Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Ministerโs constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Governmentโs Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
No time for messing about
Worth remembering that the settlement changes can all be made in the immigration rules - so not even an automatic debate and no real power for parliamentarians to stop them. Huge changes to people's live, with very little automatic parliamentary scrutiny.
Children need their families. Refugee children are no different.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
First post from me for a while on my occasional Substack, about Labour's earned settlement proposals and the damage they will do. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...
Important speech in the debate around extending the length of time people need to wait before settlement - the proposals are a terrible idea which lacks any long term planing
Matt Goodwin and the end of England: How one man's career explains our public life iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...
This is the content I am here for!
Another practical issue with the ETA roll-out this year, dual British citizens will need to travel on valid British passports if they plan to enter the UK
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Getting ILR means the difference between being able to change jobs freely, and being tied to one employer with ultimate control over your life.
Doubling the wait for ILR means doubling the time in precarity. Here's how to speak out against the plansโฌ๏ธ
www.workrightscentre.org/our-campaign...
โฆ yet the govtโs current proposals on โearned settlementโ and the two tier ILR means that many children will be pushed into poverty with their families unable to access benefits
No surprise that migrant workers to the UK are net contributors!
We need to stop demonising and scapegoating the health and social care migrant workforce. They are doing important work all while contributing to our communities (as well as to the exchequer)
But what if I were to cover up the obvious gender discrimination by disguising the overwhelmingly female case study as a middle-aged white man?
Slides from a Home Office presentation for employers on โearned settlementโ โ note the case studies: they explicitly play the โgood migrantโ versus โbad migrantโ narrative. Guess which category Sarah, the American, is placed in?
A very useful guide from @alexinlaw.bsky.social at @freemovement.bsky.social
If the proposal goes through they will need to be here for 20 years!
So if you are a refugee in the UK and you decide to start a family you should be prepared for the Govt to shame you
Then Steve Reed comes on saying that people are putting children on small boats so that they can have a better prospect of claiming asylum and conflating this with people who have children while living in the UK.
Listening to the Today programme on BBCr4 this morning and Iโm depressed
- the constant conflation of immigration and asylum and โillegalโ migration.
The overwhelming number of people who take up refuge in the UK just want a safe place to live and work like the rest of us!
I know many people have been saying this for a while now, but really? This is a Labour Government?
Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet
Aside from the sheer misery it will inflict on many people, have they thought about how to staff the asylum team?
Where will they find the resources to make more decisions and to be actively reviewing cases when they can barely clear the existing backlog?
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
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If you were listening to the Today prog this morning, you'll have heard the shadow Home Sec announcing new Conservative Party proposals to "bring to an end the era of mass low-skilled migration and clamp down on the large number of family visas currently being issued" - so, what are these proposals?
Most migrants on the spouse route pay in excess of ยฃ9k in visa fees and Immigration health surcharge as well as their partner paying tax and NI and if the spouse works then they also pay tax and NI.
And of course they cannot claim any benefits
This fails to appreciate that employers do not want sponsor workers if they can avoid it due to costs and admin. It also fails to appreciate that the median salary in Scotland is ยฃ38k - so half of all Scottish people cannot sponsor a loved one to move to the uk.
The Tory position seems to be that if you are earning less than ยฃ38k you better fall in love with an Indian doctor so they can get their own work visa
Chris Philip on #BBCR4 today says that he wants the minimum salary threshold for spouse visas to increase to ยฃ38k. This is for the partners of British citizens who happen to fall in love with people who arenโt British.
So the tories are at it again targeting immigrants their families (and benefits claimants - just for good measure).
