Fairness - a Good Idea

The Church of England General Synod opens today in London. It'll be opened by the Head of the Church. The Queen. Who sparked modern feminism in Britain with her Christmas message of 1967.
Top of the Synod's agenda is having women bishops.
The Government's solution to curbing immigration to the UK is a cap on Work Visas.
That cap has been announced (BBC Radio 4 Today) as 43,000 (but with exceptions).
Since Work Visas have a time limit the cap is pointless. It is also criminal. (Though, technically, that's up to a judge/jury to say.) Because David Cameron deceived the electorate during the run-up to the May General Election by stressing it was the solution to the problem of migration to the UK.
Every day 1,000 people enter the UK on Student Visas. As with most other visas there is a time constraint.
The reality is that to control immigration effectively, foreigners have to be prevented from taking up permanent residence.
A major solution would be to end the concession to foreign men who currently can obtain permanent residence through marriage.
This was promised by Mrs. Thatcher in 1979.
Britain now has another female in charge - Mrs. May is Home Secretary.
She, too, is letting down the electorate.
The European Court of Human Rights is also partly to blame.
It's pointless having elections.
Today also revealed that any asylum seeker who fails in his claim can appeal to the European Court. Under Rule 39 he cannot be deported.
At the end of May 1985 the European Court ruled in favor of three women whose foreign husbands wanted to live in the UK. That was unfair, because there was nothing to prevent them living together in their husband's country.(Malawi, Egypt and the Philippines.) I can't. And I doubt if many readers can.
The current "buzzword" amongst all British politicians these days is "fairness".
It would be fair if native Britons could make use of the European Court to prevent the occupation of "their" country. But they can't. I tried (10 June 1977).
When Mahatma Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilisation he famously replied that he thought it would be a "good idea".
Fairness for native Britons would be a good idea.