Monday 16 June 2008

The oft omitted 4-letter word - "some"

The Daily Telegraph of 24 May, page 12: "The English population will rise by 17 million over the next 50 years, largely due to migration...
"The House of Commons Library estimates that by 2056 the population will be nearly 68million...."
On 10 June the Telegraph's front page highlighted the 100th British serviceman to die in Afghanistan. While page 9 reported: "Tens of thousands of illegal Chinese immigrants cannot be deported for crimes committed here because China is refusing to take them back, prosecutors said yesterday...
"A spokesman for the UK Border and Immigration Agency denied that there were problems deporting criminals.
"... We can and do return people to China and Vietnam.
"Biometric visas have been rolled out to more than 100 countries, including China and Vietnam, tying people to one identity, whilst foreign nationals will soon be required to carry ID cards."
If only 2 people are returned to China and Vietnam then the spokesman did not lie.
But it's deceitful. Because the word "all" was not used; neither was the word "some".
It's pointless the UK having ID cards if people who are here illegally are not deported. Besides, forged and stolen ID cards will enable people who are here illegally to remain undetected.
The point of the above quotes is to draw attention to the unique nature of the UK. History makes the case for cultural relativism. In particular, the Council of Europe's policy of enabling foreign and Commonwealth men to live and work in the UK through marriage should have been judged on what is beneficial to the UK. Instead, the Council of Europe pressured Japan to change its law. As from 1985 foreign men have been enabled to live and work in Japan through marriage.
That not only does not help the UK cope with its many serious problems, but exacerbates them because it is an encouragement to miscegenation because it gives people an unfair choice of two countries in which to live. It is not right that some native British men should have this privilege while leaving their fellow countrymen to feel like strangers in their own country.
The consequences of the Council of Europe's actions are not just bilateral. Men from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe can live and work in the UK and Japan through marriage.
History shows that when two parties are in conflict a third party is often the beneficiary. In this case the Council of Europe supported some women in Britain - three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK took their case to Strasbourg in May 1982 - to the detriment of many British men and to the benefit of foreign and Commonwealth men.