Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
You really think so, do you?

What if I were to tell you that, as an ordinary OAP my total Annual Income - inclusive of Occupational & State Retirement Pensions, respectively - amounts to just under £16k ... i.e., a full £10,000 lower than the Government's recommended minimum.

Am I to suppose - if you are to be believed - that someone in my financial situation should be debarred from bringing his/her non~European partner to the country where he/she was born and bred?

... regardless of being considered "affluent" enough to continue contributing to HM Inland Revenue coffers.

For the record, my wife is a BSc honours graduate whose degree is worth bugger all in the UK - irrespective of a successful 22-year teaching career in the Philippines. How fair is that, huh?

Yet, despite the fact that neither of us is working, we still manage to live comfortably - WITHOUT the need to rely on public funds.

So think on ...
university degrees dont count for much at all these days in the uk, this is probably due to the fact that some bright spark thought it might be a good idea if everyone goes to university and gets a degree, kids these days are lead to believe that getting a degree is the only way forward, of course the result is lots of people with degrees and no work

26k is a ballpark figure and honestly in these present times i dont think that its set too high