marriage&migration

The issue of immigration into the UK won't go away. It was supposed to have ended in July 1962 when the Commonwealth Immigration Act came into force.
I had set out for Asia with much hope in my heart in the summer of 1959. But there was nowhere I was allowed to live and work.
I returned to the UK at the end of June 1962 totally demoralised. The first half of 1962 had seen a rush by young men from the Commonwealth to beat the Act, and I knew that young men would continue to come to the UK on tourist and student visas and be able to live here permanently by finding someone to marry. Conscription had just ended; but that was supposed to benefit young British men, not foreigners.
James Callaghan, former Prime Minister, closed the marriage loophole in 1969.
But, due to extensive pressure, it was re-opened in 1975 (the UN's International Women's Year).
It was Conservative Party policy to end this "concession". But, according to media reports, the Conservatives would never be able to implement it because it was contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights.
So on 10 June 1977 I complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that the UK Government allows foreign and Commonwealth men to live and work in the UK through marriage even though I (and other Englishmen) cannot live and work in their countries through marriage.
The upshot of protracted correspondence was that the Commission could only investigate complaints brought by individuals who were victims of decisions by a government body - and I hadn't been. So I put my complaint to the Equal Opportunities Commission - which I knew was campaigning against Conservative Party policy on this issue, and which is supposed by law to support complaints brought by men. The EOC rebuffed my complaint on the grounds that it was outside its "ambit".
So I complained to the ECHR about the EOC's decision against me. The response was that I should challenge the EOC in the UK courts. To this end I sought legal aid. I qualified on financial grounds, but the Law Commission would not grant me a Green Certificate.
Meanwhile, other people were taking similar action to thwart the Conservative Party's policy on this issue.
When Mrs. Thatcher was elected Prime Minister on 3 May 1979 she announced that - unlike previous Prime Ministers - she would honour her election promises. But she did not keep this one.
And on 12 May 1982 - when the Falklands Conflict was at its height - the European Commission of Human Rights determined that the complaint of three (foreign) women whose husbands were not allowed to live in the UK was admissible.
This even though it was not until the following year that the House of Lords determined that the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act did not apply to immigration control.
So now, just as before, while British servicemen are dying and being gravely injured , foreign and Commonwealth men are occupying the UK through marriage.
Not only is the demography of the UK changing rapidly but this is a major reason for the large surplus of young men compared with young women in the UK - just as it was in 1962.
And native British men have no "rights" to prevent it.
Enabling British men to live and work elsewhere (outside the EU) does not solve these problems.