Hey,

What the Governemtn tries not to tell you!

Want to come into the Uk without a visa - and, perhaps, even without a passport:

Come by Eurostar and use the "Lille Loophole": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16058860

Or travel to the Irish Republic and just walk over the border. Then take the ferry to Scotland. The border controls for the ferry have just been scrapped (to save money) because this is an "internal" frontier!

Perhaps you would like your foreign spouse (of either sex, nowadays) to come and live with you in the UK. No problem. Just live in Dublin - or any other EU city in the EU country you are not a passport holder of - and then you are "exercising your Treaty of Rome rights". Provided you have exercised your treaty rights for six months at some time in your life, it is against Article 8 of the Euro Human Rights Act to prevent you from enjoying a "family life". So against EU law to insist on visas, work permits etc for your spouse.

(My wife is Spanish and because our son has a Spanish passport and lives in UK, his US wife used this!)

So, checking passports - especially with pre-notified information for airline flights - a complete waste of time.

And these are all "legal": none of this smuggling in on light aircraft nonsense.