Posted on 07/29/2015 12:00:39 PM PDT by wtd
Politically Correct Babel on the Thames
On July 20th 2015 a new mandatory requirement for employment by the London Metropolitan Police was introduced: applicants must be fluent in a second language other than English. That police force, The Met, is understandably the UKs largest.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...
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"...why arent Russian and Albanian on the Mets list? Are the stories about the presence of the Russian mafia in Europe all apocryphal? London is a popular place for Russians who have made their money in shady to put it at its most benign ways. It is estimated that more than half, at the very minimum, of Londons brothels are controlled by Albanian gangsters as they are in Switzerland, France and many other European countries and a good proportion of the heroin trade is, too. Im not going to provide a source: just Google Albanian organized crime and be stunned at the extent to which, according to Swiss police intelligence, they dominate and control so many market segments of crime committed in Switzerland. Liam Neesons Taken trilogy is not fanciful in terms of the culprits ethnicity. Any European police force seriously needs Albanian speakers to do its job. In fact, without Albanian speakers the Met is fatally weakening its capacity to enforce a wide range of the criminal laws. And Albanian isnt a terribly popular A-levels language, so its not likely that any recruits called Harris, Edmondson or Murphy are going to be able to speak it."
Read the whole thing at the GatesofVienna
WHAT? No French.
Notice the absence of Cockney, Welsh and Gaelic...
They do list German, though.....Just don’t mention the war.
The underlying idea is to make sure the natives are policed by nonnatives.
Duly noted in the comments at the link by "The Baron's" co-blogger/host, "Dymphna".
FWIW, author, Diana Gabaldon's series "Outlander" has been interpretted as a dramatic series about time travel through the gorgeous Scottish highlands presented on/by the STARZ, cable network & has triggered an increase in the desire to resurrect certain Gaelic dialects:
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