Doubling amount husbands must earn to £26,000 would block two thirds immigrant brides

[lastlid]

Extract :

"The Migration Advisory Committee did the sums and announced this morning that the salary would need to be somewhere between £18,700 and £25,700. It will almost certainly be accepted and implemented. That means half the working population of Britain are about to lose the right to fall in love with someone overseas and bring them home to live together. Only the rich can fall in love on holiday. Only the rich are allowed to live with the person they love. The poor must be apart, or leave their own country."

[gWaPito]

Extract :

"The Migration Advisory Committee did the sums and announced this morning that the salary would need to be somewhere between £18,700 and £25,700. It will almost certainly be accepted and implemented. That means half the working population of Britain are about to lose the right to fall in love with someone overseas and bring them home to live together. Only the rich can fall in love on holiday. Only the rich are allowed to live with the person they love. The poor must be apart, or leave their own country."

I would hardly call someone earning (not bringing home) between 18.5 k and 25.5 k rich.

Even the goverment don't, to the extent of subsiding that income In working tax credit up to the tune of 11.5 k per year if you got 3 kids. Happy days ahh...for some.

I don't know what the complaining is all about, if you don't earn enough to look after yourself without any sort of benefits, how on earth are you going to look after your wife and kids, not without recourse to public funds.

The fact is, those non English speaking Europeans are now our new brothers and sisters....diddly squat we can do about it. That is unfair.