Everyone Who Comes To Britain Must Speak English.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3045507/Everyone-comes-Britain-speak-English-says-Miliband-admits-Labour-mad-mistakes-immigration.html

So says ED, very fine words from one who admits Labour got it wrong, but I wonder how he is going to 'police' this, will immigrants have to speak in English at border control or risk being turned back?

[retrocop]

Cost to NHS for Translation fees

[retrocop]

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Barsel,
sorry pressed submit button by accident.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096966/NHS-spends-23m-year-translators-Costs-rise-hospitals-cater-120-languages.html

£23 million is the cost to the NHS

[Jackdaw33]

What amuses me is the number of Welsh speakers who converse amongst themselves in English until an Englishman appears, when they turn to Welsh.

[retrocop]

Barsel
As we seem to be attracting a large amount of our European criminal fraternity we would have to add the cost of translators used in our legal system from Charge room to sentence on top of the NHS £23 million as well.

[Prudie]

It's a good job Spain doesn't follow suit - 95% of British expats would have to come home.

[Baldric]

///Everyone Who Comes To Britain Must Speak English.///

And know how to eat a Bacon Sandwich without looking stupid!

[retrocop]

Prudie
Yes it is shameful really.As mentioned before my wife speaks fluent Spanish and it irritates us that the ex pats do not even try.However they have to pay for their own translators in Spain should they need one.I suppose they contribute to the Spanish economy. Utilities etc and do not leech the welfare system there.

[bhg481]

Well that's you out then, Baldric. Everybody knows that bacon on bread is a BUTTY.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// And know how to eat a Bacon Sandwich without looking stupid! ///

Well that would cut down the number of Muslim immigrants at least.

[Barsel]

Thanks for your answers retrocop. It's good that your wife speaks Spanish and some French but the patients I see are not from Europe, they are usually from Asia. x

[trt]

What would we do with the Deaf & Dumb ones?

[retrocop]

And this link is 9 years old. Wow I think the £23 million is an under estimation.
It is BBC so it must be true.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6172805.stm

[retrocop]

Barsel
As are the non English speaking patients my wife deals with. Mostly Asian and African.Very few Europeans but that will change as time goes by.

[mrs_overall]

Fine words from the secret love child of Bernie Winters (Ed Milliband) but how would he enforce this with the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Muslim women who have lived here for donkeys years and cannot speak a word of English, due entirely to being oppressed by their menfolk?

[Baldric]

bhg,
I was allowing for the Notting Hill influence!

[venator]

In my experience, many immigrants can speak English when it suits them.

[bhg481]

OK Baldric, I'll let you off this time.

[bazwillrun]

"Baldric

/// And know how to eat a Bacon Sandwich without looking stupid! ///

Well that would cut down the number of Muslim immigrants at least. "

we can but dream...

[jourdain2]

Just to say that in France forms are printed in French. Just French, no concessions are made, so it's up to you to either learn French to a decent standard or pay for someone to interpret. I'm baffled and appalled that UK reprints everything in so many languages.

Medically speaking - some doctors speak some English and will do so, but only so far. Their insurance is invalidated if they have not explained risks and options clearly and this could be called into question if they spoke in a language other than French, so they do all that bit in French. This is speaking only from my own experience. I had 2 hip replacements whilst in France and my medical French is now pretty good! Nurses would visit my room to learn how to tell English patients to ring the bell if they wanted help. It passed my time nicely!

I have felt quite angry on behalf of our local nurses who struggle to communicate with ex-pats. who have not made any effort to learn a few words. It is harder when you are older and I used to teach what I called 'Survival French' to elderly ex-pats. Just that level of communication made a huge difference to being accepted and included.

(Gets down from soap-box, but still think that you should speak the native language of the country - speak your own with friends and family by all means.)

[TWR]

Retro, my Daughter is a Manager at a local Large A&E, the stories she & the staff come out with would make you cringe regards Nurses from abroad, I repeat, abroad.