Record immigration levels to UK

[Xenophon]

Britain gets Abramovich: a football club and its expensive "talent" gets propped up. Such is the dearth of football clubs in the UK I can well see the desperate need for such inward investment.

Denmark gets threaded: and builds an enviable e-government system, whilst the UK languishes, due to loss of talent, with a tax credit system that appears on the face of it to have pushed those most vulnerable into the clutchs of loan sharks.

Yeah, UK immigaration, it's a pile of tulipe isn't it...

Nice choice of people to compare.

Abramovich - a reclusive Russian billionaire who was virtually unknown outside of his homeland before he bought Chelsea FC in 2003 and...

threaded - completely unknown outside of a contractor bulletin board.

[SandyDown]

Alfayed

what about Mohamed Alfayed ???

They keep rejecting his UK passport application

[Joe Black]

NZ still has it. If you have more than NZ$200,000 to invest, then you get one point per $100,000 when you apply for a business investor residency visa

Just had a quick browse (ain't the internet wonderful) and it seems that NZ, Australia and Canada still do such schemes. For circa $1m local currency, give or take the odd hundred thou', you can get a 4-5 residents permit and after that apply for citizenship/perm residency.

Seems an easy way to build up a collection of passports...

[SandyDown]

Seems an easy way to build up a collection of passports...

didn't work for Alfayed !!

[steve'O]

didn't work for Alfayed !!

Dodi?

[SandyDown]

Dodi?

Off topic went to Harrods last Saturday, saw Dodi's and Diana' memorial ... also I had a cream tea in Cafe Harrods and they serve loooooovely cream tea .. hmmmmmm

[steve'O]

Off topic went to Harrods last Saturday, saw Dodi's and Diana' memorial ... also I had a cream tea in Cafe Harrods and they serve loooooovely cream tea .. hmmmmmm

I would like to share a cream pie!

[Xenophon]

Steve'o is on the pull. Watch and learn gentlemen.