The amount of official material being translated by bodies such as councils should be cut to encourage immigrants to learn English, Ruth Kelly has said.

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Ms Kelly said: “I do think translation has been used too frequently and sometimes without thought added to the consequences.”

She added: “So, for example, it’s quite possible for someone to come here from Pakistan and elsewhere in the world and to find that materials are routinely translated into their mother tongue and therefore not have the incentive to learn English.”

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Ms Kelly accepted there was a “real paradox” in the fact that many young Muslims involved in violence and terrorism were British-born English speakers who appeared to be well integrated.

what a fucking crock of shit. taking away translative services isn’t *incentive* – it’s punishment, plain and simple.

some days, i’m so sick of this place which continually penalises legitimate, hard-working im/migrants, in a misguided knee-jerk effort to control home-grown terrorism… which bears absolutely no relation to the population they’re cracking down on.

death cab for cutie – why you’d want to live here

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