Didn't realise how good they had it until it was too late...We still love you HK and will return to help you.
@carmeledwin
4 жыл бұрын
Rather you blokes stay away and let us handle our own affairs.
@Iberotimuka
4 жыл бұрын
watching this in May 2020 and it makers me cry
@frankieleung2215
7 жыл бұрын
I miss the British.
@johnbull9195
6 жыл бұрын
Frankie Leung And I miss Hong Kong
@carmeledwin
4 жыл бұрын
Glad that the British are OUT and never to come back as colonial masters!
@samuelbcn
4 жыл бұрын
@@carmeledwin Are you actually from HK?
@carmeledwin
4 жыл бұрын
@@samuelbcn Yes, I am from Hong Kong. I was born in Hong Kong, spent some time overseas and came back. I came back over 30 years ago, and never left since. I was young enough to have witnessed the brutality the British dash out to the local people. I was young enough to witnessed how they treated local Hong Kong Chinese as second class citizens. British whites were always inspectors and above in the disciplinary forces, none lower. I also witnessed even in companies like Kowloon and Whampoa Docks the class distinctions between the British and the local Chinese. They also neglect to teach students that the 1967 riots started due to some workers protesting peacefully outside the factory premises in San Po Kong. The police dispersed them using tear gas, batons and arrests. That was what started the trade unions to fight. I definitely do not miss the British for certain.
@madjack7443
6 жыл бұрын
This was the day the sun set on the British empire
@knguyennguyen5559
6 жыл бұрын
Bluejack 02 Metaphorically. Technically it hasn’t .-.
@turmuthoer
6 жыл бұрын
Actually, thanks largely to Pitcairn and British Indian Ocean Territory, the sun still technically never sets on the Union Flag. I see your point though. Hong Kong was the last British territory of any real size and economic importance.
@mayng2871
2 жыл бұрын
I love U K !!!❤️
@tombblades
2 жыл бұрын
So sad
@samuelbcn
4 ай бұрын
Hongkongers were under British control for 150 years. HK civil servants, policemen etc. swore allegiance to the Crown and the hybrid Anglo-Chinese culture in the city is still very real and, unsurprisingly, despite their Chinese ethnicity, many Hongkongers do not identify with communist China. Unlike British colonies that were given their independence, HK people were given no say on their destiny. They were handed over to a dictatorship only eight years after the Tiananmen massacre with an almost worthless 3rd class BNO passport. The UK is guilty of serious hypocrisy (and perhaps racism) when they defend Gibraltarians and Falklanders’ rights to determine the future of their respective colonies AS WELL AS RIGHT OF ABODE IN THE UK! Neither were given to Hongkongers.
@johnbull9195
6 жыл бұрын
Why the Labour government felt it was a good idea to hand Hong Kong over to a despotic regime I will never know.
@turmuthoer
6 жыл бұрын
We had to. The 99-year lease was up on the New Territories and China was certainly never going to agree to an extension under any circumstances. We could have split off Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, they had been fully ceded to Britain, but that would have been entirely impractical and bad for both parties. Considering we were a small island nation on the other side of the world standing up to a rising superpower that, during handover negotiations, told us point blank that they could ‘walk in and take the whole lot in an afternoon’, I think we secured a pretty good deal. Also, while it may have been a Labour PM at the handover, it was actually Mrs Thatcher who negotiated and signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration. The Conservatives sold the house, Labour were just handing over the keys.
@turmuthoer
6 жыл бұрын
Oh and just a fun little extra I remembered. In 1909 Sir Frederick Lugard, the Governor of Hong Kong, asked the British to offer the Chinese the undeveloped treaty port of Weihaiwei (then a British concession) in exchange for perpetual ownership of the New Territories. For unknown reasons, the Colonial Office rejected this proposal. As it was the Liberal Party that was in power during this period, one could actually make the argument that it is the Lib Dems that are most responsible for losing Hong Kong.
@carmeledwin
4 жыл бұрын
@TheSmithersy Hong Kong would not even have an airport, Kai Tak was in Kowloon City which expires with the lease.. Lantau is also part of the New Territories. Sea traffic goes through China' s territorial seas, not practical at all.
@pplesandoranges
Жыл бұрын
I didn't realise Margaret Thatcher was a Labour PM. The decision came under her government.
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