"Ethnic unemployed have to learn English".
More than four million pounds is spent on translators at jobcentres to help those who cannot speak English claim benefits.
This has been a gross waste, by the government, of taxpayers money.
Do people who have to emigrate to another country due to a natural disaster or very poor political situation not owe it to their host country to at least learn the local language.
Welfare Minister Jim Murphy proposed that from April, this money should instead be spent on improving the language skills of the unemployed to help them find work. He also pointed out that more than half of Pakistani and Bangladeshi children in Britain live in poverty.
If the parents are used to a very low standard of living then should the children have to endure this?
Is this not a sure fire way of producing a two tier society, the ones that have and those that do not?
2007-02-12 04:21:19 · 2 answers · asked by kayamat_ka_din 3 in Social Science ➔ Economics
In America they have been doing this for years, but i am glad to hear that they are, at last about to do the same over here. I saw a report on a family which lived in Wolverhampton, that have been living over heve for 17 years and cannot understand one word of English, I coiuldn't believe it! It's about time. If they want to live over here then they should be expected to want to adopt our culture.
2007-02-13 04:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by chris g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When will non-ethnic Britains have to do the same thing? From what I hear around town we already have a resident population who can't read, write or speak English so what is new?
2007-02-13 10:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by BARROWMAN 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋