NHS spends a fortune on interpreters so the learning the local language isn’t going all that well I’m afraid. I thought it mildly amusing that 89 trusts pay for translation services in French. In France, you want an interpreter you pay for one yourself. UHCW spent £1,344,014.49 in the three financial years starting in 2019 and ending 2022. The NHS as a whole is estimated to have spent £174,228,629 over the same period. That is a lot of money.
There has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth in respect of insufficient funding of services. Whilst sums such as this wouldn’t bridge the entire gap, they would make some contribution to it.
in terms of bringing elements of cultures, Im not entirely convinced that the host nation decide which elements are which. The general public might say we aren’t all that keen on arranged marriages or honour killings, but that doesn’t necessarily stop them happening. I’m trying to imagine what would happen if the building of a mosque or Gurdwara were opposed. Labours new planning regime will presumably make such opposition more difficult and even less likely to succeed, so I won’t waste too much time imagining.
If people from the 1950”s arrived today, they would be astonished at the cultural changes. The mosques, Gurdwaras, Leamington’s Happy Diwali lights ( I havent seen a happy Christmas light there for years. - if they do have then up at some point I would be impressed and somewhat mollfied.
So,
@SBT a nice argument which is more hypothetical than in operation.