Pupils pay the price for migration taboo

Daily Mail
"Children starting school this week will experience one of the most dramatic and worrying consequences of the biggest demographic upheaval in our history. After the uncontrolled immigration of the Labour years, thousands of four- and five-year-olds are being packed into overspill ‘bulge’ classes, many housed in temporary schoolrooms or rented offices. Meanwhile, record numbers are in oversized classes, with nearly 72,000 five-to-seven year-olds learning in groups of 31 or more – up from 31,265 in 2010. Adding to the difficulties, of course, are the problems of handling growing numbers of pupils who speak little English. Indeed, how can any teacher, faced with a class that speaks dozens of different native languages, hope to convey the basics to any pupil? Truly, these youngsters, of every ethnic background, are victims of the taboo that for decades prevented politicians from challenging reckless migration policies, for fear of being branded as ‘racists’. As the pressure intensifies – on schools, the NHS, housing, transport and jobs – a weekend poll found that 60 per cent believe immigration has damaged Britain.Yet disturbingly, the latest figures show a surge in net migration to 176,000 last year, exposing the hollowness of the Government’s efforts to cut the net inflow below 100,000 by 2015. And this is even before we throw open our borders to Romanians and Bulgarians next January. Last week, when they rejected the plan to attack Syria, MPs spoke for the people. How much longer before they treat with the same seriousness the public’s concerns about migration’s threat to our well-being and national identity? "