No Mandate Brown has decided to spend god knows how many millions of pounds of our taxes on a teach-yourself-English website with a call centre full of “master trainers” answering calls via VOIP.
Brilliant. Except the website is being targetted at China and the call centre will be in India.
A fifth of school children in England fail to achieve a minimum acceptable level of English in their exams but none of the money will find its way to them. And what was the rationale behind siting the call centre in India? The Goblin King says that even more of our tax money is going to be spent on improving the standard of English in India so that it’s good enough to teach the Chinese.
Gordo said he wants to make English the “world’s common language of choice”. Bearing in mind that English is already the world’s common language of choice, it shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve that objective. Bet you a fiver they still bugger it up.
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I can’t understand the Indians in call centres, and I’m a native English speaker. Good luck to the Chinese.
I strive to only use the services of UK based call centre companies, purely because I can’t make myself understood otherwise and end up going round in circles getting increasingly irate. The fact that I then help employ British people is an added bonus!