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England Cannot Provide Enough English Speaking Employees To Provide Adequate Olympic Security
The seat of the Queen’s English is apparently devoid of enough qualified workers who can speak English.
Why did the song Taps just come to mind?
The chief executive of the security firm G4S has admitted he only discovered that his company would be unable to provide adequate numbers of security guards for the Olympics “eight or nine days ago”.
Nick Buckles said G4S would lose £30m-£50m on its Olympic contract because of its failure, which will require 3,500 troops to be used to fill gaps in security.
The chief executive also told the BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme he could not confirm that all G4S guards were fluent in English.
“That is a difficult question to answer. They all have a right to work in the UK and have been vetted to very high standards. I cannot say categorically as I sit here today [that all the guards speak English],” he said.
Buckles said there were roles in which fluency in English was not a necessity. “I’m saying there probably are roles within the security structure where there is not a direct communication with the public,” he said.
Buckles later clarified his replies by saying that all Olympic security guards must be proficient in English to receive their Security Industry Association licence.
scribble
July 15th, 2012
People will be watching the Olympics for the same reason they watch the Indy 500 or NASCAR.
Jack Daniels
July 15th, 2012
Churchill must be rolling over in his grave.
scr_north
July 15th, 2012
Apart from the cringing embarrasment this causes you want to bet this CEO doesn’t lose his job but gets a bonus.
AvgDude
July 15th, 2012
How’s that multiculturalism workin’ out for ya?!… Ya stupid, naive, socialist, limey bastards.
Tony R
July 15th, 2012
Musloids; just doing the jobs the brits won’t do.
Bob M.
July 15th, 2012
Maybe they need to hire some Iraqi cabbies!
Roscoe P. Soultrane
July 15th, 2012
@Jack Daniels: “Churchill must be rolling over in his grave.”
His post-mortem rage pales in significance next to Zombie Hitler and Zombie Napoleon.
FreeMan - "Save Me Sarah"
July 15th, 2012
This is the first time they all had a job since 1775
sablegsd
July 15th, 2012
“Buckles later clarified his replies by saying that all Olympic security guards must be proficient in English to receive their Security Industry Association licence.”
Well, obviously that’s not true, buckles the clown.
I wonder if those limeys regret rolling on their backs and pissing themselves when they handed over their guns.
Maudie N Mandeville
July 15th, 2012
Hey, but he’s got a great smile doesn’t he. Should impress a lot of independents, moderates and simple minded people. Is he also half black?
A Frican hunter
July 16th, 2012
He better can ,Fire,dump,shitecan all who are not Lilly white . Brits,Scots etc .. Give them Concrete shoes and make them walk across the river.. Get rid of your trash .
Noelegy
July 16th, 2012
Wow. Didn’t see THIS coming. /sarc
Noelegy
July 16th, 2012
@A Frican hunter, somewhere I’ve read that Great Britain, especially London, has a huge population of immigrants from Eastern Europe, lily white as you say, but who may not speak English.