British jobs for British workers

Sir Graphus

This is back to the good old days of New Labour, where, if a minister made a speech strongly advocating one position, you could be damn sure at least 3 policies were being enacted that were achieving the opposite, whether by design or incompetence. As always, take no notice of what they say; look at what they do.

Either way, there’s a strong element of the stable door about this.

Chuck Unsworth

Stable door stuff - in so many senses. He's blown it electorally. Why should anyone believe this garbage? So far he's shown that the sloganeering and rhetoric is never followed by real action. And what does he propose to do about those who are already here?

This is simply rearguard action in the light of Neather - and it will be seen as such.

Pete-s

Jowell has for a long time said that the Olympics will bring a lot of jobs to East London, true. What she refuses to admit that virtually none went to east london residents. Most are east europeans deliberately brought in by companies. When will the Labour lies ever stop?

Nicholas

Horse, door, bolt, stable.

And "tightening" controls a few months from a General Election after having had 12 years to "tighten" controls but in which they/he did the exact opposite - deliberately - strikes me as farcical. The fact that most of the media seems to report this sort of tripe with a straight face puts the icing on top of a commentariat cake as deranged as the loony toons in the cabinet.

And has he not promised to retrain British workers on several previous occasions? This undignified scrabbling around to save his job and his party with these ludicrous "initiatives" is getting embarassing - not least because the MSM seem to take it seriously whereas it deserves to be mocked savagely and laughed at all the way to this wretched man's long overdue electoral oblivion.

Wilhelm

30 years too late.

Although I would like 650 Polish MPs, a Polish cabinet and a Polish prime minster to replace and undercut the wages of the liebour, tory mp pigs at the westminster trough.

The MPs would have a different take on immigration if this happened.

john miller

Brown is like Mrs miller's hair dryer. It's noisy, chucks out a lot of hot air and is only good for one thing.

Paul Williams

I notice that Brown is trying to appear tough on...wait for it...non-EU migrants. Now why can we not do the same for EU migrants. Oh I forgot our government in BRussels won't let us.

Essentially we're discriminating against Commonwealth countries for the sake of the EU. What a joke

Laban Tall

What everyone else said (and is going to say). Mass immigration is key to keeping wages depressed.

As Jon Cruddas, no friend of the BNP, put it in the Guardian four years ago :

"At the same time, people see how the government has tacitly used immigration to help develop its preferences for a flexible North American-style labour market. In the service sector, construction and civil engineering, for example, immigration has been used as an informal reserve army of cheap labour. People see this at their workplace, feel it in their pocket and see it in their community - and therefore perceive it as a critical component of their own relative impoverishment.

Objectively, the social wage of many of my constituents is in decline. House prices rise inexorably, and public service improvements fail to match local population expansion. At work, their conditions, in real terms, are in decline through the unregulated use of cheap migrant labour.

Migrant labour is the axis of our whole domestic agenda".

R King

Is this another of those bills skillfully crafted in his own handwriting??

Laban Tall

What everyone else said. Mass immigration is key to keeping wages down (plus it 'rubs the right's noses in it').

As Jon Cruddas, no friend of the BNP, said in the Guardian in May 2005 :

"At the same time, people see how the government has tacitly used immigration to help develop its preferences for a flexible North American-style labour market. In the service sector, construction and civil engineering, for example, immigration has been used as an informal reserve army of cheap labour. People see this at their workplace, feel it in their pocket and see it in their community - and therefore perceive it as a critical component of their own relative impoverishment.

Objectively, the social wage of many of my constituents is in decline. House prices rise inexorably, and public service improvements fail to match local population expansion. At work, their conditions, in real terms, are in decline through the unregulated use of cheap migrant labour.

Migrant labour is the axis of our whole domestic agenda."

Nick

This still does not address the core problem. Britain is now umbilically attached to the Third World. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria on their own will soon have a joint population of 2 billion. They will be able to produce huge numbers of potential immigrants into this country for the next hundred years.

Which Tory or Labour government will have the balls to block immigration by way of marriage and family reunification? The judges won't stand for it.

Laban Tall

Apologies for the duplicate post.

Hawkeye

"Brown is expected to tighten migrant employment controls so that migrants are only used where there are labour shortages"

They tried this line before back around 2000 or so just after the IR35 debacle. It was b*****cks then and I suspect little has changed.

They've got 6 months until they are toast. What will change in 6 months?

Dennis Churchill

Wilhelm
When the media write about immigration “Poles” always seem to feature. What about Bangladeshis? There are more of them. How about Bangladeshi MPs? A Somali PM? A Cabinet of West Indians?
No matter what Brown say the open door policy will continue and another Operation Brace will be secretly put in place to clear any backlog.

David Ossitt

Paul Williams

"Oh I forgot our government in BRussels won't let us"

Not our government! those that rule us.

Rhoda Klapp

Seems like only yesterday they were telling us how good immigration is for the country, and that any doubts on the part of the current (I dare not write indigenous, I'm already in the nasty tendency) population are to be dismissed as phobias of various sorts. And now they plan to 'tackle' the problem. The only problem they intend to tackle is the fact that immigration is unpopular, and the fact that the real problem will remain untackled doesn't matter, they have 'done something'. Can they be impeached?

DavidDP

Oh well. Looks like I'll never get to be with my American girlfriend.

Billy Blofeld

Given there are 2.47 million unemployed - where exactly are the labour shortages that will require migrant workers?

Are we 3 brain surgeons short - is that the problem?

ed hall

DavidDP

Go and live in the USA or shut up.

Tankus

Might as well ignore gordon now anyway , Every positive thing that he states will not happen until after the next election , so he will not act on them ,its just make todays headline , and an attempt to wrong foot the cons.

Unless it commits the government to more debt , then he will spend it next month .

The budget is going to be interesting , to say the least.

2trueblue

Haven't we heard this before? Too late Gordo, there is a recession and there are not many vacancies. Maybe someone should tell him.

Owly

This is self-serving electioneering plain and simple.

It is also a trap for the Conservatives. Brown wants them to talk about immigration but not the immigration that everyone is furious about. Instead he sneakily chooses the battlefield of skilled workers - the most skilled of them all - who is really worried about that.

So tonight on Question Time there will be a debate not about uncontrolled immigration but about qualified medical workers' immigration.

Brown will be spinning to the end.

Wilhelm

Dennis Churchill

I would have written Africans, Jamicans and muslims but I thought that I woud get moderated and the comment not get published.

So I wrote Poles so I wouldnt be accused by the Facist Left of '' wacism''.

Edward Sutherland

Conservatives and Coffee House have missed a golden opportunity to make real political capital out of this ever since the Neather revelations. Not impressed at all by Messrs Grayling and Massie's feeble contributions- and nothing from Fraser Nelson.

Chris lancashire

The only certainty from Brown's speech is that it will result in a reduction of not one immigrant.

Beer Moth

Rhoda Klapp

Indegenous and proud.

There ARE people who are native to these islands. They know who they are.

Even Jack Straw acknowledges that in his comments as mentioned in the Neather revelation. And not a thing the multiculti industry does or says, can dislodge that truth.

Nick

You make a very good point. We need to choke off the massive, unfettered influx very quickly.

.... .... ......

Starting with....erm.....DOCTORS!!!!

Rhoda Klapp

DavidDP, you must immediately apply for a UK citizen to fill the vacancy. You must not discriminate on the basis of Religion, Race, gender, sexual orientation or Age. If you will ever need them to look after children, then they'll need a police check too. Good Luck.

Rhoda Klapp

Beer Moth, now you've gorn n dunnit. you will be denounced as a nasty type all over the interweb, probably by people who will not defend or debate the insult when challenged, but creep away saying they don't have to talk to people like you. Or me, Or Nicholas, or...

Dennis Churchill

British criminals are also subject to foreign competition. See:
“...at least 30 serious foreign criminals are released from the Dover detention centre each month.
The release statistics, obtained by a local newspaper in Dover using a Freedom of Information request, revealed how convicts are freed into Britain instead of being deported to their homelands.”
From the ever interesting BNP site.

JohnBUK

Must be an election due!