The most dishonest form of argument in this whole debate is to conflate criticism of the level of immigration with blaming immigrants. The level of immigration is a political choice and you shouldn't… (View Post)

Having immigration in the hundreds of thousands imposes significant economic costs on other people too. If you wanted a grown up debate, you wouldn't make emotive comments about people lying in their… (View Post)

Questions which are fundamentally about competing economic interests cannot be resolved by having "grown up conversations". Maxxing out immigration in an attempt to avoid trade offs is irre… (View Post)

It’s not a conspiracy theory that the Home Office employs at least some people who are ideologically committed to facilitating immigration. (View Post)

The idea that this constitutes making the changes retrospective needs to be challenged. Nobody has a right to ILR and it's not breaking any contract to extend the eligibility period. (View Post)