It’s a Bank Holiday, and I’m off to get pissed, so I’ll be brief today…

It appears the plans to ban ’sham’ marriages has been blocked by the High Court on the basis that it’s discriminatory against immigrants. This is because if you were from outside the EU with less than 6 months permission to be in the UK then you need Home office permission to get married. Unless you’re Church of England. And of course there’s loads upon loads of Church of England-er’s outside the EU.

Anyway, the idea of this law was that it would close the loophole that allowed any Tom Dick or Hamza to stay in the country if they paid someone enough to marry them. (more…)

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