EU citizens offered financial incentives to leave UK

[EddyF]

Is it unreasonable to think this is quite offensive?

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/26/eu-citizens-offered-financial-incentives-to-leave-uk

Here is a clarification by the 3 million.
If you see it's not that for example I with Settled status will just go and decide "fuck that, I am going to some better place" and ask for money.

@CuriousaboutSamphire I eondered how it works and whether the person then gets visa ban for x years or not.

As far as I know, and I am the signposter not the advisor, that depends on a wide range of issues like country of origin, reason for lack of visa. But yes, I think there is always a time penalty.

At risk of being called all sorts of names, we have a 'yo-yo' family. They come specifically to steal and beg. Individual members of the family have taken the resettlement money already but keep coming back to carry on to carry on as before. We can't tell them the risk isn't worth it because, to date, they have made an absolute fortune doing it - a UK size fortune at that! So they will keep on bringing the youngest members of the family over and will take any penalty as an occupational hazard.

They aren't the norm, in 20 years I've never met anyone else like them, but I suspect they are the kind of people most racist's think of when they imagine foreign benefit cheats etc.

I eondered how it works and whether the person then gets visa ban for x years or not

There's no visa ban sue to using the scheme, but there may be for other reasons. Those reasons would still apply anyway though, whether the scheme was used or not.

Ah! That makes more sense.

Thanks for the clarification!

@SchrodingersImmigrant I meant have applied for settled status etc

@blackforestgateau but its not to get rid is it , it is to help.
Its not the only option, don't turn things in to something it isn't

[quote donewithitalltodayandxmas]@SchrodingersImmigrant I meant have applied for settled status etc [/quote]
Oh yeah, I got that. I heard that employers were ok. Though there was now a warning that some people had issues being hired without SS even though deadline hasn't passed.

Thank you @CuriousaboutSamphire and @SushiSoozie!

I know someone who was extremely grateful this scheme existed (it has existed for many years - before, during, and after our EU membership).

She was desperate to exit an abusive relationship here, and return to her family home country in south-east Asia. She was broke, homeless, friendless, and otherwise had no prospect of finding the money to return to what she regarded as family and home.

There has always been a bit of elasticity in the SS deadline. I think they have extended it again - that is the date by which it should have been started rather than completed.

@SchrodingersImmigrant Don't know , wouldn't seem right as people could be waiting
Annoying people are putting a racist slut on this though as its something thats been offered before
I mean its £2000 not £20000 its hardly going to make people leave that want to stay , but if it helps someone who needs it , then surely it can only be a good thing .

I really would like to know if the people saying its offensive or racist had heard about it before today.
If thats true, they really should apologise.

No, they hadn't heard about it. Other than an ill-informed headline in The Guardian - which nowadays is a little more than a left-wing version of The Daily Express.

@SushiSoozie no prob not and they prob haven't read the links provided either , easier to make accusations which then undermines real issues

Blimey, there sure are some really hard-of-thinking people on this thread.