Waiting for Uncle Fat
Waiting for Uncle Fat is a Hong Kong Internet slang term and an internet meme; “Uncle Fat” is the nickname of rural patriarch Lau Wong-fat. The expression is derived from the 2015 Hong Kong electoral reform vote, when the 31 pro-Beijing camp 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-Beijing camp parties’ reason for not attending the vote – to wait for Uncle Fat – has sparked an intense discussion about the method the pro-establishment parties had used among Hong Kong citizens. Even more, "waiting for Uncle Fat" has become Internet slang and many derivative works or parodies have been created by Hong Kong netizens according to this slang. Background The members in Hong Kong's Legislative Council can be separated as pro-establishment and pro-democracy. Passage of bills introduced by the government shall require at least a simple majority vote of the members of the Legislative Council present, so the number of the pro-establishment members are not enough to let the political reform proposal pass. As before