Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
The independent Migration Advisory Committee came up with the earnings threshold when asked by the government to calculate the minimum needed to avoid recourse to public funds. But £18,600 is half again as much as someone would make working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, at the minimum wage. According to the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, 47% of British citizens in employment would not qualify to bring in a family member, nor would 58% of people 20-30 years old, or 61% of women of any age.

http://www.economist.com/node/21556926
Unless of course you are, for example from the Ukraine, unable to speak a word of English and have a wife and kids from Outer Mongolia...you'll get in the uk no problem.

Take the Falkland Island......... Cammeron has given those islanders the right to vote on there sovereignty...yet we have no say at all on ours..we, .the electorate who put this moron in charge