{"id":1014,"date":"2007-09-25T09:16:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2007-09-25T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T13:16:51","slug":"uh-oh-tens-of-thousands-of-immigrant-workers-will-be-forced-to-learn-english-before-they-are-allowed-into-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/uh-oh-tens-of-thousands-of-immigrant-workers-will-be-forced-to-learn-english-before-they-are-allowed-into-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh &#8211; Oh&#8230;. Tens of thousands of immigrant workers will be forced to learn English before they are allowed into Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sep 9, 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Britain halts immigration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Patrick Hennessy <strong>&#8211; LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONDON \u2014 Tens of thousands of immigrant workers will be forced to learn English before they are allowed into Britain under a plan Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tomorrow in a speech to the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, informed sources revealed yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The rules, expected to reduce the number of people entering Britain by at least 35,000 a year, will affect those from countries outside the European Union who are seeking to work and settle permanently in Britain. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who we welcome into the UK to work and settle here need to understand our traditions and feel that they are part of our shared national culture,&#8221; Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said. &#8220;They need to integrate into our country, learn English and use our language.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070909\/FOREIGN\/109090036\/-1\/RSS_WORLD&#038;template=printart\">READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE<\/a>&#8230;I wonder if Jerry has seen this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 9, 2007 Britain halts immigration By Patrick Hennessy &#8211; LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH LONDON \u2014 Tens of thousands of immigrant workers will be forced to learn English before they are allowed into Britain under a plan Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to announce tomorrow in a speech to the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}