Institutional Inequality

Most nations control their borders on a reciprocal basis. Britain has to be different. The Government talks of three million Hong Kong citizens being allowed to settle here. (When Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997 50,000 Hong Kongers and their dependents were allowed to settle in the UK.) Brits can't live in Hong Kong. Not unless they are Chinese Brits, of course. Being allowed to live in two non-EU countries is the great privilege of the age. (See this blog of 25 March 2020.) It is also denied to most people. Britain, obsessed with equality, is peculiarly unequal.