i rarely talk politics--but i do like general elections ! Where i live--the I o Wight--has just one MP--till now. Its been super blue tory for soo long i dont bother to vote--i'm just a working class labour brummie oik; but next time we will have 2 mp's! Should be interesting--but i dont know how the island is to be split geographically for representation.
OK let's suppose it's 2025 and I finally get my UK SSP and take my kids and wife there for a little holiday. We put our two kids in school, find some work and somewhere to live. We're in the UK, we have the right to a family life but don't meet the UK Financial requirement. One day, UK border control knock on the door and do what ?
I know this was likely a tongue in cheek comment but... I imagine they will be knocking on your door long before 'one day' as you should trigger checks when you register for the place to live/work/school especially if trying to do that on a tourist visa. I don't know the actual implications but I would imagine for you as a British citizen it would be fines/jail time and your wife/children being taken into detention center for deportation for breaching visa conditions. Court battles would ensue and you'd have to argue on human rights grounds, if you have deep pockets then this will probably be fine but if you are in the 70% affected by the change... well I'd suggest some ky jelly and brace yourself. Even if you think you can get away by trying to be sneaky and being offgrid, we sadly live in a country of nimby type folk and people who love to get involved in others business and will think nothing of giving immigration a call. I absolutely follow your train of thought though, being law-abiding and following the letter of the law seems to leave us worse off than 'breaking' the law and using loopholes to get around it.
I have a feeling that it is certain 'communities' within the UK, of immigrant origin who have been the cause of this ever-stricter, and seemingly unfair escalation in 'family' visa costs and pre-conditions for the honest majority of applicants. Fakery and corruption being a normal way of life in their home countries. Then there are the overstayers. 'We' are then tarred with the same brush.
