It's absolutely not common sense. It's not only historically illiterate, it also ignores the actual status of languages in the parts of the UK that aren't England.
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It would be interesting to see how many British immigrants who have settled overseas could have done so had their host country's leaders followed the same rules.
I'm sorry, but that absolutely is common sense. Not speaking the language of your country of residence massively restricts your ease of access to services that you may need.
Common sense is the inverse of critical thinking. It means ignoring your biases and treating your assumptions as facts, rather than questioning them both.
Really? One of them doesn't spring to mind? One that might be spoken fluently by the vast majority of the population regardless of which part of the UK they reside?
And somebody should write a book about how migrants and different cultures contribute to, and shape, the communities which they touch and call home... It would be excessive for multiple someones to write books more quickly, so perhaps you should go first!
“Common sense” always means “the shared traits of my cultural (socioeconomic) group that, because they're shared, we take for granted and don't question.”
Trying to implement “common sense” across a nation is always going to bad and harmful.
And, on the other side of the country to me, the speakers of Scots too—the second most common language in Scotland. Thinking about it, what about deaf people? BSL may well be their most appropriate means of communication.
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It's a great idea to learn to speak English in the UK, but people can learn to speak it and/or improve the way they do after arriving.
Trying to implement “common sense” across a nation is always going to bad and harmful.