The latest Tory betrayal?

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 02 January 2022 01:16.

Seems probably. Shouldn’t even be possible to contemplate it. But this is Boris Johnson. He is an open borders activist.

It’s being presented as a geopolitical stratagem (as if concerns about China’s intent on India matters a solitary damn to the true people of this land) and also a time-limited settlement plan (as if they will ever willingly return home). Our defender is the Indian Home Secretary, apparently?

Ministers plan to relax immigration rules to make it easier for thousands of Indians to live and work in UK as government seeks closer ties with India to counter China influence
Indian citizens could more freely live and work in the UK under new mooted rules
Immigration curbs are a key point that could dominate UK-India 2022 trade talks
Cabinet is said to be split over possibility of loosening border controls for India

Ministers are plotting to ease immigration restrictions that could help thousands of Indian citizens both live and work in the UK more easily in 2022.

The move is said to be a key point that could dominate trade talks that are due to commence between the two countries in Delhi later this month.

International trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan is primed to dangle the offer in front of Indian representatives as part of a Government plan to curb China’s growing influence in the region.

One senior government insider explained that ministers generally accepted that a ‘generous’ visa offer would be the necessary counterbalance in any trade talks.

Ms Trevelyan is said to be backed by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, but will likely face pressure from Home Secretary Priti Patel who does not support the move, reports the Times.

As part of the plans, Indian citizens could be offered similar visa deal to those given to Australians - allowing young workers the right to live and work in Britain for up to three years.

Other mooted options include slashing visa fees for Indian students, and allowing them a temporary stay in the country after graduation.

Tags: Conservatism, Immigration and Politics, Race Replacement

Comments:

Posted by Manc on Sun, 02 Jan 2022 16:27 | #

Visas being on the table during trade negotiations with India was discussed when Johnson was still pro-Huawei and before IDS led back benchers in persuading Boris to ditch China and make MAGA.

Narendra Modi may well be ambivalent about the proposals. On the one hand, he will not welcome young Hindu post graduates returning from the UK as rabid progressive liberals who hate traditionalism and want to change everything. On the other hand, he may well view the visa scheme as a vehicle for permanently reducing the size of his country’s Muslim population.

As for Cruella, it can’t be easy having a mandate from the British public to reduce immigration when you are the Home Secretary of a government hell bent on increasing it. No wonder she appears inept.

Posted by Al Ross on Wed, 05 Jan 2022 04:08 | #

He is not ambivalent. Modi’s Govt insisted upon the export of India’s surplus traditional Chief Clerk class , now rehashed as graduates .

The mandate on Immigration is a political event that escapes me . When did the vote take place ?

Posted by Manc on Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:34 | #

23-6-2016

Posted by Al Ross on Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:09 | #

The EU referendum ? Well that meant very little to those Brits hoping to address the real problem of Third World immigration.

Having around 10000 French people living in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea did little to affect British lives , except perhaps to improve the quality of the districts restaurants.

Posted by Manc on Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:09 | #

Why does immigration always come down to cuisine ? Reducing the overall level of immigration was a central part of the Leave campaign but it will not happen if the government continues to make it easier to acquire visas. Having said that, I do accept that it’s unfair that Indians have to pay considerably more for a visa than the Chinese. In the name of equity the Chinese should have to pay more. It goes without saying that the European of tomorrow will not be the same as the European of today (and this is particularly true of the French).

Last May Patel signed a reciprocal Migration and Mobility Partnership with India’s External Affairs Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, to allow around 3,000 students and professionals a years work experience in either country, with a start date in April 2022. It’s likely that Patel doesn’t support the government’s visa plans as the Partnership deal would become largely redundant.

Posted by Al Ross on Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:00 | #

There is no need for Indians to come and live in UK. The Left’s rationale for New Commonwealth immigration is that we colonized their countries so this influx is reciprocal payback.

This is just plain wrong as there was no White Settler colonialism in India . There was , however , Imperial Presence which, by the time of India’s independence in 1947, had taken a large group of ethnically disparate states with mutually unintelligible languages and welded them into a cartographical facsimile of European political modernity.