I’m sorry. What a shame.

so tired of Reform’s racist drivel and cruelty. hth are they even serious contenders to power?

WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN

Cambridge University cosies up to Reform The vice-chancellor expects Nigel Farage to model his policies on Trump and says other Russell Group members are meeting his allies

One should be in no doubt that most of Britain's elites will simply make their peace with Farage and do a deal, so long as they get left alone or benefit. Tho there is resistance to Trump in the US, it's v much the exception.(1/2) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Painting of crows in a bare winter tree with a house below with smoke coming out of the chimney under an early evening sky

Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November

Another missed opportunity to make a principled argument that people who have lived here a significant period of time during which they have contributed in various ways should have certain rights. In many cases these people will be in long-term relationships with UK nationals with dependent children

In September, Reform said they would make welfare limited to UK citizens only. Then told journalists that would not apply to EU nationals with settled status, protected by the UK-EU withdrawal treaty, then said they could "negotiate" on that with the EU.

Now say they are reneging on the treaty

Frontline journalist on poppy watch.

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

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

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