whats Rodger Melley the man from the tele doing here????

Well to this we say to our friends across the pound. You do not speak proper English either since we sent the Mayflower to you, your English has changed something to do with Chaucer perhaps!

I suspect that more significant problem for the British, in terms of job prospects, is actually the migrants who speak English. The ability to speak a second language and thus have wider job prospects is something that very few Brits have.

why are we borrowing millions from the banks to pay for interpreters at 30 pounds an hour plus expenses so we can understand what these people are saying .

Why can't the kids learn Sanskrit? It's the mother tongue of mother tongues.

Plenty of natives can barely speak coherent English.

While we're at it, what about teaching the native British to speak English properly, it might help them to get jobs. I suppose as a Tory Mr. Pickles doesn't use public transport. Typical overheard conversation : "Effing, innit, effing, narwarimean, effing, youknow, effing".

I do not want my child to speak like a native British. I will want him to have a profession and realise that most people wished we were all out of this country and the mass doesn't want him here. I will make him realise his existence and benefits are only protected by laws and should therefore be thankful to British leaders. I will make sure he is so close to his culture, possibly one that he only sees on holidays so he would fit in whenever Britain decides to get rid of people different to the natives. This is what society keeps planting in the heads of many immigrants.

I remember when my forefathers used to come here as students back in the 1950s, they came back home as upper class British men and spoke wonderfully of a nation that accepted them and valued them for who they were but nowadays everything is blamed on immigrants. Every damn thing is blamed on immigrants and descendants of immigrants. How on earth can they think they are like you or want to be like you, the same people pointing fingers at them?

I do get his point but migrants are not even regarded as English or British even though they legally are. Migrants have already found their way on joining the upper class and staying out of the 'ghettos' without what you call 'native' English. I agree with him perfectly but the mass or the 'indigenous' British haven't accepted migrants as one of them yet to even start learning their native way of speaking or doing things. There is really nothing wrong with being into other people's culture or learning intensively other people's language after all English is a very well-known language so there is really no harm learning and speaking it properly but all starts with acceptance. I am not really keen on speaking like ‘native’ English even though it is a very good idea because of how ignorantly the mass of the public disrespect other people different to them. Thank you Mister, you have a very good conscience but you need to teach the 'native' people of acceptance first. No one will stay in the ghettos if they are well educated with a very well-paid profession. I admire people who speak good English like the queen but never will I be keen unless people learn how to accept others for who they are and in return people will love to be like them.

Perhaps a step in the right direction would be to steer away from immigrants' God given rights to taxpayer funded interpreters services. I can think of no other country where if one required a translator or interpreter the state would pay for it for you. The NHS, Police, Social Services et al pay a fortune to companies that provide telephone translation services at huge costs to the public purse. In my previous job I often had immigrants ringing me to ask about claiming translators costs for accompanying their non English speaking friends or relatives to hospital or to the GP. Talk about adding fuel to the fire! We also had to offer any or all of our health documents and publications to be translated into any of the languages spoken in the local area. We were lucky I seem to recall we only had about 16 languages to contend with. Go on holiday to Spain for instance and if you require medical treatment the translator or interpreters costs are recovered via your overall treatment bill to the insurance company.We make it too easy for people NOT to have to learn English, if they had to pay themselves for the high cost of translation or interpreters services they would be very much incentivised to learn their host country's language.

Just look at the jobs page on your local council web site! Here in Bristol it is a disadvantage in getting employment if you do speak English! All they want in Bristol are Eastern block language skills for 'community integration in schools'. There is a woman local here that has just been accepted to join the British Medical Coucil to prctice as a GP and she can't speak English at all. How good is that! She just showed her 'papers' from Moldovia. I 'm sure they have a great health service and training. They still chain orphans to beds there.

Branston me ol china, 10million sov's to teach some immies ta chat, your avin a bubble,
Im ya fryin pan, gis the doe and they'll shining bright wiv me geeza?