According to Trevor Phillips, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show today, the UK is "by far, and I mean by far, the best place in Europe to live in if you're not white."
It's no wonder, then, that so many Asian and African men want to come here.
Mr. Phillips, no doubt, also wants them to.
In order to acquire permanent residence, Asian and African men look for someone to marry.
And that is a cause of much unhappiness to many native British men (including me).
The European Commission of Human Rights had a normative case to prevent this unhappiness. Instead, it determined (11 May 1982) in favour of foreign and Commonwealth men who want to occupy the UK in this way.
Monday 19 January 2009
Monday 5 January 2009
Dover chalk: Morinaga cheese
Thirteen years ago a Japanese said that in Britain the women are at war with the men and the men don't fight back. He asked if I agreed. I did.
If men don't fight back it's not a war, it's a wa-lkover.
My complaint of 10 June 1977 to the European Commission of Human Rights about foreign and Commonwealth men being allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage was a preemptive strike. I knew the opposition was gearing up to take their case to the ECHR. Which they duly did - and were successful on 11 May 1982.
In Japan the decision to allow foreign men to live and work there through marriage was taken in 1982. The law came into effect on 1 January 1985.
This may give the impression of equality.
But like is not being compared with like.
Japan is bigger than the UK. The Japanese language is a protection; it is difficult and distinct. The Japanese do not have people from many different and distant countries assembling on the Eurasian mainland trying to get across. (Instead, they have their cousins - the Chinese.) Nor do they have soldiers dying in far and distant lands.
Only the UK had a Commonwealth Immigration Act, brought into effect on 1 July 1962, after a deliberate delay to allow as many Comonwealth citizens as wanted to to enter the place. This resulted in a rush of young men.
It's a weak Pound to a strong Euro that, with rare exceptions, the people in, and heading for, the Channel ports targeting the UK today are, likewise, young men.
History matters: Britain is the mother of feminism.
People in transnational (outside the EU) marriages are often in a privileged position, because they have a choice of two countries in which to live.
If men don't fight back it's not a war, it's a wa-lkover.
My complaint of 10 June 1977 to the European Commission of Human Rights about foreign and Commonwealth men being allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage was a preemptive strike. I knew the opposition was gearing up to take their case to the ECHR. Which they duly did - and were successful on 11 May 1982.
In Japan the decision to allow foreign men to live and work there through marriage was taken in 1982. The law came into effect on 1 January 1985.
This may give the impression of equality.
But like is not being compared with like.
Japan is bigger than the UK. The Japanese language is a protection; it is difficult and distinct. The Japanese do not have people from many different and distant countries assembling on the Eurasian mainland trying to get across. (Instead, they have their cousins - the Chinese.) Nor do they have soldiers dying in far and distant lands.
Only the UK had a Commonwealth Immigration Act, brought into effect on 1 July 1962, after a deliberate delay to allow as many Comonwealth citizens as wanted to to enter the place. This resulted in a rush of young men.
It's a weak Pound to a strong Euro that, with rare exceptions, the people in, and heading for, the Channel ports targeting the UK today are, likewise, young men.
History matters: Britain is the mother of feminism.
People in transnational (outside the EU) marriages are often in a privileged position, because they have a choice of two countries in which to live.
Friday 2 January 2009
Encore Beyond Belief
The Daily Telegraph, 30 December 2008, page 13, Headline: "Calais opens shelter for British-bound migrants"
"There are currently an estimated 2,000 migrants sleeping rough in the Calais area, with most claiming to come from countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea."
If they are in France illegally it's up to the French to deport them.
Monsieur Le Pen said, while leader of the Front Nationale, that if he came to power he'd deport such people to Britain. This is because Tony Blair accused him of being a racist.
On BBC Radio 3's Belief (30 December 2008), the novelist A.N. Wilson said that no one has a feeling of identity in this archipelago any more.
That, doubtless, is why many Scots vote for the Scottish National Party.
Meanwhile, scarcely a day goes by but that we hear of British soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
All of which reinforces my belief that the European Court of Human Rights acted wrongly when it determined in favour of three women (29 May 1985) whose complaint was that their husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK.
The UK's problems are peculiar to itself, and the Council of Europe was set up to ameliorate (and/or prevent) them - not exacerbate them.
"There are currently an estimated 2,000 migrants sleeping rough in the Calais area, with most claiming to come from countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea."
If they are in France illegally it's up to the French to deport them.
Monsieur Le Pen said, while leader of the Front Nationale, that if he came to power he'd deport such people to Britain. This is because Tony Blair accused him of being a racist.
On BBC Radio 3's Belief (30 December 2008), the novelist A.N. Wilson said that no one has a feeling of identity in this archipelago any more.
That, doubtless, is why many Scots vote for the Scottish National Party.
Meanwhile, scarcely a day goes by but that we hear of British soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
All of which reinforces my belief that the European Court of Human Rights acted wrongly when it determined in favour of three women (29 May 1985) whose complaint was that their husbands were not allowed to live and work in the UK.
The UK's problems are peculiar to itself, and the Council of Europe was set up to ameliorate (and/or prevent) them - not exacerbate them.
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