I do have concerns about immigration, not necessarily skilled workforce but the

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by Sarah.

I do have concerns about immigration, not necessarily skilled workforce but the issue of the EU migration.

One of my issues is that the EU project allows too many unskilled workers to compete with British unskilled workers for lower salaries (they come from generally lower cost economies and manage on less).

The purpose of the EU is a common market with the free movement of capital, goods and people, what it doesn’t have is a common language.

I think the British are very much disadvantaged, it’s a lot easier to migrate to Britain than for British to migrate to other European countries due to language barriers.

English is considered worldwide, the international language of business and trade (and is used as a communicating language between different speaking nationals). However, day to day business in Europe tends to be in the mother tongue of each particular country.

When I was at school, we had the choice of french and german, you only got to do german if you were good enough at french!. So fine if I wanted to move to either of those countries!

Most schools in Europe teach at least English as their main second language with maybe french and german as well.

So provided that they have a moderate understanding of English, most European countries can compete with us for our jobs on an individual basis.

As an adult its a lot harder to learn a new language from scratch.

I never had the opportunity to learn italian, bulgarian, czech, polish or any other language and I doubt very much I could turn up in their country and someone would give me job and help me learn the language at the same time. Let’s be honest, the British are notorious for being poor at learning other languages!

I just wonder whether anyone else considered this language barrier issue when we committed ourselves to the free movement of people.

Any thoughts?