“This Has to Stop” runs the headline on the latest Substack missive from Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist turned campaigner for Reform UK.
In it she pretty much calls for all foreign languages to be banned in Britain, furious at learning that Sudanese protesters “outside the Sudanese Embassy” in London at the weekend were speaking Arabic (the protest was actually outside the Colombian embassy and about the alleged involvement of mercenaries from that country in Sudan’s civil war, but Oakeshott has never been too troubled by facts).
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“Why are public protests allowed in a foreign language in England, where English is the national language?” she fumed. “This was not an English protest with translation. It is time to act. Public demonstrations in a language the public cannot understand should not be allowed in Britain.”
Oakeshott, of course, moved to Dubai last year. It is not known how well her lessons are going in Arabic, the sole official language of the United Arab Emirates.
