Potentially 3m Hong Kongers to UK?

[Bald Rick]

So our Dear Leader has pledged in today's Times to allow any Hong Kong born citizen to apply for a British (Overseas) Passports which will allow the holder automatic right of entry in to the UK without a visa for at least 12 months plus the right to work after which they can apply for full citizenship.

I understand that this is a poke at China and that not all 3m will either wish or want to come here but if they did .... why, that's an immediate jump of around 4% in our population never mind the pressure on housing, schools, and other infrastructure.

Boris Johnson lays out visa offer to nearly 3m Hong Kong citizens

UK prime minister says all eligible for BNO passport can apply if China cuts freedoms

www.theguardian.com

Not sure he's thought this one through

 

[capfits]

Priti will be hopping mad

 

[Ashtree]

You will need them to eat all the spare fish, after no deal Brexit.

 

[ollie989898]

It's a political/diplomatic move that gives a message to the Chinese government. Nothing more.

 

[Bald Rick]

It's a political/diplomatic move that gives a message to the Chinese government. Nothing more.

Don’t know.
U.K. took in and assimilated 27,000 Ugandan Asians in 1972 from the 60,000 Amin expelled. Changed the face of Leicester

 

[Clive]

It’s also another 3 million more potential tax payers and customers

Economic Growth is a good way out of the hole

 

[spin cycle]

they'd be good productive ppl to have and legit reason IMO

 

[Bald Rick]

they'd be good productive ppl to have and legit reason IMO

Yes but the numbers that potentially could come are the problem. 3m is greater than the population of Manchester and looking at census data, currently Chinese make up 0.45% of the U.K. population total
Ghettoisation could also be a major problem going forward

 

[jon9000]

It would be a good thing.... look at America. A land of immigrants.... a land of prosperity

 

[ollie989898]

It would be a good thing.... look at America. A land of immigrants.... a land of prosperity

The UK is far more culturally diverse than the USA, and has been for a lot longer.

 

[betweenthelines]

Can they pick fruit? Or do they do building jobs?

 

[Muck Spreader]

It’s also another 3 million more potential tax payers and customers

Economic Growth is a good way out of the hole

Your have to get them a job first. Which may not be easy, although the Chinese built the American railroads, so they could be put to work on HS2

 

[stewart]

Yes but the numbers that potentially could come are the problem. 3m is greater than the population of Manchester and looking at census data, currently Chinese make up 0.45% of the U.K. population total
Ghettoisation could also be a major problem going forward

If they are Hong Kong Chinese they will not be living in ghettos and if they did it would not be long before they were out of them and living in palatial homes.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

So our Dear Leader has pledged in today's Times to allow any Hong Kong born citizen to apply for a British (Overseas) Passports which will allow the holder automatic right of entry in to the UK without a visa for at least 12 months plus the right to work after which they can apply for full citizenship.

I understand that this is a poke at China and that not all 3m will either wish or want to come here but if they did .... why, that's an immediate jump of around 4% in our population never mind the pressure on housing, schools, and other infrastructure.

Boris Johnson lays out visa offer to nearly 3m Hong Kong citizens

UK prime minister says all eligible for BNO passport can apply if China cuts freedoms

www.theguardian.com

Not sure he's thought this one through

bring them in, it will be the entrepreneurial go getters who move, so let them in I say, better than all these economic migrants who don't own a pot to.......

 

[stewart]

Can they pick fruit? Or do they do building jobs?

I would say they will be willing to do any work available, we employ quite a few different nationalities, the Asian community would outwork most of them, particularly India and South East Asia.

 

[stewart]

Your have to get them a job first. Which may not be easy, although the Chinese built the American railroads, so they could be put to work on HS2

Put the Chinese on HS2, it would be up and running inside 2 years.

 

[bobk]

Another housing boom , goody

 

[The Agrarian]

They'd show most of us up.

 

[rhifsaith]

So our Dear Leader has pledged in today's Times to allow any Hong Kong born citizen to apply for a British (Overseas) Passports which will allow the holder automatic right of entry in to the UK without a visa for at least 12 months plus the right to work after which they can apply for full citizenship.

I understand that this is a poke at China and that not all 3m will either wish or want to come here but if they did .... why, that's an immediate jump of around 4% in our population never mind the pressure on housing, schools, and other infrastructure.

Boris Johnson lays out visa offer to nearly 3m Hong Kong citizens

UK prime minister says all eligible for BNO passport can apply if China cuts freedoms

www.theguardian.com

Not sure he's thought this one through

You’re younger than I thought you were

 

[Grandad Pig]

Diversion tactics. Highest per capita death rate, no real track and trace, scientists and Medical consultants critical of lock down easing, Cummings affair, no deal Brexit threat from Nissan today. Boris is attempting to change the agenda. Typical behaviour of a leader in trouble.