Migration and the Military

The Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, announced yesterday that the European Convention on Human Rights would not apply to the military. He had no need to announce that. Because the Council of Europe's own literature states that the only area in which the Convention does not apply is the military.
Immigration can be a form of military activity and/or a product of it. Therefore the European Commission of Human Rights should not have determined in favour of 3 (foreign) women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK. Which it did on 12 May 1982, right in the middle of the Falklands Conflict when 255 British servicemen were being killed. A similar number - we are told - have subsequently committed suicide. The number of foreign and Commonwealth men who have taken advantage of that ruling (and Mrs. Thatcher's Government's failure to honour its promise to close the loophole) must be at least 300,000 (based on c.10,000 a year using this method, which was the Government figure in 1979).