I'm surrounded by Brits? News to me, I live in Valencia not Benidorm, pal. I have got married, had a kid, bought a house and started a business here, as well as living daily in a Spanish village with very few ex-pats in the area.
My point is that there are hundreds of thousands of Brits around the world that don't speak the language of the country they live in. So yes, it is the same as SOME immigrants in the UK but I can guarantee that percentage wise I bet the number of immigrants in Britain that speak English is higher than Brits abroad that don't speak Chinese, Thai, Spanish, Italian etc. So yeah, it's a bit rich for the English to complain about this when the vast majority of the Brits that have descended onto other cultures are exactly the fucking same.