Potentially 3m well educated, highly motivated, entrepreneurial people with an enviable work ethic to help drag the country up off its knees, I think it’s great.
The guy at work who I baited with that opinion went even brighter pink than normal and spluttered something about what about jobs for British people. I said they are, or will be British and I’m sure they’ll create plenty of new jobs. He didn’t agree...
They will probably write better, too.Based on the few HK folks I've worked with, they'll speak better better English than a lot of the natives.
They will probably write better, too.
It was a joke on the quoted post.I doubt it. I've been in and out of HKG since about 1994, 4 maybe 5 times per year, working with colleges, schools, universities and the British Council, and the standard of English has got progressively worse. English IGCSE used to be compulsory. Now only the elite hong kongers have fluent English.
I can't see how flexing muscles against the Chinese is gutless. Maverick maybe, a hollow promise maybe. But it was the right promise.The torys will make all the right noises but very little will happen, gutless shower that they are they won't use the only effective lever- trade-and given how hard they find it to let refugee children in I can't see 3 million getting past a Daily Mail/Express headline,they'd be toast. Boris and his mates must miss the days when we got them hooked on opium and destroyed their tea industry.
Thats precisely why it's gutless. BJ will be offering BJ's for a trade deal with them in a few months....From a national security pov what the hell are we doing allowing China anywhere near our power supplies or Digital infrastructure?I can't see how flexing muscles against the Chinese is gutless. Maverick maybe, a hollow promise maybe. But it was the right promise.