The famous Gordon Brown promise of ‘British jobs for British workers’ somehow doesn’t ring true when it appears that over 7,000 security jobs in Britain – and even in our police force – were actually given to ILLEGAL immigrants approved by the less-than-competent Security Industry Authority.
As if giving the jobs to any foreigners at all wasn’t bad enough.
To make matters worse, we don’t appear to have done anything at all to expel them from the UK. Only 35 out of 7,729 of the immigrants have been deported so far.
3,275 of those used a false name or National Insurance number when applying for jobs, according to information revealed in answers to Parliamentary questions.
The Home Office was criticised more than a year ago in 2007, when it was ‘discovered’ that basic checks were not being done to see if job applicants were entitled to work in the UK.
It seems that twelve illegals were actually approved for security jobs with the Metropolitan Police, including one found to be guarding the Prime Minister’s car. 
Perhaps with the state of the country as it is, Brown couldn’t be sure that a British guard would actually bother to protect him from his own citizens, never mind terrorists?
Gordon Brown is dragging his heels on reforming the way we fund our politicians.
We at The British Citizen believe that the old system of party politics is, in any case, no longer right for Britain in the 21st century. One of its many flaws is certainly the whole question of party funding, which clearly favours wealthy or financially powerful organisations and individuals rather than the interests of the British people as a whole.
Unless major reform creates a level playing field for the funding of our elected representatives, government will continue to represent fewer and fewer of its ordinary citizens, protecting instead the interests of the wealthy and powerful who fill its coffers with large donations.
Reform is therefore well overdue, and we must not entrust any reform of party politics or funding to politicians themselves, nor anyone appointed by politicians.
The British Citizen wants impartial auditors, arbitrators or ombudsmen to be chosen to investigate and make practical recommendations to the people, without political spin or interference.
Only then can we decide for ourselves how we want to elect and fund our democratic representatives.
Only then can we have faith in the decisions they make on our behalf.
Reform needs to happen, and it needs to happen now.
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