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This (from Comment Central) you have to love:Good story from government minister Liam Byrne at a Demos fringe meeting this morning, down here at Labour Party conference.
Canvassing together with the Scottish dynamo Ian McCartney in his constituency, the pair encountered a typical local resident from this high ethnic minority area.
McCartney kicked off, talking his way through the traditional canvassing script, only to be met with a blank stare. So the local party chairman was called over and tried again, this time in Urdu, but with similar lack of success. A third attempt is made, this time in Punjabi. More blank staring.
Finally the woman says: "Don't any of you speak English?"
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