Only in Britain?

Wouldn't you just know it?! Britain now has a Minister for Illegal Migration, which, just like the recent Illegal Migrants Act, is surely a contradiction in terms. If they're illegal they shouldn't be here. Britain prides itself, like all Western democracies, on abiding by the Rule of Law. Being in a country illegally is a serious crime. It's unjust to those who return home when their visa expires (most illegals are overstayers). It makes mockery of the passport system, the purpose of which is that border control be mutually advantageous. And what's the point of having armed forces if a country can be occupied by illegal means? (Please see this blog of 1 July 2018.) Furthermore, since most illegals are young men, it aggravates the existing disparity of the ratio of the sexes of young people in Britain (there already being more young men than young women - which is surely one reason why suicide is the most common cause of death among young men in Britain.)

Foreign Dependencies

This Conservative Government, elected to cut immigration, allows the recruitment of foreign students and of care workers, both categories of whom are allowed to bring their dependents to live here. In 1970 the fees of foreign students were increased. This was because too many foreign students were depriving British students of university places. This was denounced as discrimination. Now, however, because they pay more, foreign students are actively recruited! Thus reversing the original intention. But are foreign students so rich they actually have dependents? They can afford to bring here? And who can, of course, in due course, become British citizens. As for care workers, why is Britain recruiting far and wide to bring them here? Before we left the European Union many care workers were East European who could come and go between the UK and their own countries at will. Now they can't so they don't come. And their places are taken by others... who insist on being able to bring their dependents. Or they won't come. Britain left the EU mainly because of England/Wales voters' desires to cut immigration. Instead it has resulted in increased immigration. As I thought might happen: Please see this blog of 10 June 2016 "Kamikaze Saga"..... It has long been recognised that foreigners have obtained student visas to attend non-existent colleges. This is clearly a very successful scam that ought to have been clamped down long ago on by even a not-very conscientous Government. Now it is revealed (BBC Radio 4 "Today", this morning) that visas are being given regarding non-existent care homes. (!) .... My poor wife passed away on 4 June 2023 in a care home after 9 and a half years of dementia caused by a stroke. None of the care workers in the latter years were British, mostly they were Indian. There was a rapid turnover of staff. I got the impression that, having established themselves here and found their feet, they soon moved on to more amenable and lucrative work. (Doubtless illegal, but who cares? Who's going to do anything about it?) Instead of subjecting themselves to this scam and saving money in the long run, why doesn't the British Government attract British workers to this vital industry by improving the pay of care workers? Or have they given up because it's all too late?!

Reds Queer

Marriage is used for immigration. So if (for example) an Indian man with British nationality or residency marries a foreign man that man can live in the UK - and ultimately get British nationality. Lord Cameron, Britain's new Foreign Secretary, said his greatest achievement as Prime Minister was allowing same-sex marriage. In the 3 TV debates prior to the 2010 General Election, which resulted in him becoming Prime Minister, he promised to cut net migration to tens of thousands a year. But of course he didn't. The excess of immigration over emigration continues to be hundreds of thousands a year. Russia allows homosexuality. But a court decision in Moscow has just clamped down on promoting it. Does Russia allow foreign men to live there through marriage? (Younger men - without a disability - probably wouldn't want to these days for fear of being conscripted.) And if it does, does it allow a foreign man married to a Russian man to live in Russia?.... (David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister in 2016 after the Referendum he called on Britain being in the European Union resulted in a Leave vote. He didn't want Britain to leave. But voters in England & Wales were taken in by the Leave Campaign's promise to "Control our borders!" which Mr. Cameron failed to refute. Please see this blog of 10 June 2016 "Kamikaze Saga".)

Why not Rwanda?

The British Government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is in disarray because of the Supreme Court's ruling on 15 November that Rwanda might return them to their own unsafe country. But some countries, we're told, (Iran, China?) won't take back their illegals. So, why not send their illegals to Rwanda? If their own countries won't take 'em back the Supreme Court's objection falls away.

18 November. International Men's Day. No mistake. Not much publicity either

Hurray! Today is International Men's Day! This was revealed by BBC Radio 4 "Today" in an item on prostate cancer (which I have). Some years ago I complained on Twitter that while there is an International Women's Day there is no International Men's Day. Only to be informed that there is, and that it is on 19 November. I never heard of any mention of it, but naturally I've long thought it to be on 19 November. Until now. 1975 was International Women's Year. But there has never been an International Men's Year. Of that I'm sure.

A Foreign Perspective

Wars are mostly caused by men (e.g. 4 August 1914).It's mostly men who covet others' territory. Most of the illegals who come to Britain (helped by our Government!) are young men. Foreign men who come here legally armed with a passport and visa can hardly believe their luck that they can obtain permanent residence simply by finding someone to marry. How can the British be so stupid as to allow us to take their territory and their women into the bargain! In 1979 the Conservative election manifesto promised to end this concession. But Mrs Thatcher broke her promise. Some 10,000 men a year exploit this loophole. So about 400,000 men are living in these islands. Just as politics is war by other means so is immigration....

"It's insane!"

40 years ago, in January 1983, the Immigration Act allowed foreign men to live in the UK through marriage. This was despite Mrs Thatcher's 1979 election promise to end this concession. Conservative opposition to this Bill, because many Tory MPs thought they should honour their election promise, succeeded in defeating its passing in December 1982. (The year of the Falklands Conflict!) But in January '83 much of this opposition fell away because Mrs Thatcher persuaded MPs that the Conservative Party had to be united in an election year. One Conservative who continued to vote against it was Ivor Stanbrook who described allowing foreign men to live here through marrige as "insane". Some 10,000 foreign men a year exploit this loophole in Britain's immigration system. So there are now some 400,000 men living here because Mrs Thatcher did not keep her 1979 election manifesto promise. The Equal Opportunities Commission led the fight to oppose the measure. Paying NGOs and lawyers with public money to contest Government decisions made by politicians, who are also paid by us, is a bit daft. We also pay for legal aid for immigration. So we ourselves pay for much of the occupation of these islands. Foreigners don't mind. And we don't seem to mind. A bit daft? Or insane?