Death in Paradise - in this case Plymouth - A Tragedy long in the Making

A young man of 22 in Plymouth shot and killed 5 people - his mother and 4 strangers - and then himself on 12 August. This tragedy is not the fault of the gunman. He is said to have been very unhappy because he didn't have a girlfriend. It is statistically impossible for all young men in the UK to have a girl firend. Because there are many more young men living here than there are young women. This is partly because of the many thousands of asylum seekers, almost all young men, who could have claimed asylum in France, Belgium, etc. but are allowed to live in the UK. Moreover, back in 1979 Mrs Thatcher promised in her election manifesto that she would end the concession whereby foreign men can use marriage to live in the UK. But she did not keep her promise. It was said earlier in the Press that she wouldn't be able to implement this policy because it would contravene the European Convention on Human Rights. So on 10 June 1977 I complained to the European Commission of Human Rights about this very issue. But the Commission refused to investigate my complaint. Some 10,000 foreign and Commonwealth men a year exploit this immigration loophole, so since 1979 probably more than 400,000 men are living in these islands through having found someone to marry..... (Plymouth is my home town - there are lots of Passmores there.)