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In an article published by Digital Catalán Ara.cat On September 22, 2025, the journalist Quim Aranda analyzes the latest statements of the Ultra -rightist Nigel Farage, Party leader Reform UK, who He has proposed to suppress the right of permanent residence to foreigners in the United Kingdom.
According to the author, this measure It is not an isolated fact, but one more piece in Farage’s systematic strategy to criminalize immigration, even the legal one, and turn it into the backbone of its political agenda.
In accordance with what is expressed by Aranda, Farage has become hate abroad in the fuel of his political ambition. On this occasion, the British leader has gone beyond his usual xenophobic rhetoric by proposing to eliminate the “indefinite leave to remain” —That is the legal status that it grants permanent residenceE— and replace it with A five -year work visasubject to draconian restrictions: Greater salary threshold, veto to family regrouping, clean criminal record and a reinforced English test.
The author points out that Farage’s intention is to eliminate what he calls the “Boriswave”, referring to the 3.8 million people who arrived in the United Kingdom after Brexit Under more flexible standards.
What is paradoxical, as exposes Arandathe thing is This migratory flow was largely possible by the same divorce process with the European Union that Farage himself promoted. However, the leader of Reform UK Now he presents those migrants as threat and economic load, qualifying them from “Young people with low qualification” They will end up depending on the State.
According to the article, Farage not only seeks to block access to ILR for newcomersbut insinuates his intention of renegotiate the rights already acquired by more than 3.3 million citizens of the European Union. Although he says that “They are not the priority”it does cuts in social benefits and pensions for this group.
Your policy boss, Zia Yusuf, justifies the measure stating that the exclusion of legal migrants from the well -being system could mean A savings of 234,000 million poundsfigure that even the think tank from which it comes has denied by outdated.
According to the analysis of Arandathe narrative of Farage It is designed for Generate fear and resentment. Taking advantage of the fact that immigration appears as The main concern of the British, He has deployed a propaganda offensive that seeks to hold migrants responsible for all the country’s economic problems. “We are not the food bank of the world”, He declared in his speech, synthesizing his nationalist exclusion approach.
The article also mentions that Reform UK currently leads surveys with 31% of vote intention, surpassing both the Labor and Conservative Party. Farage He skillfully capitalizes popular discontent, presenting itself as the only one capable of “saving” the United Kingdom of supposed financial bankruptcy that, according to him, is due to the cost of welcoming migrants.
Aranda concludes that the UK reform strategy is clear: Point to migrants, with or without papers, such as those guilty of national evils. This speech, dangerously simplistic and racist, is taking effect. As proof, he mentions The recent ultra demonstration held in London, where tens of thousands of people chanted xenophobic slogans, fed by Farage’s discursive poison.
