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NZ-UK / financial services change manager / ex-Immigration NZ policy advisor

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@_265__ @rcolvile Bit late then.

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@technopopulist explicitly chooses how many people it wants to select each fortnight. It sets minimum points each selection. I.e. it throttles #s & chooses the cream of the crop. If #s get too high, just don't run a selection or set min points even higher. Govt retains total demand control.

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@technopopulist Tbf to people pushing a PBS system, it was more than a rhetorical device. They didn't actually implement a PBS. They implemented a standard visa policy & just tacked a nominal 'points' criteria branding to it. NZ's PBS has a pre-application 'Expression of Interest' pool. Govt...

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@CSonic235 Most places are - esp Anglosphere - the US is one of the few notable exceptions.

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@echetus Bit debatable whether Level 3 is the right floor level but begging people to remember we have an entire classification system to define this.

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@baylissbaghdad Yeah, my in-laws will no doubt out of instinctive aversion to Labour. For them there is no housing crisis and in the countryside with a decent pension everything feels pretty well OK.

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@squibulous2 @technopopulist This is what's going to be fascinating, the vote share on the right may be very similar to Labour's. But we will end up with Labour. This is going to be very frustrating for some people.

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@MusicalChairs14 Obv it's not good news & v hard for those ppl on an individual level. But given all the doom & gloom, it's kind of interesting how they aren't worse. When I was at DoL in the late 00s/early 10s we were dealing with much higher unemployment rates & still granting lots of visas.

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@only_ohm_again @jamesjohnson252 It's obviously a hypothetical in terms of the integrity and standards under her. Not a literal example.

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@BishopDespenser @richardparke15 @TypeForVictory Policy/comms roles don't have targets, just like most knowledge-based roles in the private sector. Targets are for sales or service delivery roles.

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@jamesonprive Why would he post this lmao.

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@BishopDespenser @TypeForVictory I moved to the private sector thankfully but used to work in immigration policy. Policy officials have substantial OKRs. Have they delivered on the minister's priorities? Have they produced policy advice? Have they delivered change? Have key metrics improved? Fairly straightfwd.

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@maxtempers Thought you might like to know your tweet gets referenced in this morning's Politico Playbook.

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@technopopulist @JacquelBens Still planning on writing on their legal migration policy?

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@wasnt__me_ @AscendedYield Yep. True, would inevitably be a bit of leakage like there must be to Iran/N Korea etc.

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@SRHNarborough @AscendedYield Easier just to put UK Government sanctions on them. A new tax would be messy for banks and MSBs to implement.

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@AltFemKG @AscendedYield This is also a good suggestion. Historically it's not unprecedented to effectively stop issuing visas routinely to countries that have low compliance rates and where people can't be returned.

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@wasnt__me_ @AscendedYield Add them to the list of UK Government sanctioned countries. No banks or Money Service Businesses would be able to hold correspondent banking relationships with that country.

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@AlQuixote @AscendedYield There are UK Government sanctions against a load of countries. Would be easy for the banks to implement.

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@AremSeven @echetus This is true, the officials at Schiphol are young white Dutch blokes. Though I would say at non-Lon airports they look more like Britain.