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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What you see here is your own interpretation from US politics. More to the point a lack of insight into the UK resent legal history.

The law specifically includes compassionate exemptions to the dependents' requirement. Because the UK has disability discrimination laws that also apply to mental health. Those laws come from the European court of human rights.

Something our last government was specifically creating guidelines to disobey. In an attempt to win support to remove the UK (a founding member of that court) from its treaty.

The result of this is abusing immigrants (this doctor cannot fight the law without leaving his dependent daughter)

The Tory government did loads of this crap to try and provoke division amongst those opposing them leading up to the election.