The whip hand
How does Gordon Brown plan to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Britain? By reintroducing it.
Mr Brown said: “Being a British citizen is about more than a test, more than a ceremony. It’s a kind of contract between the citizen and the country involving rights but also involving responsibilities that will protect and enhance the British way of life.
“It’s also right to consider asking men and women seeking citizenship to undertake community work in our country, or something akin to that, that introduces them to a wider range of institutions and people.”
If this comes to pass I will eat an item of clothing nominated by a commenter. It’s crypto-racist, dog-whistle excrement. BNP-appeasing excrement at that. Yes, let’s get those shiftless freeloading foreigners to sing for their suppers. Never mind the contribution they could be making to the economy by doing paid work instead of indenturing them.
I can think of probably thousands of British people who could do with some community service in order to foster their integration into society – why isn’t he suggesting they get off their arses? Oh, because they’re voters.
I bet there are no plans to ask millionaire businessmen coming here to wipe arses in care homes for nothing either.
And you thought Blair was the master of here-today gone-tomorrow back of a fag packet cobblers. Brown’s supposed to be the brains of the duo, God help us.
Posted on February 28th, 2007 at 10:18pm under Brown, Eye Catching Initiatives, UK politics
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Is the man Brown an imbecile or what ? Focus groups tell him that he’s not perceived as sufficiently British….or is it English ? Who cares ? He now claims to support the England football team for God’s sake !
The power of focus groups is evidently not what they can tell our leaders about our voting intentions,it’s about how they can encourage politicians to lose any shred of credibility they might still cling on to.
The man is making himself an alien to common sense:the value we Brits are supposed to possess in spades.
Please deport the sponger before he secures more support from the great unwashed,gets elected and then proceeds to rob me blind with new tax schemes.
“The ponce is a modern day Dick Turpin.Please
get him off my back,” one cabinet insider told the BBC.
To paraphrase Longbaugh “I don’t think this is a brains kind of a duo, y’know?”
Foreigners…limited rights…work for the state…granted citizenship.
Well, if it was good enough for Roman slaves:
http://bread-and-circuses.net/?p=139
“Being a British citizen is about more than a test, more than a ceremony”
Fancy that. I managed it just by being born.
Roman Abramovitch wiping arses in care homes.
Great idea. I like it!
Community service is one of the punishments that can be handed down by the judicial system.
Gordon Brown wants applicants for British citizenship to undertake community service.
ergo: Gordon Brown wants applicants for British citizenship to be punished.
solent: Or at least sow the seed in British minds that immigrants should repay a debt to society.
Am I the only one who sees an oxymoron in Gordon Brown’s requiring people to “volunteer”?
Yes, I noticed that, Tom. The BBC report used the term ‘obliging migrants to carry out community work’. Obligation.
Justin, I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m going through the process of becoming a citizen at the moment.
I guess the tens of thousands of pounds I’ve paid in taxes, as well as the £1000-odd for my work visa, permanent residence, naturalisation and then passport clearly don’t prove that I’m anything other than some rotten, freeloading johnny foreigner.
I like the idea of community service, but this is just insulting.