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Badenoch was born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke at a private hospital in Wimbledon in 1980. Her mother travelled to the UK to give birth which gave Badenoch automatic British citizenship, a policy which was abolished the following year. Soon after the birth, mother, father and daughter returned to Lagos, Nigeria, where the family was based.
She can go eff herself.
"I'm alright jack, pull the ladder up!"
https://lemmy.world/post/24264324?scrollToComments=true
before the British Nationality Act 1981 abolished automatic birthright citizenship
She was born in 1980. One year later and she wouldn't even be a fucking citizen herself.
Fucking hypocrite uncle tom
She said she wanted people to integrate better. Now she says she will make it harder to integrate. She is not a serious person.
It's not even about reducing migration, just making a nightmare even more of a nightmare, punishing those who come in legally.
I'm not saying it's justifiable to come in illegally, but it is one of the more viable methods of migrating here
The Conservatives say the period before someone can apply for ILR should be extended from five to 10 years.
That's ridiculous. As it stands, you have to have a job with a 30k+ income and live in the UK in that job for 5 years for ILR. Unless you're married (Which by the way, as it stands, the rules in my opinion on making it difficult for British people to bring their spouses into the UK violates human rights, you shouldn't have to have such a high income for a right to have your family in your home country) in which you still must wait 5 years.
She has said there should be a hard cap on migration but declined to say what the cap should be, arguing it would depend on the situation at any given time.
If there's a large amount of high quality immigrants coming in who are contributors, then what's the issue. The strain on public services is the fault of policy elsewhere, not on migrants. If they're bringing in money, then the money should be used to improve services for everyone.
I don't agree that we should change the rules. However what she's suggesting would be to put us in line (albeit towards the long end) of some other European countries. Off the top of my head I think Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Greece, Denmark all have equally long timeframes. And I imagine she's pitched this like that to quickly deflect any arguments away about the UK being unfair.
I still think it's the wrong the to do and don't actually believe anything will change here. The Home Office is one of the most incompetent departments so I'd be surprised if they could even process existing applications within ten years let alone extend the waiting period to apply to ten years.
The strain on families already existing is definitely not okay, and I don't know why more people aren't talking about it.
Good thing she's nowhere near the levers of power. She's as unfit to hold office as Farage.
Hope it stays that way and that labour are seen as doing an actual decent job