Look, the political class is back at it again, and this time they’re targeting people who have been living in our communities and handling their business for decades. Reform UK’s Treasury spokesperson, Robert Jenrick, just announced a brand new policy in London called the "migrants labour levy," and it is straight-up wild. They’re trying to make it so expensive for companies to hire non-UK citizens that businesses will have to let them go, while also planning to evict them right out of social housing.

Here’s how the shake-down works: if a company wants to employ a non-UK national, they’re going to have to pay higher National Insurance plus a heavy annual fee. If you’re working a regular job on the national living wage, that’s an extra £3,750 a year your boss has to pay just to keep you on. That’s a 15% tax surcharge. And Jenrick made it clear there are no passes being handed out. It doesn't matter if you’ve been in the UK for thirty years, got a British partner, or have kids born here—you get hit the same. If you lose your job because of this tax, Jenrick says you need to start packing.

"If you are in this country and you are not a British citizen, and you are somebody who will not be able to stay in the UK under a Reform government, then you should think of leaving the country," Jenrick said. That is real cold talk to people who call this place home.

On top of that, they want to kick all overseas nationals out of council housing. This is a direct attack on EU citizens who got "settled status" after Brexit. Back then, they were promised they had the permanent right to live, work, and collect their pensions here. To pull this off, the government would have to completely rip up the Brexit deal they signed with the EU, which could cause the EU to clap back by penalizing British citizens living out there or messing with trade.

People are rightfully mad about this bait-and-switch. Advocacy groups like the3million are pointing out that during the 2016 referendum, Nigel Farage and the Leave camp promised everyone's rights would be safe, with Farage even saying it would be "quite unreasonable" to push people out. Now, they’re changing up the script.

Daniel Sohege from the3million kept it 100 about how stressed people are: "For the last decade, EU citizens have faced uncertainty and fear about our future in the UK. We were told before the Brexit referendum that our rights would be respected... Now we are being told that in a couple of years' time a potential Reform government could rip up our rights entirely."