Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party and a Plan to Reverse the Migrant Invasion

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party now leads both the Labour and Conservative parties by 12%. This is almost entirely due to its harder stance on immigration, both legal and illegal, and by “immigration,” everyone understands this to mean Muslim immigration. Now his policy director Zia Yusuf has released a paper outlining the party’s plan to greatly reduce not just future immigration, but to deport hundreds of thousands of people already in the UK. More on this plan can be found here.

…Overall, the Boriswave allowed 3.8 million new people into the country on long term visas (96 per cent to non-EU nationals), of which two million are on the path to ILR. The Boriswave will start to be eligible for ILR from Jan 1 2026. Estimates suggest that at least 800,000 of these individuals will be granted ILR under current rules at a total lifetime cost to the British taxpayer (likely underestimated) of £234bn. That’s four times our entire defence budget, double our education budget, and 12 times our Police budget.

Our solution to this problem is to abolish ILR completely. That means no new awards and those who currently hold it will have it rescinded. We will replace it with a five-year renewable work visa, with a vastly higher qualifying salary, much reduced ability to bring dependents and a much higher required standard of English. Crucially, this visa will give holders no access to welfare.

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These changes will lead to hundreds of thousands of people having to apply and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK, which will be done on a staggered and orderly basis to allow businesses to train British workers to replace them. Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits. Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme – Operation Restoring Justice.

We will also increase the qualifying period to become a UK citizen to seven years. A British passport is a privilege, and will no longer be given away cheaply.

We will introduce an Acute Skills Shortage Visa (ASSV), to be issued in extremely limited numbers, and only when there is clear evidence of acute shortages in national-critical roles. Each ASSV will carry a one-for-one training guarantee: for every visa issued, the sponsoring employer must fund, via a levy, a commensurate training programme to produce a UK worker for that occupation, ensuring that temporary reliance on overseas labour directly builds long-term domestic capacity.

We are putting business on notice: the era of cheap foreign labour is over. We will end bogus sponsors and the ridiculously low salary thresholds. There are millions of Brits currently not in work, it’s time we got them to work and stopped our young people from having to compete with infinite migrants.

The result of these changes by a Reform government will be savings to the UK taxpayer well in excess of £230bn. UK welfare will be accessible only to UK citizens. British workers will enjoy priority access to the UK job market. Our borders will be secure. We will once again be a sovereign nation.

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That’s what Prime Minister Nigel Farage will deliver. He will stop the Boriswave. He will put British people first. He will unleash the full potential of our great nation.

Note that the word “Muslim” is never mentioned. But it doesn’t have to be. Everyone knows what the immigrant problem is, though only Tommy Robinson has been forthright about it.  The Reform Party plan is the first by a major party to insist that legal migrants, too, can have their status stripped from them. It is the first plan that abolishes the Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) policy, and will end all welfare payments and housing allowances for many foreign nationals, leading many of them, once they lose their access to benefits, to leave voluntarily. Those that don’t leave voluntarily will be deported under the mass deportation program of “Operation Restoring Justice.” The plan also increases the qualifying time needed to apply for British citizenship from five to seven years, and with much stricter standards for that citizenship to be granted.  Under the Reform Party plan, hundreds of thousands of legal migrants already in Great Britain under the Indefinite Leave to Remain will now be deported. The plan is estimated to save British taxpayers 234 billion pounds.

Such a bold plan will have great appeal to the British electorate, now anxious and alarmed at the consequences of the mass Muslim presence in the country. This plan will force the Conservative Party to come up with similar proposals, lest it lose the next election to the Reform Party. Much good will come of this.