?20M-A-YEAR BURDEN OF TRANSLATING FOR MIGRANTS

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Immigration must be controlled, says Baroness Warsi

TOWN hall bosses are lavishing ?20million-a-year on translating documents into 75 languages as a result of Labour?s open door to immigrants, the Daily Express reveals today.

Hard-pressed Britons are forking out ?55,000 a day on translations for people who only speak a foreign language.
In just one area last year, a council ran up a ?110,000 bill.
Edinburgh City Council?s translations included Kurdish Badini and Sorani, spoken in Iraq, Malayalam, a dialect in South India, Mongolian and Tagalog, common in the Philippines.
Liverpool City Council translated a payslip into Flemish at a cost of ?98.92, Warwickshire County Council translated a document called ?Weight Busters? into Panjabi, Gujerati and Urdu for ?207 and a ?business card? into Chinese for ?30.
Manchester City Council translated ?Help Your Child Have Fun? into Urdu, Somali and Arabic, while one on feeding pigeons was translated into Urdu.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers? Alliance, condemned the use of translators as a growing financial headache. He said: ?Even the Government has accepted that the practice of translating endless documents into obscure languages is a waste, so these councils have no excuse.
?It is counter-productive in terms of social cohesion. We should be encouraging migrants to learn English, not spending taxpayers? money making it easy for them not to bother.?
Labour has allowed nearly three million immigrants to settle since 1997, according to official figures.
David Cameron insisted this week that a Tory government would cut immigration by a dramatic 75 per cent.
He wants annual net immigration to return to the ?tens of thousands? under the Thatcher and Major governments. Between 1991 and 1995 ? under John Major ? it was 37,000 a year compared with 163,000 in 2008. Last night Shadow Communities Minister Sayeeda Warsi said: ?Labour?s strategy for integration and cohesion is deeply flawed. A common language and a sense of a shared history are the cornerstones of an integrated, successful community. The ability to speak English is the single most unifying element of daily life.

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read somewhere it costs the dole office a ?1 a minute for a translator

[shellbob]

If they cant speak English why let them in.

[Gumbo]

I need an interpreter to understand young English kids who talk like Yardies but with a lisp. What about the billions wasted on teaching them how to talk?

[Meat-Head]

I need an interpreter to understand young English kids who talk like Yardies but with a lisp. What about the billions wasted on teaching them how to talk?

Slightly off topic but our yts (young thick and stupid) has not been programmed properbly, he says "free" instead of "three" and "firteen" and "fanks", he has no idea who 'lord lucan'..0 is seem to have a vauge idea who adolf hitler was, etc etc.

[Lainie]

read somewhere it costs the dole office a ?1 a minute for a translator

correct and some of these people are claiming benefits and have lived here for years n years. a lot of the parents dont bother to learn english as their kids will learn it in school etc. there is a new law coming in (i think) that poeple will have to speak basic english.

[SuperSat]

correct and some of these people are claiming benefits and have lived here for years n years. a lot of the parents dont bother to learn english as their kids will learn it in school etc. there is a new law coming in (i think) that poeple will have to speak basic english.

That's very good!!!
all the new immigrants should speak English and integrate to the society!!!!