10,000

"10,000 houses continue to be built every year in flood risk areas," BBC Radio 4 "Today".
What a coincidence!
10,000 men a year use marriage to live in the UK. (The Government's official figure in 1979, when it broke its promise to close this loophole.)
So everybody knows how to stop the foolish activity of building in flood risk areas.
Sign https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594
10,000 Greeks marched into Persian territory in 401 BC. An exciting account is told by Xenophon in "The Persian Expedition" (or "Anabasis"). It pays to read Herodotus and Thucydides first.

Forced Injustice

"Justice and equality will win!" So proclaimed Hillary Clinton announcing her nomination as Democratic candidate. (Today's News)
The taxpayer (mostly British men) funded the Equal Opportunities Commission, the purpose of which was to help women with work and promotion. Naturally for every woman helped a man loses. It can't be otherwise. The EOC devoted much time and effort and public money to oppose the Conservatives' 1979 election policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. The official figure was about 10,000 men a year taking advantage of that loophole. The EOC's campaign succeeded. Mrs. Thatcher's Government backed down. The result is that at least 300,000 men are living in these islands. They are entitled, thanks to equality laws, to deprive Britons of work and promotion. This is neither Justice nor Equality for native Britons. Moreover the House of Lords determined on 7 July 1983 that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act does not apply to immigration control. Therefore the EOC acted illegally.

Distracting & Divisive

It is clearly unjust that foreign husbands are entitled, because of equality laws, to deprive Britons of work and promotion. It is also unjust that foreign wives are entitled to deprive British men of work and promotion both because they are foreign and female.
The former injustice exists because of the latter.
The Equal Opportunities Commission vigorously campaigned against the Conservatives' 1979 election manifesto policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. Mrs. Thatcher's Government duly backed down. The EOC's campaign was illegal, because the House of Lords determined on 7 July 1983 that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act did not apply to immigration control.
Never mind injustice, we have a Referendum on the European Union to distract us.
In 1415 Henry V invaded France to distract English/Welshmen from his father's usurpation and regicide. His intention was to unite the country behind him....The result was the War of the Roses.

What's the Point... if our Leaders show they haven't a clue what to do?

The 2010 General Election in 2010 was marked in England by 3 TV debates. Next to the economy they focussed on immigration.
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, stressed that what was needed was a points system. This is what the Leaders of the current Leave campaign want! It begs the question: Labour was in power 13 years so if a points system was the answer why didn't they have one?
All 3 Speakers repeated their arguments in all 3 debates.
David Cameron wanted a "cap".
Nick Clegg wanted an amnesty.
Both Labour and the LibDems later admitted they had got it wrong on immigration.
It only remains for Mr. Cameron to admit it.
Instead he has called a Referendum on the UK remaining in the EU, knowing that people who want to Leave mainly do so because of immigration.
It's for sure that foreigners who witnessed those debates would have laughed in disbelief, or if they are pro-British shaken their heads in despair.

Armies, Then and Now

Derby Day! Last year I went to Epsom Racecourse for the first time. Someone had placed flowers on the spot where a woman had thrown herself in front of the King's horse in 1913 as part of a bitter power struggle. Thank Goodness! not all women are like that. Mary Ward argued against extending the parliamentary vote to women (Letters in "The Times", 23 May 1917), pointing out that men served in the Army. Nowadays groups of young men from Africa and Asia march towards the Channel ports intent on occupying the UK. An army of lawyers, activists and civil servants are busily engaged - usually at public expense - on their behalf. These people helped defeat the Conservatives' 1979 election manifesto policy to stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK. (My petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594)  The official figure in 1917 was about 10,000 men a year using marriage to live in the UK. As a result of Mrs. Thatcher's Government not keeping its 1979 promise at least 300,000 men are living in these islands.

"Tug and Scamble"

Shakespeare egregiously refers to England as an island (instead of part of an island). That aside, he nails it with "England doth tug and scamble", the Bastard in "King John". "This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself."
The Tories (Irish rebels!) have inflicted a divisive EU Referendum on the UK. Mr. Cameron's explanation is that the UK is a democracy and there was a demand for it.
Whatever the outcome, it's harmful.

For Immigration Control Look Elsewhere

In 1904 the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France was widely celebrated as being the end of centuries of hostilities. Britain's Foreign Office opposed it because it identified Germany as a potential adversary. But King Edward VII was pro-French and in favour. Hotels in France are named after him! When former Prime Minister Lord Salisbury was told of it he replied: "Brilliant. Now you've made a future war with Germany inevitable."
At the end of July 1914 there was a naval review at Kiel. When the Royal Navy ships sailed they flew a signal to their German hosts: "Friends today. Friends forever."   Within a few days they were at war.
If the UK were to vote to leave the European Union  on 23 June it would antagonise our neighbours. The main driving force for wanting to leave is immigration. The prospect of restrictions would spark a rush (as happened in 1962 with the Commonwealth Immigration Act), so will be counter-productive. Britain's immigration problems can be tackled in other ways: e.g., by returning people who have crossed the English Channel and North Sea illegally back to the Continent; by cutting out the power of lawyers; and by cutting down on chain migration: e.g., by signing my petition "Stop foreign men using marriage to live in the UK" at https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/129594
Many thanks to those who sign!