English only for council communications in Norfolk is the kind of common sense that should never have needed a motion. You live here, you speak the language of the country. Every pound spent translating official papers into half a dozen other tongues is a pound not spent on the people who actually live and pay here. Well done to the councillors who forced it through. Lets hope this can filter across the rest of the UK.
Another big development in Norfolk, and another big step in the right direction.
Restore Britain/GYF have just had a motion passed at full council on scrapping foreign language translation/interpretation across Norfolk County Council.
You live in Norfolk, you speak English. End of story.
Council communication should be provided in English.
Not Arabic, or Kurdish, or Romanian, or whatever else.
English.
That’s exactly what our Restore Britain/GYF councillors have just delivered.
Our motion means the council has resolved to…
- Adopt a policy that Norfolk County Council communications, publications, consultations, correspondence, advertising, and public information materials will be produced in English.
- Retain and improve British Sign Language services.
- Ask Cabinet to instruct the Chief Executive to undertake a review of all current expenditure on translation, interpretation, and foreign language publication services across Norfolk County Council.
- Require that the review identify…
The total annual cost of such services;
The departments in which such costs are incurred;
The savings that will arise from adopting this policy.
- Require the findings of the review, together with recommendations for implementation, to be reported to Council.
This is a big win for the people of Norfolk, and Restore Britain councillors all over the country will now be looking to replicate this in their own councils.
Restore Britain doing what we were elected to do.
Put the British people first.