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Agree completely, Dave. First Cameron cut funds for language classes, now he's trickling them back with an eye toward saying, “Hey, we spent the money, they still didn’t learn English, so no more money, no more immigrants. Problem solved.”
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<div class="">On Jan 18, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net" class="">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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But I still haven't seen/heard any discussion of how utterly meaningless this amount of money is. I'm not saying more money should be spent (teaching them Muslims how to speak proper!); I'm saying that this is not a (language) policy. It's fluff. It's a distraction.
It's populist nonsense, mixed up with a load of toxic baseless bile about radicalisation. I can't help but think it's got something to do with Cameron's ongoing negotiations leading up to Britain's EU referendum, and bolstering his image as defender of Blighty
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I am quite tired and grouchy at the moment as I make my way towards the end of a large pile of marking..<br class="">
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On 18/01/2016 17:00, <a href="mailto:lgpolicy-list-request@groups.sas.upenn.edu" class="">
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From: "Baron, Dennis E"<<a href="mailto:debaron@illinois.edu" class="">debaron@illinois.edu</a>><br class="">
Subject: Re: [lg policy] UK: Muslim women to be taught English in ?20m<br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>plan to beat 'backward attitudes'<br class="">
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Not all rosy? Here’s the other half, Dave: New Tory Rules: Speak English or get out ---<br class="">
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On Jan 18, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Dave Sayers<dave.sayers@cantab.net> wrote:<br class="">
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"Tens of thousands of Muslim women unable to speak English are to be given the chance to learn the language in a new government drive to build community integration and counter extremism.<br class="">
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Launching a £20m language fund, David Cameron called for an end to the “passive tolerance� of separate communities which left many Muslim women facing discrimination and social isolation."<br class="">
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I've heard enough episodes of BBC More or Less to ask how far that money will go. The article goes on to add: "The government estimates that there are 190,000 Muslim women in England who speak little or no English." So, £2m into 1.9k, that would work out at...
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Chump change for populist fluff then, basically.<br class="">
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