So if immigration is bad, then what about the people who leave the country - is emmigration good?

How about laws to encourage people to leave the UK, as well as laws restricting people coming?

Jom, Woking,

The man has lost the plot and has gone deaf all at the same time. If he was in charge of a ship he would be relieved of command.
I wish we were on a ship right now.

stuart, london, UK

The bottom line is that there needs to be a cap on immigration to the UK. That cap cannot (and should not) be applied to immigration from within the EU. It must therefore be applied to non-EU citizens.

Given that the UK is a member of the EU, it's ludicrous to suggest that EU and non-EU citizens should be treated similarly as regards immigration. We're all European now!

As for Gordon Brown - well it must fast be becoming clear to even the dimmest people that he never does what's in the best interests of England and in particular the South East.

Anne Smith, London, UK

What is the psychiatrists diagnosis of a patient who insists it's everyone else that is wrong?

Jane, Saffron Walden,

"While promising to control the number of newcomers," Where exactly is this control? How many unaccounted for peoples are actually in the UK living off the system and taking British jobs away? What was the last count, a million (that we now know of).

Douglas Cochrane, Halifax,

Gordon Brown and his cronies seem to live in ivory tower with no sense of the duty to the people that elected the labour party and by that I mean all voters. The sooner they are gone the better.

Mike Wills, London, London

The simple reason Brown wants more immigrants is because he needs as much tax money as possible to pay for his incredible profligacy. How else will he be able to fund not only the huge public sector but its massive gilt-edged pension obligations as well? The choice is either that public sector workers fund their pensions themselves like the rest of us in the useful and income generating part of the economy have to or he keeps on paying for them out of taxation. He's not likely to do the former so he needs more victims for his public sector chums to feed on.

John , Glasgow, UK

It's simple: since the state education system is not producing enough skilled workers, and the benefits system pays well when you have enough kids, Gordon has to import people to do the jobs, to pay the tax to support the growing numbers on benefits. Its a feedback loop, Gordon can't stop or the illusion will break down.

roger, london,

As some one who works in the nhs, the number of patients we treat who are immigrants, which includes specific clinics to screen them and offer translation is a huge strain.
Im not saying its right or wrong, but no one can deny its there , and is dispropotional to uk citizens, i.e immigrants make far more use of the nhs propotionaly.

Tom Henderson, cardiff,

The points system is open to abuse. Canada has a smilar system and there are numerous cases of individuals "tailoring" their qualifications and experience to correspond to the requirements.

Hamad Lone, London, England

I just wonder at times whether our wonderful government can actually add up at all and whether they should take a lesson out of their own book to achieve future greatness - education! education ! education ! Indeed, basic arithmetic is not hard to grasp so it should be simple for our politicians to undertake, but unfortunately when it comes to immigration even cabinet ministers cannot add up the cost of a policy of unlimited access and whether the country has a net benefits or not. In this respect also it appears that cabinet ministers and even prime ministers do not understand what common sense dictates, but where in comparison to this the vast number of the British people have been concerned about the ever-increasing immigration problem for nearly 10-years now. In this respect our politicians never did and still do not comprehend the problems caused by the increased demand on our health services, social services, housing, social benefits, etc.
Dr D Hill World Innovation Foundation

david hill, huddersfield, west yorkshire

This government does not listen to anyone, it never has and never will. Its time for them to go.

David, Kent,

The 'UK Immigration Policy' must be fair and square for immigrants from the EU and Non-EU countries. Anybody who wants to come and live in the UK for more than 3 months must have a job offer, employment contract, obtain a visa to come to UK. They should also be subjected to provide accommodation proof, English language proficiency certificate, proof of funds to live in the UK without having to recourse to the UK public funds, biometric finger printing, digital photographing, detailed medical checkups including blood test and chest X-ray, criminal check clearance or passport verification check to come into the UK.

I bet all my money. If the above has been done, we will not have illegals, benefit claimers, rapists, robbers, drug dealers, gangsters, gun crime, people smugglers and so on in our British society.

Uma Shankar, UK,

All good Management and controlling of Non-EU immigrants is easily out done by mass EU immigration. If EU immigrant movement can't be managed because of all the CRAP EU policies, then accept the fact that Non-EU immigrants are not 'Villans' of UK's immigration shamble. Why nobody wants to accept the fact?

I am not in favour of biased 'Immigration Policy', which is not any good other than fooling the British to get VOTES. This trick has been done in the past. There must be a fair policy for both EU and Non-EU immigrants, which will result good for all in the long run.

Uma Shankar, UK,

That is exactly why Mr Brown you will be out of a job at the next election. You do not listen.

Roger, Surrey,