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BRITONS SUFFER AS BROWN 'USES MIGRANT LABOUR'

GRAYLING: 'Migrant workers have been allowed to take UK jobs while many Britons remain in poverty'

Tuesday May 27,2008

By Alison Little Deputy Political Editor

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GORDON Brown has been accused of relying on an influx of migrant workers to fill British jobs.

The Tories claim the Prime Minister has used the policy as an “easy” alternative to proper welfare reform that would get many unemployed Britons back into work.

In a hard-hitting speech today, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Chris Grayling will attack Gordon Brown for leaving millions of Britons stranded in poverty while using immigration as a “safety net”.

Mr Brown last year promised “British jobs for British workers”. But his controversial pledge has proved to be hollow rhetoric after latest figures showed nearly nine in every 10 jobs created under Labour have gone to foreign workers.

Mr Grayling will point to London as an example where economic growth and prosperity should have ensured jobs for all but where there remain “serious pockets of unemployment and welfare dependency”.

“It’s not that the work hasn’t been there,” he will say. “Thousands of people have moved into all areas of London from overseas to find jobs. That is part of what makes this city so successful.

“It also demonstrates how badly this Government has let down those excluded from the labour market. Why on earth are we paying out vast amounts of money to keep people out of work, when jobs are there and being filled by people from overseas?

“Why has the Government stood idly by while such an absurd situation develops?”

Mr Grayling will add: “Gordon Brown has used migrant labour as the easy policy option. Migrant workers have helped boost economic growth and his reputation as Chancellor at a time when the economic picture would have been somewhat less rosy without the financial impact of people moving into Britain from overseas.

“Gordon Brown has used the influx of migrant workers as a way of ducking the issue of welfare reform. After all his rhetoric on poverty, he has failed to deliver the sea change he promised.”

The Government boasts of record employment but the number of UK-born workers has fallen to its lowest level since 1997 as the proportion of foreigners with jobs has increased.

Figures also indicate that almost 2,000 foreigners a day are being given National Insurance numbers, enabling them to work.

Elsewhere in his speech, Mr Grayling will urge extra help for British ethnic minorities who struggle to find jobs because their English is not good enough.

Under the Tories, new back-to-work centres will be expected to offer English language coaching to particular groups of job-seekers.

BRATISLAVA/UK

30.05.08, 12:23am

perhaps he will back Scottish devolution then he can pop back to Scotland

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

DAVEBOY

30.05.08, 12:19am

What could the EU have done to us if we hadn't let them in,not a lot, they want too much of our money to kill the goose that lays the golden egg

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

GHOSTDOG/ BRATISLAVAUK

28.05.08, 8:06am

I agree with your posts.
Look at Blair now.
He did their bidding and now his financial rewards are massive.
Brown is no Blair but he will still dance to his masters tune in the hope that his financial future will be secure.
It would appear our future is no longer in our hands.
I find the implications of all this very frightening.

• Posted by: marigold • Report Comment

MUST DO BETTER THAN THAT.

28.05.08, 5:00am

"Under the Tories, new back-to-work centres will be expected to offer English language coaching to particular groups of job-seekers."

Not good enough! If they can't speak English before they come,then they should be turned away.
How far would we get if we tried to get work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan or any other country without speaking their language?
I am sure those countries wouldn't provide free courses.
C'mon tories, you have to do better than that if you want my vote.
There is only one party that can stop the rot. They are not fascists, the anti-white fascists are already running this country, people are slowly but surely waking up to this fact.

• Posted by: beowulf • Report Comment

THIS MAN IS THE DEVIL

27.05.08, 10:29pm

Every time I read the news I can see that this man is trying to desroy Britain.
Why are we letting him get away with it ?
This really is treason !

• Posted by: millieC • Report Comment

A HEAVY PRICE IS INDEED BEING PAID

27.05.08, 9:01pm

Thanks must go to Noway for his/her painstaking catalogue of the disproportionate costs of immigration - confirming reports from the House of Lords and Migrationwatch. My suspicion is that the Bank of England and HM Treasury have engineered all this immigration in the belief that it will keep down wages - and therefore inflation. Hence Brown's role.
But surely, aside from the economics, is not a heavier price being extracted, namely the irreparable damage to the social fabric of our society, to our sense of identity and to our social cohesion? Of course these are issues which do not appear on the profit and loss balance sheet of the anoraks at the Treasury and the Bank of England.
I have examined all the political election manifestos of the main parties going back to 1964 and I can find no evidence to indicate that any main political party has ever felt the need to consult the British people on these momentous issues.

• Posted by: panadero • Report Comment