Equality Act(ion)

Britain's Equality Act comes into force today.
Like its predecessors it obliges foreigners (quaintly described in Orwellian terms - www.equalities.gov.uk - as people who "have passports from different countries") to be employed on an equal basis with native Britons.
Even if native Britons can work on an equal basis with them in their countries, the issue of equality is not addressed. This is (in part) because the Englishman (as an example) who fails to get work or promotion (because it has gone to a foreigner) is not the same man who is fortunate enough to be working abroad.
The new Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, acknowledged in his very first speech that one reason Labour lost the General Election in May was because of immigration to the UK. Does he (or anyone else) think the new Government will get to grips with the issue?
People talk all around the houses on this issue - and have done so for the past 50 years - but the Big Issue, promised by Mrs Thatcher in 1979, is stopping foreign men from using marriage as a means to live and work in the UK.
Until Parliament passes an Act enforcing that... there can be no equality.