Wait, what? You're desperately worried about integration and then the first policy you come out with is to make citizenship, which has long been seen as a key element of integration, more difficult? Even leaving aside the administrative nightmare you'd probably create, that's odd - to say the least.
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Justify that, Badenoch!
Inflexible rules like that are silly. Judge each case on its merits.
But then you'd have to hire more civil servants
In fact, the immigrants are the much-vaunted “British taxpayer” that cover Brits on the dole.
Money wins every time. It's how they're so popular.
Also, demonstrably thick. Again.
Meanwhile the Lib Dems and Greens, the only parties with sensible policies and ideas, languish on the sidelines.
Nothing, but nothing, works in this country. Our politics is an utter mess.
It's a Badenoch thing
So this is for those who’ve been granted the right to stay - banned from any resident status.
One group who can always claim benefits are Irish citizens, so if they make a claim and then apply for UK citizenship Kemi wants to deny them.
When I thought they would not go that low … they fucking do.
We used to call it colonisation and slavery.
Scroll forward one year:
"Crisis in our care homes!"
"Why can I never get an Uber when I need one?"
"What has happened to service in restaurants?"
"Why are vegetables rotting in our fields?"
and so on.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-september-2024