Farage promises to deport people with ILR

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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?

@HPFA I agree. I could cry really.

The bastard flag shaggers are all over my area.

I think history teaches us that none of this starts with people getting killed. It does tend to end up there though.

I agree that those are not the people who he is seeking to exclude, but they may well be the people who choose to take their skills and their taxes elsewhere, because of the hostile and insecure environment that Farage seems hell bent on creating.

I think it's hyperbole to compare this to Nazi Germany. There isn't one specific ethnic or religious group being targeted.

This is such a typical lazy identity politics mumsnet response.

Has anyone actually bothered to read what he has actually said!?

Nope. Thought not.

Do you think only the world's poor immigrate to the UK?

The UK has a points based immigration system.

Yep

They will work where they want to and as I said before, will be welcome anywhere as part of the highly skilled/highly paid group.

People seeking asylum ARE FORBIDDEN TO WORK

It doesn't matter if they are an eye surgeon or a farmer or a hairdresser or somebody who would pick up the shitest jobe we have. They cannt work

They’ll probably have to fill in a fair few forms to be able to go “anywhere in the world” though.

Will it though? the think tank who originally came up with it have said the figures shouldn’t be used
“Reform said the mass deportation would save £234bn, though the figures come from a Centre for Policy Studies report that has been withdrawn because of a dispute over the numbers. The thinktank has said its costs “should not be used”.
Pretty disingenuous to put this out there when the figures have been disputed.
.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/22/farage-vows-to-scrap-settled-status-placing-thousands-at-risk-of-deportation

I suspect some people have already been killed ie had their heads kicked in.

@Friendlygingercat do you really resent all the Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, French and Spanish so much that you don’t want them living in this country?
What should their British born kids do?

yet

So presumably that would mean deporting his German born partner then?

I fully support removing people who are here illegally, but attempting to deport people who have ILR is ridiculous.

I'm a British citizen living abroad. I went to state school and then university in the UK in the last days of the 1k a year tuition fees era, so my education was largely funded by the British taxpayer. Before I left, in my early 30s, I was a higher rate taxpayer.

I am now married to a citizen of the country I live in, and have two children who are British by decent. We have absolutely no interest in even trying to move to the UK. The idea of spending thousands of pounds on visa fees for my husband, who, pre-Brexit, could have just come to the UK and stayed for as long as he liked, with no guarantee that he would get the visa, or that he wouldn't be kicked out if ever my income dropped below a certain level, just sticks in my craw. What if we upended our lives to live in the UK and then I got ill and had to stop working, meaning I no longer had the required level of income to sponsor my husband to remain? No fucking thank you very fucking much.

So my adopted country, and not the UK, will benefit from my economic contribution for the rest of my life.

It would cover a lot of people they don’t think it does.

From the BBC report:

Labour has noted the figure came from a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, external, a Thatcher-founded think tank, which later said the cost estimates "should no longer be used" after a challenge by the Office for Budget Responsibility.

But Farage said the "exact figure" was not known due to gaps in publicly available data but argued the £234bn figure "is without doubt too low".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c930xypxpqpo

They can claim benefits once they are granted ILR, thats kind of the point of the policy.

Yes, and they now look damp, dirty and ragged.

But they've shown who they are now. Nobody who is truly patriotic can support this shameful policy.

It’s an attractive prospect for low-skilled workers, and the benefits are ridiculously generous. Macron said this recently.

The UK is seen as a soft touch, because they do it out of the goodness of their hearts, as you say. I find it odd you don’t seem to think living in this country is a privilege. It’s the lack of pride I find quite pitiable and almost contemptuous. Why should any immigrant respect or value a society which its own citizens regard with such little respect?

And he can back that up?

Or is it just another lie 🤔

I know, it's just incredible, and terrifying. EU national here, in the UK since the late 90s, married to a Brit, two kids. Don't earn enough for a visa under these plans. So people are happy for people like me to be deported? We seem to be in a whole new realm now.

Bingo! First Nazi reference ✔️