Rishi Sunak’s UK government is in talks with India over whether to increase the number of business visas granted to Indian nationals as part of a potential trade deal, a stance that risks causing friction in the new prime minster’s top team.
Business visas remain an area of “active negotiation” in the discussions, Trade Minister Greg Hands told the House of Commons on Wednesday. He said talks are complete on the majority of the deal.
Loosening visa arrangements could put Sunak -- the UK’s first British prime minister of Indian origin -- on a collision course with Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who recently expressed concerns about the arrangements.
Braverman, a hardline Brexiteer, appeared to oppose a more generous visa policy in an interview with the Spectator earlier this month, saying: “I do have some reservations. Look at migration in this country -- the largest group of people who overstay are Indian migrants.”
Braverman also told the Spectator that she had “concerns about having an open-borders migration policy with India because I don’t think that’s what people voted for with Brexit.”
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PS. They should learn from Singapore. See how happy Singapore is and how Singapore continues to extend the CECA and improves on it to bring in more Indian talents. Singapore will grow stronger with more Indian talents coming in to help to create and provide jobs for the no talent Singaporeans.
The UK will be as well run as Singapore if they adopt the Singapore formula on foreign talents, especially from India.
CECA will not be accepted anywhere, not even in lndian dominated countries like Maldives and Mauritius.
ReplyDeleteSunak will never be the PM of Britain in a national poll. He is one now because he is chosen by the Ruling Party.
Anyway,
given the Opportunity now to be the PM, Sunak shall prove to theBritish People that he could be as competent ad any Whites and maybe even better.
Let PM Sunak shows his mettle and wish him the Best.
Cheers
It takes a 'braver man' to resign, and return to take on the same job seven days later. But then, the British voters have no say, right?
ReplyDeleteEven Boris Johnson, who resigned just two months earlier, wanted to come back, but the powers behind the scene said, no way.
What is really happening to Little Britain? This clearly shows that there are indeed problems with finding talents among the Conservative MPs, that they have to recycle soiled discarded rags. Sunak has to look to India for talents.
The fact that they could not even find a White MP among the Conservatives to pose a challenge to Sunak for the PM's job says it all. No wonder Little Britain is getting smaller and smaller. And with Scotland wanting nothing of Little Britain's current mess, that says it all.
But they have still not realised that they are no longer the Empire that were, and still trying to poke the Bear and Dragon at the same time. They really do over-estimate their capabilities and are probably being used by you know who. I just wonder why someone asked - Who is running Little Britain? Isn't it the PM?
And Little Britain thinks that decoupling from China is just a walk in the Park. Brexit alone is giving them big problems in Little Britain. Little Britain is probably thinking of using India, and is trying to rope in India big time, to counter China.
Even Germany is having second thoughts about decoupling from China, and is instead moving to co-operate more closely with China. It has been reported that BASF, the biggest industrial giant in Germany and Europe is shifting a large part of it's manufacturing base to China. China accounts for half of BASF's market and cannot be ignored. There are also talks of China buying a stake in a Hamburg Port and buying up a German chip manufacturing entity. Those will be issues that Schultz will be thrashing out with China.
The EU is already warning and threatening Olaf Schultz about his solo trip to China, and his making unilateral agreements with China that will split the EU. In fact Macron wanted to go with Schultz, but was not successful. Instead Schultz will be in China with the top man of BASF. You can understand why.
Boris rushed back to London wanting to be PM again. Why did he suddenly back out like a whimp? Was he bought over?
ReplyDeleteAll those countries that rejected CECA cannot see how good CECA is. Only millionaire talents can appreciate CECA and will not abolish it for its wholesome goodness for Singapore. Without CECA, Singapore will sink to the third world and many Singaporeans would become jobless. The PMETs would not even have the chance to be taxi drivers or security guards. Now they can drive the foreign talents everywhere and to guard their properties.
ReplyDeleteTo appreciate CECA, one must think like a millionaire and talk like a millionaire. It is an exceptional quality that ordinary people, mediocre people did not have.Bale1234
The Conservatives wanted Boris Johnson to put on a show, giving the impression that at least a White is taking up the challenge. They have no other White talents to do that. What a pitiful state the Party is in.
ReplyDeleteBut the invisible hand behind thwarted all that. Boris had to pull out. Who is that behind the scene that holds so much power?
Who has behind the scene so much power?
DeleteAnswer:
King Charles III.
Wrong, the one who has all the money, Narayana Murthy. With money, he made a lot of things happened.
ReplyDeleteOoops, partially. Charles too would be working very hard with his own agenda.
ReplyDeleteCharles is too busy counting his inheritance. Don't disturb him.
ReplyDeleteNarayana Murthy made Sunak happened?
ReplyDeleteThis is what people are saying about what is happening in Little Britain today: 'The circus is the same, only the clowns have changed.'
ReplyDeleteElon Musk's first action on taking ownership of Twitter is firing Indian-origin chief executive Parag Agrawal and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, Musk had accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform.
ReplyDeleteOne more person Elon Musk fired. Who was he?
ReplyDeleteFacebook is another doing the same stuff.
ReplyDeleteHow come the CEOs of the Big Social Media networks are always manned by people of same Indian kind?
ReplyDeleteWhen the CEO is an Indian, he can only see talents in Indians. Others, including white men, are no talents. So he would bring in the whole village gang to fill up the positions. Standard formula.
ReplyDeleteElon Musk is clearing the swamp in Twitter.