Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

Casual racism just got triggered...

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27,200 < 3,000,000+

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

3 million will not actually choose to leave.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

I’m not sure the “they steal our jobs” brigade care for the distinction or consider the evidence base of whether migrants offer more to the country than they take.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

They won't be allowed to leave.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

That is also true.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

Take a plane to Paris. Then once there get a plane or train to London.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

If a North Korean defects they punish the family for three generations. The Chinese aren't that bad but they have more creative ways than simply bannijg flights to Britain.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

What do they do to them?

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If that's the case it's a pretty meaningless gesture by our Government.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

So in what ways, apart from their own consumption(food, housing, energy, etc), do they actually increase GDP per person? Not sure I've ever seen a full and proper explanation of how it works.


GDP or similar as a measure is just nonsense. In theory you could double the population and total GDP would go up. GDP per person is another matter.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

I think there were 'jobs galore' back in the day . . before everyone was put out of work through advances in automation, globalization, and the Gov't selling stuff off ;)

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Yep, something else I don't get . . . probably because 'stats' don't do anything for me ;)

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

Tend to agree. It worked for Brexit so the playbook has been validated.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

Stats prove nothing. It should be pretty easy for people to explain the exact mechanisms by which GDP per person is supposedly increased. Especially when those groups are complaining they are badly off and economically disadvantaged. The explanations should all be ready, "neatly tied up with a bow". How many businesses are just taking away money, that would've been spent elsewhere anyway.


I've posed a question. If there's an explanation, let's hear it.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

So businesses extract money from the wider economy?

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

The North Koreans have a strange class system based on how loyal you are. If your family gets put in the traitor class you get less food and opportunities and will get mistreated.

Re: UK offers right to residency and path to citizenship to 3m Hong Kong citizens
 

The sort of example I was thinking of, was a takeaway where if somebody didn't spend it there, they would've spent it somewhere else. Not necessarily on food.

Still waiting for this supposedly simple explanation, that should've been ready and around for decades, just to be trotted out.