It doesn't matter which country you are in, migrants need help to access the same equality of service as everybody else. Many migrant families don't have time to help older members who might not speak English as well as their children and grandchildren.
state subsidised translation services in schools and hospitals can make a huge difference. There is no equality without equality of access. That's why it is such a shame that the mayor of London has put migrants under pressure by making claims that language services can be cut cut "very comfortably”.
He said that free language services were discouraging migrants from learning the English language. Johnson told LBC that language services were bad for migrants and that political correctness was having a “totally disastrous” impact on the lives of migrants.
“One of the tragedies is that in London people over the last few decades had families for many generations and women in particular were not able to write or communicate properly in English. That seems to me utterly disreputable and hopeless.
“How can they engage in the economy of our country, how can they be active citizens and involved when they are unable to speak our language. It’s totally disastrous policy.
“That was the multicultural agenda which was pursued for a very long time; the politically correct idea that you kept everyone segregated and kept everyone in Balkanised little boxes.”
Hopefully his comments do not result in these vital services being cut to severely.