Ming didn’t expect to become a refugee in her 60s: meet the Hong Kongers starting a new life in a British seaside town
n the dining room of a bed and breakfast in Blackpool, a dozen refugees from Hong Kong tuck into Domino’s pizza and Ben & Jerry’s cookie-dough ice-cream. They miss more familiar food, but the Chinese takeaways in Blackpool, a down-at-heel seaside resort in the north-west of England, “just cheat the locals”, says one Hong Konger, laughing.
First he needed money. Friends introduced him to Johnny Fok and Tony Choi, two London-based Hong Kongers who make popular YouTube videos criticising the Chinese government. Fok and Choi agreed to stump up the cash; Finnick would manage the hotel and live off his savings. Ming still carries with her a pen she got as a souvenir on her trip: the gold enamel is worn but the characters for “Respect Chairman Mao’s old home” are etched on the barrel. When Chinese troops fired at pro-democracy demonstrators around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, Ming thought they had merely made a mistake, she tells me as we chat on a faux-leather sofa at the back of the dining room.
She set about trying to move her and her husband’s savings overseas, worried that the Chinese government would seize their assets. She was disappointed to discover that most banks required a minimum deposit of HK$3m to open an overseas account; her savings were a fraction of that. So she decided to move to Britain and open a bank account there.
“I was very depressed these past two years,” she says. “I can’t do anything to improve the situation and have seen many people die, many people go to jail...It is very dark in Hong Kong right now.” Jessie quit herjob at a bank to move to Britain. “In Hong Kong we work like cows,” she says with a chuckle. “TheNot quite.
“We don’t know what the Chinese government will do. Because they can do anything...So we needed to escape”
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