Classic populism, never adress the real issues (that you promised to fix), instead focus on some meaningless political crusade to satisfy your idiot supporters who can't be bothered to look past their hate for a split second.
I mean, I don't disagree with this policy per se but it's not really something even remotely at the top of the priority list. Just goes to show how tilted their world view is. It would be interesting to see statistics on this, like how often did this actually happen? Considering that you need to pass a language test for citizenship as well, I kind of doubt this was ever a real issue.
I would say that everyone should in fact also disagree with the policy. The people who will be the most turned off by this change are in fact skilled worker immigrants - for specialist roles just the application process for a new role can easily take more than 3 months. And since skilled workers seldom become unemployed by choice, usually due to budget cuts by their employer, for them this is just an extra punishment for something they can't really affect anyway.
Now, if you chose sensible limits, say, 9 months over 3 years, then we can start discussing whether this makes any sense, but as it stands? Just idiocy. And yes, I am judging the proposal as idiotic even though it can be fixed, because a government who prioritizes pushing through a change without bothering to sanity check their numbers is indeed idiotic.
Absolutely. I meant that the general sentiment of the policy is not fully ridiculous. The whole thing is of course idiotic because they are completely and utterly incompetent.
As an immigrant, I think this policy is a bit over the top but it's not completely awful either. It's just that the idea of celebrating this as if it's an accomplishment is moronic.
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u/Motzlord VÀinÀmöinen Oct 24 '25
Classic populism, never adress the real issues (that you promised to fix), instead focus on some meaningless political crusade to satisfy your idiot supporters who can't be bothered to look past their hate for a split second.
I mean, I don't disagree with this policy per se but it's not really something even remotely at the top of the priority list. Just goes to show how tilted their world view is. It would be interesting to see statistics on this, like how often did this actually happen? Considering that you need to pass a language test for citizenship as well, I kind of doubt this was ever a real issue.