Illegitimates

All but 9 of 35 Albanian "migrants" have been deported (yesterday's News). In which case they are not "migrants"! Call them "potential migrants" or "Albanians who entered the UK illegally". To call them "migrants" gives them a legitimacy to which they are not entitled. Besides, why didn't they get passports and buy tickets? Then, because the UK doesn't have ID cards, they could overstay like everyone else. Calling EU citizens who come to the UK "migrants" is misleading. If it doesn't pan out for them they just go home. Though Brexit has caused uncertainty.

Bromide - not the real thing

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's Labour Party, says there are 5 evils: Inequality, Neglect, Insecurity, Prejudice and Discrimination. It is clearly Unequal that some people have the privilege of being able to live in two countries(through marriage) while others cannot. Mr. Corbyn could sign my petition "Stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK" at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594 But immigration issues are marked by denial and Neglect. The main reason a majority in England and Wales voted for the UK to leave the EU was immigration. They feel Insecure. No wonder! "5,895 foreign offenders are still in the community after being released from prison, Home Office figures show... they have used human rights legislation..." Prejudice means pre-judging. My only time in court was when in 1991 I brought a case about not being allowed to live in Hong Kong. The judge dismissed my case without allowing me to express it. Please see "Sauce for the Gander" in 2013. That was Prejudice. If Mr. Corbyn uses Prejudice to mean unfair treatment then it is clearly unfair that foreigners are entitled, because of equality laws, to deprive Britons of work and promotion. It is also unfair that only foreigners have access to human rights law where immigration to the UK is concerned. There is a clear systemic imbalance. Discrimination between right & wrong and good & bad is good! Judges are supposed to Discriminate - having heard the case! If by Discrimination Mr. Corbyn means unfair treatment, then it is clearly unfair that through allowing foreign men to live and work in the UK through marriage the sex ratio of young people is unbalanced - to whit, there are more young men than young women. Please see "Linguistic and Cultural Relativism" on 24 November 2010, for more on Discrimination.

Submarines

Parliament has just voted to renew Britain's nuclear deterrent, the Trident submarines. To some, this is essential for the defence of the realm. For others, it keeps the UK as a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council. But Scots don't want it, and if Scotland votes to separate from the UK then the rump UK will look ridiculous at the UN. So, instead of keeping nuclear weapons keep the Scots happy! It's pointless having nuclear weapons while not having effective immigration controls - which really would be a defence of the realm. In Arthur Miller's 1940s play "A View from the Bridge" illegal immigrants are referred to as submarines. This is because they cross the Atlantic unnoticed and pop up in America.

Factional Self-interest

Russia, by far the world's largest country, has taken 3 Syrians who applied for asylum from a war in which Russia is deeply involved. (Iran and Saudi Arabia, how many?) Syrians travel through Russia to live in Norway. Afghanistan shares a border with China. But Afghans don't go to China (the world's 2nd. richest country). They come here. Communities help their own people. And it is no secret that in Europe Non-Governmental Organisations and lawyers help people who want to live in Europe. Thousands of people, mainly young men, illegally in France and Belgium flock to the Channel ports to enter Britain. They don't have to come to Britain to claim asylum, but this is where they want to come. That says everything. While people without passports are allowed to stay here, not a day passes but that people with passports are refused entry to the UK. 30,000 a year are sent back on arrival (Chris Huhne's figure in 2010). This has badly affected me. First in 1965, and then in 1978 and 9. Please see http://marriageandmigration.blogspot.com "Inhuman Wrongs" in 2008. Factional self-interest was behind a determined campaign to defeat the Conservatives' 1979 election manifesto policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Conversely, discontent with immigration is forcing the UK to leave the European Union, which has many negative impacts not least of which is annoying our neighbours. It also resulted in the recent murder of an MP, to the ruin of more than one life.

What Goes Around Comes Around (II)

The official figure in 1979 for the number of men using marriage to live in the UK was about 10,000. Mrs. Thatcher's 1979 election manifesto promised to close this loophole. But she did not keep her promise. The Immigration Minister, Mr. Timothy Raison, when asked Why not? replied "Because of the fuss." As a result at least 300,000 men are living in these islands. The British Empire was built on the principle of divide-and-rule. Now it is the British who are divided....

Welcome to the Asylum

"Welcome to the Asylum", Centre for Policy Studies's booklet in 2001, page 1:"Our immigration policy is an exercise in wishful thinking.... Attempts at reform have been piecemeal and have mostly failed, partly through mismanagement and partly through lack of vision. Any strategy on immigration requires vision, morality and courage.... The last 15 years have seen a dramatic change in all categories of people who seek to enter the UK; asylum seekers, economic migrants with permission to work here and illegal immigrants." Overstayers (in 2001) are put at about 200,000 annually, and London alone is estimated to have a million people living there illegally.

LoL = Land of Lunatics (II)

When David Blunkett was Home Secretary he abandoned plans to deport 30,000 failed asylum seekers a year. ("The Times", 16 July 2002, p. 11) Both he and Theresa May when Home Secretary criticised judges for interfering in immigration cases. A few years ago there was a TV programme on the Supreme Court (BBC Four "The Highest Court in the Land") in which the senior judge responded to this by saying (with a smile) "We're only doing what the politicians want us to."