Saturday, 30 June 2007

Unfair P(l)ay

Even multi-millionairesses campaigned for equal pay for unequal work (at Wimbledon).
The 3 pillars of the EU are democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
The UK has failed on all three counts:
Democracy: Mrs Thatcher did not keep her election promise of 1979 to end the concession by which foreign men can live in the UK through marriage.
Human Rights: People who are not allowed to live in the UK have the potential "right" to enable them to do so. (Because they are subject to a decision by a government body.) Indigenous Britons, by contrast, have no "rights" to prevent them.
Rule of Law: (1) Other people had access to the law to determine whether the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act applies to immigration control. Englishmen did not.
(2) The House of Lords determined in 1983 that the Sex Discrimination Act did not apply to immigration control. Therefore the Equal Opportunities Commission's campaign against the Government's policy to stop foreign men from occupying the UK through marriage was illegal.
(3) The National Audit Office recently estimated there are between half a million and more than 800,000 people living illegally in the UK. That they are tolerated is contrary to the rule of law. The argument that the taxes they pay gives them a legitimate claim to be here is false; working is also against the law.
(4) In the 1970s Alfred White, a pensioner, was killed when he was hit by a brick while on a National Front march. The police were ordered not to investigate the murder for the sake of community relations.
(5) In the 1970s Britain had amnesties for illegal immigrants. Recently Italy and Spain have had similar amnesties. Legalising illegals (over a million in Spain) not only gives them legitimacy but enables them to have the "right" to bring in their relatives - ad infinitum.

Thursday, 28 June 2007

Unfair Play

On BBC 2's review of Wimbledon last night, John Inverdale pointed out the unfairness of women tennis players receiving equal pay to the men while the men have to play the best of 5 sets compared to the women's 3. (In fact, he cited an instance in the day's play of a woman receiving more than a man who had played 5 sets.)
To which John McEnroe responded "We have to set an example."
My late Mum thought John McEnroe a genius, so it beggars belief that he thinks it
sets a good example to support unfairness.
John Inverdale conceded he was flogging a dead horse.