Speaking English
Ed Milliband is reported as going to be making a speech saying that every Briton should speak English. It’s reported here in the Guardian
I think Milliband is being rather hypocritical. I assume, that when his parents arrived in the UK, their English skills were not a hundred percent.
Certainly, when my ancestors arrived in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, I suspect they’d have had difficulty taking to each other. Just as I do now, talking to some with English, Scottish and Northern Irish regional accents.
I think the episode shows that Milliband will pull any cheap trick to get votes.
The Anonymous Widower 
I don’t think that they should necessarily speak English on arrival, especially asylum seekers who I’m assuming didn’t have time to study with their nonexistent English text books in a country ripped apart by war. But I do think they should learn it when here…
Comment by studentlondon3 | December 15, 2012 |