Monday 8 July 2013

Peculiar People

Migration Watch's epetition to Britain's Home Office last year - "No to 70 Million" - was signed by 145,533 people. It had no specific suggestion as to what could and should be done to curb migration to these islands. So it achieved absolutely nothing! My epetition "No to 10,000" - which absolutely is specific - has only 65 signatures. Why do great numbers of people sign when there is no specific action that politicians are required to take? There is currently an epetition "Stop mass migration from Bulgarian and Romanians in 2014, when EU restrictions are relaxed". It has 149,138 signatures. It acquired the necessary 100,000 signatures months ago. It elicited an official response on 22 April 2013: "Continuing the controls beyond the end of this year is not possible because of the terms of the Accession Treaties agreed under the previous Government". Even so, many people continue to sign it! Most peculiar. I have frequently drawn attention to my epetition through comments on Huffington Post. As a result, some people have signed it. One criticised me for not giving it enough publicity. (I sent more than 100 Letters to the Editor drawing attention to my epetition; not one, as far as I know, was ever published.) Two gave the following reason for not signing: it has no chance of getting the required 100,000 signatures. One wouldn't sign because of the unfairness whereby he is required to have an annual income of at least £18,600 in order for him to live in the UK with a foreign (non-EU) wife, while men from other EU countries do not have to prove they have an income in order to live here with their foreign (non-EU) wives! I wrote back that it is a scandal, and informed him that constraints on British men having foreign (non-EU) wives is a direct result of the European Court of Human Rights' decision that foreign men be allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage ("The Times, 29 May 1985, page 1).