Gordon Brown Says He Understands Public Fears on Emigration

Just this week, Gordon Brown insisted that he does understand the public's fear regarding emigration. As the Prime Minister prepared himself for the third and final leaders debate, he said that he wanted to concentrate on the economy following his encounter with 66-year-old Gillian Duffy on the campaign trail. Mr Gordon Brown said that yesterday is yesterday. Now he wants to talk about the future of the economy. This was the statement that he gave when addressing workers at a factory in Halesowen in the West Midlands.

Despite what Mr Brown says, the issue of emigration continues to be a factor that he has to look into. In fact, one worker demand to know what Mr Brown was planning on doing about the emigration problems in the UK during the question and answer session of the speech. It was at this point where Mr Brown insisted that he understood the sense of public concern regarding emigration. He went on to point to the Government's introduction of an Australian style point based system for workers coming from outside the European Union as proof.

Gordon Brown finished up by saying that he understands the worries that people have about emigration overall. He understands the concerns about what is happening to the neighborhoods. He also understands the fear that people are living with. However, the UK has taken action with this new point based system. Net emigration to the UK is now coming down.

It is still not clear if people believe that this new point based emigration system will work. However, the government seems pretty sure that this system, that is now in place, will bring down the net number of emigrants to the UK.