Apparently today, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to apologize for the UK’s role in sending tens of thousands of children to former colonies where they suffered very terrible abuse. The UK is the only country that has a sustained history of child migration.
Mr Gordon Brown will express the government’s regrets over the child migration [...]

Popularity: 44%

China to execute British drug smuggler

Posted on: December 22nd, 2009 Posted by Mathew Walters

The Chinese Supreme People’s Court has rejected the appeal of 51-year-old Akmal Shaikh who has been sentenced to death for drug smuggling.
Shaikh was arrested in the north-western city of Urumqi in September 2007 after he was discovered to be carrying 4kg of heroin. Shaikh maintains his guilt and denies any knowledge of the drugs. In [...]

Popularity: 32%

Widespread changes are forecast for immigration legislation should next year’s election see the Conservative Party victorious. Labour’s immigration policy is looming as a key issue in the election after coming under continued fire over recent months.
Among the changes mooted by the Tories would be a complete overhaul for skilled migrants under the Tier 1 and [...]

Popularity: 17%

A poll released last night shows the two in three UK voters feel that immigration is bad for Britain.
The survey, which looked at a range of policies regarding border control, revealed that 67 percent of voters feel that there was a negative effect on the UK from immigration. The majority of pollsters expressed concerns that [...]

Popularity: 18%

Reports now show that David Cameron, the Conservative leader, just recently accused Gordon Brown of monumental failures in the government. He also said that Mr. Brown was behaving like an irresponsible opposition over the Queen’s speech.
In the parliamentary response to the state opening of parliament, David Cameron went on to launch an attack on Gordon [...]

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It seems that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has come out and told people that are worried about emigration in the UK, that this is no longer a racist subject. In Brown’s first speech on the emigration subject for two years he said that he has never agreed with the lazy elitism political correspondent that just [...]

Popularity: 11%

Gordon Brown Offers New Emigrant Limits

Posted on: November 13th, 2009 Posted by Beth Williams

It now seems that emigrant workers will only fill jobs temporarily in parts of the economy where there are labor shortages. This new announcement came from PM Gordon Brown who hasn’t made a significant speech on emigration since he became prime minister.
Gordon Brown finally chose to intervene with the critical issue on emigration, which has [...]

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Pledge to cut immigration from Gordon Brown

Posted on: November 13th, 2009 Posted by Anna Rowlands

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced new measures in the controversial immigration debate which will now see professionals from outside Europe such as doctors prevented from taking jobs in the UK.
The subject of much media coverage in recent months, immigration is looming as one of the key factors in next year’s general elections.
Mr Brown [...]

Popularity: 18%