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Hugh 02-07-2020 14:09
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36041986)
I assume you are comparing poor jobless Romanians with wealthy entrepreneurial Hong Kongers and can't see the difference.

Amin's Ugandans have benefited this country considerably and people from Hong Kong will be the same. We should be welcoming people with the wealth, skills and knowledge that will benefit this country and are not a threat to the jobs of the low paid.
Pretty sure that the three million BN(O)s in HK aren't all "wealthy entrepreneurs"...

Damien 02-07-2020 15:17
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Hong Kong has a highly educated workforce. It's likely those who have the economic means to come here are going to walk right into high-paying, skilled, jobs.

Hugh 02-07-2020 15:36
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36042015)
Hong Kong has a highly educated workforce. It's likely those who have the economic means to come here are going to walk right into high-paying, skilled, jobs.
Agreed, but not 3,000,000+ of them (as we don’t have three million vacancies).

papa smurf 02-07-2020 18:08
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36042016)
Agreed, but not 3,000,000+ of them (as we don’t have three million vacancies).
Do we have space for an extra 3,000,000 Takeaway shops.

jfman 02-07-2020 18:17
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Plenty of High Street space soon once the second wave of Corona finishes off the businesses that survive the first.

RichardCoulter 02-07-2020 18:31
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Do these people tend to speak English?

Damien 02-07-2020 18:31
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36042031)
Do these people tend to speak English?
It's widely spoken in HK.

RichardCoulter 02-07-2020 19:15
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by Damien (Post 36042032)
It's widely spoken in HK.
That will be a good help.

Carth 02-07-2020 19:34
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36042036)
That will be a good help.
Certainly will, no extra interpreters needed at the housing benefits office, job center or hospitals :D

Uncle Peter 02-07-2020 19:49
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Some of my other half's relatives are HK nationals and qualify as BNOs. A couple of her aunts who are of the older generation are not interested in coming here as their view is that they will be treated as second class citizens.

Judging by the attitudes of some in this supposedly welcoming, multicultural nation I am not half surprised.

Hugh 02-07-2020 20:00
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by papa smurf (Post 36042028)
Do we have space for an extra 3,000,000 Takeaway shops.
Wow!

Sephiroth 02-07-2020 20:44
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter (Post 36042040)
Some of my other half's relatives are HK nationals and qualify as BNOs. A couple of her aunts who are of the older generation are not interested in coming here as their view is that they will be treated as second class citizens.

Judging by the attitudes of some in this supposedly welcoming, multicultural nation I am not half surprised.
I always thought that ethnic Chinese in the UK were among the least problematic group in the multicultural melange (of which just 1 doesn't do multiculturalism).

What is it about them that has been overlooked in relation to the Black population leading to BLM?

downquark1 02-07-2020 20:56
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36042047)
I always thought that ethnic Chinese in the UK were among the least problematic group in the multicultural melange (of which just 1 doesn't do multiculturalism).

What is it about them that has been overlooked in relation to the Black population leading to BLM?
Well they probably remember the days when thr British ruled HK and did treat them as second class citizens. But then also the elderly are the least inclined to migrate even when threatened.

papa smurf 02-07-2020 21:01
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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36042041)
Wow!
Offence junkie just got a fix;)

OLD BOY 02-07-2020 21:09
Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 
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Originally Posted by Carth (Post 36042003)
aah right, I see how you meant it now.

Having said that, yes there will always be the unemployed (that want to work) viewing working immigrants with just a little annoyance ;)
I don't recollect such complaints when the Ugandan Asians came here. As I understood it, they created more jobs. It's what entrepreneurs tend to do.


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