To offer a "balanced" view, not only will I explain to HongKongers why emigration may not be as good as you think, I will also explain to the West why you should welcome HK people. Actually, the points are kind of the same.
So, the number 1 point I want to make is that it will help shift the electoral balance to be more "right wing".
Sure, not everyone in HK support the Tories or the GOP. But at the same time, no one is "brought up to hate the Tories". This generational or geographical thing doesn't exist here. At a more fundamental level, HongKongers may be one of the most economically right-wing in the world. We believe in the idea that people should work with their own hands to make their living, to solve their own problems, to improve their life, to move up the social ladder. We don't believe that "the society" has a responsibility to help us. Things like (the equivalent of) state pensions or minimum wage only came into existence in the last 20 years or so.
Take the recent row about free school meals in the UK, for example. People in HK would be completely baffled by the idea that somehow the government is responsible for feeding your kids. We believe it's up to the parents to work and earn money to feed their kids. (As a popular Internet saying goes, "if you're poor, don't have kids".) Of course, if you are in real financial difficulty, the state should give you benefits. But not micro-controlling every individual thing like meals. It's up to oneself to decide how to spend their money.
At the time I'm writing this, Trump looks like he's going to lose the election. Most HongKongers on the pro-democracy side (i.e. not pro-China) keenly support Trump and dearly hope he win. (Those minority who don't are what we call "left plastic" - roughly the equivalent of "woke" people.) We never had so much interest in US presidential elections, so one-sided support to one candidate, so much anxiety in waiting for the results, and so much disappointment and despair now.
Millions of HKers are thinking of emigration. Imagine if they moved to the US before the election happened - Trump would have won easily. Just look at Florida, where Trump won thanks to the many votes from the Latinos. (So much for a "racist" and "white supremacist" when it is the other one who gained white votes.) They escaped communism and don't want what happened to their country to happen to the US. The same goes for HongKongers. Many of our ancestors (such as my father) came to HK to escape China's communism. We are inherently wary of anything socialist or communist.
HK people are also socially/culturally right wing, not just economically. For instance no one gives a damn about all those LGBT thing, and we are anti-immigration. And at this point you may be laughing at the irony that anti-immigrant people now want other countries to accept them. But in addition to this reason #1, there are more fundamental reasons why this is not a contradiction. I'll explain that next time...
So, if you want to help the Tories (or even UKIP), or the GOP, or stop anything socialist or "woke", you should welcome us.
