NEW ROUTE TO THE UK

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A recent joint statement from the Home Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced:

‘British National (Overseas) (BN(O)) citizens will be able to move to the UK, to study and work. They will have the right to work in almost any role, consistent with UK employment laws and subject to having the appropriate skills and qualifications. All those with BN(O) status are eligible, as are their family dependants, provided they are usually resident in Hong Kong. There will be no quota on numbers. This route will also provide a clear pathway to be granted British citizenship.’

Visa applications would be commence from 31 January 2021.

The British Consul-General to Hong Kong, Andrew Heyn, said: ‘This new route to the UK is part of our commitment to the people of Hong Kong. The UK is ready to welcome BN(O) citizens and their dependants to the UK.’ In fact the UK Government might be keen to welcome Hong Kong Chinese to the UK, the general public are not, and want an end to mass immigration. What of the UK Government’s commitment to the English, and their interests? Immigrants to the UK overwhelmingly settle in England.

The announcement stated that the cost of a visa for the Hong Kong Chinese had ‘been set lower than many other visas routes to the UK’, with a five-year visa costing £250 per person and a 30-month visa costing only £180 per person. Furthermore: ‘A valid BN(O) passport is not required to apply for the Hong Kong BN(O) Visa as applications can also be made using a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region passport.’ So the Hong Kong Chinese do not even need a ‘valid BN(O) passport’ to get a visa.

A report in the Daily Mail revealed that the Home Office believed that up to one million Hong Kong Chinese could move to the UK in the first five years (including half-a-million in the first 12 months), but that they believed that only 258,000-322,400 would actually do so. Also, the scheme ‘is expected to bring an overall economic benefit to Britain of between £2.4billion and £2.9billion over five years, mostly in tax revenue, Government papers say’. Other reports explain that the supposed tax benefit to the Government is ‘based on £6 billion set to generated for the Exchequer from the Hong Kongers, minus the cost of the incoming populations access to public services’. This ‘costing’ is on the assumption that only one million Hong Kong Chinese come.

The above ‘costing’ is a fraud. This exercise is a perfect example of Ponzi economics. The Government pockets any extra tax revenues (ignoring the displacement and lower wages for English workers) and offloads the costs for housing, schools, hospitals, roads, railways, sewers, etc as an unpaid bill onto the English general public, who face more queues, higher bills (eg housing rent), a worsened housing shortage etc. Those unpaid bills lower the living standards of the English.

Nor should the non-Hong Kong immigration be overlooked. It is currently running at around 715,000 per year. In round numbers, that is around 3.6million over five years, with one million Hong Kong Chinese on top. The housing costs for this scale of immigration, at market values, are around £650billion. Then there all the other unpaid bills.

There are a total of 7.5million Hong Kongers, of whom around 3.5million are potentially entitled to BNO passports. There is no reason to assume that only one million will come, and Home Office estimates on likely immigration have been consistently a vast underestimate amounting to little more than wishful thinking. Furthermore, only a fool would assume that the Chinese Triads organized crime rackets are incapable of manufacturing fake documentation for any Hong Konger, or even a large number of the 1.4billion Chinese living elsewhere in China.

Already, there are reports of a rush for passports. A headline from the Relocate magazine read: ‘Immigration lawyers and relocation consultants in Hong Kong are reporting a surge in renewals of British National Overseas (BNO) passports…’ The South China Morning Post carried a similar story, with Colin Bloomfield, chief executive of immigration service British Connections in Hong Kong, telling the newspaper there had been a ‘sudden surge in applications from people looking to renew their expired or lost passports’. London-based immigration law firm Mann’s Solutions revealed it had seen a six-fold increase in the number of daily inquiries. ‘I am expecting that demand will increase more once [the British] government announces step-by-step guidelines for BNO passport holders’, said Evgeny Pavlov, the firm’s managing director. Mr Pavlov said Hongkongers would essentially have a right to work and or study in Britain, and that the Home Office in London would soon release guidelines on the successful applicants’ rights to social benefits, saying: ‘I believe it will be done within one to two months at the latest as the situation in Hong Kong escalates. The [British] government is trying to speed the process up in order to allow Hongkongers to apply for the relevant permit. The main challenges will be primarily a non-immigration agenda, such as finding a school, university and job.’ Migration consultant John Hu said the British plan might offer ‘the cheapest – or, basically, at no cost – pathway’ to British residency, but he added that applicants had to ensure they could find a job in the UK. Kezia Daley, senior associate and immigration specialist at London law firm Winckworth Sherwood, said applicants might be able to enter Britain if they had secured ‘sponsored employment’. ‘Alternatively, [the rules] may mirror the previous European Union free movement, whereby those coming to the UK must either have a job, be a jobseeker or self-employed. The UK will be providing further clarity over the coming weeks.’

We are to believe that Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, and the Tory Government is blissfully unaware of the Covid-19 pandemic and the looming Covid-19 depression, with the accompanying mass unemployment. Also, we are to believe that they are likewise unaware of the escalating race war politics being spewed out across the media, and of the mob-rule with statues being defaced if not torn down, the immigrant protests, and even a black paramilitary group marching on the streets in London. The social consequences of the Tory immigration policy are already impacting and the immigration of the Hong Kong Chinese will make matters much worse.

In The Ponzi Class: Ponzi Economcs, Globalization and Class Oppression In the 21^st Century, I wrote:

‘In the 21^st century, the oppression of ordinary people is not by the bourgeoisie in the pursuit of capitalism, whatever the malevolent prattle of the Communist Manifesto of 1848 might say – such prattle still being spouted by many, including many of the Ponzi class. In fact, it is the Ponzi class that is responsible for oppression today. The Ponzi class is systematically harming the lives and livelihoods of the general public and, cocooned in political correctness, they could not care less.’

And:

‘One major difference now compared to then, is that now the ruling class, the Ponzi class, is prepared to watch Britain’s interests sacrificed. The Ponzi class is not prepared to defend the national interest; the commitment to globalization is paramount. The economic policy being pursued is not Keynesianism, but its evolution: Ponzi economics, with the costs of the Ponzi scheme being dumped on ordinary people by means of collapsing public services, higher taxes and other expenses, and lower standards of living generally. These costs are nicely hidden away without any real analysis of them and the government interest, the interest of the Ponzi class, is treated as the same as the interest of the nation. It is not.’

What we are now witnessing is the ruling Ponzi Class, in the guise of a Tory Government, grandstanding its commitment to Hong Kongers and pursuing a policy of increasing the scale of mass immigration, and dumping the costs of that onto the public in the form of unpaid bills. The economic justification for this is that the Government might pocket around £600million per year in taxes from the immigrants – assuming that the lower taxes from the English, whose wages will be lower, can be ignored.

This wheeze is being rubber-stamped by the Tory backbenchers and the House of Lords.

What is needed is a democratic revolution.

Britain is full. Mass Immigration Must End.