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David Cameron speech on immigration; ENGLAND: Hampshire: Southampton:INTDavid Cameron MP (Prime Minister) along to podium and speech SOTA year ago, we were in the middle of a general election campaign. And there was one message I heard loud and clear on the doorstep: we want things to be different. People said they wanted a government that didn't just do what was good for the headline or good for their party but good for the long term and good for our country. That's what we're engaged in.Clearly, cutting public spending isn't popular, but it's right to bring sense to our public finances. People said they wanted a government that actually trusted them to use their own common sense. That's the kind of government we want to be – giving neighbourhoods and individuals a whole range of new powers and scrapping so much of the bureaucracy that people told us was droving them mad.People said they were sick of seeing those who did the right thing get punished and the people who did the wrong thing get rewarded. Again, that's what we're acting on. In welfare we're ending the system that took money from hard-working taxpayers and gave it to people who refused to work, even though they could. These are the differences we are trying to make – listening to people, doing the hard and necessary work of changing our country for the better.But there was something else we heard on the doorstep – and it was this: People are repeatedly saying "We are concerned about the levels of immigration in our country and we are fed up of hearing politicians talk about it but do nothing. Here, again, this govt are determined to be different.Now, immigration is a hugely emotive subject and it's a debate too often in the past shaped by assertions rather than substantive arguments. We've all heard them. The assertion that mass immigration is an unalloyed good and that controlling it is economic madness. There's the view that Britain is a soft touch and immigrants are ou...