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Keir Starmer says migrants should learn English to integrate. Is he being fair?
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Its only an imaginary standard because its not been set further than "we should require people to learn some English".
We have plently of standards in schools throughout the so thats not the hard part.
Now its not anything I would touch because of the level of racists that attach themselves to this "issue".
Which turned out to be not very big.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/language/bulletins/languageenglandandwales/census2021#%3A%7E%3Atext=Additionally%2C+1.5%25+%28880%2C000%29%2Cnot+speak+English+at+all.
161k people don't speak English? That sounds like a solvable problem, as thats not very many at all. The question would be how to identify them, and help them? My personal experience is generally elderly parents who have been brought here by someone acting as a carer, which puts it back firmly in "unsolvable". If they haven't already learnt it, and aren't necessarily here though choice, its going to be a challenge.
Knowing our current government though, it would probably be by copying Trump and sending the military door to door to ask everyone a simple English language puzzle.