Labour: White boys underachievement linked to mass migration
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Labour: White boys' underachievement linked to mass migration
Tristram Hunt links underachievement by white boys to Eastern European immigration
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Originally Posted by Telegraph
The failure of white boys to succeed at school is linked to uncontrolled immigration from Eastern Europe, Labour’s shadow education secretary has suggested.
Tristram Hunt, the former television historian, said the low attainment of white British boys, particularly those living on England’s east coast, was linked to high levels of migration from the EU.
More must be done to train indigenous Britons for skilled jobs, Mr Hunt said, admitting the last Labour Government got its immigration forecasts “badly wrong”. The children of Pakistani immigrants are now alarmed at the rate of migration from Eastern Europe.
His comments come days before people from Romania and Bulgaria are granted the right to work in Britain without restrictions, following the lifting of transitional controls on January 1.
“I’m influenced by my time as MP for Stoke-on-Trent. I remember talking to a young, second-generation Pakistani British lad who was concerned about the speed of change in the community as a result of the failure to introduce controlled migration from the EU accession states last time,” Mr Hunt said in an interview for Fabian Review.
“I think the answer is partly on the supply side. We’ve got to make sure that we’re training our young people for jobs [in which they will] succeed [but] the real fear is that we got the numbers wrong last time, the statistics were poorly produced and policy flowed from that.”
“What we can do in the education sphere is to [show] that there is a growing issue of white British boys not getting the education they want,” Mr Hunt said, highlighting low attainment in schools in Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and on the Kent coast which have seen high levels of EU migration.
Asked whether he thinks the two issues are linked, he said: “Exactly. And that comes back to the supply side. We have to get in there.”
His analysis mirrors that of David Cameron, who has described curbing immigration, raising standards in schools and reducing welfare dependency as a “three-sided coin” to the problem of improving Britain's economic fortunes
The last Labour government failed to provide vocational education because it believed in a “myth” that Britain was a “post-industrial nation”, Mr Hunt said.
“In 1997 the focus was on standards and expansion of the higher education sector. We all thought the knowledge economy was the answer and that financial services would keep going forever.”
He said he was “shocked” to be promoted to the shadow cabinet by Ed Miliband and admitted that Labour had been dominated in the education debate by Michael Gove. The education secretary is a “zealot” with a “highly aggressive, investment banker model of schooling,” he said. He added: “There is a lot of Michael. If we’ve lost any ground it is disturbing.”
Wow imagine if another party like say..... UKIP had said this? Just a few years back if you warned of mass immigration or said even the slightest thing negative about it then you were shouted down as a racist, xenophobe etc by Labour and the other two main parties. How times change, and I wonder why that is? And just a few months before the elections too.. Mhmmmm.
Either way, of course he's got a point - although i'm unsure what skin colour has to do with it (although there is a link in terms of performance rates from stats i've read in the past). The point is though that British youngsters of all colours are being driven out of the job market by flooding the country with workers, mainly from Eastern Europe, and this surely can't be healthy. Not to mention wage rates being depressed by allowing cheap workers in from foreign countries. It's a slap in the face to the working/lower middle classes.
As the former Labour Foreign and Home Secretaries warned a few months ago, we face the possibility of riots in this country if this open door policy continues. Because when you leave hundreds of thousands of angry youths on the unemployment heap whilst you hand out jobs to foreigners, of course they're going to get very pissed off.
Thoughts?
