Friday 8 March 2013

Sauce for the Gander

The President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, is currently at odds with the Home Secretary. (BBC Radio 4 "Law in Action", 7 March.) The latter wants to deport foreign criminals. Judges prevent this, citing the European Convention on Human Rights. I am firmly convinced that, if judges rather than politicians can determine who lives in the UK, a judge could, and should, support my case - my epetition to the Home Office - that (non-EU) foreign men should not be able to use marriage as a means to live and work in the UK. It is clearly unjust that: 1) People in such transnational marriages are privileged compared with people who are not - because they have a choice of two countries in which to live; 2) These foreign husbands are entitled - because of "equality" laws - to compete with, and deprive, British men of work and promotion; 3) Foreign men can occupy the UK while British men cannot occupy their countries. Human rights as promulgated following the Second World War was intended to protect minority communities, not enable people to become minorities. (Native English are now a minority in London.) Besides, there is nothing in the European Convention about immigration control. Therefore the judges are acting neither in accordance with the spirit nor the letter of the Convention. The Equal Opportunities Commission campaigned vigorously and successfully against the Conservative Party's 1979 election promise to end this concession about foreign men being allowed to live in the UK through marriage. However, the House of Lords determined on 7 July 1983 that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 did not apply to immigration control. That Act set up the EOC, which, it can be concluded, acted illegally. 1975 was International Women's Year. There has never been an International Men's Year. Today is International Women's Day. There is no International Men's Day....