Tuesday 25 January 2011

Judges on a Roll

"The power of judges has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," so said Lord Howard, former Leader of the Conservative Party (BBC Radio 4, Today). Unlike politicians, Lord Howard pointed out, judges are neither elected nor accountable. He thought the Human Rights Act was partly to blame. "Hardly anyone disagrees with what I've just said." He ended by saying that the only winners are lawyers - financially.
However, his normative advice is unlikely to have any effect.
The Conservative Party was elected with a large majority in 1979 to end the concession by which foreign men can live and work in the UK through marriage.
But the Conservatives did not keep their promise. Mrs Thatcher's Government capitulated to the selfish demands of the feminists.
Britain has a new Supreme Court, created 1 October 2009.
Potentially, there is now an excellent opportunity for the Supreme Court to rule that allowing foreign men to use marriage as a means to occupy the UK is unlawful under the Human Rights Act.

Monday 10 January 2011

Common Sense

"Sham bride in bed with boyfriend" says the heading in today's The Daily Telegraph, page 11.
"... The Home Secretary also announced that from last November, people applying for marriage visas would have to demonstrate a minimum standard of English.
"But last month, the laws, which were credited with cutting sham marriages by more than 70 per cent in some areas, were scrapped by European judges.
"The rules, which required some immigrants to apply for a certificate of approval from the Home Office and pay a £295 fee before they could marry, were judged discriminatory and against the right to marry by the European Court of Human Rights."
Judges should discriminate.
These (foreign) people can marry in their own country.
What is the point of democracy if elected politicians don't make the laws?
What is the point of marriage when (foreign) people can get divorced (having acquired their "right" to "Indefinite leave to remain" in the UK?)
(Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, who also wrote The Rights of Man , argued the case that the 13 Colonies should divorce from Britain. Which they duly did.)