Are all of us foreigners just going to be told to pack up and leave if Reform win?

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I might be totally unreasonable here (or not), but please hear me out.
(Bloody) foreigner here — I’ve lived in the UK since 2001. Built my whole life here: house, husband, DC, the lot. Worked the whole time in a field that requires the highest level of qualification.
I’m getting increasingly worried about the talk of Reform winning in 2029. Some even say it could be sooner if Labour are pushed into early elections. This week (as we all heard) our beloved Reform suggested rescinding ILR or even settled status from Europeans. God knows what else they’ll come up with, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they went after naturalised Brits next and started revoking citizenship, just to please the voters.
I know a lot of foreign-born women — some married to born-and-bred Brits, some to other Europeans (not always from the same country), some to men from overseas. All sorts of combinations.
So what do you think lies ahead for us? Will we be politely asked to leave, or will things just get so hostile that we’re pushed out anyway? And how likely is it that people who aren’t very white, or who have an accent, will face more discrimination in work?
I’m meeting my foreign friends tonight and we’ll be talking about it. For most of us, moving now would be incredibly difficult. We’re late 30s to early 50s, and starting over in a new country isn’t exactly easy. Some of us are married to men from different countries entirely, and we don’t even speak each other’s languages well enough to get proper jobs there.

AIBU and should think we will actually be allowed to stay?
AINBU sorry but you’d better start planning your move now

They will never get voted in. It's just blister.

Do you mean asylum seekers? Those aren't illegal migrants either

Rupert Lowe is an Independent MP as he was expelled from the Reform Party. Best way to get an answer to your question is probably to read what Reform have published on this topic online - not what people say they have said. However, it’s a long time till elections: there’s a lot of bloviating and grandstanding among politicians at present, which will need to get more specific and detailed when we get closer to the general elections.

Bearing in mind that Farage is married to a German lady, I don't think you have anything to worry about! Reform's bug bear is people that are here illegally. And for the record,I'm not a Reform supporter.

Reform UK has not set out plans to loosen Britain’s gun laws, despite Sir Ed’s warning.
Sir Ed also claimed that under Mr Farage the government would “trample on our basic rights and freedoms, unconstrained by the European Convention on Human Rights”..

Sir Ed needs to "put a sock in it", basically, and stop scaremongering

'Mon up tae Scotland!

Weather's crap. So what. More positive to "foreigners".

And if Farage becomes PM it will become independent (58% want that if Farage is PM).

No he is just stroking hate against foreigners.
I agree that’s very different.

Whetherr he hates foreigners is not her nor there. Who cares about what his likes and dislikes are.
Him stroking hatred, encouraging divisions within British society, encouraging racism etc… by using foreign nationals as a scapegoat IS a huge issue.na really big issue.

It detracts from actually tackling the real issues.
Whilst he is hoping to get on with his own little projects. Trump,style

@Tandora I suspect each case will have to be looked at individually to ascertain how the ILR status was initially granted.

Brexit wasn't supposed to happen either, and the Brits were so blasé that here we are. Stage 2 unfolding in front of you and many of you are still denying the reality.

Does this suggest that once settled status, so able to work and in employment then you will have the rights of a UK citizen?

If not working then this makes you vulnerable and easy to target?

Sorry, reading between the lines, a case of showing contributing so safe or claiming benefits so not safe. Meaning the SPIN to make it look like getting rid of some to save money.

So many different things being said on the topic but I really can't imagine they could blatantly defy human rights laws. There would be an uproar, especially the much needed medical staff etc.

I’m pretty sure the word scaremongering was used a lot during the Brexit debates.
Its a shame a lot of it has come true.

This thread has confirmed that Farage has successfully convinced people that legal immigrants who have lived here 20 years are illegal. Amazing.

Yes! They've got fuck all change of getting in.people are swallowing it and parrating each other people need to lol at he stats. Reform have 5 MPs for fucks sake. You need bout 300 to win.

Polls still have 58% Scots wanting independence if Farage becomes PM.

Move to Scotland!

I don’t think they will ask ‘legal foreigners’ to pack up and leave as such but the tolerance for them staying will be very very low - any sort of crime and I think they’ll deport, or revoke visas and such. Anyone living in the UK will have to be squeaky clean, employed and in need of little from the state.

He is just a no one, a little man with big mouth.
We have the whole EU behind us, human rights lawyers and some of us have studied law

I am not too sure.. the Polls says different now ...

My interpretation is Reform will kick out those that are criminals, not at risk, or don't contribute to the economy.

Seems fair enough to me the country is chronically short or housing and is broke.

@Scaredfuturee 🫂🫂

Could you put the money aside bit by bit wo your dh knowing?
Also you know you dint need him to become a British citizen? Being married to a Brit means you need to prove you’ve been in the country further 3 years rather than 5. But that’s the only difference.

Imdint know how you’re coping. If dh had been voting Refirm, I dint think I’d be able to stay married. Coping with ILs during brexit was hard enough (yes we had very similar discussions)

The reciprocal agreement with other EU countries could theoretically change if Brussels agreed it. But then UK citizens would equally get fewer rights if they moved to European countries.

Does OP saying ‘settled’ mean Indefinite leave to remain? And how was that different to citizenship before? Obviously now people are defining between the two.

And what is naturalised mean? Same as settled?

It is very confusing.

I think considering people dont even know the difference in the language terms it’s not going to get much traction.

’Undocumented’/ Illegal on the other hand is an easy win. And think I heard theres something like a million of those atleast. Think how many years that would take. Even that’s not going to happen.

I hear you and see you.

I hope we all band together and sue for our pensions. I am more than ready to leave and never ever have to hear about the half-wits that run this place, but I’m not leaving empty handed.

No it wouldn't be you going packing if you are an EU citizen.

Again, it is non EU nationals he was talking about deporting if they didn't have citizenship or a 5 year work visa.

These people (immigration lawyers) think it would be very difficult to remove ILR.

https://www.rlegal.com/news/reform-uks-immigration-plans-the-implications/

They said that about Brexit