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Lau Wong-fat | |
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| 劉皇發 | |
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| Member of the Legislative Council | |
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| Born | Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Barrister Politician |
Waiting for Uncle Fat , a popular Hong Kong internet slang and internet meme, which “Uncle Fat” is the nickname of rural patriarch Lau Wong-fat. This quotation is borned from the 2015 Hong Kong electoral reform vote, when the 31 pro-establishment lawmakers walked out of the chamber just before the vote in order to wait for Uncle Fat to arrive and vote to show their unity. The voting results turned out to be an embarrassing eight votes supporting the reform package. The pro-establishment parties’ reason for not attending the vote - to wait for Uncle Fat, has sparked off an intense discussion about the method the pro-establishment parties had used among Hong Kong citizens. Even more, waiting for Uncle Fat has became an internet slang and many derivative works or parodies have been created by the Hong Kong netizens according to this slang.