Hong Kong party that wants Britain to take over again aims to win five Legco seats
Extreme localist says he will liaise with British government over repealing Sino-British Joint Declaration then make Hong Kong an independent state
A new extreme localist political party is hoping to grab as many as five seats in the Legislative Council elections in September with a xenophobic and pro-independence manifesto.
The Alliance of Resuming British Sovereignty over Hong Kong & Independence, inaugurated on Sunday, said it did not recognise the Sino-British Joint Declaration and their identity as ethnic Chinese.
The party defines a Hong Kong national as someone born to parents who had gained right of abode in the city before 1997.
The separatist group is the second party formed in the past three months – after the Hong Kong National Party – that advocates Hong Kong breaking away from China.
The new party’s convenor, Billy Chiu Hin-chung, a self-styled pro-independence revolutionary, said the party had about 30 members so far but claimed it had overseas support, with prominent Taiwanese independence campaigners Shih Chao-hui and Wang San-chi serving as “honorary consultants”.
Among the party’s platforms is a call for a 10 per cent sales tax for all “non-Hong Kong” shoppers, cancellation of the one-way permit system to halt an influx of mainland migrants, dumping all books written in simplified Chinese characters in public libraries, and awarding infrastructure projects to Britain in exchange for military protection by the Commonwealth.