According to today's Daily Telegraph, page 8:
"Long-term immigration hit a new record, with 605,000 moving here in 2007."
"Almost a quarter of babies born last year had a foreign mother...."
(For England the figure was probably more than a quarter.)
"... the Office for National Statistics takes us to 85 million by 2081, adding another 16 million by 2050."
All of which supports my contention that the European Commission of Human Rights should have investigated my complaint of 10 June 1977 about foreign and Commonwealth men being allowed to use marriage as a means of living and working in the UK.
Instead, the Council of Europe pressured Japan to allow foreign men to live and work in Japan through marriage. That did nothing to help solve the UK's problems, nor mine, concerning this issue.
Friday 22 August 2008
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Subversion
The great Greek Historian Thucydides wrote during the Peloponnesian War (5th c. B.C.) that words change their meaning during times of war.
Foreign and Commonwealth men can easily change from being foreigners by marrying someone who has permanent residence in the UK. They then become part of an "ethnic minority". Furthermore they are then entitled to work and promotion on equal terms with native Britons. Thus is the word "equality" subverted.
This is "thanks" to the European Court of Human Rights (Wrongs?) decision in May 1985which determined in favour of three women (two foreign, one Commonwealth) whose husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK.
Foreign and Commonwealth men can easily change from being foreigners by marrying someone who has permanent residence in the UK. They then become part of an "ethnic minority". Furthermore they are then entitled to work and promotion on equal terms with native Britons. Thus is the word "equality" subverted.
This is "thanks" to the European Court of Human Rights (Wrongs?) decision in May 1985which determined in favour of three women (two foreign, one Commonwealth) whose husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK.
Monday 18 August 2008
Albatross
It is natural that it is men rather than women who lead the way in the occupation of territory other than their own.
It is also natural that men want to defend their territory.
It would be natural if women supported their countrymen.
But the UK has an albatross around her neck. It is her history.
During the First World War, because of the energetic campaigning of (some) women, power in Britain was transferred from one sex to another (as expressed by Mrs. Humphry Ward in a letter to The Times, 23 May 1917).
The outcome is that (some) women vigorously campaigned to enable foreign and Commonwealth men to occupy the UK. (That is, they defeated the Conservative Party's 1979 election policy to end the concession whereby foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.)
This can be summed up by some graffiti that used to be in London's Covent Garden: "Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle."
It is also natural that men want to defend their territory.
It would be natural if women supported their countrymen.
But the UK has an albatross around her neck. It is her history.
During the First World War, because of the energetic campaigning of (some) women, power in Britain was transferred from one sex to another (as expressed by Mrs. Humphry Ward in a letter to The Times, 23 May 1917).
The outcome is that (some) women vigorously campaigned to enable foreign and Commonwealth men to occupy the UK. (That is, they defeated the Conservative Party's 1979 election policy to end the concession whereby foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.)
This can be summed up by some graffiti that used to be in London's Covent Garden: "Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle."
Sunday 17 August 2008
"If you prick us do we not bleed?"
When I was at Nautical College in the 1950s some Cadets took dancing classes. They danced with each other. One told me: "It's a social asset." He was right.
There was a rush of young men to enter Britain at the end of June 1962 before the Commonwealth Immigration Act came into force. I too arrived back in London at that time following my failed attempts to live in Asia.
I went to dancing classes. There were twice as many men as women. So sometimes I danced with men.
Every weekend for 18 months I went to local town halls where public dances were held. There were at least 10 men for every woman. I never once had a dance with a young woman. This was not for want of trying. They always refused. But they never refused an Afro-Caribbean.
It was obvious to me that Commonwealth men would now come to the UK on tourist or student visas and find someone to marry in order to live here.
The first time a woman about my age accepted my invitation to dance was at the Royal Commonwealth Society in February 1964. In 1966 she said she wouldn't see me again unless I married her. We divorced in 1980.
The Equal Opportunities Commission successfully campaigned against the Conservatives' 1979 election policy to end the concession whereby foreign and Commonwealth men can live and work in the UK through marriage - even though the House of Lords subsequently (7 July 1983) determined that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act does not apply to immigration control.
Even if native British men can live in their countries through marriage that does not make for equality. Because native British men who remain in the UK can lose out to foreign and Commonwealth men in obtaining work and promotion. If that is not so then the newly-formed (2007) Equality and Human Rights Commission is spending a lot of time, money and effort for nothing. In other words, reciprocity in this area is not conducive to equality because like is not being compared with like.
There was a rush of young men to enter Britain at the end of June 1962 before the Commonwealth Immigration Act came into force. I too arrived back in London at that time following my failed attempts to live in Asia.
I went to dancing classes. There were twice as many men as women. So sometimes I danced with men.
Every weekend for 18 months I went to local town halls where public dances were held. There were at least 10 men for every woman. I never once had a dance with a young woman. This was not for want of trying. They always refused. But they never refused an Afro-Caribbean.
It was obvious to me that Commonwealth men would now come to the UK on tourist or student visas and find someone to marry in order to live here.
The first time a woman about my age accepted my invitation to dance was at the Royal Commonwealth Society in February 1964. In 1966 she said she wouldn't see me again unless I married her. We divorced in 1980.
The Equal Opportunities Commission successfully campaigned against the Conservatives' 1979 election policy to end the concession whereby foreign and Commonwealth men can live and work in the UK through marriage - even though the House of Lords subsequently (7 July 1983) determined that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act does not apply to immigration control.
Even if native British men can live in their countries through marriage that does not make for equality. Because native British men who remain in the UK can lose out to foreign and Commonwealth men in obtaining work and promotion. If that is not so then the newly-formed (2007) Equality and Human Rights Commission is spending a lot of time, money and effort for nothing. In other words, reciprocity in this area is not conducive to equality because like is not being compared with like.
Friday 15 August 2008
Poachers Fund Unis
After two Chinese graduate students were murdered on 9 August a senior policeman said it was a tragedy because they had come to Britain only to study.
I thought: How does he know?
Foreign students are allowed to work, and many foreign and Commonwealth people acquire student visas to enable them to stay in the UK permanently.
Or, once here, they decide they like it and want to stay.
The renowned Professor Mona Saddiqi is in Britain because her father came here from Pakistan as a student in the 1960s (BBC Radio 4, 12 August). He stayed on.
Since 1962 I have felt like a poacher (who tried to live in Asia) turned gamekeeper who feels that the landowner is in cahoots with the poachers.
In these circumstances I believe the Council of Europe should support the gamekeepers (because it was set up in response to events during the Second World War); instead it supports the poachers (in 1982 and 1985 it determined in favour of three women who complained that their foreign husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK).
In the late 1960s fees for foreign students were increased relative to British students. Some students protested that this was unfair. Now, universities specifically recruit from abroad to increase their funding.
If the UK is a rich country, as is often claimed (she can, after all, afford multiple "equality" commissions) why look to foreigners to fund universities?
I thought: How does he know?
Foreign students are allowed to work, and many foreign and Commonwealth people acquire student visas to enable them to stay in the UK permanently.
Or, once here, they decide they like it and want to stay.
The renowned Professor Mona Saddiqi is in Britain because her father came here from Pakistan as a student in the 1960s (BBC Radio 4, 12 August). He stayed on.
Since 1962 I have felt like a poacher (who tried to live in Asia) turned gamekeeper who feels that the landowner is in cahoots with the poachers.
In these circumstances I believe the Council of Europe should support the gamekeepers (because it was set up in response to events during the Second World War); instead it supports the poachers (in 1982 and 1985 it determined in favour of three women who complained that their foreign husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK).
In the late 1960s fees for foreign students were increased relative to British students. Some students protested that this was unfair. Now, universities specifically recruit from abroad to increase their funding.
If the UK is a rich country, as is often claimed (she can, after all, afford multiple "equality" commissions) why look to foreigners to fund universities?
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