Grumpy Liberal MP: China is a sovereign country and decides who it allows in and who it does not allow in

 

When a Liberal Democrat MP spends a huge amount of time talking about China in a bad light, it is to be expected that Chinese authorities will not be happy about it. So the decision not to allow her to to stay in Hong Kong was something to be expected.

All the furore generated by Members of Parliament is absolutely childish and unbecoming an MP. China is a sovereign country and China decides who to allow in and who not to allow in.

As a matter of fact, all countries at one point or another decide not to allow somebody in. Britain, for example, did not allow a Dutch MP to bring in his security team and therefore the visit had to be cancelled. So Britain has done it and British Members of Parliament should be honest enough to recognize that they themselves have campaigned to prevent elected representives from coming to the United Kingdom.

Foreign democratically elected representatives have not been allowed by the British government to enter the United Kingdom. There are precedents about it. So if Britain does it, anybody can do it.

So Wera Hobhouse should stop complaining about it because it is a fact of life and Britain has been very much at it.