Re: The UK's Hong Kong visa offer is due to start 31st January 2021
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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It is because an increase in our export market is going to be difficult to achieve unless we adopt - let's say creative policies - and focus on international money market needs (become a tax haven even more than we already are) that we must avoid any increase in imports.
Every person who is accepted into our country has a cost and a value.
Only those with a value exceeding their cost is a benefit. It is only the positive differential that can be used to extend our infrastructure unless we take on even more debt. It is only that differential that can pay off the massive debt we now have. The very last thing we need are more people who add to the imports bill.
What is 100% now CERTAIN is that there will have to be a change to our living standards that will make everyone's ears ring. We just can't afford any more drains on our national Bank account.
Why then are you ignoring the very real likelihood that evey one of these immigrants will indeed be a net positive and prove beneficial?
Okay so we know the possibility of making figures read what you want them to say but when so many sources suggest the net benefit I think you're just in denial.
Especially when you go on to touch upon the inevitable changes to our living standards which Covid is causing; these make any cost (which in reality as shown would be net benefit anyway even if we were to see 3 million arrivals) look like a small drop in a large ocean.
ETA
I think you underestimate our future too.
Our potential is huge once free of rthe EU.
The opprtunities are there and we will be free to make the most of them.
Whether or not we do so is down to us - NOT governments; us.
People.