“overwhelming” public support for tougher controls on family migration

[joebloggs]

The YouGov poll found that overall more than four out of five respondents backed the Government’s plans to tighten up checks on foreigners before they are allowed to join spouses and relatives in Britain.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-suggests.html

[lastlid]

I wonder when they will release the much heralded new changes on the spousal / fiancee route?

[Dedworth]

Sir Andrew Green the chairman of Migration Watch UK, the pressure group that commissioned the poll, said: “These are stunning results. They are a huge public endorsement of the proposals that the Government has put forward.”

With limp wristed tree huggers like Cable part of the Cabinet this will fall on deaf ears

[grahamw48]

4 out of 5 of those polled wouldn't know their .... from their elbow anyway...unless it had appeared on the X factor or dancing on ice.

[lastlid]

4 out of 5 of those polled wouldn't know their .... from their elbow anyway...unless it had appeared on the X factor or dancing on ice.

Well yes. That too. Quite agree.

[Arthur Little]

limp wristed tree huggers like Cable

True ... ... he's not exactly a "power" Cable!

[Dedworth]

Well yes. That too. Quite agree.

Seconded

[Dedworth]

True ... ... he's not exactly a "power" Cable!

Sooner he shorts out the better

[stevie c]

Seconded

I couldn'y agree more

[Iani]

Frankly if that guy was to announce "free beer", then he still couldn't make himself popular

[Rory]

Don't shoot me down but the minimum income of £5,500 to support a partner in any way is not enough and should be raised.
I have heard 26k mentioned and now 18k. I think 18k is enough to support a partner.

[joebloggs]

Don't shoot me down but the minimum income of £5,500 to support a partner in any way is not enough and should be raised.
I have heard 26k mentioned and now 18k. I think 18k is enough to support a partner.

there is no set minimum income, that figure was used by some immigration tribunal judges its the figure you would receive if you were on certain benefits.

[stevie c]

Don't shoot me down but the minimum income of £5,500 to support a partner in any way is not enough and should be raised.
I have heard 26k mentioned and now 18k. I think 18k is enough to support a partner.

The trouble with that Rory is what with the employment situation at the moment the employer holds all the cards & many jobs only pay the minium wage

So if some spouses are on a minium wage but paying in to the tax coffers should they really be stopped on these grounds from bringing there wife /husband to the uk I THINK NOT

[Rory]

I was thinking more to the point that 5.5k is not really enough to support yourself so how can 2 people live on that without claiming benefits?
I would have though anyone under 10k would be refused on these grounds unless they have family helping.

[grahamw48]

Especially as the Filipina spouse can get a job if she wants to anyway.

[zaxy]

im on the minimum wage and i do agree with rory that i couldnt support my wife here with my wage shame things in the uk getting harder same in every country even my gf brother had to leave phillippines to dhubai to get a better paid job to support his wife and baby.

[andy222]

This is not about our phil partners its about packistanis and indians and the likes its just that we will suffer.

[tone]

I dont think 18k is enough personally - depends on what sort of housing you have I guess?
I think filipina's can be expensive to maintain - but then my ex-wife (indian) was damn expensive!

[grahamw48]

Are they assuming in this day and age that the wife will be sitting at home Crocheting ?

My ex found a job within a week or two of arriving in England and always worked after that.
She'd have been bored silly otherwise.

[tone]

We have a child due in August mate so diff for Rina to get a job now, but as I work from home its not such a big issue for her.
Once the baby is 6 months we will get her some part time work because I think she will need it by then!!

[joebloggs]

you could be on 60k, 100k a year and having nothing left each month, just to base it on earning is , what if you are on 18k a year, have no debts or mortgage and have savings?, one thing over the years for me and the misses is kinda true, is the line by puffy daddy from one of his songs -'more money, more problems' and no you cant have what little money we have

why shouldn't a Brit who is on the minimum wage not have the right to bring his wife here and claim any benefits that he is entitled to as a BRITISH CITIZEN becuase he has married a non european, yet a NON BRITISH EUROPEAN living in the UK has the right to claim benefits for himself if he has married a NON European citizen, its just

[grahamw48]

Exactly my point Joe.

Lots of supposedly well-off people are up to their eyes in debt...more than likely parked out the front of their second-mortgaged house.

It's what you have left to spend or save for a rainy day (or hols in the Phils) that counts.

[joebloggs]

and they should take account of the wifes possible earnings, i'm spending the misses money on holiday now , thou i'm sat in my sister in-laws aircon bedroom, very nice house she has

[grahamw48]

Absolutely.

Most of the Filipinas I know here have full-time jobs....unless on maternity leave, and damned good workers they are too.