UK population to reach an unsustainable 70 million – immigration will be the cause
A Texan CPA crunches the numbers on the UK’s immigration crisis…
BLOGOSPHERE, 23 Dec 2009: First, on the government’s own figures, the population of the UK is likely to hit 70m by 2030. Immigration would account for 70 per cent on the increase, directly and via births from immigrant parents.
The assumption here is that the net inflow would continue at 190,000 a year. It might be higher: government actuaries have, in the past, tended to underestimate the immigration rate. …
Third, net immigration from outside the European Union, which is, in principle, subject to control, has dominated the net inflow: this has been running at around 200,000 a year since 2000. Asylum seekers have become a small part of the total. … Already, just over half of inner London school pupils have a first language other than English.
Continuing immigration will transform populations in many areas. Such changes are significant. Are they desirable?
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Pupil banned from ‘perfect attendance’ disco after taking time off for father’s death
A pupil was barred from attending a school disco for children with perfect attendance records because he took time off when his father died of cancer.
DAILY TELEGRAPH, 15 Dec 2009: Sean Watson, five, had hoped to go to the end-of-term Christmas event with his sister Claire, seven, at Ryecroft Primary School, Bradford, West Yorkshire.
Their mother Samantha Watson, 35, discovered they were not allowed to go because records showed they had missed several days when her husband Michael died from an aggressive form of throat cancer at the age of 46 after a two year illness.
Mrs Watson, from Bradford, contacted the school to check about the disco and says she was told by someone in the office that there was no exception for absence for bereavement.
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Lessons to stamp out extremism in schools
Schoolchildren are being asked to debate whether “all white people are fascists” as part of classes to combat violent extremism.
DAILY TELEGRAPH, 17 Nov 2009: The lessons are being staged in Lancashire, which has some of the highest numbers of ethnic minority pupils, before being expanded to other areas.
Pupils are also required to challenge the view that “all Muslims are extremists”.
Teachers are encouraged to lead pupils as young as 11 in discussions surrounding racist stereotypes to stop children being groomed by radical groups.
Graham Mallinson, a former secondary school teacher and managing director of d2 Digital, which designed the on-line lesson material, said: “This is the language that’s used within the extremist literature handed to young people outside schools – whether that’s from far right or faith-based groups. We need to get young people to confront these opinions.”
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BNP would love it here, Emma Thompson tells Exeter students
Actress urges students to carry on fighting prejudice; claims Rwandan-born son endured ‘unpleasant’ experiences.
GUARDIAN, 6 Nov 2009: The actor Emma Thompson has urged a university to work to stamp out racism after her adopted son endured “unpleasant” experiences while studying there. Thompson says Rwandan-born Tindyebwa Agaba suffered because of the colour of his skin during his first year studying politics at Exeter University.
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On Thursday, during the debate entitled All Africans Now: Artistry and Activism, a member of the audience raised the issue of the BNP and comments by its leader that London was no longer a British city because of its racial diversity.
Thompson replied that Griffin “would feel very comfortable here”. The questioner asked: “What can we do to change the whiteness of Devon and Cornwall? How can we expand our university?”
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Faith schools could be outlawed after Jewish test case, says Balls
EVENING STANDARD, 24 Oct 2009: Faith schools could be stripped of the right to select pupils on the basis of their religion, the Standard has learned.
The Government fears that a landmark court case means 100 state and private Jewish schools are breaking race laws by choosing pupils who conform to their beliefs. Many Christian, Muslim and Sikh schools could also be forced to give equal priority to non-believers or pupils of other faiths.
Lawyers acting for Children’s Secretary Ed Balls are urging the highest court in the land to protect the centuries-old tradition of schools educating children on religious lines. The minister’s warning comes in a submission to the Supreme Court in the case of JFS, a Jewish school in Brent, which is fighting to overturn a ruling that it broke the Race Relations Act.
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Police cite riot fears to delay case against BNP teacher Adam Walker
THE TIMES ONLINE, 22Sep09: The case against a teacher and British National Party member accused of religious intolerance has been postponed because police fear it will cause flare-ups in the community.
The unprecedented intervention in the case of Adam Walker, a former soldier and karate expert from Durham, who was due to face the General Teaching Council (GTC) in Birmingham today, was made because of tensions between far-right activists and the Muslim community.
The council will decide if Mr Walker, 39, should be struck off the register after he was alleged to have used a school computer to contribute racist and religiously intolerant views to online discussions during lessons.
If found guilty he will be the first teacher to be banned for religious intolerance.
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OFSTED replacing ethnic monitoring forms following complaint
CEP blog, 02Sep09: A month ago a concerned work colleague showed me a copy of an EY2 form issued by the English education standards office, OFSTED, which included an ethnic monitoring form. The options included White British, White Irish, White Scottish and White Welsh.
Bearing in mind that OFSTED only operates in England, the exclusion of White English from the ethnic monitoring form is inexcusable and when White Scottish, White Irish and White Welsh are included, it is almost certainly illegal under the Race Relations Act.
