Systemic Imbalance

BBC Radio 4's Today programme today told of legal pressure on the British Government to allow 3 detainees from Guantanamo to be allowed to live in the UK, even though they have Jordanian, Libyan and Algerian nationality.
The Today programme of 5 December had a report from a detention centre in the Ukraine. It contains nearly 500 people, all men, who had been caught trying to enter Slovakia illegally. All had applied for asylum and been refused. All would be released after 6 months' detention. They would then try again to enter the European Union illegally. A Somali said his intention was to live in London.
There are numerous Non-Governmental Organisations as well as Government organisations to assist such people when they come to the UK.
But there are no organisations to prevent them from living here. Nor do Englishmen have access to the law. All there is is the Government, and it is itself divided.
There is a systemic imbalance.
The 1979 Conservative Government was elected to end the concession whereby foreign men can live in the UK through marriage. I had complained to the European Commission of Human Rights on 10 June 1977 about foreign men being able to occupy the UK in this way. But I was informed only people subject to a decision by a government body could appeal to them.
Mrs Thatcher did not keep her election promise, and Britain is rightly seen as being weak and divided.
In 1967 I had a bitter dispute with my Conservative MP about immigration into the UK.
It is not kind to enable one's country to be occupied. On the contrary, it causes confusion as well as much unhappiness. This is because immigration officers are given an impossible task.
In 1965 I had hoped to marry my Japanese pen friend. But though she came to Heathrow I never met her. She was sent back for not having a return ticket.
In 1978 I had a Japanese girl friend who was returned to Ostend from Dover (at 20 past midnight! on 26 September) on the grounds that she was not a genuine visitor. That was false: she worked for an embassy in Tokyo and had a fortnight's leave.
In 1979 we met in Paris. On 12 August we arrived in St. Helier and were turned back at immigration control.
Thanks to the Dublin Convention, to which the UK signed up in 1992, genuinely ungenuine visitors are not returned to France. ("... under the Dublin Convention the French government can disclaim responsibility for them unless the UK can find tangible proof of the applicants having passed through France." One would think that being on a ferry from Calais or using the Channel Tunnel would be proof enough!...)
The rule of law, much vaunted as one of the 3 pillars of the EU (together with democracy and human rights) is both flouted (e.g., amnesties in Spain, Italy and the UK [in 1975]) and undermined (cf, people who return to their own countries when their visa expires and those who overstay).
Husbands are men and those two Today programme reports concerned men. The leader in Parliament who supports the Guantanamo detainees is Sarah Teather MP. Perhaps she would not be so enthusiastic in her support if foreign and Commonwealth men did not have the loophole of marriage left vacant by Mrs. Thatcher. Miss Teather supported her case by saying that the Jordanian has 5 children in the UK.
I don't want children because of these issues.
Last night at my sailing club we held a minute's silence because one of our members, a 21-year-old Englishman, had just been killed in Afghanistan.
"England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
England is sinking. When the Thames Barrier can no longer protect London maybe the Conservative Government - of what is left of the UK - will see the light.
Ditto human rights people....