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.)