[Margaret Pilkington]

In some respects you are right. This is just a sound bite...and it means very little because whatever he says and whatever he does it can't be 'policed or enforced' and I don't believe it is something that can be learned.
DC is just mouthing the words that he thinks people want to hear...what he doesn't perhaps realise is that we had sound bite politics 'up to here' when TB was in office...they mean nothing.

As for Free English lessons..definitely not......why should they be free? And who pays for them ultimately? The tax payer, you and me. An ability to speak English should be an entry requirement.

I am not against immigration...but I AM against uncontrolled immigration.
If we had a system like they have in Australia then that would be fine. But we have borders that are not adequately or accurately monitored. We have people who purport to come to this country to 'study'...and they never go to college/university/educational establishment...they disappear off the radar and are never called to account.....or removed from the country.
they should NOT be here.....they are bogus.
We have asylum seekers who are not granted leave to stay,nothing is done. We have illegal immigrants...nothing is done.
These people are not helping the country.
We do not know who is here. We do not know how many people have come into the country because we do not operate a 'count them in - count them out system'.
We should only accept those immigrants who can speak English, who have a job to come to or a trade or profession that is needed in the economy(either local or national) and who can support themselve for at least two years without any help at all from the state(and that means medical help - they would have to take out medical health insurance for the first two years here).

The type of people I mention would be keen to work, make a go of it and integrate(even if they settled in an area where there were people of their own culture, creed or ethnicity).
People who come here and want to change us - the way we do things, to the way they did them in their own country should go back there...they obviously have a greater affinity to where they came from than they think and are hee perhaps because the UK is seen as any 'easy touch'.