The EU strikes again

On Monday new rules come into place meaning that immigrants wanting to marry a Briton or other UK resident will have to pass a basic English test before they are handed a visa in bid to promote integration and crack down on sham marriages. This is a policy which is somewhat late but then Labour were never interested in minimising immigration, just 'rubbing the right's nose in diversiry'.

However there is an obvious problem with this legislation and that is that that EU citizens who are not British are exempt. This is because the spouse of an EU citizen is automatically given the same right to free movement as the EU citizen under EU rules.

Thus the new rule will actually discriminate against British citizens because EU laws mean other Europeans living here can bring in a foreign partner from anywhere in the world without having to pass the test.