There are all these horrible, twisted, pernicious and simply cruel little fuckeries in the immigration rules, that are a bit too complex to explain well in a tweet, but which are so illustrative of how stupid and harsh our immigration system is. I& #39;m going to try a couple...

For example.
If you have no recourse to public funds, but you are destitute, you can apply to change your visa conditions. It& #39;s very hard to prove destitution, but ok, say you do, and you are now going to be granted the possibility of accessing benefits. Well, guess what?

You will now be moved from the route you have been on leading to obtaining permanent settlement, onto a 10 yr route.

Your previous residence in the country does not count towards those 10 yrs. You start over.

You have to renew every 2.5 yrs for 10 yrs, paying fees each time.

There& #39;s no reason to push people& #39;s route to settlement back once they manage to prove their need to access public funds. There really isn& #39;t. Except to ensure you continue to price more people out of residence. It& #39;s truly sick.

I& #39;ll add some more of these complex little buggers that I& #39;ve never managed to fit into a tidy tweet before here in a bit.