Friday 16 July 2010

Students on a Roll

9,000 Chinese students have applied for university places in the UK. (BBC Radio 4 "Today".) A record number of applications to enter UK universities have been made.
There is nothing to prevent students from outside the EU from taking up permanent residence in the UK.
The obvious method is by finding someone to marry.
It is natural that most foreign students are male.
The last time I was at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London the women's toilet had been moved to the Ground Floor and the men's to the First Floor. Though the Bar, occupied mostly by men, was still on the Ground Floor.
The only Member of Parliament to oppose women-only short-lists for parliamentary candidates was Ann Widdecombe. She asked: "Why do you men roll over?"
If Parliament won't end the concession to foreign men whereby they can live and work in the UK through marriage, then, in the interests of fairness, it should not be beyond the remit of a (female) Judge......