The Far Eastern Economic Review's feature editor Frank Ching half-jokingly analyzed: "Everyone believes the members of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong are just the same as us lowly paupers. [The fact that they're also trying to get out before 1997] suggests that they're not Communists, and we don't need to fear them. It actually strengthened their popularity."
遠東經濟評論的特寫編輯秦家驄半開玩笑地分析：「因為大家認為『民建聯跟我們升斗小民一樣（也想移民），他們不是共產黨，不必怕它』，對它反而加強了認同。」