Britannist

One in seven pupils in English Primary schools do not speak English as their first language it has emerged.

11% of pupils did not speak English as their first language in 1997 - just before Labour won the General Election in May of that year. Eleven years later, the figure is put at over 14% and it may be up to 21.5%.

In London (the entire 32 London Borough area covering a total population area of 7.4 million people not including illegal immigrants) 54% of all school pupils (primary and secondary) do not speak English as their first language.

Nick Ferrari, presenter on London's independent news radio station LBC FM, said to a listener telephoning at 7.15 am "Surely these figures give reason for a pause for thought."

In one school in the east London Borough of Newham pupils speak 40 languages, Mr. Ferrari reported.

He also said of the new statistics about the number of school pupils in England who do not speak English "25% of pupils of Chinese origin in English schools are singled out as being gifted compared to 14% of whites."

More on this at:

English not first language for 800,000 children - Telegraph

g hall

If children wish to attend a school in this country then the first and most important lesson is that they speak English and until they can they have no other lesson

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ranter

Agreed .The education of English speaking children should not be held back by non English speaking pupils

g hall

It's just a shame that the party currently forming the government has also made it harder for children of the white working class in its pursuit of equality

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British-Conservatism

Or we could just end immigration and save a lot of money on such nonsense.

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Britannist

Yes - it is time to end immigration in all but the most exceptional of cases.

As the House of Lords Economics Committee said at the end of March 2008 - immigration does not benefit most of the UK population economically.

mattyr2k8

this is why we need to stop immigration for good.

Hartlepool

From all countries,but only letting in who we need to?


In a year or two the Communist EU will be locking its citizens in,just as communists always used to in recent times.

They will have to do so in the UK because once the EU changes start to bite and the people realise who was lying and who was telling the truth,EVERYONE WILL WANT OUT OF THE UK.

The Communist EU could never allow such to happen.

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G Hall wrote:
Personaly I am of the opinion that the Chiantishire elite of 'Nu Liebour' has always hated the white working class.

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g hall

Don't know how they've never met them

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