lukepiper.bsky.social
Solicitor. Head of Immigration at the Work Rights Centre. All things U.K. immigration law / policy mainly. Yorkshireman in Bristol.
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Totally agree. In practice with clients I see, since the tightening of the Skilled Worker route last year, more people have been pushed into the Graduate route. It's incredibly expensive (mega more with a family) esp. when balanced against the ever increasing risk you won't get sponsorship.
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I was trying to be a little tongue in cheek! failed.
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good analysis here from @migobs.bsky.social migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
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Bored of hearing how the British people feel about immigration/"do you think numbers will come down?" etc., debate is tainted by nonsense and our political class (including some think tanks/"thinkers") are doing too little to tell a TRUE story around immigration and instead feed the maelstrom.
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Those who do the grilling (media I guess in this context?) were / are focused on the language and messaging IMO. Policy detail is not as fun as talking about the hideous language. Becomes more about vibes and feeds into that whole "facts = opinions", which is where we are I suppose...
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I thought that initially too, then reread it this morning and I remembered why it made me uncomfortable in the first place.
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A few of us on here have been thinking about this and in particular that 2020 case: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... just saw this courtesy of @johnvassiliou.bsky.social
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Went away and re-read. Yep, I think it'll be tough especially if they have the options ramp which could help with any proportionality arguments (assuming someone can pass the initial tests).
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This is a point overlooked in the commentary on this topic in news/podcasts. It's like political pundits don't have older relatives interacting with care services!
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This is IME the majority of the work on offer. Not compatible with the skilled worker visa framework.
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Of course! We've done a fair amount of research on this issue, you can find it here: www.workrightscentre.org/publications...
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Yes it's so hard to articulate even in a thread how complex and challenging (in every sense) this issue is!
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There's something schizophrenic and broken about one part of the government using a stick to hit itself to make it change something it hasn't got a plan to pay for.
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The impotence of unions in this space is quite something. There are people trying (I've met them) but I've yet to see anything close to how unions like unison operate on other issues.
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To the extent the conclusions contradict their own evidence: bsky.app/profile/jonk...
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I think this is a key part of the discussion. The reasoning is flawed and feels like it is designed to fit the response. For example bsky.app/profile/john...
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I suppose I can see if they create a ramp for people to apply "early" based on what they've said in the White Paper, that could water down any attempts for a challenge. They're not entirely closing it off.
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I'm not sure it's that easy to say it would definitely fail. I would need to revisit that case, but my memory of it was that it was quite specific to the operation of the Ankara agreement, policy and its implementation.
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Tedious ain't it?
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Thank you David.
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Couldn't have put it better Emet-Selch. I think the Ascians would have cooked up a better plan.