The Divergent Party believes that the government of the United Kingdom must place the interests of the British people over and above the citizens of other nations.

We would like to see a simple controlled UK border that doesn’t allow economic migrants in, without a pre approved visa.

An Economic Migrant

Definition: a person who travels from one country or area to another in order to improve their standard of living.

There are good reasons not to accept economic migrants. This is better explained here in the video below. (Explained in gumballs, relevant to the UK also)

Reasons include; taking people who would be catalysts for positive change in their country of origin, doesn’t help these countries become better nations.

However, recognising that people have many different reasons to come to the UK, you would be able to come in most circumstances when.
1. You can provide for yourself during the full duration of your stay. (Students)
2. You have a job to come to and can afford accommodation for the duration of the work or minimum of 3 years (Workers)
3. You have a guarantor (Minimum 5 years) who is willing to bear responsibility for you financially.
4. You have insurance for your stay. (As not to further burden our NHS)
5. An acceptable criminal record history.
6. A level of English speaking (Not tourists)

You would have to have one, or even a mixture of a few in order to get a visa to enter the UK.
This includes tourist and anyone else.
UK citizens have an automatic right of entry.

A Refugee

Definition: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war,
persecution, or natural disaster.

The second a person reaches a place of safety they must claim refugee status in that country. Once they move past the point of safety, they stops being a refugee and becomes an economic migrant.
The only refugees we in the UK should accept will be via temporary agreement in managed facilities, or from the following neighbouring countries; Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Canada and Greenland.

Refugees should expect only the basic standard of living until established. They will be expected to contribute via work to the nation and allowed, only once self sufficient to apply to remain indefinitely. Should any Refugee break the law that would carry a prison term, they will have Refugee status removed and be sent back to the place of origin.

Refugee status may also be refused via a jury with clear evidence that the individual in question poses an imminent threat to the UK population.

Wouldn’t it be good if we could save the world. Unfortunately it can not and does not work like that. According to the World Bank, about 9.2% of the world, or 719 million people, live in extreme poverty, on less than $2.15 a day. How do we choose who we help and who we don’t?

It is our belief that the government should look after its own citizens first. There are enough ex-service men and women, domestic abuse victims and unfortunately many others that have fallen on hard times that need our help. We say that before we assist others, we need to get our own house in order.

When we do not have housing, schooling, medical facilities or many other requirements for extra population, we simply cannot afford or cope with the extra weight of more people. It is essential the cost, not only in funding, but in sustainability and other areas is fully taken into account before any application for a visa is granted.

We can not accept the failures of previous consecutive governments in this area. A good points based system will be put in place and anyone not meeting the specific requirements will be denied entry. When this happens, they will be flown to either the place of origin, their county of citizenship or a reception centre of our choosing to be processed.

It is also not down to government to provide charity. We can utilise our Armed forces for humanitarian missions and votes on spending will be made.
The second tax bracket (See tax section) will be in place to pay for any processing and facilities needed.

Should any visitor to the UK break any of our laws that would involve a prison sentence, it is our opinion that they should be returned back to their country of origin and lose any rights to visas.

It is also our opinion that any foreign national that serves 3 years in our military, should always have the rights of full citizenship for themselves and immediate family.
Those that look after our interests should get citizenship this in return as a minimum.

Some steps we would look at taking to stop the boats would be to leave the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights). This would allow us to send migrants anywhere. It would mean they would be better off telling us where they are from instead of remaining silent with no documentation so we are unable to relocate them back to their own country of origin.

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