The Supreme Court (a Tony Blair initiative) has ruled that foreign and Commonwealth people who want to marry cannot be prevented from entering the UK. (BBC Radio 4 News, yesterday 6 p.m.)
A judge said that having to live together abroad breaches their rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Art. 8: "1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
"2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others."
The judge is illogical. What he said clearly implies that anyone in a marriage outside these unfortunate islands is being deprived of a family life.
Besides, the 2nd. item in Art. 8 provides a clear get-out. Democracy (i.e. Parliament, not judges) should determine this issue.
The News broadcast also stated: "Youth unemployment is at an all-time high."
Litigation is very expensive. Doubtless it was the British taxpayer who funded the litigants who doubtless are very grateful to a (barmy) country that pays to have itself occupied.
Thursday 13 October 2011
Monday 10 October 2011
Judge supports Criminal - Ridiculous
David Cameron will say today (The Daily Telegraph, page 2): "We will also end the ridiculous situation where a registrar who knows a marriage is a sham still has to perform the ceremony."
He has been Britain's Prime Minister for 18 months. Why the delay? Has he only just realised?
Besides, if foreign men were not allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage they would not take part in a sham marriage.
This issue has come to the fore because the Home Secretary's speech to the Conservative Party's annual conference last week highlighted the case of a Bolivian (pictured on page 6 of today's Telegraph) illegally in the UK who cannot be deported because he has a relationship with someone else, and deporting him would, according to a judge, contravene Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
If the two men are so much in love what's to prevent them from living in Bolivia?
They could both enter the country legally.
Being in a country illegally is a crime. The judge would soon find that out if he were in Bolivia illegally.
P.S. The politicians (e.g. David Blunkett, when he was Home Secretary) blame the judges and the judges say they are only doing what the politicians want - ridiculous - ludicrous - lunatic....
It was said of Hamlet (Act V, Scene 1) that his madness would not be seen in England because "there the men are as mad as he".
He has been Britain's Prime Minister for 18 months. Why the delay? Has he only just realised?
Besides, if foreign men were not allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage they would not take part in a sham marriage.
This issue has come to the fore because the Home Secretary's speech to the Conservative Party's annual conference last week highlighted the case of a Bolivian (pictured on page 6 of today's Telegraph) illegally in the UK who cannot be deported because he has a relationship with someone else, and deporting him would, according to a judge, contravene Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
If the two men are so much in love what's to prevent them from living in Bolivia?
They could both enter the country legally.
Being in a country illegally is a crime. The judge would soon find that out if he were in Bolivia illegally.
P.S. The politicians (e.g. David Blunkett, when he was Home Secretary) blame the judges and the judges say they are only doing what the politicians want - ridiculous - ludicrous - lunatic....
It was said of Hamlet (Act V, Scene 1) that his madness would not be seen in England because "there the men are as mad as he".
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