Labour-Abgeordnete drohen mit einer Abstimmung, um ihre Opposition gegen Mahmoods Migrationspläne zum Ausdruck zu bringen

It should be hard to get indefinite leave to remain.

It should take a long time. Surely anyone coming here needs to show their worth to us and show they’re a positive for this country to have?

Good to hear they are considering transitional arrangements to those already here

You can’t change long standing public opinion (for decades now) based on one by-election. Things need to change.

There’s the current system you can compare it to, and you haven’t made any arguments why this one is better

It is hard to get and costs over £3k every 30 months (2.5 years) that you have to wait plus all the increases in minimum salary amount stuff, makes it nearly impossible for anyone not doing a skilled job.

It’s completely unfair to move the goal posts arbitrarily.

For example my wife’s been here 4.5 years and could apply for ILR at the end of this year. We’ve spent over £10k total in visa fees/nhs surcharges and followed all the rules. She works and pays taxes.

Just like how the Labour/Tories f*cked students who wanted to study with tuition fees, this is designed to f*ck people who follow the rules in good faith.

It would be a punishment for thinking you were building a life by working and following rules.

Absolutely disposable!! Who will fill the jobs that will inevitably be left empty when law abiding people who want to stay here leave?!

All this is to appease racists and tax dodgers. Prepare to lose my vote for life Labour, just like the Tories have already lost it…

I get some Labour mps are trying to go after votes on the left being taken by the Greens.

But I wish they’d take a minute to look at the polls, there aren’t enough votes on the left to keep reform & the tories out.

Like it or not Labour need to stay centre right even if that means coalition with the greens & Lib Dem’s.

It’s like they want to lose the next election, isn’t it.

Making immigration harder and with reduced numbers is popular with the electorate, these MPs need to think about their priorities.

Indefinite leave to remain should be based on tax contributions.

Like it or not, the types of immigrants we want are high tax individuals. We don’t need immigrants coming to be on our benefits when we have plenty of British born people who suck that nipple dry.

People will moan and say yeah but people in the NHS contribute a lot but get paid f all so it’s unfair. Fine. Have a specific note about healthcare of actual critical industries to have a shorter route…which btw the government has done.

I’m reading some serious Facebook group-ass spook stories about migration in this thread. The absolute cartoon thinking that there are so many migrants that uproot their lives, pay thousands of pounds in visa fees and NHS surcharges for years and income tax, pay more thousands to apply for the citizenship test (£3,226 per person, or £13000 for a family of four) so they can immediately quit their job and get less money on benefits than they were getting when working is laughable. There’s no evidence for it and unless you don’t think about it for two seconds and really do think migrants are less than human, it doesn’t even make sense.

The amount of scapegoating of migrants is getting truly absurd at this point. The UK already has some of the highest immigration fees and requires one of the longest commitments before ILR in the world (Germany, Canada and Australia are all less than 4 years). This is just performative and transparent cruelty to try and slow the flow of votes away from Reform.

You want to talk about burdens on the system? Get mad at Reform’s base of pensioners. The state pension a much larger burden on the system. 50 times more expensive than the whole asylum system budget. But so long as there are migrants around, you can blame them for every problem in your life.