Bogus Britain

Bogus refugees (who could've claimed asylum in France but have chosen to pay a lot of money to get in a dinghy to cross the English Channel) are given bogus decisions to allow them to live in Britain (because it saves on having to deport them) and bogus deportations (56,000 failed asylum seekers aren't being deported - BBC Radio 4 "Today").

Happy New Year! (Ongoing Inequality Notwithstanding)

Every working day (which this isn't) foreign men marry someone so as to live in the UK. Either British men can live in their countries through marriage .. or they can't. If they can't that is clearly a gross inequality. If they can then that makes Britain's immigration problem worse. Because the intention of British Governments over many years has been to reduce immigration. But in these turbulent times the attraction of being able to live in two different countries is an encouragement to have a transnational marriage, and thereby increase immigration! And since most people on the move in search of a better life are - and always have been - young men the long ongoing surplus of young men in these islands compared with young women is exacerbated - another gross inequality.... (This continues the theme of this blog of 31 December 2022.)