Speaking English is a requirement!
Finally they have seen the light. It has been announced that unemployed people seeking benefits must be able to speak English!
Personally, I believe that if you move to a country, you oblige yourself to learn the native language of the country. While in Rome, do as the Romans do!
It has suddenly dawned on the UK government to only give benefits to people who can speak English. Well done.
This will hopefully result in huge tax savings and erm perhaps tax reductions! Savings will not only be made by not paying huge amounts to people who refuse to learn English yet expect to live in England and claim English people’s money & currency, but also by not having to needlessly print the same documentation in 22 different languages such as Urdu, Chinese, Arabic* etc.
Now the only question that remains, is how to decide who can speak English and who cannot. Do see my lamentation on…. Why can’t the English!
*No offence is meant by the languages selected. They are just 3 languages that popped to my mind that leaflets are most probably printed in!
