British jobs for British workers

Gordon Brown's famous 'British jobs for British people' speech of a year back

It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years," he told the union in Brighton, just a month before taking over as Prime Minister.

He went on to outline plans to help reduce the tally of 30,000 Londoners who had been unemployed for more than a year by ensuring an estimated 200,000 Olympics-related vacancies in hotels, retail and hospitality as well as construction would mean apprenticeships for the local jobless.

The idea of "British workers for British jobs" was clearly nationalistic but it did imply that the aim was to equip Britons to fill vacancies, which is what Mr Brown now insists he meant all along.


Hopefully, one day, Malaysia would say " Malaysia's jobs for Malaysians only"