 After his bid for the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election was disqualified, he said that Hong Kong had become a dictatorship, adding that revolution was the only solution to the situation at hand.Since of the slogan was originally used only in Chinese language in the 2016 election campaigns, various of its English translations emerged when it became a motto of a wider democratic movement.The English version of Edward Leung's election platform listed "Ignite revolution to reclaim our Hong Kong, our age".