Speak English, Or Else!

[trt]

A good Idea, but what's the chances it will happen while we still have people claiming their human rights!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541892/Speak-English-lose-benefits-Cameron-stop-payouts-immigrants-use-taxpayer-funded-translators.html

[trt]

My daughter has to use a translation service daily for a lot of her clients in her job with the NHS!

[EDDIE51]

trt, exactly the point , in ANY other country the clients would need to provide their own interpreters. Not paid for by the health service, money spent on interpreters should be providing more doctors and nurses.

[emmie]

some chance.

[emmie]

i couldn't understand the shop assistant in superdrug the other day, why do shops, government departments, etc not employ people who can speak the language, it irritates me when i ask for an item politely, clearly and the garbled response that comes back usually has me walking out.
call the local council and who knows what half of them are saying, and they are not Geordies, Liverpudlians, Glasweigans.

[naomi24]

Good. People should provide their own interpreters.

[emmie]

they should, it won't happen, our GP surgery, local council, hospitals all provide interpreters, signs up in each place tell you so.

[youngmafbog]

£400 a day for interpreters(each) for the NHS. All to appease a bunch of wet liberals. Wonderful.

It wont happen whilst we subscribe to the ECHR.

[Kromovaracun]

"Referring to the controversial Channel 4 programme, one Conservative aide said: ‘The Benefits Street culture must end. Period.’"

It's really quite cynical. I suppose it's nice to get an open admission that our policymakers are taking hints from button-pushing TV programmes made by exploitative TV execs. (It's also annoying to notice them adopting annoying and irrelevant Americanisms too but there you go).


People seem to be swallowing the bait though :/

[Peter Pedant]

umm - they arent getting Spanith benefits are they ?

ex pats in Thpain that cant speak thpanith.

If they are - devo andar subito - sorry that is Itanol but is as good as anything.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah ! lets stop paying benefits to those awful Scots !
Can neva understand a damned word they say.

[naomi24]

Krom, It's not bait. There’s no doubt that a benefits culture exists – and it must end. I see nothing wrong in saying that or in the government trying to do something about it.

[jake-the-peg]

//I wonder how many claim benefits?//

I know what percentage of migrants are on benefit - was on Radio 4 this morning

Anyone like to hazaard a guess?

[Sqad]

Jake -the-peg.....I can't wait to hear that "statistic"....BUT....will that figure be the % of migrants in the migrant population OR % of migrants receiving benefits in the WHOLE population?

[slaney]

It's about 6% isn't it...

"Of the 601,000 foreign nationals who registered for a national insurance number in 2011/12, 35,000 were claiming out-of-work benefits within six months.

That’s 5.9 per cent, down from 6.6 per cent the year before"

http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-immigrants-pay/16332

[Sqad]

slaney.........my "research" as well makes it just under 7% of FN receiving benefits.

See what JTP makes....

[jake-the-peg]

The pollster interviewed today said 3% (I guess it depends exactly how you measure it)

However his point was if you ask people what they think it is the answer averages out at about 25%

There is a huge gap between what people think the scale of the issue is and what it actually is.

Even if you take 6-7% people think it's 3-4 times as much as it actually is!

[Sqad]

LOL.....so what is it Jake...3%......7%.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt...if those statistics are "robust" and if we are all singing from the same hymn sheet (which I doubt)...yes...such a low figure does indeed surprise me.

[emmie]

just for the record, time to stop having interpreters, or at least those who need them should pay for them.