Solidarity to you and @colinyeo.bsky.social - what a rubbish article: rubbish “arguments”, rubbishly argued.

Glaringly, the title poses a solution of chucking all the lawyers and yet it concludes with “it’s beyond the scope to produce a detailed answer” 😓

Will be talking about a (fingers crossed) soon to be published report on how the Care Act is working for migrants (hint: it doesn’t)

If you work with any vulnerable individuals, do come along!

www.lag.org.uk/events/ticke...

I really don’t understand the logic - I guess they just want to be able to say numbers down? My friends and I went abroad for uni because, ranking asides, genuinely think education here is better than back home. But would no way have spent tens of thousands if the option to settle is so restricted

incredible migrant charities all across the country. Very happy to share my experience

learnt probably 80% of my actually used legal skills and knowledge from the amazing @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social and others.

A few last things to wrap up but looking forward to taking a break and think what’s next. Who knows, maybe I’ll return to a suddenly humane and fair immigration system 🤔

Kind of. It’s a very hard line to tread for sure and the police / mags obviously have their own problems and underfunding to deal with - but they do have some responsibility. To give an extreme example: SS personnels weren’t innocent just because they were following orders and the “law” at that time

Received immediate response saying “I find your email aggressive…”

Well, yes, that’s the whole point.

defer to them and say that it's up to the government to decide where art 8 balance lie. The policy will not work or deter anyone who came in desperate need to survival, things won't improve and Graham King and his cronies will get richer, and the migrants will get blamed again, and another policy...

Complaints work very well for reporting conditions too, especially for requesting digital reporting. Ask the ROM to raise the request to a manager with complaint on the subject line and send to the same email address of the reporting centre and digital reporting team

the system, but to a certain degree maybe also just take a second to think.

somehow becoming a problem. If you are in a back channel actual negotiation with the MoJ or the chancellor, fine, feel free to compromise. But in public consultations, literally what is the point of not asking for what you need? Yes this kind of attitude relates back to the oppressive nature of

Why is an eVisa not good enough for the SRA and Kaplan when the Home Office keeps extolling how much better and secure it is??