The Opposition has won the local elections in Hong Kong by a landslide. Meaning that it can.
The best thing to do with people who think that this is something to do with some "Anglosphere" is to laugh at them.
They went bananas at the idea of letting in people from Hong Kong in the run-up to the Handover, and Hong Kong under British rule was a very repressive place indeed, with elections, if at all, then often a lot less free than these ones.
None of this is in any way about that. We are not missed there, and in any case many of the demonstrators these days have no first hand memory of us.
They would react with mere bewilderment to some upper-class twit on the Daily Telegraph or the BBC who thought that they were expressing any nostalgia for the Colonial Period.
They do react with mere bewilderment to any upper-class twit on the Daily Telegraph or the BBC who thinks that they are expressing any nostalgia for the Colonial Period.
The best thing to do with people who think that this is something to do with some "Anglosphere" is to laugh at them.
They went bananas at the idea of letting in people from Hong Kong in the run-up to the Handover, and Hong Kong under British rule was a very repressive place indeed, with elections, if at all, then often a lot less free than these ones.
None of this is in any way about that. We are not missed there, and in any case many of the demonstrators these days have no first hand memory of us.
They would react with mere bewilderment to some upper-class twit on the Daily Telegraph or the BBC who thought that they were expressing any nostalgia for the Colonial Period.
They do react with mere bewilderment to any upper-class twit on the Daily Telegraph or the BBC who thinks that they are expressing any nostalgia for the Colonial Period.
As for Xinjiang, what would we do with people like that if they showed up here? Or, at any rate, what ought we do with them?
There are many bad things about China. But hysteria is not in order. And the world is as it is, not as we might necessarily like it to be. Thatcherites and Blairites have never been able to see that.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing for Parliament here at North West Durham.
The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing for Parliament here at North West Durham.
The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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