We have to welcome foreign worker who really put up more to our country. British economy booming because forginer’s investments and great contribution playing great percentage. I think Labour government’s point system will work. This way we can stop people who come to UK for claiming benefits ONLY.

I am rather disappointed with this policy. I like the diversity in society that arises from immigration. The recent report from the Lords may have stated that immigration wasn't economically beneficial, but it didn't say it was damaging either, more that it balanced itself out. Why can't we continue to invite people to share the benefits of living in Great Britain that we all take for granted? People should be allowed the opportunity to improve their lives for themselves and their families and should not be prevented from doing so because they were born somerwhere else. An aside, I think Gordon is doing a marvellous job and I hope people will come to realise this without having to experience a different (i.e Tory) Government's mistakes first.

Headline: "Only those who have a right to be in Britain should be allowed to come here".... Gordon, can we have a list of the groups that are allowed to come here? I've no problem with the fact that people can come here, and that we can go there, but -as evidenced by the fact that the EU allows for mass freedom of movement - I do have a problem with shallow and misleading sound-bites.

Hi What i would like from Gordon Brown is a full pull out from the E.U and visas for all other Countries, this would save our Country so much money, is it right someone can claim tax credits from outside of Great Britain for there children. This money could go to our old people. Our borders must now be closed and Gordon Brown should cut taxes and benefits and once the E.U have left get our own lazy people back to work, no work, no benefits. How to tackle crime this country should bring back the death penalty and it will be allowed, as Gordon Brown has left E.U also our streets should be Patrolled by a national Guard to keep law an order. Can Gordon Brown win NO unless he changes his stance on the aboved. Regards. Neil

Too right and long overdue but as usual, you're not taking on board why you still lost voters (By not going far enough). I'm actually Anglo-Asian, British though, and proud. My dad was a British army officer, I don't speak Indian lingo - ok get on with it, I hear you say. Just stating I love Britain - it's a shame you don't! I echoed this on the EU comment but it's part and parcel. Forget freedom of movement, even EU migration is a problem, not just non-EU.(Don't forget the reports are that hospitals can't cope with the glut of foreign-born babies here) And how come millions (Yes, millions) of these EU nationals can send money home, not rengenerating OUR economy? How do you make up the shortfall? (Please DON'T try and say their taxes/nat. insurance make up for it, rubbish! I'm sure the child benefits paid to EU nationals when their kids are in their homeland scale that down!). If I went to my bank and withdrew my £50,000 (as if) to live in Spain, I'm sure I'd be told that the government doesn't take it lightly when we 'take so much money out of the country' etc etc.(But migrants - yes migrants from the EU send billions away without a blind eye) This is badly (and madly) missed. I don't want my council tax to go up to subsidise new arrivals and then be called a racist for suggesting so. Stop promoting the 'economic benefits of migrants' etc when it's outweighing the real benefits to us. A lot of immigrants are decent, hell, a lot fought for us during various wars and some DIDN'T want to emigrate here, but these new arrivals, asylum seekers (Plenty from Afganistan, Iraq,somalia - security of borders at a time of national security, anyone? Does that argument have any ears burning?) are taking and not giving. Are you helping asylum seekers into work when they are granted leave to stay? Are you allowing them favouritism over us all yet NOT calling that discrimination? How are Gurkha troops having to fight to stay yet various wasters, criminals from both the EU and outside are given every beneficial help to remain and continue draining this country? Start doing what you said, listen, but actually do something about this situation, that is out of control.

To our more xenophobic anglophiles it is an inconvenient fact that either Britain needs immigrants or we Anglo's need to breed more. We simply do not have the numbers of young people to pay tax in order to care for our aging population. Indubitably there are some (well-publicized) examples of immigrants milking the benefit system but there are also a great number of British folk engaged in the same deception. Lax controls of benefit our systems promote cheating. The argument concerning the movement of EU citizens can also be applied to the exodus of Brits to Spain, Portugal, France etc. Are we to be indignant if other EU nations expel British immigrants from their country? I suspect the gutter press would not fail to take the opportunity to whip up a jingoistic frenzy. I'm comfortable with immigration but I do agree that some of our Council and Governmental edicts do tend towards a peculiar PC mentality whereby the tax-payer forks out for such nonsense as free interpreters for people who won't learn English. If these people have no interest in learning English then they should pay their own translation costs etc. The latest nonsense is to remove accounts of the Nazi death camps from our national curriculum because it offends Muslims who don't believe in it. Tough luck chum; believe what you like but don't impose such errant nonsense upon the rest of us. A more sinister statement from the opening address of this discussion forum is: "issue compulsory ID cards to foreign nationals". All very innocuous until one realizes that the creeping introduction of ID cards is not confined to immigrants it also encompasses virtually all of our young people in one way or another. I would support our astronomically expensive ID card proposal if it removed the need for other forms of ID such as driving licence, passport, medical card et al. Unfortunately, it doesn't; it is simply another irritating and expensive vestige of bureaucracy which has already been proven not to work. I'm also deeply suspicious of any mechanism which puts all of a person's data in one place. ID theft will be rife and a stolen ID card is a godsend to criminals who will be very adept at ripping the data from the embedded chip. I also have no confidence in the safety mechanisms concerning distribution of our personal data as recent events have shown with bank account data etc being sent by Government departments, in insecure fashion,...nilly to all and sundry. Immigration worries are a side-show compared to the sinister Stazi-ization of our democracy by our very own elected representatives. I've voted Labour all my short 50 years of life but I'm becoming disturbed by events of the past five years or so; our freedom is being eroded daily. Democracy is supposed to be 'rule by the majority' but is increasingly becoming 'rule by various minorities that we don't like to offend'. My message to such minorities is; "Grow a thicker skin and stop whining.". Wake up folks; it's not immigration that's the problem....it's PC.

Labour have two choices; 1. Start controlling our borders how the majority want them controlled - Stop immigration altogether and allow those here to learn our values not vice versa. 2. Lose the next election. England is on course to become the most crowded country in Europe - with 10 times more immigrants in England than Scotland (coincidence?), we were never asked if multiculturalism is what we wanted - I have never met anyone who agrees with it.

this is why you lost so many votes ..get the illegal,s and criminals out instead of letting them walk our streets

Do people realy decide to vote for a different party based on a couple of things they dont like? If thats true, they would rather have someone they mostly disagree with in power!

THIS COMMENT IS NOTHING TO-DO WITH IMMIGRATION BUT TO-DO WITH TERRORISTS In this country you can still be hung for Treason. Rather than charging them with Terrorism Offences charge them with Treason. Because they are effectivly going against the Queens wishes. And this sends a message to those who think its a good idea to blow things up.

Australian style points system, what about an Australian style stance on these scroungers. Take the red tape away allowing the few that get caught dragging matters on and on, your the government for god sake. I tried recently to report about a dozen ILLEGAL immigrants that I know of and guess what...there's no obvious place offering this facility on ANY gov web site I've trawled. Talk about head in the sand, we don't want to acknowledge the problem is as bad as it really is!. WHY OH WHY isn't this facility in place. I wrote to my local MP (Yevette Cooper)and instead of writing back and showing any concern, all I recieved was a phone number for me to ring to report the problem!!! These are Romanian illegal immigrants like so many others here illegally, plus working with Polish papers. Wake up Labour, you have two years left to get tough on immigration, not 'mamby pamby' follow part of what other governments have done and pick away at the problem. Get on the streets of ANY city and check the thousands and thousands of them out, deport them quicker and confiscate any possessions they may have to help pay for the deportation.

the new policy being introduced is double edged, it has the potential to make our country safer, but could be claimed to over controlling. i fostered unaccompanied asylum seeker children from albanian, both claimed to be children neither was. they were muslim and thought that becausewe were gay carers that we should be beheaded and put in prison, we provided them with the best of everything, but they wanted more and more, and did have tolerance of differencce, these people are here, and now have citizenship, but they not understanding of the host country, they should be deported. it is these people who pose the biggest threat to our society and risk insighting hatred, and destroying the cohesivness that our forfathers fought for, new citizens should watch 'Carve her name with pride' 'Odette' and many of the war films that formed the basis of our civil duty to each other. TRUE CITIZENS ARE TOLERANT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS who have respect of and for thier neighbour, and would help them when in need

I agree with Lauren, I mean, if 'only those who have a right to be in Britain should be allowed to come here' then why do I see so many foreigners breaking our laws, destroying our culture and sponging off our economy? I appreciate that not all immigrants are like this and we have a lot to be thankful for to the ones who are hard working and have real skills. But when will this joke end, what is going to happen to the ones who don't fit into the 'points system', the ones filling up our prisons so English delinquants cannot be punished? Lastly, I'm not against immigration, in fact in September I will be immigrating to France to study at university there, the difference is, I am fluent in their language, I appreciate their culture, and will not go about breaking their laws, unlike so many who come here! I want to see action: only people with skills, who speak our language and who respect our lifestyle should be allowed to come here. I seems too obvious to me that we've already lost our national identity.

What about the all the people who have nothing good about them and are jsut coming here to scrounge of our benefits, our health care, our schools? The ones from the E.U? Screw Brussels, they have no idea how annoying it is gewtting on a bus and the driver can't even speak english, when you find Euro's in your change!

Delivering on immigration. Presumably you mean delivering more potential Liebour voters into England. I noticed that during the oath swearing ceremony there is a sign saying register to vote here.

Free travel trade between member states is one of the founding principles of the EU. The right to work and do business freely across boundaries was firmly established by the Single European Act under Thatcher's Tory government.