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This puts those families and children at a major economic and social disadvantage. Why? To stop some coming in future? To force them to leave? No evidence either will happen. They will still come and they will still settle, but after years of scrimping compared to other families.
Yes: we'd calculated that a single parent with 2 kids who started their settlement journey in 2017 would pay >£27k in fees & IHS over 10yrs to settle (w/o citizenship & pre-2025⬆️). Now >£54k for 20yrs if they'd ever claimed benefits for >12mnths - £225/month extra in essential HH costs over 20yrs.
This is a massive problem with Labour’s immigration proposals. All migrant families affected will be made considerably poorer (because of extra immigration fees over several years plus dampened job prospects) and many (most?) of those families have children.
November 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This puts those families and children at a major economic and social disadvantage. Why? To stop some coming in future? To force them to leave? No evidence either will happen. They will still come and they will still settle, but after years of scrimping compared to other families.
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Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
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A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
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Four days apart. Genuinely staggering how they keep doing this
November 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Four days apart. Genuinely staggering how they keep doing this
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unsure if it’s true, but i’m choosing to believe in that epstein email where he implied that trump gave bill clinton head
November 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
unsure if it’s true, but i’m choosing to believe in that epstein email where he implied that trump gave bill clinton head
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Yes, because people have been enacting vicious anti-immigrant policies and using rhetoric echoing Enoch Powell, suggesting immigrants have done incalculable damage to the UK. Who might that have been?
November 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Yes, because people have been enacting vicious anti-immigrant policies and using rhetoric echoing Enoch Powell, suggesting immigrants have done incalculable damage to the UK. Who might that have been?
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I hate our gerontocracy so much. Schumer has got to go. This out of touch old man refuses to get a smartphone, even as people keep trying to hand him one.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I hate our gerontocracy so much. Schumer has got to go. This out of touch old man refuses to get a smartphone, even as people keep trying to hand him one.
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People from these 80 overseas universities are now eligible for a 2 year work visa with the right to bring dependants. But if they studied at even a top ranking British university they’d have no right to bring dependants and from 2027 will be limited to 18 months. www.gov.uk/government/p...
High Potential Individual visa: global universities list 2025
www.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
People from these 80 overseas universities are now eligible for a 2 year work visa with the right to bring dependants. But if they studied at even a top ranking British university they’d have no right to bring dependants and from 2027 will be limited to 18 months. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Anyone shocked by the $100,000 visa fees proposed by Trump should read this and weep. www.ft.com/content/33ce...
UK visa costs already near Trump-like levels, advisers say
Workers in Britain are charged tens of thousands of pounds — but figure could rise if qualification period is extended
www.ft.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Anyone shocked by the $100,000 visa fees proposed by Trump should read this and weep. www.ft.com/content/33ce...
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one thing you really have to be careful of online is not letting your experiences with annoying people online drive your politics for real material issues. the internet is real but also your phone is a portal to a world that doesn’t fucking exist
August 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
one thing you really have to be careful of online is not letting your experiences with annoying people online drive your politics for real material issues. the internet is real but also your phone is a portal to a world that doesn’t fucking exist
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
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I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector
It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...
defector.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...
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Absolutely nobody is doing it like her
"Kemi Badenoch has revealed that the case of Josef Fritzl made her reject God." [Telegraph front page]
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Absolutely nobody is doing it like her
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Would you kill baby mechaHitler?
July 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Would you kill baby mechaHitler?
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The juxtaposition of wildlife in an urban environment always has a magnetic draw for me #ornithology #ukbirds #peregrinefalcon
June 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The juxtaposition of wildlife in an urban environment always has a magnetic draw for me #ornithology #ukbirds #peregrinefalcon
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on joined up thinking there is also this: www.linkedin.com/posts/sacha-...
An anomaly that was likely unintended but probably needs some review… | Sacha Wooldridge
An anomaly that was likely unintended but probably needs some review before being drafted in to legislation - today's white paper includes a proposed expansion of the High Potential Individual vis...
www.linkedin.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
on joined up thinking there is also this: www.linkedin.com/posts/sacha-...
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No joined up thinking either. They’re keeping the graduate visa but raising the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa so people on the graduate visa would be unlikely to get one. They’re prioritising high skilled workers but then making people wait 10 years for ILR so they won’t want to come.
May 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
No joined up thinking either. They’re keeping the graduate visa but raising the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa so people on the graduate visa would be unlikely to get one. They’re prioritising high skilled workers but then making people wait 10 years for ILR so they won’t want to come.
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UK will discriminate against would-be students who are from persecuted groups.
Palestinian? No visa.
Christian from Pakistan or Iran? No visa.
Woman from Afghanistan? No visa.
Lesbian from Uganda? No visa.
Palestinian? No visa.
Christian from Pakistan or Iran? No visa.
Woman from Afghanistan? No visa.
Lesbian from Uganda? No visa.
The Home Office will restrict work and study visas from nationalities who are most likely to overstay and claim asylum. Visas will be rejected for individuals who fit the profile of someone who will go on to claim asylum and are from countries with high rates of asylum.
May 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
UK will discriminate against would-be students who are from persecuted groups.
Palestinian? No visa.
Christian from Pakistan or Iran? No visa.
Woman from Afghanistan? No visa.
Lesbian from Uganda? No visa.
Palestinian? No visa.
Christian from Pakistan or Iran? No visa.
Woman from Afghanistan? No visa.
Lesbian from Uganda? No visa.
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Numbers Labour could publish on foreign born people instead of criminal history:
😀Windrush without compensation
😀People who have experienced hate crime
😀Stats on NRPF that they refuse to publish
😀Stats on race/ethnicity that they refuse to publish
😀Visas denied due to racist decision making
😀Windrush without compensation
😀People who have experienced hate crime
😀Stats on NRPF that they refuse to publish
😀Stats on race/ethnicity that they refuse to publish
😀Visas denied due to racist decision making
April 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Numbers Labour could publish on foreign born people instead of criminal history:
😀Windrush without compensation
😀People who have experienced hate crime
😀Stats on NRPF that they refuse to publish
😀Stats on race/ethnicity that they refuse to publish
😀Visas denied due to racist decision making
😀Windrush without compensation
😀People who have experienced hate crime
😀Stats on NRPF that they refuse to publish
😀Stats on race/ethnicity that they refuse to publish
😀Visas denied due to racist decision making
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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
April 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list
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In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.
March 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.