Gordon Brown was off doing a thing to try and make it appear that he should be popular. So he is suggesting that immigrants should do community service (apart from sounding as though we are trying to make them feel like criminals, is this really something we would expect from a Labour politician?). This was done at a focus group kind of thing so he could then go around and ask the attendees what they thought of his wheeze (this really does seem a weird way to come up with new policies).
Anyway, Radio 4 interviewed some of those there to find out how they felt about it all. And they had this woman who ranted on about how we were too leniant, that it was too easy to get into Britain, we were too leniant, that we should be like Australia and only let in those with a trade, we were too leniant, there were too may immigrants and, did I say, that we were too leniant. She rounded this up by saying "oh, and we are too tolerant" (my italics). I think she may just have discovered the meaning of irony.
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