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    Starmer lehnt es zweimal ab, die Inhaftierung von demokratiefreundlichen Vertretern Hongkongs direkt zu verurteilen | Keir Starmer


    Starmer lehnt es zweimal ab, die Inhaftierung von demokratiefreundlichen Vertretern Hongkongs direkt zu verurteilen | Keir Starmer

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/19/keir-starmer-declines-to-directly-condemn-jailing-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures

    Von kwentongskyblue

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    16 Comments

    1. mountain4455 on

      He’s already pissed the Russians off, can’t be pissing the Chinese off too

    2. Amazing_Battle3777 on

      Antagonising the US and being chummy with China. Got his priorities all wrong. Eugh.

    3. finalbossusername on

      Commie Kier and Winnie the Pooh are natural bed fellows. Expect much more craven bum licking from Keir in the years to come.

    4. [deleted] on

      I mean the UK has well and truly crossed the ‘jailing people for political beliefs we *don’t like*’ rubicon. It would be verging on hypocritical.

      And no, this isn’t a false equivalency. There is a large segment of political beliefs which are no longer permissible to be expressed in public. The suppression of these beliefs extends far beyond what is commonly agreed as ‘sensible carve outs’ in a society which otherwise enjoys free speech, such as the US.

      In Hong Kong the forbidden set of beliefs are different, but the principle remains the same.

    5. bitch_fitching on

      Journalists: Kier, why don’t you say something Winnie the Pooh won’t like before having a face to face with him where you will be asking him for favours.

      Starmer: I decline your request.

    6. romulent on

      Probably should say something, however the guy is a lawyer. Questioning the rulings of a foreign court system, which I think to this day has British judges in its high court, is not something he is going to do off-the-cuff.

      Also whatever he says is not going to have any impact.

    7. megaweb on

      Probably too busy taking notes on how to further quell his own dissenters.

    8. bejeweledman on

      This will be reflected by Labour losing the majority of some councils during the next local elections in May.

      A significant portion of HKers who come here by the BNO visa scheme have a political preference towards the Tories.

    9. mturner1993 on

      Recently visited Hong Kong. Was recommend “Museum of History” – with mock up streets of how Hong Kong used to look over the years. Was meant to be brilliant.

      Turned up and that’s all been removed, it’s now an exhibition on essentially why China is brilliant, and felt like it was washing Hong Kong of its history and enforcing why China will fix it. If you check google maps reviews you’ll see what I mean.

      Just for considerations.

    10. PrometheusIsFree on

      Is Starmer ever going to put a foot right? He’s seems to choose the wrong way at every fork in the road. He just doesn’t seem to understand what most want or think. He’s clueless.

    11. Caridor on

      The correct move.

      The alternative is just piss China off to achieve nothing.

    12. ash_ninetyone on

      The duality of taking the moral high ground, and then having to deal with geopolitics and then looking the other way

    13. EntropicMortal on

      Good.

      We want a working relationship with the (second? Maybe?) biggest economy on the planet.

      The US is hardly a bastion of progress anymore either, but we still work with them. EU pisses us off all the time, but we still want a working relationship.

      Why the fuck would we piss off China, especially when he’s going there specifically to talk about trade and mutual benefits?

      Plus… I want this to go well because my company has major trade lanes with China XD. Not that I’m bias or anything…

    14. brainburger on

      For fuck’s sake, he is the Prime Minister of the UK. If he doesn’t think its wise to condemn a trading partner, stop pressing him on it. The adults in the room understand.

    15. morgan-banana on

      While the Brits committed all its attrocities, the Chinese kept quiet. Why? Because they were the weaker ones that needed to suck up to the British, else there would have been a heavy financial cost.

      Now the tables have turned, Brits are the weaker ones and need to do the sucking up and so keep quiet, else there will be a heavy financial cost.

    16. Yezzik on

      Politics: pretending to have morals, but conveniently never enough to have to do something about it.

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