AIBU to ask those of you voting Green what the Green Party immigration plans would cost?

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This is the Green Party platform on immigration. How much will it cost the country to implement this?

1. Implement a fair and humane system of managed immigration
2. Treat all migrants as if they are citizens
3. Give all residents the right to vote
4. Help families to be together
5. Dismantle the Home Office
6. Abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition
7. Abolish the ten year route to settlement
8. Stop the profiteering from application fees
9. Stop putting people in prison because of their immigration status
10. Accept our responsibility for the climate emergency and support the people forced to move

I wonder why the govt thinks it's better for asylum seekers to be idle? Do they think that protects jobs for locals? It's so strange.

It's simply that allowing them to work immediately is seen as a massive incentive to fake their case for asylum in the first place. Not that it's making much difference, frankly. It's laughably easy to come into this country either on a small boat, or on a tourist visa, work visa or student visa and then overstay it and work illegally. I have absolutely no doubt that something like 80% minimum of people who arrive on small boats are not asylum seekers in the genuine sense, but economic migrants.

I do understand that argument.. but the alternative is arguably worse.

I think, broadly, work begets work. The more people who work, the more they can afford things, the more jobs that creates.

Preventing one group of people from working doesn't necessarily free up that same amount of jobs for other people to have. Plus you then have them wandering around idly, possibly enticed into crime.

I don’t mind the work thing but I’m wondering how the Greens will manage people who do want to be here. Under international law everyone who arrives would have to be processed for a claim.

Yes, they come here anyway. I don't think the right to work is substantially more inviting than the right to free accommodation and a free allowance (albeit small), which they currently have.

ernt right off greens when I realised they weren't about recycling, cycling and composting.

I think what they are suggesting is a global minimum wealth tax. The key word to make it operative is ‘global’. If the Green Party said ‘we would advocate for a global wealth tax and suggest 2% as a tax level’ then maybe that has at least some economic rigour. But a UK only wealth tax, when the ultra wealthy are globally mobile, doesn’t.

Because I live in one of those strange places where people actually know each other, go to the pub, chat to people around the village and in the shops, go to the village fete and are generally involved in the community. As a result I know my councillors (went to school with one of them and the other has lived here for 30 years). I know all the candidates who grew up locally, either personally or by reputation. I don't know the 'flown in' candidates but wouldn't vote for anyone who hasn't lived here most of their life anyway.

@FernandoSor right well that’s one way to vote I suppose