The case against Hong Kong immigration to Britain

Originally published on Politicalite: https://t.co/eh48iz36h6?amp=1

In recent times, due to the recent clampdown of personal freedom in Hong Kong, moves have been made by the British government to allow for the current 3.3 million British passport holders to be allowed entry to the UK. For many, this is great news, and shows that Britain has finally done something for the region. However, as someone who has sympathy with the people of that area and their cause, I feel that in the long run this is a legitimately bad idea. Here’s why.

The main problem is this; this is a government that has promised to reduce immigration, with the new points based system being implemented being the first step to getting that going. How is the possible importation of the 300K Hong Kongers eligible for this, let alone the 3.3 million overall good for that? Which given that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has promised that no quotas shall be put in place seems quite likely. This is a country whose problems with mass immigration have reached back for decades, as far back as the Blair era, whereby several moves were made (including abolishing the primary purpose rule, changing asylum requirements, allowing ten former communist EU countries to have open borders with the UK in 2004 among others) to cause a mass flow of immigration, against the wishes of the…