New Year's Eve! The World has gone round in a Circle. And Britain's Immigration Policies go round in a Vicious Circle!

In order to have a sensible immigration policy it's necessary to close the loopholes. Otherwise that's what people take advantage of. The biggest loophole is asylum. The next biggest is marriage. It's not right or just that foreign men can live in the UK through marriage while British men can't live in their countries through marriage. It's also not equal. Mrs Thatcher promised to close this loophole in 1979, but didn't. The answer, that British men be allowed to live in foreign countries through marriage is also not equal. Because the ability to live in two different countries is an obvious great asset in a turbulent world, and it is one that most Brits don't have. (Please see this blog of 25 March 2020.) But what is worse is that it defeats the object that was originally intended, namely to reduce immigration. Because it's an obvious incentive for transnational marriage... and therefore, obviously, an increase in immigration. The very thing that closing loopholes is intended to prevent....