Posted on 05/12/2025 5:59:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Britain will toughen its requirements for legal migrants and extend the wait for newcomers to claim citizenship, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, announcing a slew of policy changes as he resists a political barrage from the country’s emboldened populist right.
Immigrants will now have to wait up to 10 years before they can seek to become British citizens – raised from five years – and requirements surrounding their skills level and proficiency in English will be raised, Starmer said, policies aimed at finally reversing a years-long increase in legal migration to Britain.
“This plan means migration will fall – that’s a promise,” Starmer said, declaring an end to what he called a “one-nation experiment in open borders.” He chastised the previous Conservative government for its record on migration, saying “the damage it has done to our country is incalculable.”
His intervention accompanied a long-awaited white paper on migration, but its timing was no coincidence; it comes less than two weeks after a round of local elections that were decisively won by Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party, an anti-immigration bloc, reflecting a sustained increase in support for the party in opinion polls.
Starmer adopted a tone more commonly associated with Farage during his Monday morning press conference in Downing Street, saying Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers” without tough reform.
More than 700,000 more people entered the UK legally than left it last year, according to government figures for the year up to June 2024, a figure strikingly higher than either dominant party in British politics had ever intended to allow. The increase has added to the already high demand for housing and on Britain’s public services, but it has also created an avenue for foreign workers to staff the country’s chronically undermanned health care system.
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I’d hazard a guess most don’t care about citizenship but just being there for ‘benefits.’ Perhaps your healthcare is ‘undermanned’ because of so many refugees.
Somewhat true. And it's because it is socialist.
Ha, ha, ha. So what? Illegals will still be able to cross the Channel, enter the UK, and then go on the dole. Free food and free housing.
And in their spare time (of which they’ll have plenty), they can still be able to assault native Brits with impunity.
In between bumping lines with Macron and Fred Mertz.
Their internal polling must be devastating.
Exactly.
You, Starmer, have greatly contributed to that damage. Step down.
And get all of the invaders out now.
Too late, the foxes are already in the chicken coop.
i didnt see anything about not letting them in
or removing them
sounds like window dressing
Way too little, way too late.
“Quick. Shit the barn door. All the horses have escaped.”
Exactly. Why would illegal aliens bpther with the responsibilities of citizenship. Free housing, free food, free education, free medical care, free free free. No taxes. No chance of getting drafted. No jury duty. You don’t have to obey laws. Plenty of whote girls to groom and rape. A police force that ruthlessly oppresses the native population to ensure your feelings are never hurt. An entire political apparatus to represent and lobby for you.
Y’all spout that nonsense everyday here.
Hell you say the same about this country.
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Patient vomiting blood sexually assaulted by 'groaning' nurse who snuck into cubicle
The perp got probation. Guess why. Also note that the rag is not allowing comments on the article.
“requirements surrounding their skills level and proficiency in English will be raised”
America should’ve required that decades ago.
Sadly, even 100% American children — born and bred here — aren’t proficient in English.
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