Gordon Brown made an illegal pledge.
He said he wanted to make sure British people filled job vacancies. This is illegal under the European Union.
Gordon Brown does not regret promising "British jobs for British workers", a No 10 spokesman has said, amid rising unrest about the use of foreign labour.
The PM's pledge, at the 2007 Labour conference, was attacked by critics as unwise and even illegal as European law opens UK jobs to all EU nationals.
The slogan is now being used by protesters at refineries across the UK, angry at a plant using Italian workers.
No 10 said it was working hard to help British people fill job vacancies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7860593.stm
I mean, talk about completly ignoring promises based on the refinery where they happened to only emply 43 italians and 0 Brtish people.
He should have made a promise if it was illegal. Yes you can choose a British worker over a non EU citizen based on nationality, that is legal but not someone who holds a EU passport.
