Gordon Brown speech on 'Controlling Immigration For A Fairer Britain'

Gordon Brown speech on 'Controlling Immigration For A Fairer Britain'; ENGLAND: East London: Shoreditch Town Hall: INT *** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY *** Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) along into room, shaking hands with delegates and along to take seat on stage Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - Pleased to be here today... / On a day when winter weather has returned... our thoughts are with family and friends of those children from Lanark Grammar School who have been injured in bus accident in the north - My abiding ambition for Britain is that it is a fair society, fair to the hard working, decent majority who play by the rules and do their best. Fairness means fairness in the way we run and the way people are treated in the NHS, fairness in the way we create the best opportunities for jobs, and fairness in the way we run our schools, our care of the elderly, and our housing policies. And when we talk of fairness it is right to talk of immigration and address people's worries and concerns. This isn't abstract - it's about how we engage with and answer the concerns of care workers, people in the building trade, cleaners and janitors, people who work in shops. It's about the hard-pressed, hard-working majority – about the questions people ask themselves on their sofa once they’ve put the kids to bed. The question of who comes to Britain, and what they have to do to earn that privilege, is something that should be the subject of open and responsible debate. But how we conduct this debate is as important as the debate itself. - I believe we are, as a country, proud of our values, our history of liberty, tolerance and fairness. We are proud that as a nation we have offered shelter to those who are fleeing torture and persecution. And we are proud too of the immense contribution – economic, social and cultural – that newcomers to Britain have offered down the years in making Britain the place that it is. And I hope and believe there's som...
Gordon Brown speech on 'Controlling Immigration For A Fairer Britain'; ENGLAND: East London: Shoreditch Town Hall: INT *** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY *** Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) along into room, shaking hands with delegates and along to take seat on stage Gordon Brown MP (Prime Minister) speech SOT - Pleased to be here today... / On a day when winter weather has returned... our thoughts are with family and friends of those children from Lanark Grammar School who have been injured in bus accident in the north - My abiding ambition for Britain is that it is a fair society, fair to the hard working, decent majority who play by the rules and do their best. Fairness means fairness in the way we run and the way people are treated in the NHS, fairness in the way we create the best opportunities for jobs, and fairness in the way we run our schools, our care of the elderly, and our housing policies. And when we talk of fairness it is right to talk of immigration and address people's worries and concerns. This isn't abstract - it's about how we engage with and answer the concerns of care workers, people in the building trade, cleaners and janitors, people who work in shops. It's about the hard-pressed, hard-working majority – about the questions people ask themselves on their sofa once they’ve put the kids to bed. The question of who comes to Britain, and what they have to do to earn that privilege, is something that should be the subject of open and responsible debate. But how we conduct this debate is as important as the debate itself. - I believe we are, as a country, proud of our values, our history of liberty, tolerance and fairness. We are proud that as a nation we have offered shelter to those who are fleeing torture and persecution. And we are proud too of the immense contribution – economic, social and cultural – that newcomers to Britain have offered down the years in making Britain the place that it is. And I hope and believe there's som...
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