Simon Cox
migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social | trustee Right To Remain | ex-OSF | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
- To understand Britain’s immigration system, if you’re caught in it, helping those who are, or just to learn more - use Right to Remain’s Toolkit: righttoremain.org.uk/toolkit/ Written for regular people by legal experts at @right-to-remain.bsky.social
- Solidarity with those people in UK who today feel more scared about whether they will get asylum; or their loved ones might be deported for minor offences, or their family will never get a visa, even to visit. These are only proposals for now and their effects aren’t clear yet. But scary still.
- Care sector depends on foreign workers because pay is low for challenging work. Biggest paymaster is the public sector. So raising wages doesn’t depend on immigration rules. It depends on raising taxes. Changing immigration rules without doing that is, at best, cosmetic.
- Announcing plans to do what you’re already doing may sound like you’re doing something. But but the loudest signal from the endless repetition of immigration policy announcements is that YOURS DON’T WORK. So you’re just legitimising your opponents as the people with solutions.
