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14:37 113(00U) HK GUVI
May I quote a few passages from a very recent publication by "The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants" entitled "A Question of Belonging British nationality law and the future of, Hong Kong":-
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"That law (that is, British nationality law) was morally indefensible and has indeed left many Chinese BDTCs in Hong Kong feeling that they have been sold out; but it would be doubly unjust if their situation were to be used as an excuse for failing to act to
relieve the plight of an even more disadvantaged group." (page 24)
At page 26, it reads:-
"It must be an absolute priority that the British invention of "one country, six citizenships” does not leave anyone with "one citizenship, no country"
Their recommendation is as follows:-
"The few thousand British nationals in Hong Kong who do not have another. nationality and are effectively stateless should therefore be granted full British
citizenship."
Sir, I entirely agree with my other honourable friend Mr John Swaine in his plea for the 400 or so ex-servicemen in Hong Kong, Every year on Remembrance Sunday, members of this Council line up before the Cenotaph and pay respect to "The Glorious Dead", many of whom were the deceased colleagues of these 400 ex-servicemen. It is of course right and proper that we should honour our dead warriors; but should we not also honour the living? Has Great Britain shrunk to such an extent that she cannot even allow such a small number of ex-servicemen to live there, if they should wish to do so?
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