Gordon Brown Advertises or Professional Immigrants
“IMMIGRANTS,” screams the Express, calling the country’s assorted Poles, Australians and more to attention, “NO BROWN WANTS MORE.”
When Anorak mocked up Gordon Brown as Oliver Twist, we meant it in jest.
But he can’t have any more. There aren’t any more. Everyone’s already here. To get more immigrants, the immigrants will have to go away and come back again. Perhaps British Airways could put them in bags to Milan and save on costs?
But Gordon Brown wants more. He says the number of job vacancies has now increased to 675,000 and businesses can benefit from being able to “recruit more widely”.
The Express presses ‘1’ on the speed dial and contacts Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of Migrationwatch UK.
Mr Green could stick on a moustache and dress himself in manmade fibres and help Gordon out. But instead he tells the paper: “It is astonishing the Prime Minister does not realise that immigrants do not fill vacancies. They create as many as they fill, as the House of Lords confirmed. The Government claims to be relying on the points system that it plans to introduce, but a points system without a limit is, quite literally, pointless.”
Points are pointless if they don’t point to a poignant points systems.
To help us make sense of it all, Tory leader David Cameron says: “If you want to control immigration you have to control that bit of immigration you are able to control.”
Indeed, you cannot control that which you cannot control, that which may be out of control or beyond your control. That would be pointless, something Mr Green has already touched upon.
None of this, of course, helps the immigrant who is uncertain what best to do. Anorak suggests that the Government creates the job title of Professional Immigrant and advertises for staff.
Of course, this is an equal opportunities country and the job offer is open to anyone from overseas as it is to Mr Green, David Cameron and YTS trainees…
Posted: 2nd, April 2008 | In: Politicians, Tabloids Comments (2) | TrackBack | Permalink
