Saturday 5 November 2016
Power to Parliament (not Judges)!
The Conservatives' election manifesto in 1979 promised to end the concession whereby foreign men can use marriage in order to live in the UK.
But Mrs. Thatcher's Government didn't keep its promise. This issue was challenged in the European Commission of Human Rights which decided in favour of 3 women whose husbands weren't allowed to live in the UK. ("The Times" 29 May 1985, page 1.)
The UK has many immigration lawyers and many immigration cases are decided in courts and not by immigration officials.
Now 3 judges in the High Court have controversially determined that triggering Article 50 to enable the UK leave the European Union should be a matter for Parliament and not the Government.
In 1914 and 1939 Britain declared war on Germany (I'm sorry to say - please see this blog, 3 September 2016). There was no parliamentary vote in either case and no judges to say there should be!
Strange that judges determine power resides in Parliament when they themselves override it!
How have judges acquired these powers? And who pays them?
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The Supreme Court has today watered down the income requirement (£18,600) that enables foreigners to live in the UK through marriage, saying that children must be taken into account. This requirement is a result of Mrs. Thatcher not keeping her 1979 election manifesto promise to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Another result is that at least 300,000 men are living in these islands....
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