Reposted by Kelly
Also, the fact that they chose a man for the stay-at-home parent is such blatant washing over of the fact that this policy will disproportionately affect women.
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Also, the fact that they chose a man for the stay-at-home parent is such blatant washing over of the fact that this policy will disproportionately affect women.
Reposted by Kelly
This is emblematic of Home Office comms embedding a "good/bad migrant" narrative and racist stereotypes, which this very much is. It speaks to a deeper issue than just the slides though, the whole of Labour's policies are based on this, and rooted in discrimination, effectively "normalising" racism.
Slides from a Home Office presentation for employers on “earned settlement” — note the case studies: they explicitly play the “good migrant” versus “bad migrant” narrative. Guess which category Sarah, the American, is placed in?
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is emblematic of Home Office comms embedding a "good/bad migrant" narrative and racist stereotypes, which this very much is. It speaks to a deeper issue than just the slides though, the whole of Labour's policies are based on this, and rooted in discrimination, effectively "normalising" racism.
Reposted by Kelly
We already have to pay a few thousand pounds every couple of years for the privilege of being able to live together as a married couple, now they just want to punish us even further if for some reason the spouse on the visa doesn't earn enough money, by making it harder and longer to settle.
If you are a British citizen who married a foreigner, the Labour government is going to make it harder and more expensive for you to just live a normal stable life as a married couple, if your spouse doesn't earn enough money (which never was a condition for their visa in the first place).
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We already have to pay a few thousand pounds every couple of years for the privilege of being able to live together as a married couple, now they just want to punish us even further if for some reason the spouse on the visa doesn't earn enough money, by making it harder and longer to settle.
Reposted by Kelly
If you are a British citizen who married a foreigner, the Labour government is going to make it harder and more expensive for you to just live a normal stable life as a married couple, if your spouse doesn't earn enough money (which never was a condition for their visa in the first place).
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If you are a British citizen who married a foreigner, the Labour government is going to make it harder and more expensive for you to just live a normal stable life as a married couple, if your spouse doesn't earn enough money (which never was a condition for their visa in the first place).
Reposted by Kelly
In the short term, all categories of work migrants (including dependants) are fiscally positive.
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In the short term, all categories of work migrants (including dependants) are fiscally positive.
Reposted by Kelly
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Reposted by Kelly
Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights
Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights
Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration
Keir Starmer and Europe’s hardline governments risk creating a “hierarchy of people” as they seek to address migration by curbing fundamental rights, Europe’s most senior human rights official has said.
Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, said that “middle-of the road politicians” are playing into the hands of the populist right. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Starmer and hardline governments risk creating ‘hierarchy of people’ by constraining human rights
Reposted by Kelly
While focus is often solely on asylum, and small boat crossings in particular, it's important to remember that Labour's hostililty against all migrants is harming not only individuals, but the whole country, with an estimated loss of £10.8billion, and zero actual benefits.
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
While focus is often solely on asylum, and small boat crossings in particular, it's important to remember that Labour's hostililty against all migrants is harming not only individuals, but the whole country, with an estimated loss of £10.8billion, and zero actual benefits.
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
Reposted by Kelly
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
Reposted by Kelly
I’m looking at both the US and UK.
December 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’m looking at both the US and UK.
Reposted by Kelly
Retrospective legislation, ex post facto laws, moving the goalposts after the fact, taking law abiding people and making them criminals. This should not happen in any country.
December 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Retrospective legislation, ex post facto laws, moving the goalposts after the fact, taking law abiding people and making them criminals. This should not happen in any country.
Reposted by Kelly
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect
Hardline migration policies adopted by governments across the globe have been a boon for people smugglers, fuelling demand and allowing them to raise their prices, according to a report.
The findings, released on Thursday by the Mixed Migration Centre of the Danish Refugee Council, and based on interviews with thousands of migrants and hundreds of smugglers, come as officials prepare to gather next week in Brussels to discuss how best to combat smuggling. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
Reposted by Kelly
“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“Buried in its settlement reforms, the Home Office is proposing to scrap the Long Residence route. This will be devastating news for many migrants.”
Reposted by Kelly
Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.
Reposted by Kelly
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.
Reposted by Kelly
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Kelly
I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I fully appreciate this is quite an open ended question, but what the actual f**k is wrong with the Home Office? How devoid of the most basic humanity do you have to be to do this?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Kelly
Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth.
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Immigration creates jobs, supports public services, & drives growth.
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
These are economic facts.
How is it that the only days we *dont* have the media banging on about immigration is on the days we’re handed the budget? #r4today
Reposted by Kelly
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Reposted by Kelly
We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
The five they haven't done:
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
Allow councils to keep right to buy money; scrap tuition fees for teacher training; halt HS2 sell-offs; scrap salary rule for foreign partners of British citizens).
They had to be ideas that didn't require legislation and were collectively broadly cost neutral.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We agree with Sam.
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Scrapping the MIR is the only way to ensure British citizens and settled residents can live with the people they love.
It won’t shift net migration, but it will finally reunite thousands of families kept apart by these rules.
No ifs, no buts — Families Belong Together
Reposted by Kelly
We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.
Reposted by Kelly
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
Reposted by Kelly
Labour really has a problem understanding that immigrants are people; and people plan their lives according to the rules that apply to them. You cannot just change the rules retrospectively, and you definitely cannot do so and claim you're doing it in the name of fairness.
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Labour really has a problem understanding that immigrants are people; and people plan their lives according to the rules that apply to them. You cannot just change the rules retrospectively, and you definitely cannot do so and claim you're doing it in the name of fairness.
Reposted by Kelly
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.
Great to hear Rachel Reeves acknowledge that "there are many reasons why people choose to have children then find themselves in difficult times. The death of a partner. Separation. Ill health. A lost job. I don’t believe that children should bear the brunt of that."
So why should migrant children?
So why should migrant children?
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
Reposted by Kelly
I have just used our fees calculator to get some idea of what the full basic visa costs over a ten-year journey to settlement would be in the Skilled Worker route, under the proposed 'Earned Settlement' model. (1)
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have just used our fees calculator to get some idea of what the full basic visa costs over a ten-year journey to settlement would be in the Skilled Worker route, under the proposed 'Earned Settlement' model. (1)