 There is a sort of calibration on this because I think there are get-out clauses in two directions. One is the already indicated if you're in a sort of priority sector then actually here's another load of bonus points and what the points mean prizes that you get to come in if you know your particular group of businesses is lobbied the government sufficiently or the government just decides they're going to do it. So there's a big get-out clause there on one side. The other one is what the government spokesman told the Sun earlier today which is of course if it doesn't work we'll just reintroduce the cap. So they've kind of left themselves after actually making quite a big change and equalizing the system between EU and non-EU migrants they've left themselves an awful lot of leeway to sort of tweak the thing somewhere down the line and to change it and probably this is I mean this is entirely deliberate right they want leeway because they can't this is this is all peculiarity of it it's always been the peculiar thing with immigration you have the government successively that say absolutely no way can we plan the economy this is ridiculous this is a ludicrous idea the free market should determine everything except on this one very very particular thing which is called the labour market about which we're going to pretend we can plan completely and utterly and and the worst part of it is that we're going to pretend to plan because this involves a degree of cruelty and unpleasantness and arbitrary decision-making. But also isn't it interesting the way in which the discourse around immigration completely undermines the story that we're being told about immigration so the idea that Britain is a land of opportunity you can come here with nothing in your pocket you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and you too can have a child who is deporting people who look like you and that's and that's the dream that's the British dream and then the minute you start introducing things like income thresholds what you're implicitly saying is that uh social class and income levels are essentially static and so if you come here at a certain income level that's where you will stay undercutting the labour market. That's a really good point social mobility is really shit in Britain so if you want to come here and be well for you better be well for you already.