Hong Kong: Britain's 22-year shame

[CrossLOPER]

No, it's the 7 million people we knowingly handed over to a repressive dictatorship.

So what makes the other things I mentioned so far less disconcerting?

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

So what makes the other things I mentioned so far less disconcerting?

Most of the other things you mention aren't exactly within government control - government can try to mitigate poverty but poverty is caused by the economy.

Our elected representatives handing over 7 million fellow citizens (who are denied the right to vote?

How is that NOT astronomically worse?

For starters - you have the disenfranchised citizens who are also basically the victims of overt state racism (non-Chinese Hong-Kongers were given the option to emigrate to Britain far more readily). Then you have the shear number, about 11% of Britain's entire population when you include overseas territories. Then you have where we sent them, and when, and in what context. The Joint Sino-British Declaration was signed in 1984, two years after the Falklands Conflict established that Britain would protect the right of its citizens to be British.