Britain must welcome eligible Hong Kong citizens after China’s monstrous attack on a free people
Let them in
BRITAIN must welcome as many eligible Hong Kong citizens as we can and give them a new life. And the world must face down China’s Communist tyranny.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab’s reaction to the global outrage perpetrated by President Xi was decisive, generous and correct.
China has torn up our agreement over freedoms and rights in the former British colony, which was meant to last half a century from the 1997 handover.
Its new “National Security Law” criminalises any dissent — even, incredibly, by non-Hong Kong residents abroad.
This very column breaches it.
It is a monstrous attack on a free people. Hong Kong as the world knows it has effectively ceased to exist.
MORAL DUTY
The Sun has often argued in favour of our Government, post-Brexit, ending free movement and controlling immigration while letting the brightest and best make their lives here.
Those fleeing Hong Kong will mainly fall into that category. But we have a moral duty to rescue its people regardless.
Probably only a small fraction of the 2.9million eligible to come here will do so. Many will grimly stay put. Others will head elsewhere.
Even so, it is vital the Government does not forget the public’s key objection to the vast increases in our population over the past 20 years: that housing, transport, healthcare and so on were never scaled up to cope.
Boris Johnson’s new mantra is “build, build, build”. And he will need to do so rapidly to accommodate an influx from Hong Kong, aside from all the other motives.
The world meanwhile must unite against a malevolent regime now revealing its true colours, one whose falsehoods also allowed Covid-19 to become a pandemic destroying millions of lives and livelihoods.
First we must ban Huawei from our new 5G network. The Chinese state cannot be trusted.
Nor, as our major security allies have repeatedly warned us, can a tech giant closely linked to it.
If that sets back the 5G rollout, so be it.
Boris-bashing
IS there anything at all Labour and the Remain resistance bores won’t blame Boris Johnson for?
Sir Keir Starmer now accuses him of being late to lock Leicester back down, as if HE would have hammered schools and businesses by doing so overnight at the first glimmer of evidence of a spike.
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He even had the gall to imply Boris, currently shoring up 12million workers with taxpayers’ money, wasn’t focused enough on saving jobs.
Labour seem to believe furlough bailouts should go on and on until we are actually bankrupt.
Boris’s critics say he was too reluctant/too eager to lock down, late/early to lift it and reckless/over-cautious on schools.
He is somehow to blame for Leicester’s plight and for people enjoying Bournemouth beach when the sun’s out.
The juvenility of the Corbyn era lives on.
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