MsTPole

The Tories want me deported for going on maternity.

This is all horrifyingly cruel but condition 3 is staggeringly awful: “if P OR dependents of P have been in receipt of social protection”

So just if a *dependent* of someone with ILR gets any sort of welfare benefit whatsoever the original person can have their ILR revoked? This is insanely evil.

So the main group they’re targeting for deportation appears to be mothers…

The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove

So the main group they’re targeting for deportation appears to be mothers of children who are now presumably British.

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

Indeed. One of the consequences is that MPs and journalists who still consider themselves centre-right now discuss unilaterally revoking settlement rights and deporting people on a mass scale as if this a normal policy option like tax cuts or bus spending.

“Mood music changing” captures this perfectly. And people might not realise quite how concerning this is for people living here with such immigration status. Suddenly it feels like things are up for discussion that weren’t, and mainstream politics is just going along with it

Katie Lam's plan would mean parents with settled status who have children who are British citizens potentially being deported. Wouldn't it?

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

This is why they want all human rights restraints removed. #ECHR

You’ve lived in Britain for decades, paying into NI and a state pension the whole time, then the govt says it’s seizing your pension and if you don’t like it, you can abandon your family and return to a country you haven’t lived in for 30 years

I know people keep saying how far the next election is but I don’t see how anyone can look at this and not be terrified. Also showing their privilege. Easy to say if you and your loved ones are British citizens who aren’t facing deportation from the country they might have lived in for decades.

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

and Ferrari just sits there and nods

Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from London parks The Royal Parks charity quickly clarified that there was ‘no evidence’ of swans being killed and eaten

Reminder that the base Brexit was built on was incitement to hate Central and Eastern Europeans before broadening out.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

This is so obviously correct and was the case in 2017 when settled status was something to apply for rather than register, a weird fact that signalled the direction of travel - people legally living in the UK had *to reapply*.

It was obvious when EU citizens had the terms of their settlement here retrospectively revoked that a precedent was being set and that, in time, the argument would move on to other categories of migrant, always tending towards a purity test of who is ‘indigenous’. Unless resisted.

What, and I can't stress this enough, the fuck

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Immigration lawyers must be grateful to Farage for showing his hands so early. Business will be booming for the foreseeable future.

But of a test here for what remains of the British news media. These proposals are mad, racist and economic suicide. Will they be reported as such? Or will they be reported as a reasonable suggestion?

Reform would scrap indefinite leave to remain for migrants Hundreds of thousands will be eligible for permanent residence next year after arriving in what Nigel Farage calls the ‘Boriswave’

Times says Reform policy to make all of those with settled status apply instead for a new temporary status

In case of EU settled status, that is a massive breach of the spirit and letter of Farage's past pledges pre & after 2016.

A rapid u-turn is necessary
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

erm hello pardon excuse me, what

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Holiday reading

rozważam zagłosowanie w polskich wyborach po raz pierwszy od głosowania w referendum o wejściu do unii europejskiej