Abuse of Power

When I complained to the European Commission of Human Rights in 1977 about foreign and Commonwealth men being allowed to live and work in the UK through marriage even though I (and other Englishmen) often cannot live and work in their countries through marriage... I enclosed correspondence I had had with the National Council for Civil Liberties (now called Liberty). Since I knew I would be a lone voice, I had appealed to the NCCL anticipating its support in opposing this chronic inequality.Instead, I found myself in dispute with the NCCL's General Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, who (successfully) fought a campaign against Conservative Party policy on this issue.
In 1982 Patricia Hewitt wrote a book The Abuse of Power. She says (pages 173/4) "... thousands of women, mainly of Asian origin, have been deprived of their right to be joined her by their fiances or husbands."
The word "right" presupposes something good. There was (and is) nothing to prevent those women from living in their fiances/husband's country. "Right" subverts argument as to what is good and should therefore be the law.
Once here, foreign fiances and husbands have the "right" to compete with Englishmen, Scotsmen, etc. on "equal" terms for work and promotion. (The achievement of our forefathers to spread the English language means that our native tongue is not the protection it is in other countries.)
Patricia Hewitt was, until recently, Secretary of State for Health, and Minister for Women.
Activists/politicians as well as fiancees/wives, lawyers and others who claim success for defeating the Conservatives' 1979 General Election policy on this issue are guilty of subverting democratic power.