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Peter Hitchens, Who and what do you think Gordon Brown had in mind when at the TUC conference this week he proposed to make it harder for migrants to come and work in Britain by requesting a better knowledge of English, a measure not targetting EU citizens?
Asked by rtatoud on Sep 12 2007 10:50:15 AM and supported by 19 members
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I think he had the opinion polls in mind, and the need to appear to be doing something about levels of immigration many Labour voters find worrying. Since EU citizens, and future EU citizens are the main component of our present and expected immigration, such pledges have little meaning.
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rtatoud at Sep 21 2007 12:00:00 AM I think you are right. What was most ridiculous is that newspapers illustrated the news with construction workers obviously coming form central Europe...