The BNP have been saying all this for years, they understand exactly the problems facing our society today and have solutions for all our futures.

Paul, Nottingham, England

Your sins will find you out and New Labours misdemeanors are coming in spade fulls now. There is literally nothing that any Labour minister says that can be trusted to be even near to the truth when it comes to statistics and figures and whether its deliberate lies or pure incompetence it's difficult to judge. To cover up lies for ten years is a pretty impressive achievement and with a superb orator like Blair at the helm Labour got away with murder. Now with that soggy fist of Browns at the helm he looks a laughing stock bereft of any substance with the stuffing knocked out of him. All of this trouble in the government is self inflicted and has been stored up for a long time. Labour is now a lame duck government as its spending all its time on the ropes trying to deflect the current blows that it can't see where the next one is coming from. Keep it up Brown and you'll wish you'd called an early election !

Mike, Alicante, Spain

I had a visceral hatred of this government before - Smoking ban on health grounds rather than revealing a hatred of smokers - no referendum for fears of loosing - no election ditto. They do not believe in freedom but in controlling peoples lives and telling them what they can do. Could someone suggest a new level of hatred for me. beyond visceral

Trevor Hogg, Brighton and Hove, England

It's actually a good deal worse than you thought: The figures don't cater for the truly vast number of skilled-up Britons who have left for good. It's a bit weird how the British are condemned by their own would-be employers as rubbish, but have absolutely no difficulty persuading Australian, American, New Zealand, Irish or Dutch employers of our suitability. I make a point of working for non-British companies as a way of punishing the Brits for denouncing me and my compatriots as trash. I wish them the best with the foreigners, who will surely show them no more loyalty than I am prepared to.

Kit , Melbourne, Australia

He's only stating a fact.Most peaple in the street think he's only stating the obvious.Why should he resign,he said the truth.

harry sykes, ellesmere port, cheshire

I don't believe the British people are inately lazy. The problem lies with a welfare and tax system that acts as a discincentive to work, and a very poor education system. How else can we have eight million economically active people out of work and yet require milions of migrants? After 10 years in power and tens of bilions of pounds of extra spending, the fault surely lies with this incompetent government.

anthony beachey, lymington, hants, UK

As somebody who hires for the catering industry, I'd just like to point out that I don't need need to know what government statististics say.

All I need to know is that Eastern Europeans work like Spartans for the agreed wage, whereas English lads are as likely to turn up stoned or hungover as they are to turn up at all.

I hate the way the papers are always whining on about immigrants. If it wasn't for immigrants, whose labour do you think would keep this economy going, and whose taxes do you think would pay for our NHS/Pensions/Police ?

Bob, Liverpool, UK

These indigenous workers who lack a "work ethic" are the descendants of folk who built the Lancaster, the Spitfire, the Hurricane, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth etc and invented radar and the jet engine etc. Over the last 50years something has gone seriously wrong with British industry. Blaming the British working man is totally unjust, the faults lie with succesive govts and management. But who winds up on the scrapheap? Poor old Joe Bloggs.

M Young, London, UK

It's tantamount to treason - the fat cats need a constant flow of cheap labour to service their candy floss economy and supply supermarkets with "cheap" throwaway food whilst the native British people are cast onto the scrap heap. But the fault must rest partly with the mass of the British working classes who have taken their eye off the ball and content themselves with TV, sport, junk food etc. whilst the articulate middle classes abdicate their responsibilities and flee from the inner cities and keep thei heads down. A political solution cannot rest with the old Establishment blessed parties........

Dr Stuart Russell, Grantham, UK

How many of the Governments statistics are right and how many are wrong?
We urgently need statistics on this - so we know whether to believe the statistics or not!
But will the statistics on the statistics be right?? etc ad nauseum....

Richard Garland, Greater Manchester, UK

It's a bit like the inflation figures really isn't it?

Saving for emigration, Manchester, UK

This is just the latest failure by this incompetent government, who it appears cannot be trusted on anything. Why should anybody believe what they say now or indeed in any future manifesto. They mislead the public when promising a referendum on the EU treaty, Brown could not even bring himself to tell the truth as to the reason he did not call an election, and now it appears they cannot even add up .Doesn't anybody check such figures before they are released ?
It has become clear that Brown's only 'vision' was to get into no10 and he seems to be far more concerned with what the Conservatives are doing than running the country. Indeed the only ideas he has come up with he stole from the tories, the government appears to be wallowing about like a rudderless ship. Brown's reputation is in tatters and it is embarrassing to watch him at PMQs. His big political tent ,after this latest fiasco, appears to be just full of clowns.
Tony and Cherie must find his demise highly amusing.

micah, lagos, algarve

The recent cross-Departmental report on the Economic and Fiscal Impact of Migration for the House of Lords quotes a survey among memers of the Institute of Directors according to which 3/4 of them supported the view that migrant workers made a significant positive contribution to the UK economy. A similar study by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), also indicates that business focuses on migrants’ skills, higher productivity and better work ethic, rather than lower wage costs. The IoD survey reported that migrant workers significantly outperform the existing workforce in terms of productivity, education and skills, work ethic, reliability and the amount of sick leave. The BCC survey found that less than 6 per cent of employers employed migrant workers because of the potential for lower wage costs.

Both IoD and BCC are not renown for their soft touch. Could it be that they have hit the nail in the head? Productivity, education, skills, work ethics, reliability, etc...

Mariusz Kuklinski, London,