The pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong have shown great courage and tenacity in standing up to the Stalinist regime in China. And how did the Today programme on the BBC celebrate this? They paraded Lord Patten, former Tory Party Chairman and the last governor of Hong Kong.
How can a member of the privileged House of Lords talk about democracy with a straight face?
Nobody in Hong Kong had any say in who the governor of this colony would be. Nobody elects the House of Lords. He didn't believe in democracy then, so why the change of heart?
Is it because the calls for democracy
are not directed at the vestiges of the British Empire but at the
Chinese regime? Is the Baron Patten of Barnes playing a dirty political
game or is he really on the side of the pro-democracy campaigners? You
decide.
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