Preventable Evil

It is 40 years this May since Enoch Powell's speech against continuing immigration into the UK. When interviewed he said that, of course, it is about numbers: one Chinaman in Birmingham is neither here nor there but a quarter of a million would make a difference. (That, as it turned out, was roughly the number of Hong Kong citizens Mrs. Thatcher's Government allowed to settle in the UK.)
Last night's BBC 1 News reported on many Chinese (from Fukien) applying for British passports in London, each of whom was paying £900 for a (false) certificate that they could speak English. Even if they could speak English (which they couldn't) there is no good reason for allowing them to settle in the UK.
A few years ago there was a radio programme about the hundreds of Chinese living in Austria. There was no record of any dying. This was because when one died, someone living there illegally assumed his/her identity.
It can be confidently assumed that the same thing is happening here.
Enoch Powell described immigration as a "preventable evil".
Last night's News also showed the bodies of two Royal Marines being brought back from Afghanistan.
BBC Radio 4 News today told of Mr. Justice Coleridge's speech in Brighton about the "melt-down" of family life in Britain.
I used to want children, but not since 1962 when it was obvious to me that one result of the Commonwealth Immigration Act was that Commonwealth men would come to Britain as students or tourists and find someone to marry in order to live here permanently.
These issues relate to my complaint 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.
For one thing, the ECHR responded that it could only investigate complaints from someone who had been the victim of a decision by a government body. This means that native Britons have no "rights" to prevent their country from being occupied.
For another, the Council of Europe coordinated its activities in this area with Japan. In 1985 it determined in favour of three women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK; and as from 1 January 1985 foreign men have been allowed to live and work in Japan through marriage.
This gives a false impression of "equality", but does nothing to address the problem of migration to the UK. It just adds to the problems of the Japanese.