Reform Road, Chatham, where even local migrants are backing Nigel Farage’s party | Politics | News
Reform UK has won the support of immigrants in a UK town despite plans for mass deportations and the abolition of indefinite leave to remain. Nigel Farage’s team continues to top the polls, ahead of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Farage launches Reform mass deportation policy in August. We would see illegal immigrants being detained and sent back to their countries of origin. On Reform Road in Chatham, Kent, an immigrant who came to the UK from Lithuania to study and has made home here ever since, said he would still vote for them despite Reform’s stance.
Natalija Vasiluna, 24, said: Daily Mail If there were an early general election he would “definitely” vote for Reform. He said: “I know I’m being a hypocrite when I say this is an immigrant, but the only way to make this country safe is to control immigration.”
Ms Vasiluna told the publication that she had seen hotels in the London area where she worked being “packed” with migrants sent by the council, some of whom she said were fine, but others would trash the rooms.
The mother-of-one said she and her husband were not seeking help and would apply for British citizenship, adding: “The UK must start putting the British people first.”
Reform UK alongside mass deportation plans ban on aid to immigrants As part of efforts to subvert Britain rising welfare bill. He also promised to remove the two-child benefit limit in a bid to appeal to Labor voters.
Reform also announced that it would do this Removing the right of immigrants to qualify for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and forces immigrants applying for UK citizenship to give up other citizenships.
Agata Suleiman, who is originally from Poland, said Reform had “some good ideas” and that Mr Farage had “fought hard” but the team had taken the ideas to “extremes”.
He said that if you do not work in Poland you will receive a benefit that expires after six months. Ms Suleiman said Britain needed to be “tougher”.
In the UK, foreign nationals usually have to wait five years to claim universal credit, but the Labor Government plans to extend this period to 10 years.
Ministers insist they inherited a broken benefits system and a spiraling welfare bill, which is why they are reforming the system. The rate of universal credit payments to foreign nationals has fallen since last July.
Reformation’s claim that it could save £234bn over several decades as a result of the immigration plan has been criticized by Labor and the Liberal Democrats; Chancellor Rachel Reeves described the organisation’s plans as “simple gimmickry” with “no basis in reality”.
Conservatives blame Reform England copy their ideas with permission to stay indefinitely, but in “half-baked” and “unemployable” ways.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said last month: “Mass low-skilled migration carries real financial costs in housing, welfare and public services, so Britain needs a system that rewards contribution and stops exploitation.”
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Reform’s plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain for immigrants could lead to another Windrush scandal, adding that Mr Farage had not fully thought through Reform’s policy.
Chatham native Philip Josephs, whose father was part of the Windrush generation, said Reformation was a bunch of dog-whistling opportunists and was apparently full of Tory defectors. He added: “They are a serious threat to the country.”
