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@alanball | 3 June 20 | |
Kicking off in London
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@recurve16 | 3 June 20 | |
Good stuff. Burn it to the ground. |
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@3mel | 3 June 20 | |
for those who aren't going to click, Boris Johnson offered citizenship to 3 million Hong Kong citizens born before 97 in the wake of China's new laws which caused huge new protests in HK.
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@vampboy | 3 June 20 | |
Already have a British citizenship. It should greatly benefit the current British national overseas passport holders as it's quite an obsolete document. If you hold a Hong Kong/Chinese passport, you will have to give these passports up to be a british citizen and I strongly doubt most people would do that. In any case, best stay and protest against the national security bill as well as Beijing instead of packing bags and running away. The rule of law and due process is in jeopardy at the moment. We need law makers, legislators and politicians who can keep striving for reform. Albeit in a losing battle.
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@vampboy | 3 June 20 | |
Once I finish my postgraduates and enter into a pupilage for a year at most. Then I ought to get the right of audience in the courtroom in the capacity of a Barrister, that's when I can even imagine striving for bigger change. Currently I am merely a student entering into post graduates, and that's also the case for a large proportion of anti national security bill opposition and pro Hong Kong protesters. The older generation seem staunch and rigid in their support for Beijing.
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@3mel | 3 June 20 | |
making Beijing listen sounds like an uphill impossible struggle, they imprison their own for having dissenting opinions !
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@arsed | 3 June 20 | |
Why are you still blabbing on about this?
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@vampboy | 3 June 20 | |
@ 3mel - 3.06.20 - 11:30pm making Beijing listen sounds like an uphill impossible struggle, they imprison their own for having dissenting opinions ! All the lives lost would be for nothing if we simply gave up the struggle. Covid has already done a good job tarnishing China's reputation. People are understanding and realizing now that winnie the pooh and his cronies are up to no good. Financially, the city is also taking a big hit. Socially, there is unrest. It's a perfect time to harvest change. |
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@3mel | 4 June 20 | |
wrong thread
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@obi_jon | 11 June 20 | |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53002961 British business is not ready to withstand the additional disruption of leaving the EU without a trade deal, according to the outgoing boss of the UK's most influential business group. Dame Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC that any buffers to cope with the additional cost and planning of an exit from the EU without a deal had been exhausted by the Covid-19 pandemic. ''The resilience of British business is absolutely on the floor.'' ''Every penny of cash that had been stored up, all the stockpiles prepared have been run down.'' ''The firms that I speak to have not a spare moment to plan for a no trade deal Brexit at the end of the year - that is the common sense voice that needs to find its way into these negotiations.'' Those negotiations are not going well. They broke up last week with the EU's chief negotiator saying that very little progress had been made on key sticking points, including future fishing rights in UK waters, and commitments to maintain a ''level playing field'' over regulation and competition. The devastating impact of Covid-19 and the fight for business survival has diverted management attention away from any Brexit contingency planning, according to Dame Fairbairn, who worries that a political commitment to abandon the current transitional trading arrangements - come what may - will add to the burden on business at a critical moment. ''As one member put it to me - just because the house is on fire, it doesn't make it ok to set fire to the garden shed.'' ''If we have a political timescale that takes us to a brinksmanship deal in December that will be catastrophic for British business - they will not be ready.'' |
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