Occupation and Control

12,000 Muslim women come to the UK for marriage every year. (BBC Radio 4 Today.) It might not be good or right (there is potential for their sons - native Britons - to be in competition with other native British men in the future). But it cannot be prevented, as it is normal for a bride to live in her husband's home.
But it is also the reason for foreign and Commonwealth men being able to live and work in the UK through marriage.
Because of the campaign successfully waged by feminists - arguing "equality" - in the 1970s and 80s.
This site argues that (a) the reality is inequality, and (b) it is a self-inflicted cause for much unhappiness to many native British men (including me).
The First World War - just like this issue of marriage and migration - was about the occupation and control of territory. While men were at war, some British women were fighting for the Parliamentary vote.
The success of the latter (a transference of power from one sex to the other) was an inspiration to those feminists campaigning for the "right" of foreign and Commonwealth men to be able to live and work in the UK through marriage. The connection between the two campaigns - with the same certainty of victory - was made by, for example, Patricia Hewitt, who wrote The Abuse of Power in 1982 (Oxford: Martin Robinson) while General Secretary of the Council for Civil Liberties (now renamed Liberty ) and who subsequently achieved power herself when she became Minister for Women in Tony Blair's Government.