He also said it couldn't be otherwise due to the lack of democracy in China.
What a total hypocrite this man is. To claim the UK is a democracy worthy of the name is nonsensical, untrue.
It has an unelected monarch as head of State whose family reign in perpetuity. The second parliamentary chamber is full of unelected political placemen and women, ruling class toadies, corporate cronies, judges, clerics, along with 85 dukes, earls, and baron's who are members by birthright.
It's worth noting all of this group of 85 aristocrats are white, went to one of three public schools, Eton, Winchester or Harrow and according to the Sunday Times own at least 170,000 acres of land.
Far from being democratic, not one of those who sit in the second chamber of the British parliament has ever faced the electorate to get there. The UK may have some of the trappings of Democracy but when you look below the surface it's far from it. It's a mockney democracy not the real thing.
Now to China, and the UK being on higher moral ground. My first thought was what planet do these people live on - did the nineteenth, twentieth and the first two decades of the twenty first century pass them by? I used the word 'these' in the last sentence because on this Lammy, Starmer, Liza Nandy, the rest of the Blairite clones and many Tories are all singing from the same song sheet.
Apart from during WW2, rather than being on higher moral ground British governments of all complexions have been wading in other nations' blood.
According to Wikipedia:
In this century alone it has used military force against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria which has had disastrous consequences for the local populations of those countries.
You can count on six fingers the number of times the Chinese People's Republic has crossed national borders with weaponry. Four out of the six were border skirmishes which were quickly solved by diplomatic means, whilst the fifth was in support of its neighbour, North Korea. And the sixth sadly was the invasion and occupation of Tibet which was made for geopolitical reasons.
With a record like Britain's all talk of having taken the moral high ground is an oxymoron. To use Hong Kong as a sorry excuse to black ball China is equally so. Hong Kong Island and later Kowloon were stolen from China by force of arms when the British army won the Opium wars, after the Chinese authorities refused to allow them to import the drug into China.
For the Chinese People's Republic this was always a running sore, until that is they finally saw the back of the British in 1997. After this all talk of China preserving the systems and alleged freedoms of the former occupying power were not worth a hill of beans, and rightly so. It's crass hypocrisy for the UK to now claim the high moral high ground not least because for most of their occupation of Hong Kong they treated the Chinese population horrendously, in a totally racist manner.
Finally we come to the British government and its MSM claiming the Uighur people in China are experiencing genocide. Yes, some of them are being singled out and this is wrong. But they are not being marched into showers and murdered, nor taken to a hillside in large numbers, as happened in Bosnia, and made to dig their own graves. Their treatment is wrong and must cease but its not genocide. To claim it is, weakens the meaning of the word.
As to the UK state's hypocrisy on this, it wasn't that long ago when they had internment camps of their own.
It's worth noting all of this group of 85 aristocrats are white, went to one of three public schools, Eton, Winchester or Harrow and according to the Sunday Times own at least 170,000 acres of land.
Far from being democratic, not one of those who sit in the second chamber of the British parliament has ever faced the electorate to get there. The UK may have some of the trappings of Democracy but when you look below the surface it's far from it. It's a mockney democracy not the real thing.
Now to China, and the UK being on higher moral ground. My first thought was what planet do these people live on - did the nineteenth, twentieth and the first two decades of the twenty first century pass them by? I used the word 'these' in the last sentence because on this Lammy, Starmer, Liza Nandy, the rest of the Blairite clones and many Tories are all singing from the same song sheet.
Apart from during WW2, rather than being on higher moral ground British governments of all complexions have been wading in other nations' blood.
According to Wikipedia:
During its history, the United Kingdom's military (or forces with a British mandate) have invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states, or nine out of ten of all countries.
In this century alone it has used military force against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria which has had disastrous consequences for the local populations of those countries.
You can count on six fingers the number of times the Chinese People's Republic has crossed national borders with weaponry. Four out of the six were border skirmishes which were quickly solved by diplomatic means, whilst the fifth was in support of its neighbour, North Korea. And the sixth sadly was the invasion and occupation of Tibet which was made for geopolitical reasons.
With a record like Britain's all talk of having taken the moral high ground is an oxymoron. To use Hong Kong as a sorry excuse to black ball China is equally so. Hong Kong Island and later Kowloon were stolen from China by force of arms when the British army won the Opium wars, after the Chinese authorities refused to allow them to import the drug into China.
For the Chinese People's Republic this was always a running sore, until that is they finally saw the back of the British in 1997. After this all talk of China preserving the systems and alleged freedoms of the former occupying power were not worth a hill of beans, and rightly so. It's crass hypocrisy for the UK to now claim the high moral high ground not least because for most of their occupation of Hong Kong they treated the Chinese population horrendously, in a totally racist manner.
Finally we come to the British government and its MSM claiming the Uighur people in China are experiencing genocide. Yes, some of them are being singled out and this is wrong. But they are not being marched into showers and murdered, nor taken to a hillside in large numbers, as happened in Bosnia, and made to dig their own graves. Their treatment is wrong and must cease but its not genocide. To claim it is, weakens the meaning of the word.
As to the UK state's hypocrisy on this, it wasn't that long ago when they had internment camps of their own.
⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.
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