"Mein Struggle"

The new Immigration Bill is skills based. (BBC 4 "Today".) But no work skill is needed for marriage! Mrs Thatcher's 1979 promise to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK was defeated by a vigorous feminist campaign that was described by Patricia Hewitt, later Tony Blair's Equality Minister, as her "most satisfying achievement". She also compared it with women's struggle for the parliamentary vote. That struggle was about the control of territory; the more recent one about its occupation. Since roughly 10,000 foreign and Commonwealth men a year use marriage to live in the UK it has resulted in some 400,000 men (and their children) living in these islands.