3m Hong Kong residents 'eligible' for UK citizenship

The Brexiteers won’t like that - they look less like us than our European counterparts.

if you had to put them in one place where would you put them

Could easily get them in to the Jenrick portfolio of properties.

shab you do not speak for all leavers, thanks. i dont wont millions of people or even hundreds of thousands turning up here.

as far as i am concerned the scroungers are the same group as ever, the parasitical financial types.

it is a bad idea, hth

just think how cheap iphones will become

i suppose its a tad cold but if wee jimmy gets liberated then trident goes they can move into the Clyde naval base

What has the situation in Hong Kong or the status of its citizens got to do with Brexit?
Please explain.

So, swapping 3m EU citizens for 3m HK citizens doesn't help concerns of the Leave voters.

Shab doesn't need any further schooling on this thread but his assertion that (sic) "Leavers will love Hong Kong immigrants because they are resourceful," is about a perfect inversion of the impulse that mobilised the Leave vote: we're kicking out Polish plumbers because they're better than us.

I think the Chinese community here do not live in clusters; do not speak in their own lingo at their place of work eg non-Chinese supermarkets/restaurants; behave arrogantly; impose their custom, tradition and religion on others; commit benefit and online frauds; crimes; involve in politics; media; accuse other of Chinesephobia; etc.

I think the Chinese just want to do business and be left to lead a peaceful life. And, it's been reflected in their acceptance in non-Chinese communities and countries eg they have never been expelled from any of their host country.

I think the Chinese just want to do business and be left to lead a peaceful life

That's true particularly with regard to the importation of opium although quite a few have been banged up for possession and dealing coke

That's all i got to say about that except nobody got chopped up if they paid on time.

In February 2017, Mr Cummings suggested the bus was one of the key reasons why the Leave campaign was successful.

“Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without £350m/NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no,” he said. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way.”


Immigration did not win Foinavon's vote, but Leave would not have won without exploiting immigration fears. Once you co-opt the vote of those people, your Govt is in thrall to them. The idiots have taken over the assylum.

And a new possibility for a conspiracy theory, from within this man's mind. If you think about it geographically, it would be an upgrade from Hong Kong, Storm and Earthquake free til now on the whole?, So we then have the Hong kong educated from both sides of the same system, leading the way in how it is done?? with the possibility of new homes for the worthless in Hong kong???? This is Wealth commanding geographic locality. RIP LOW CLASSES!!!!

I think its a great idea by the tories to potentially offer homes here to 3.5 million hong kongers think about it you would expect most of them to vote tory therefore scuppering Labours plan to outvote the tories by immigration this would put Labour out the picture for at least a generation unless Labour do their own lets offer (if they get in power) citizenship to the whole of Pakistan.

You still - despite my repeated and patient attempts to help you understand - fail to grasp that all your imagined reasons for the Leave vote, which enable you, in your despicable sneering manner, to denigrate people whose opinions you deem worthless, are a hill of beans next to the noble English desire for self-determination.

I would imagine that had Cummings had Obama's number, or had the opportunity to spend £9m leafleting to panic the nation into voting his way, or had the entire machinery of state working for his preferred outcome, he might not have needed his simple bus.
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Of course immigration was a factor, but as Cummings said, it was only a factor.

I'll ask you a question. In an imaginary world where the question was simply asked one day and answered the next, and there was no campaigning - for or against - allowed, which way would the vote have gone?

I would imagine that had Cummings had Obama's number, or had the opportunity to spend £9m leafleting to panic the nation into voting his way, or had the entire machinery of state working for his preferred outcome, he might not have needed his simple bus.
The Remain campaign was diabolical but Leave campaign wasn't naturally disadvantaged as they would have you believe. To start with, they had two campaigns Farage's one for the things the official one couldn't quite make explicit)- and they had the huge advantage of being able to promise anything to anyone, which they exploited quite readily. Peter Hargreaves sent a Brexit mailshot to 9m people and what is £9m balanced against 3 anti-EU messages daily for thirty years to 1 1/2 m readers? And that's just The Sun. As for POTUS intervention, there are now some very nervous Govt strategists contemplating for the first time Brexit without Trump.

Of course immigration was a factor, but as Cummings said, it was only a factor. A deciding factor, according to the best authority.

I'll ask you a question. In an imaginary world where the question was simply asked one day and answered the next, and there was no campaigning - for or against - allowed, which way would the vote have gone?
The disenchanted, resentful, unhappy, unlucky-at-chess would vote for change because their underlying assumption is that, if they fail again, someone will pull them out of the s**t.
It's nothing to do with "the noble English desire for self-determination" (with its implied insult to the other countries of the UK). I once asked for an example from 40+ years of your experience of EU membership when you felt it had impinged on your individual freedom; you had nothing then.
Certainly, in my lifetime, I have never felt compromised by being a citizen of the EU. I know the world is much bigger than Europe; there is no greater fan of the USA, but you're right jed, I just don't understand that statement, except as an alibi for much much baser impulses.