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EXCLUSIVE: IN A BREATHTAKING feat of hypocrisy, the UK is taking drastic steps to stop “foreign interference” cash while slamming Hong Kong for doing a basic, minimal version of the same thing.
Britain has long prohibited foreign payments to its political groups and recently escalated the law with a £100,000 annual cap on political donations from ITS OWN CITIZENS living abroad.
Keir Starmer’s government announced the new law on 25 March 2026, saying it was coming into force instantly and would have “retrospective effect”.
This had to be done to protect political “processes from foreign financial influence and interference”, a government statement claimed.
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THE REAL STORY
The real story is totally different, according to the buzz in the Westminster coffee bars.
Cash-based foreign political interference (“foreign collusion” in legal terms) has been banned everywhere as an obvious evil for decades—except in Hong Kong, when the UK hypocritically long supported western-financed political opposition groups which continually campaigned to delay its introduction.
Beijing wised up to the trickery in 2020 and introduced a western-style law against foreign collusion in Hong Kong, bringing the city into line with the west.
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REFORM FUNDING
In the UK, that law already existed—but was dramatically extended in March to include a cap on donations by British citizens abroad, rushed through to stop the explosive growth of rival party Reform.
That’s because Reform is financed by a pair of British crypto bros, one from Thailand and one from… Hong Kong (O the irony!).
As the UK prepares for a crucial by-election set to cause problems for the Prime Minister, "the Electoral Commission publishes the latest party funding figures and reveals who is backing the Reform UK operation", reports the latest issue of Private Eye magazine.
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‘MALIGN INTERFERENCE’
In the first 3 months of 2026, Christopher Harborne of Thailand gave £3 million (latest of a long line of donations) and Ben Delo of Hong Kong gave £4 million. (Delo says he is moving back to UK as his main home.)
It is right to come down hard on foreign payments to politicians because they were cases of “malign interference”, a Labour party spokesperson said. “Labour is introducing these landmark changes to protect UK democracy from [the] scourge of foreign actors and financial influence.”
This is a staggering level of hypocrisy.
In British Hong Kong, from at least 1990, the UK governors allowed foreign agents, largely from the US, to finance a group called “the pan-democrats” with tens of millions of dollars. Many of the transactions were recorded in the accounts of the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA regime-change spin-off.
When Hong Kong introduced a law in June 2020 which prevented financial influence and political collusion from overseas, it was presented by the UK politicians and media as if it banned dissent.
No dissent was allowed, and the punishment was death “by firing squad”, reported Jimmy Lai, the UK’s favorite Hong Kong newsman.
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NONE OF IT WAS TRUE
None of this was true. The 2020 National Security Law did not mention dissent, nor death penalties, nor firing squads in any form.
The law was largely a move to stop illicit cash payments to politicians in Hong Kong—bringing the city in line with the UK, US and other modern urban centers.
British passport holder Jimmy Lai and his sidekick, former US intelligence agent Mark Simon, had been earlier exposed by a disgruntled Apple Daily shareholder of delivering millions of dollars of unexplained cash to pan-democratic politicians.
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NEWS BLACKOUT
Western mainstream media ran (and is still running) a news blackout on negative news about Jimmy Lai and the pan-democrats, who are continually presented as Hong Kong heroes, when they have been repeatedly exposed as being the opposite.
The vast majority of Hong Kong people want a positive relationship with Mainland China and oppose independence.
To take just one example, Reuters likes to paint China-hostile churchman Joseph Zen as a hero—without mentioning that he received multiple unexplained payments of about $3 million Hong Kong dollars, which is about US$380,000, delivered by Lai and Simon.
Had Zen been taking the cash in the west, the media would have torn him to shreds. But he works to demonize China, so the international media chooses not to report it.
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