Up to 3 million Hong Kong residents are to be offered to settle in the UK (EDITED BY HQ)

Paddyanne they aren’t British citizens - they just have Overseas British passports which doesn’t give them the right of abode or the right to work in U.K.
I think it was probably a condition of the Sino-British agreement in 1997 (imposed by China) that they wouldn’t be given this right, because China would have ‘lost face’ if thousands of Chinese suddenly left Hongkong to live in UK.

Now that the Chinese have reneged on the agreement by passing this law, it has enabled the British Government to offer the right of abode & ultimately full citizenship to these people.
Having lived & worked in HK for 11 years, I’m very glad that our Government is doing the right thing, and I’m sure any HK residents who come here to live and work will be an asset to our country.

My father was helping people to leave the colony years ago. Many went to Australia, many to Canada and many came here.
They all knew, sadly that they needed to go.

We had to give HK back. I never thought that the Chinese government would keep their word but even if they had it would have come to this at the end of the agreement.

This is all so sad. I very much doubt they will all come here. Many of the older residents will want to live their lives out in the colony. Many of those that come will be wealthy, educated people who will be an asset to our economy. They will appreciate that we are a democracy.

Who knows if they will be allowed to leave.

It seems that many people castigate our country for abandoning our colonial subjects. When we show care and responsibility for them the government are also castigated.

There is no way 3 million People from Hong Kong will come here, being active politically does not make them troublemakers.

Exactly Doodledog, when HK was handed over there was a lot of grumbling "they're all going to come here," and in the end an awful lot of them decided that Canada looked a better bet!

That's all very well providing that there is accommodation for them ??

It's not just those who have been in trouble who will come here.

I have personally signed passport ID forms for young people who just want to bring up their families in freedom. These were people I knew when they were students in the UK, so have skills to offer here. I have absolutely no doubt that they will be valuable citizens, and don't understand what the fuss is about.

China has long wanted to integrate Hong Kong with the mainland and the unrest of the last year has given them an excuse to clamp down on activists who will not accept the reality of the situation.
There are apparently 350,000 that are British Overseas Nationals who have the right to live in the U.K. A lot of those will have businesses in Hong Kong and will stay, nobody is being evicted but there are going to be new rules on free speech.
Many from Hong Kong have already got property and business interests overseas, Western Canada has a large Chinese community as have others in the Pacific area. There will be some who come to the U.K. particularly those that have been in trouble with the authorities.

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ladymuck

Just so everyone knows....I've gone right off Boris Johnson after his remark about 'newt-counters'.
He is now opening the doors to millions of Chinese, not to say all those migrants who have made it across the channel, plus now a massive building project.
This country is on the road to destruction.

Well, there's a silver lining to everything!

Welcome to the dark side and the world of people who are called doom mongering lefties!

Doom mongering Marxist loony lefties please

I posted this weeks ago and was told these people are British citizens,no problems at all from the usual Brexiteers

ladymuck

Just so everyone knows....I've gone right off Boris Johnson after his remark about 'newt-counters'.
He is now opening the doors to millions of Chinese, not to say all those migrants who have made it across the channel, plus now a massive building project.
This country is on the road to destruction.

Well, there's a silver lining to everything!

Welcome to the dark side and the world of people who are called doom mongering lefties!

Wonder.

What was the point of brexit I w/o der. Just a way to make him PM?

Just so everyone knows....I've gone right off Boris Johnson after his remark about 'newt-counters'.
He is now opening the doors to millions of Chinese, not to say all those migrants who have made it across the channel, plus now a massive building project.
This country is on the road to destruction.

The astounding thing is that the very same person who warned that millions of Turkish were about to descend on us is now welcoming millions of Chinese.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Hahaha. Yes, funny that.

Waiting with interest.