Home Secretary faces opposition over indefinite‑leave rule changes
Any retrospective application is intolerable, for anyone. It contradicts natural justice and shows that Britain does not keep its word. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ian Dunt183The plans themselves are pointless, stupid and harmful. They actively block people from integrating into British society, the very thing we say we want. But the retrospective application is damnable on its own terms. The mark of a fundamentally untrustworthy country.
Mr Lovebucket10For the life of me I do not know why he kept her in post. She undermines him at every turn and for what? To appeal to people who are voting Reform or worse anyway. Let’s see how that pans out.
Dean Craddock7I remember the days when we actually cared about keeping our word.
nightbird49.bsky.social5Why is it that the successful children of immigrants so often want to close the door to the next wave? Deeply unpleasant
Francesc3This is all so incredibly bitty and self-defeating. Why do all these politicians manage to get marooned in this anti-immigrant rhetoric of Farage and his bunch of racist liars?
EagleOwl2Well said. This will translate into uncertainty for so many families, global distrust of the UK and zero extra votes (not that that would make it OK).
The exemption for care workers is very welcome. However - as @jamesbowes01.bsky.social & @sundersays.bsky.social have indefatigably pointed out - this still puts tens/hundreds of thousands at risk of forced emigration/remigration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jonathan Portes8James' earlier piece here. The changes to thresholds announced in the Budget will partially mitigate this, but many remain at risk. ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
David Stewart2I really don't see why Burnham kept her or permits this. She is cut from the same cloth as Patel and Braverman, and a lot of the electorate has rejected this flavour of ethno-nationalism.
Altreik1And nothing about the retrospective nature? I worry that the focus on care workers has distracted from the other equally terrible parts of it esp the impact on growth
James Austin114Close to what I guessed would happen: exemption for existing care workers, drop from 15 to 10 years for most and, I suspect, a load of other exemptions or ways to get that number back to 5 years. It's not enough. The changes remain economically, morally and politically wrong.
Sam Freedman10It's also just illogical. If it's bad to treat care workers that way (which it is) then why is it OK for lab technicians or others legally here who don't mean the new salary thresholds?
