Learning a new language courtesy of the tax payer

• howard mcsweeney1

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  27 August 2011     14:51123307
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  this puts a whole new slant on things.
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030723/Millionaire-cabinet-minister-Jeremy-Hunt-uses-2-500-taxpayers-money-learn-Mandarin.html
• Guest 710

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  27 August 2011     14:57123309
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  Puts a whole new slant on the term Whitehall Mandarin too.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  27 August 2011     16:01123320
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  i suppose looking at it positively we won't see mr hunt having to point to numbers on the menu next time he orders a take away.
• Guest 645

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  27 August 2011     16:28123325
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  Immigration Officers for years were offered not only 6 months on a language course with full pay but in the old days Pitman typing courses. I must add the languages offered were diverse and did not include the normal French Spanish German Italian etc but Arabic ,Urdu Russian and Mandarin et al.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)