https://web.archive.org/web/20231204121735/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67612106
Fantastic idea by the UK government, they're trying to cut down in legal migration.. yknow the actual people who will pay taxes instead of leeching off the system.
there had been "abuse" of health and care visas for years.
If they're not a British citizen, charge them for it. I don't see how that is difficult.
Immigration is shaping up to be a key issue ahead of the next general election
We all know what immigration is bad, but I guess they'll just skirt that topic and just go after the people who actually put something into the pot, even if it isn't a significant amount...
They had 13 years in power, they're not doing anything this year.
From what I hear from my mates in London, this'll probably piss off one demographic the most: The Chinese
London has a LARGE amount of Chinese students, who also have no social awareness whatsoever, that social credit score system has rotted away that cognitive process that gives you street smarts. Fortunately they all live in student accommodation in basically mini student villages within London to keep them away from....the undesirables. But a cut in legal migration will probably affect them and skilled workers.
Listen if you pay me 100k a year, give me a nice cottage by Dover and allow me to bring a Barrett 50.cal with a ton of ammo, I can GREATLY lower your immigration problems and there won't be much clean up, maybe the occasional bonfire by the beach for...drift Wood /s
No they're not. They're just saying that they are until after the next general election. Sad thing is that most Brits will believe them.
They're playing a long game. As long as they can keep the native born citizens passive for long enough to be outnumbered they'll win.
So 995 000 per year instead of 1 000 000?
Canada needed immigrants to populate the second largest country on Earth so that the Americans wouldn't beat them to the Pacific ocean.
Britain does not need immigrants. It will never need immigrants.
Charge them.. for basic health care?! That's a HUMAN RIGHT. What kind of greedy troglodyte are you?
Stealing healthcare workers from third world or less developed countries was always a deeply cynical and immoral practice to begin with. You should look up the rates of healthcare workers per population in developing countries. They already have so few and because the UK finds it cheaper to recruit abroad instead of producing them at home, these countries suffer a great deal.