Stop Digging!

Half a century is a fair chunk of modern times. Britain's comprehensive immigration system has been going on for about 50 years funded by the taxpayer: lawyers, judges, tribunals, NGOs, translators, advisors, immigration officers and civil servants. And in addition the poor bloody British taxpayer pays for state benefits, since asylum seekers aren't allowed to work. Time to stop digging!....Just have immigration officers and a few civil servants. Like other countries. Get rid of the rest..... And since we've left the European Union we ought to be able to leave the UN Convention on Refugees with far less difficulty.....Another hole: foreign men have been allowed to use marriage to live in the UK since 1975. About 10,000 men a year exploit this loophole. That's been said to be "not many". But cumulatively that's some 400,000 men and their children who are living in these islands. Which is many. Mrs Thatcher promised in her 1979 election manifesto to close this concession. But she didn't. The 1975 Sex Discrimination Act established the Equal Opportunities Commission which campaigned vigorously and successfully to oppose the Conservatives' election policy. The EOC, of course, was funded by the taxpayer. As are politicians. With all this bureacracy it's a wonder there's any money left in the Treasury!