zhuozhou continues

IMAGE SOURCE, BBC/JOYCE LIU
Image caption,
People in Zhuozhou have seen their businesses damaged by floodwaters

The flood is just among the first of many that will come in the future.

Seeing global warming, you will see it in the news almost every year.

And it's getting worse and worse each year.

DF41 · Aug 30, 2023

beijingwalker said:
I hope those Hongkong activists can bring the massive riots, I mean the democratic protests and demostrations to UK.

AND MAY THOSE WHO RAN TO UK ROT AND STARVE IN UK IN BETWEEN STAGING THEIR DEMOCRATIC PROTESTS AT THE BEHEST OF WHITEHOUSE AND PELOSI

GIVE US ALL BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS TO BEHOLD

beijingwalker · Aug 30, 2023

Finally they find a place to riot, they should keep it up.

Hong kong had zero democracy under Britain, the governers were sent in by the British Kings and Queens and British police and troops bloodily quelled several uprisings resulting in many deaths in Hong kong.

Viet · Aug 30, 2023

waz said:
What a thing to say to a nation which took them in. We built many of these services with our hands and taxes and here we some Hong Kongers complaining about free services, they can use from the get go having contributed nothing.

The hill is always higher on the other side. Those HKs who moved to UK are dreamers if they break up any link to HK or China. There should be a way out. otherwise they box themselves into a corner there is no return.
However I would say Brexit is not the brightest idea ever.

beijingwalker · Aug 30, 2023

aziqbal said:
meanwhile in China

IMAGE SOURCE, BBC/JOYCE LIU
Image caption,
The clean-up in Zhuozhou continues

IMAGE SOURCE, BBC/JOYCE LIU
Image caption,
People in Zhuozhou have seen their businesses damaged by floodwaters

While in UK

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S.Y.A · Aug 30, 2023

K_Bin_W said:
I use to live in UK London for 10 years, it's good for visit not to live. Too crowded and expensive with low income and higher taxes.

if someone were to get a job offer from england, should one move there? another offer may be from saudi arabia, with the saudi offer paying way more, and getting to save more.

jhungary · Aug 30, 2023

kingQamaR said:
For 156 long years the UK colonized Hong Kong after destroying China using opium. Never for once was democracy given to HK people. HK governors were dropped from UK. There was no election. And now, the audacity to complain about lack of freedom! What a ghastly display of hypocrisy!

In fact, UK ruled HK under more or less iron fist. There was high end oppression by the police in Protest during the 60s and 70s and the UK mostly just send the elite to rule HK, every company, government position and court have to be governed by a Brits during those time. HK Police have a lot of power and probably the most corrupted Police Force in the world back in the 60s, until ICAC was created.

The issue here is, one of the original agreements when the UK signed the Joint Declaration with China is to guarantee HK legislation and government integrity, the so called "frozen" for 50 years and have moving Hong Kong into even more democratic as they were to open up the local government election. That is what the Brits signed for, and what people in HK believed. We all know it's going to shit sooner or later, but not this rate. Virtually all the points in Basic Law are broken with less than half the 50 years they were supposed to be frozen. This is what people are pissed about.

For most people in Hong Kong, they were looking for a change, but then it ended up like The Who song "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" probably going on a lot more restrictive now. That is why the Brits are giving virtually everyone in Hong Kong a free visa to live and study in HK (Well, you still have to pay for the visa fee, so it's not really free) Because had they know this happened, they wouldn't buy what the Chinese said back in 1984 and gave everyone in Hong Kong British Citizenship like the Portuguese did with Macau.