THE UK’S POINTS-BASED IMMIGRATION SYSTEM FURTHER DETAILS

In his ‘A Plan for Jobs’, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, set out at the very start of the Introduction the damage done by the Covid-19 pandemic, including the economic consequences of it. He stressed the Government’s actions to help people – not least the furlough scheme where the Government ‘has helped employers pay the wages of 9 million employees across the UK’.

To support the expected economic recovery, the Government is to focus on a ‘Job Retention Bonus’, ‘supporting jobs’, ‘protecting jobs’ and ‘creating jobs’ with various schemes and subsidies.

Despite the expected surge in unemployment as the Government runs out of the money to fund the furlough scheme (some estimates are that the unemployment total could reach in excess of 3 million), nowhere in the document is the word ‘immigration’ even mentioned. Nor is there any mention of Hong Kong and the commitment to bring up to 3.5 million Hong Kongers to the UK (see Hong Kong UK). Given current immigration levels and assuming the Hong Kongers move to the UK over a 5-year period, then this totals around 7 million immigrants, with illegal immigrants on top.

Yet, there are no monies set aside by the Government for the houses, roads, schools, sewers, hospitals, railways etc to cope with this immigration.

The Office for Budget Responsibility yesterday forecast that government borrowing could reach £370 billion in 2020. The UK economy grew by a puny 1.8% in May, after a fall of 24.5% in the previous three months.

Meanwhile, the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, popped up with her ‘The UK’s Points-Based Immigration System: Further Details’ document. Patel’s document does refer to the Covid-9 pandemic once – regarding foreign students. The document makes no mention of the scale of the Covid-19 depression, nor of the looming rise in unemployment. Nor is there any mention of how continued mass immigration is to be funded.

Hong Kong does get a mention (italics my own emphasis): ‘We have a historic and moral obligation to British Nationals (Overseas) in Hong Kong who elected to retain their ties to the UK, and we will honour our commitment to them. We will introduce a new immigration route for British Nationals (Overseas) and their immediate family dependents who are usually resident in Hong Kong, allowing them to live and work in the UK and providing a pathway to citizenship.’ One consequence of this is that the policy is to be extended to ‘family dependents’ ‘usually’ resident in Hong Kong and not just those with or entitled to British National Overseas passports. There are a total of 7.5 million Hong Kongers. The commitment regarding Hong Kong immigration is unquantified.

Nowhere in Patel’s document is there any acknowledgement of the need to end mass immigration, nor even reduce it. There is no recognition of the Covid-19 depression, nor of the financial crisis, nor of the looming unemployment prospect facing millions of British people.

Patel’s document has been drawn up without taking any account of reality and with the intention of legitimising mass immigration and increasing it, irrespective of the interests and views of the British nation, and irrespective of the impact on the houses, roads, schools, sewers, hospitals, railways etc.

To give a few examples of the betrayal:

The Introduction announces: ‘The Points-Based System will be a fair system, because we will treat people from every part of the world equally. It will also reflect the careful consideration being given to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review produced by Wendy Williams.’ Having drawn the Windrush saga into things, the document continues: ‘We are determined to right the wrongs experienced by the Windrush generation. That is why we established the Windrush Compensation Scheme, and recently launched the Windrush Cross-Government Working Group, to continue to support those affected. The Home Secretary has accepted all the findings of the Wendy Williams Windrush Lessons Learned Review. We will be updating Parliament on how we will implement the recommendations.’ This is the start of the new immigration policy document.

The document states (italics my own emphasis): ‘We will suspend the current cap on Tier 2 (General) visas (the current route for skilled workers), which will result in there being no limit on the numbers of skilled workers who can come to the UK. This change alone will reduce the end-to-end process for sponsoring skilled workers by up to four weeks, demonstrating the Government’s commitment to simplifying the immigration system for employers.’

The document states: ‘Employers must pay £1,000 per skilled worker for the first 12 months, with an additional £500 charge for each subsequent six-month period. Under the Points-Based System we will apply the ISC [Immigration Skills Charge] to sponsoring employers in respect of both EU and non-EU migrant workers. Discounted rates of £364 per sponsored worker per year will apply as they do now to charities and Small and Medium Enterprises.’ These figures might provide the Government with some petty cash, compared to the size of the deficit, but come nowhere near meeting even a tiny fraction of the costs for the impact on the houses, roads, schools, sewers, hospitals, railways etc, or of compensating the British for the lower wages that they will suffer.

For ‘those who are eligible to apply for the Health and Care Visa, and their dependents’ ‘there will be fast-track entry, with reduced application fees and dedicated support regarding the application process’.

The document states: ‘The UK wants to attract the very best and brightest talent from around the world. On 20 February 2020 we launched the Global Talent route, under the current system for non-EU citizens, to improve the UK’s attractiveness to highly skilled individuals with specialist skills.’ A responsible government would be determined to make British people the ‘very best and brightest’ in the world.

The document states (italics my own emphasis): ‘There will be no limit on the number of international students who can come to the UK to study, and we will seek to increase the number of international students in higher education … We also want to ensure that we retain the brightest and the best students to continue to contribute to the UK post-study, which is why we are launching the Graduate route in Summer 2021 to allow those who have completed a degree at a UK Higher Education Provider, that has a track record of compliance, to stay in the UK for two years (three years for PhD graduates) and work at any skill level, and to switch into work routes if they find a suitable job.’

The document states (italics my own emphasis): ‘There are two dedicated routes for religious institutions who wish to recruit from overseas. Ministers of Religion is a longer-term visa for those playing a leading role as faith leaders, leading congregations and preaching the essentials of the creed. Religious Worker is a temporary, short-term visa, providing for those undertaking non-pastoral roles, supporting the activities of religious institutions … Who can apply? Individuals of all nationalities who wish to play leading roles as either faith leaders (longer-term), or religious workers (temporary) filling short-term non-pastoral placements in a religious institution.’

The document states (italics my own emphasis): ‘The UK Ancestry route allows Commonwealth citizens with a UK-born grandparent to come and live and work in the UK. The migrant will be able to come to the UK for five years and do any kind of work (including self-employment), at any skill level. Holders can apply to settle permanently in the UK after five years’ continuous residence … Applicants must be Commonwealth citizens and be able to prove that one of their grandparents was born in the UK or Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, or the Isle of Man).’ Also: ‘UK Ancestry visas are valid for five years, at the end of which holders can apply to settle permanently in the UK or extend their visa for a further five years. English language is not required for an initial visa, but applicants must meet an English language requirement and pass the ‘Life in the UK’ test to qualify for settlement.’

There are very many pages in the Appendices of a list of occupations that immigrants can come to the UK to do. To cite some typical examples:

  • Collector salespersons and credit agents, including: Agent (insurance), Canvasser, Collector (insurance), Distributor (door-to-door sales), Insurance agent.
  • Debt, rent and other cash collectors, including: Collecting agent, Collector (gas supplier), Debt collector, Meter reader, Vending operator.
  • Market and street traders and assistants, including: Market assistant, Market trader, Owner (market stall), Stall holder, Street trader.
  • Beauticians and related occupations, including: Beautician Beauty therapist, Nail technician, Tattooist.
  • Market research interviewers, including: Interviewer (market research), Market researcher (interviewing), Telephone interviewer, Telephone researcher, Traffic enumerator.

It would seem that there no occupation that is not deemed suitable for immigrants.

The Tory Government’s proposed immigration policy is to flood the UK with Third World immigrants. They intend to turn the English into being a minority in England as quickly as possible no matter what. Ponzi economics will provide the funding.