Some people trade oil with russia, while others lose their children every single day 😭 Does money not smell of Ukrainian blood? A father screams in agony beside the body of his dead daughter. Two 15-year-old girls were killed in today’s russian strike on Chernihiv 😭 #Ukraine #War #Chernihiv

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I'd also note there is absolutely *zero* political cost, and both economic and political upsides, to simply not applying any changes retrospectively! The Times, Tories and the whole spectrum of xenophobes/racists in commentariat/media will cry betrayal anyway. Why try, and fail, to appease them?

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It would be unfair + simply mad to force out architects in Scotland and greater Manchester while protecting only care work. There is a simple fix to this - if government notices + has will to do it (eg: do not apply 2030 threshold hikes to those already on settlement routes) bsky.app/profile/heri...

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There is no policy logic at all to the specific care worker exemption/carve out if the policy was due to scale of inflow and (exaggerated) fiscal pressure (as that is largest group, with lower earnimga) It is simply that the political coalition of unions, MPs made the proposals unviable politically

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As @sundersays.bsky.social points out here the end result is a set of proposals that are less damaging but even *more* confused/incoherent/arbitrary than the original ones. bsky.app/profile/sund...

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