Farage promises to deport people with ILR

[Acidburn]

Posting in AIBU for traffic.
Nigel Farage stated he would deport anyone with existing indefinite leave to remain. We are talking about millions of people.
This terrifying. If people live here, work here, have kids and mortgages - where are they supposed to go?

I guess they need to get citizenship!

He'd regret it. Some of those with ILR are doctors.

Does anyone have any info about whether EU nationals will be protected from this? Its quite worrying as would directly impact my family

The degree of mental gymnastics is remarkable. What a TOOL. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

I saw this headline on BBC news homepage. On same homepage someone leaving an organisation with £52 MILLION pay off. The problem in wealth and resource inequality is not caused by migrants!

OP is presenting very selective information here - almost tabloid headline level designed to rile up people.

Looking at proper reports on this and what they actually said, they are not targeting net contributors like yourself, they want to end ‘benefit tourism’ from outside the EU. Which will benefit you as a resident and taxpayer.

EU citizens don’t have added protection from what is suggested no - whether it happens or not may be different.
BBC said it would breach/break some EU agreements at time of brexit - was just skimming it.
Perhaps we can all now stop pretending it’s asylum seekers that are the issue - they were the first easy target on the very first page in a very large book.

This is complete misinformation. There isn't a threat to deport people with ILR, but to limit access to benefits to immigrants. This would be by increasing residency requirements for citizenship. There would also be minimum income requirements to ensure people can support themselves.

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I have a British passport, but my Dad was a Displaced Person who wasn't naturalised until I was 9. (Mum was Scottish.)

Apparently, if I'd been born 20 yrs later I would have had to go through the naturalisation process myself.

I'm a widow now, so no family ties apart from my Scottish and English cousins. I wonder whether I'll be able to get my teaching pension paid to me in Eastern Europe?

Nope. It would be retrospective, applying to people who already have indefinite leave to remain. Their ILR would be withdrawn and they will have to apply for a five-year visa, with tougher conditions. Although I think card workers will be exempt.

It is odious and totally unworkable.

It is an utterly vile policy and will be about as effective as punching ourselves in the face.

People with ILR who can't meet the new visa requirements would have to leave. It is basically deportation.

Just to point out that huge numbers of alleged ‘non-contributors’ who do things like, I don’t know, care for children [checks what website I am on] This language that there are people who ‘contribute’ and people who don’t, and the latter are fair game, is textbook authoritarian, dangerous shite. I hate that it seems increasingly accepted.

Given how they plan to remove ILR and tighten the conditions on it and make people reapply every few years and prove they meet the tighter conditions- yes it is a threat to deport them … unless you think that they will hand out high paying jobs to those who no longer meet the new visa requirements?

Perhaps we can all now stop pretending it’s asylum seekers that are the issue - they were the first easy target on the very first page in a very large book

Exactly.

@Longingdreamer

You are incorrect.

He did previously claim that his German wife was the only person who could possibly be his parliamentary secretary when he was an MP...

Then his French girlfriend was his EU parliamentary aide.

For a man who is so anti 'foreign folks coming here and taking the jobs of good hard working Brits' his record as an employer is somewhat hypocritical confusing...

And surprise surprise his figures are based on a report that has been said shouldn't be used as the numbers are inaccurate...

There's a bit in the Guardian about "reform being willing to negotiate with the EU" (I am a EU national, DH and the DC are British).

I'm hoping this will turn people off reform to be honest! (e.g. the more centre-right people that are only worried about illegal immigration)

That's not going to happen. There is a possibility that government could change the visa rules for new applicants in the future that's all.

We can only hope that this will open people's eyes to who Farage is and what he stands for.

Sadly, I think there will be lots of people who agree with him. And those people will probably carry on supporting him until they realise that he might be coming for them next.

Hes got form for policies that end up punching us in the face

I think that preventing people moving here and claiming benefits is totally reasonable

He has claimed that those on ILR will need to clear a salary threshold if they want to remain. So, if you lose your job and are unemployed then you can have your ILR cancelled. Insane, as someone have ILR for 20+ years

I’m no defender of the man but I don’t think he has said this (at least not today). The announcement is that Reform would prevent people from applying for ILR after five years residence, instead they would have to apply for other visas (most if not all would mean no recourse to public funds).