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

[Onegingerhead]

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

These things are for asylum seekers (not illegal immigrants) who we are bound by international law to accommodate until their claim for asylum has been assessed and approved or refused. They are given free accommodation and a weekly allowance of £49.18pp (which is reduced if their accommodation also supplies meals) - hey, don't spend it all at once! https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get

Define ‘do not contribute to the economy’

Do you mean that even though you’re legally on the country, maybe have spent 30 years here, you’re suddenly not welcome if

• you get ill and have to stop working
• Can’t be a SAHM
• youre a pensioner in state pension

Is it what you mean?

And I’m not trying to see things that aren’t here.
Im genuinely scared that this is what is going to happen.
Because it’s easier to blame immigrants for everything than looking at why there isn’t enough houses around, how money is raised by the government or what it’s actually spending money on.

Someone like you is not at risk of deportation because you meet the criteria to stay on multiple fronts.

That's what I thought originally, but then is he one to trust?

Really?

Try reading the Reform's "Contract with the Public", it's never mentioned.

Anyone who believes a word of what Ed Davy says is just silly. This was the guy who tried to convince people that the Post Office scandal was nothing to do with him.

Ed Davey: Chocolate Teapot - Post Office Scandal

My understanding is that EU nationals have "settled status" wheres non EU nationals get Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR).

It is the ILR that Farage is talking about reforming by changing it to a 5 year work visa.

You are incorrect, how many times 🙄

EU citizens with settled status and ILR have explained the position and linked up the sources on this thread over and over again. Please, RTFT.

Again, he was also talking about removing access to benefits.
Whoch would include UC. Something pretty important for ANYONE (regardiess of the immigration status) on low wage.
And state pension which could be classed as a benefit etc etc

Your understanding is wrong.

EU citizens with Settled Status have Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Certain rights they have stem from the Withdrawal Agreement and they are now being threatened by NF.

I agree.
I have low paid part time job and very debilitating chronic non curable illness..
I don't know what i would do if these come to govern.
I'm EU citizen in UK for full 27 years, married to Brit. Suddenly none if this will matter.

Id say “don’t worry but I didn’t believe we would be stupid enough to vote Brexit and look at us now…

Doesn’t it depend on what colour your skin is? Nice white foreigners who ‘ look like us’ are apparently acceptable to the reform voters. It’s just the black and brown ones they have a problem with.

He couldn't just change the settled status of EU citizens even if he became prime minister because legal documents were signed at Brexit which the UK have to abide by. His speech was about non EU people.

For people who have a spare 2k and want to be super safe, it could be peace of mind to apply for British citizenship, which is why my friend is doing it. But really, it almost definitely is unnecessary.

He is no longer a Reform MP

Judging from your total lack of punctuation, poor grammar and name calling, I'd say you're not well placed to determine who is 'thick' or not.

new reform MP says no pensioner deportations

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9nyex12j5o?app-referrer=deep-link

I don't think that makes any difference, I think he's after any ,, foreign,, citizen. Especially east Europe i think..

The proposed threshold for the visa they want to replace ILR is earning £60k. There's a huge swathe of people who dont claim benefits but dont earn over £60k.

Ok but even if they have settled status AND ILR they do have rights from the Brexit withdrawal agreement and I think it's scaremongering to make them think they are in the same boat as non EU nationals.

They have more protection and they are not the ones who Farage is saying must move to a 5 year work visa if Reform get elected.

There won't be a definition because the goalposts will keep moving. But yes, the end effect is to keep immigrants who have jumped through all the hoops, followed the rules, done everything correctly and built their lives here in good faith, feeling permanently uncertain, worried and unwelcome knowing that they can be retrospectively rendered illegal and unworthy at any time.

You are spreading misinformation, please stop.

Reform's position clearly threatens rights of EU citizens with Settled Status AND those who are planning to obtain it as they have been in the process of accruing it post-Brexit.

It is NOT just about non-EU immigrants.

It is NOT just about deportation, there are other rights that are part of our lawful status that he is threatening to make conditional or remove.

These rights are unconditional under the Withdrawal Agreement but he either doesn't give a shit about it, or he will renegotiate it to screw us over for no reason whatsoever. Either way, he'll have a lawsuit from me, as promised. If I go, I won't go quietly, that's for sure.

She already has, this was stated early

I think you need to read the full thread. PP said she is a higher tax payer and has children here, therefore would meet the criteria to stay.

There is misinformation on this thread about EU nationals versus non EU nationals.

Farage is targeting non EU nationals with his new proposal for a 5 year work visa, not EU nationals.

She said in an earlier post she has naturalised - this means citizenship