Not such wise words (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Not such wise words

2:00pm Monday 30th March 2009 in Readers' letters By Telegraph & Argus

SIR – I would like to respond to the letter from Richard Corbett MEP (T&A, March 12) regarding British jobs.

Mr Corbett would have us believe that when Gordon Brown announced “British jobs for British people” he was meaning that British people should have the best training and access to jobs without discrimination.

This is, of course, not what Mr Brown was saying when he was trying to appeal to Labour supporters at the TUC in Brighton.

Mr Brown said he wanted to fast-track British people into vacant British jobs, even though he knew this was impossible.

Mr Corbett is trying to reinterpret Mr Brown’s speech as he knows what he was saying was illegal under EU law.

Mr Corbett goes on to say that nearly two million British people are employed in the EU; I think he will find that two million is the number of British people who live in the EU, rather than work.

Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury, Bradford