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Mandy Orchard's avatar

Reform are despicable and it is a huge concern that they have such a dominant media presence giving them a platform for performance politics of the lowest form.

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Tim Dumble's avatar

Exploiting vulnerable children it’s what Reform do- trafficked or groomed by gangs. The British people are better than this.

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Mike's avatar

Thanks Bear, I’d heard this elsewhere, but without the specifics. I’m so tired of Dogwhistle Politics from the Right, they need strong handling, and with the right information (as contained in your post) I can sort out those around me who are that way inclined.

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scamperkitty's avatar

Excellent investigative skills, Bear. Another informative piece righting a wrong and the nastiness of Fascist smears. I always look forward to your blogs.

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Darren's avatar

I'm from Dover and still live in Kent. It's astonishing how many people claim they are happy to support vulnerable people, but "they're all fighting age young men". Children and women dying in the channel are immediately forgotten. Then they get angry about UASCs. It's almost as if they're full of hatred, which is being recklessly inflamed by Reform Ltd.

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Malcolm Kershaw's avatar

Given that the costs are born by the home office and the home office charges £1035 pretty in country spouse visa application (£1560 for out of country spouse visa applications), with the actual cost of these applications being about £400, it is those applying for spouse visas, not the tax payer or even the home office , who are actually paying for these TV licences.

The cost of such licences stated is your article would easily be covered by TWO spouse visa applications (irrespective of the application outcome).

So yet again not only are Reform creating an ill informed claim about charges for asylum TV liceslnce clharges, they are neglecting the fact that it is regular migrants who are actually paying said costs. In fact with the home office making approx £650 profit per application and their being approx 10,000 such applications per year, that means that the spouse visa applicants are generating £6.5m for the home officewhich is then used to pay for the services the home office covers. This is only the smaller portion of the regular visa applications, with the larger portions being work and student visas applications, which carry higher fees but similar costs.

This is clearly another example of Reform's anti immigration triple B (Bulshit Baffles Brains) rhetoric.

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Kane Clements's avatar

Reform take fragments of information, repackage it in a wrapper that reflects their prejudices and then firer it into the overflowing cess pit that constitutes their membership.

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Jane's avatar

We need a website dedicated to exposing their lies

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SueGenevanana's avatar

Lies, lies, lies - it works in the US. STOP it in the UK.

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Blucey's avatar

👏👏👏

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Andrew Brunt's avatar

We will see what they do where they are in control in particular in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire where a Councillor has already called looked after children ‘evil’. They can’t breach their statutory duties but will fall back on such lies, avoid any scrutiny, they are already cancelling council meetings, and refuse to account for their actions. I am glad I am not a SW or an officer in those LAs.

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