Fraih:
Hello fam. Pls what do you think of opting out of pension plans in the workplace here?

ReesheesuKnack:
They have started…
Before Elections: Our plans are fully costed and will not require any tax rises. We have looked at the books and our plans are fully, fully costed.

After Elections: Uhmm… sorry. We may have to raise your taxes because the past government left too much black hole.

Wait a minute, the UK is not Nigeria. The OBR already gave you precise figures. You ran your voice hoarse during the campaigns that you have it all figured out. Now you are in government…
“E be like say dem wan to tell us another story again..”

It remains to be seen how long they will continue to lie and blame ‘16 years of the PDP’ oh sorry… 14 years of the Conservatives.

Like I said before… Like UK Labour, like Nigeria APC. Just capitalise on people’s discontent with the governing party. Lie your way to power. Realise that there is only so much lies you can keep doling out…. Then blame ‘past administrations’.

jagbasneh:
Good morning guys, please i want to ask this question, someone inside with three years sponsorship under nursery assistant and want to renew is visa, is the new salary threshold applicable to him when he want to renew his visa? Any one on this pls

Lexusgs430:


Some of us are very worried about inheritance and capital gains tax ..........😞

You see so, Labour go show some of us shege........🤣😂

personal0:
I got an offer with University of Dundee. Please can anyone assist with update about the school. Is the school good? How is the tuition payment plan? Does the city have student job opportunities?

kwakudtraveller:

On the contrary, America is not a Christian country as The First Amendment specifically prohibits the government from favouring one religion. Also the Founders' had mixed beliefs. Some founders were Christian, while others held different beliefs.

https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/first-amendment-and-religion

Zahra29:


It may not feel like that to you. But many others, including the last PM of the UK and Badenoch who is a 1st gen Nigerian immigrant, would beg to differ.

justwise:


No you win election on policies unless you are suggesting that racism, homophobia and immigration fearmongering are all part of policies

budaatum:


"Liberalism or advances in thought are not always guaranteed to change" anything.

Education, however, the sort of education that promotes the development and use of the mind to think and reason, does change a lot "the underlying nature of the human being" or at least that of most who are successfully educated, and the British do educate their young well.

Still, 2029 soon come. Well see then if we are as ignorant as electing Reform would suggest we are or if we've overcome the xenophobia that made us leave Europe.


Britain is not France, and the UK education system is class and it is location and it is how knowledgeable one is to know to chose it and definitely not egalitarian at all. You will however learn history whatever school you go, and be shown the ignorance of past racism and the predominant preferred attitude today.

You'd even be asked to sign up to antidiscrimination laws if you wanna work, and nothing makes people align better than hitting money in their pockets.

The closest Britain would get to Trump is Boris, I reckon.

justwise:


That will not win you an election like i said before, the world is moving on faster than those two old lunatics.

You can't win by turning people against each other.

Zahra29:


The same could be said about Jenrick 😂

It'll be an interesting one. I suspect Tugendhant will win the parliamentary vote as the unite candidate but I don't see the membership voting for him.

budaatum:


You are indeed free to think what you want, but having to learn maths and science and critical reasoning till 16 does make the brain work better I think, unsarcastically.

If Nigeria had a similar homegrown version, we'd stand in much more brotherhood as races and tribes as we currently stand in fact. Likely why Tinubu has made us repeat and learn the past.

Anecdote. My sister in Bradford moved in next to a Pakistani family and went say hello. They invited her in, made her tea, told her who they were and how pleased they were she was their neighbour, the previous ones were a-holes.

Told her good secondhand furniture is at British Heart Foundation and if she needs handiwork done they know good people. Few weeks later she had to come London, "oh, we'll keep eye on the place for you".

Yesterday she said she visited and asked if they knew any employment agencies in UK. "What? You looking for work?". Father called a company he knew was opening and asked if they needed an accountant. Daughter rang her agency and introduced,"she's dedicated and hard working". Brother said cloths shop if she looking for just weekend.

My sister said she was in shock, making me laugh at her suprise at reaping the goodness and mercy she sows.

Gerrard59:


There are lots of lovey-dovey folks across the world. People who expect the world to work the way they think it should, rather than what it actually is. Humans will protect their interests before their rights. Northern Nigeria's Christians lobbied hard to include Nigeria on the list of prosecuted religious persons, rightfully so. To date, the church in the southern part hasn't assisted their northern counterparts. Rather, White evangelical clerics are the ones funding the rebuilding of churches and paying tuition fees of children orphaned by the continuous destruction of farmlands, churches and communities across Northern Nigeria. Tomorrow, when Christians from those areas lend their support to Trump, Ikoyi and Lekki Democrats, aka WomenCanBecomeMenAdvocates will accuse them of ignorance. Ask these folks when was the last time they donated to their fellow Nigerians and blacks, since na dem sabi race theory pass, who are slaughtered based on their faith?

budaatum:


You funny.

By 2029, more children who have gone through the British liberal education system, where they would have sat in class with multiraced people and learnt together to think and reason critically and about each other and all gods will be old enough to vote.

They are not going to vote en masse for a hate your neighbour party when the opposite is their DNA, especially not when the King is The Defender of Faiths.

Zahra29:


💯

Reform came a close second in about 13 or so Labour seats and this GE has shown that voters are increasingly fickle, fewer life long partisan voters. If Labour does not demonstrate real progress in the pressing issues they might quickly lose support. It's also very important what happens with the Tory leadership contest - will they pivot left with Tugendhant or seek to win back Reform defectors with the likes of Patel/Braverman/Jenrick....

justwise:


Yes thanks to conservative party, not because Reform has any good policy to run on apart from immigration, racism and homophobia , those three things will not win you an election it can only breed hatred.

Yes Labour has a mountain to climb but every little step will be seen as an improvement compare to the mess conservative govt left behind.

Farage has no good record politically, he is a tainted individual just like Trump.

justwise:


That part of your post is really interesting but an open secret , Their core policy is to make America/UK white again, but its too late, max 4yrs Trump will be either in prison or home out of public view. Next general election will expose Farage and his party, his chances of doing what Trump is currently doing in America is very slim here

jedisco:


I'm unsure if this has been answered but working on a banded role within the NHS (i.e being eligible for Healtha and care visa) exempts you from the 37.8k treshold. Your treshold is realistically based on the going rate for your band which is what your Trust would offer you eitherway.

The link below from NHS employers explains it well with good examples.

https://www.nhsemployers.org/articles/impacts-changes-uk-immigration-policy

kumbhuru:

Was interested in you

muzzling17:
Hello guys,

Please I recently started shooting at NHS from Nigeria. But I see some band 6 role with salary between 35-42k. Knowing the recent migration rule of 37,800. My friend said for new entrant like me I will be placed on the lower band and this does not qualify to get COS. I am in the tech space with over 3 years experience.

Please is this true?. Should I just focus on Band 7 roles or higher paying role whose minimum band qualify for the new rule.

dustydee:

I believe missjekyll is single. Shoot her a dm and carry on from there. Best of luck and happy married life in advance.

makazona:


This is vawulence nah

Oyster card for what exactly, if I may ask.

Zahra29:
In other expat news, anyone who is dreaming about the low tax, cheap and accessible healthcare paradise that is the US, needs to get a move on as after last night's debate, it's looking more likely to be Trump 2.0 come November - and he's promised that the sequel will be even more shocking.

I'm more sure why the Dems were not more concerned about Biden's age before last night as he has appeared increasingly frail and this doesnt inspire voter confidence in a nation where optics and image matter so much.

Zahra29:


I would say that governments like Italy, Hungary and the hopeful French contender, Le Pen, are right wing governments, but it's a subjective point in any case.

I do agree that this government has been too dependent for too long on cheap foreign labour. I've been saying that this model isn't sustainable, and I welcome Labour's pledge to prioritise training, mobilisation and retaining of the domestic workforce and hopefully stop the over-reliance on foreign labour. "Over reliance" being the operative word.

Zahra29:


And yet, despite the wealth of supporting evidence, the government is still being labelled rightwing, anti-immigrant for implementing policies to curb the wide spread abuse....imagine if they had acted before the exposés by the DM, Telegraph and Sky (who started reporting on the care visa abuse mainly last year).

Zahra29:


Visa fees go to the Home Office mainly and they make enough profit from other skilled worker visas, family visas, visiting visa applications etc.

My point is I don't think they're so strapped for cash or short sighted that they would endorse tens of thousands of fraudulent visa applications that they know have no valid employment attached.

toughest007:


That mostly happens where one has a second job and didn't notify HMRC, thereby incorrect tax deductions are made due to wrong tax code. Not only would the brown envelope be debt, but penalty fees may be required or added and/or even face prosecution for tax evasion. You go explain taya!

Zahra29:


Visa fee of less than £1000? No IHS fees. No taxes in many cases , with access to NHS, schools etc. Wouldn't that quickly become a deficit for the government?

Resurgent2016:


It's not untrue generalisation. As you rightly mentioned, many of the client facing roles are brits dominated. They are typically less stressful than the backend roles, more flexible and there is a big advantage there being local

Backend roles requiring more grit, resilience and spine, the young brits are not much interested

An example - the average pay of train drivers in £60k, some even earning over £100k a year. Yet the train companies can't find enough young recruits to take up the role and the average age of train drivers is 50 years old.

Even if the train companies increase pay by 20%, I can bet you they will still struggle to find young brits willing to take the job.

You would hear them moan about the condition of the job as though those that did it years back had a better condition of service.

Even the[b] junior doctors with average salary of 50K[/b] and two recent pay rise have stuck to a demand of 35% pay rise. Their more senior colleagues settled for what the government gave them and have moved on.

It's an inconvenient truth that the political parties would rather sweep under the carpet.

Salary is not the only the motivation to hire immigrants or people with immigrant background. Young brits are spoilt silly. and by immigrant, even people from other european countries tend to display more willingness to do the hard and dirty jobs than brits

Any business that has long and demanding role will go bust if they only can hire brits, I can bet that one

danny34:



By October 1, I am transitioning to a full time role.

So, I am asking based on the full time role. I am only able to do 20 hours now because of my visa requirement.

So since the role in the health and care sector, can I be sponsored on the threshold 24 - 27k? Can at least wify join as dependant?

Zahra29:


He's never even managed to be elected as an MP despite 6 attempts I think, so I think his first goal is just to get a seat in parliament and enough Reform MPs to be the main opposition, and then his next ambition would be to become PM[b][/b]. He said as much in his speech when he announced he would be running

Zahra29:


No chance...although they are cutting into some of Labour's voter share.

Besides Nigel doesn't really want to overtake Labour. He wants power without the responsibility of governance (at least for now)