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cosmolinguist) wrote2021-04-29 06:55 pm
cosmolinguist) wrote2021-04-29 06:55 pm
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[119/365] fuck NRPF
No Recourse to Public Funds was the bane of my immigrant existence, it meant my first years in the UK were just panic attacks, bailiffs and empty cupboards.
It actually got me into party politics after a Lib Dem councilor helped us when even the council didn't itself didn't understand why we weren't either paying council tax or getting council tax benefit. Ten years later, I ended up convincing the Lib Dems (well, I was the speech-giving figurehead of a group effort) to make it our policy to scrap NRPF completely.
I made the argument that it's ableist but there's plenty of other arguments against it. Another argument won today: it endangers children.
Fuck NRPF. I really hope the Home Office actually get rid of it this time (it's the second NRPF case they've lost in the last twelve months (here's some details on the first)) but I bet they'll just tweak it again.
Exempting immigrants with children, which is what I suspect will happen, wouldn't have helped me but it'd still be a big win because it'd end so much needless suffering that's happening now.
It actually got me into party politics after a Lib Dem councilor helped us when even the council didn't itself didn't understand why we weren't either paying council tax or getting council tax benefit. Ten years later, I ended up convincing the Lib Dems (well, I was the speech-giving figurehead of a group effort) to make it our policy to scrap NRPF completely.
I made the argument that it's ableist but there's plenty of other arguments against it. Another argument won today: it endangers children.
Fuck NRPF. I really hope the Home Office actually get rid of it this time (it's the second NRPF case they've lost in the last twelve months (here's some details on the first)) but I bet they'll just tweak it again.
Exempting immigrants with children, which is what I suspect will happen, wouldn't have helped me but it'd still be a big win because it'd end so much needless suffering that's happening now.