Patricia Hewitt, when General Secretary of the forerunner of "Liberty" and long before becoming Equality Minister, wrote in her book "The Abuse of Power" she was sure her campaign against the Tories' 1979 policy of stopping foreign men using marriage to live in the UK would succeed - just as women's struggle for the vote succeeded. She was right, and says it was her "most satisfying achievement".
The novelist Mary Ward (Australian, like Hewitt) thought the vote would bring women into competition with men and result in the collapse of the Empire. I would like to thank the women who have signed my petition "Stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK" at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594
255 British servicemen died in the Falklands Conflict (and a similar number subsequently committed suicide). It is a scandal that while that was taking place, 12 May 1982, the European Commission of Human Rights determined in favour of 3 (foreign) women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK.
Wars within wars - the occupation/control of territory - is a feature of Britain's decline over the past 100 years.
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Native British men who want English, Scottish, etc, children are in an inferior position vis-a-vis other men because they can only live in one country (outside the EU). Foreigners have the choice of two countries by marrying someone with permanent residence in the UK. Please see http://jeremy-passmore.blogspot.com
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- Jeremy
- 1971 - Degree in Japanese + modern Japanese history and literature, from School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 2003 - MA in International Studies from University of Exeter.