Hope for the Labour Party?

DD PC or not, I suspect you might be right.

Do you mean the video? I despaired too, when I saw it. There's a whole collection of them.

Yes, the video DD

Daphne. Yes, very un PC in some people's view. But I think we need a bit more un PC to get people talking. Most people don't mind the educated Doctor, Engineer, Teacher etc living next door to them. What they don't want is the 'Wrong sort of refugee'

Can I put in a plea on behalf of my local curry house too, for more chefs to be allowed into the country and for the farmers who need seasonal pickers.

It's not the education level of the immigrant we're talking about but the perception of those who see them as a threat.

Daphne, you still don't get it or you are in denial , a working class thing? If you are a solicitor ,doctor etc you are not in the social housing list , most like can afford private health care , why be troubled. But if you unemployed, a steel worker who has no idea if he will be in work in a months time, you have adult children desperate for their own home , you have had a knee op cancelled four times, your child has to travel miles to school because the schools closer are full, waiting two weeks to see your GP, you fear more people coming into the country. Working class thing my foot

Corbyn provide political experience ? The last poll in the .guardian put Labour as most trusted with the economy 18% , Tories 44%. Most trusted leader Corbyn 17% , May 45%, no leader has ever managed to get down to 17%.

I am criss you hsve dismissed it as a working class thing, msy I suggest you get to your local party office and start ringing voters

Blaming the 'other' be they, black, women, Jews, Moslems immigrants etc has become a national pastime. When I was young I remember seeing signs in Notting hill
Saying no n....grs, Irish or dogs. I thought we were better than this after all this time but we have started normalising prejudice. As for the Labour Party whilst batman and robin lead the party it is sadly on its way to nowhere. Oh for some charismatic leadership that appeals to more than their leadership but sadly I think it's all over.

Oops that should read appeals to more than their membership sorry

Dan Jarvis has experience of a life outside of politics too.

nancy if only they WERE Batman and Robin.
dd Saying that fear of mass immigration ( with no end in sight) is only a working class obsession is simply untrue, however for those who are working class it's hardly surprising when they have long waits for hospital treatment and can't get their children into local schools ( Doctors etc can go private, should they choose to.) People with plenty of money are not more noble somehow about immigrants, but have the luxury of choice.
And on the subject of unlimited EU immigration, my friend's DD is near to breakdown as a teacher of 12 year olds as she has 15 children in her class who can't speak English well, therefore has to make complicated lesson plans for each one as well as teach the other 15 children in her class.As ex teachers will know, all this is done in the evenings and weekend.I suspect she will be giving up teaching soon.The children come from different countries, no two the same.

Fifteen different countries/
languages in one class? That would be interesting. She should have lots of TAs. What languages are they, roses?

I don't know how many (or even if there are any )TA's, but she, as the teacher has to work out all the different lesson plans.This is in Nottinghamshire btw.

I honestly don't see why we don't have enough people in the Uk who could train as curry chefs so we have to import them from Bangladesh.

Roses, Areas where immigration is lowest tend to be more anti-immigration. How do you explain that? It's not immigration which is leading to long waits for health services or cuts in school places. It's lack of funding and poor planning!

Actually, dj, I usually used to find TAs a hindrance. They talk when I wanted silence and pupils over-rely on them. I worked in a school with over 30 different home languages. We had an ESOL specialist, who assessed them and those in the very early stages of learning English were withdrawn from some lessons and given intensive English lessons. The rest were given strategies for coping (plus a bilingual dictionary) and the vast majority had enough language to manage within a year. Immigrants tend to be more highly motivated than others and once their English is up to scratch, they achieve very well. There is no need for the teacher to be writins individual lesson plans.

I agree, chefs can be taught here.

Please calm down, anniebach! I'm on the housing list, I'm poor as a church mouse, but I don't have stereotypical working class values.

PS. And please do stop patronising me. I'm growing a little weary.

Nevertheless dd that particular school may be different or may not be, but she does have to do lesson plans.She has been a teacher for 17 years and just cannot cope any more.Unlimited immigration has had a serious impact on teachers.

By the way, annie, I think Corbyn is a wally, so do stop making assumptions.

Yes, I do think it's a working class thing. Sorry if that sounds snobbish, but as far as I can see 'working class values' are socially conservative, which includes xenophobia. It's not rational, so is nothing to do with school places, etc.

For what it's worth, I live in one of the top ten wealthiest areas in the country, yet this year only 75% of children were allocated places in their first choice of school - one of the lowest in the country. Stop playing the working class victim card.

Fifteen different countries/languages in one class? That would be interesting. She should have lots of TAs. What languages are they, roses?

That's not so many as this school rosesarered! But I hope she is getting the support she obviously needs:

Twenty different languages spoken in this Welsh school - and they have to learn Welsh too!
www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/10307580.Award_for_Newport_school_where_pupils_speak_twenty_languages/?ref=nt

It's offensive to the teachers to describe having so many children with no English as "interesting". I've direct experience of this - one class set up for 6 - 7 year olds from various European, African and Asian countries who were placed into one school, with a new child arriving every week. The class had one inexperienced TA. The children quickly learned enough English to cope, their progress was measured as the greatest in any class that year but inevitably, they didn't reach the Sat level expected of their age group.

Roses is right in saying that immigration has had an impact on teachers. Also on the health service and all other public services. I accept daphnedill's point, that lack of resources, planning and funding from central and local government is a big issue but it's simply not good enough to dismiss the fears expressed by so many who voted Brexit about the impact of immigration on their local area.

Ive just seen yet another unedifying appearance on TV news by Dianne Abbot, dismissing the possible rise of Ukip in former Labour strongholds and making comparisons with the fall of the SDP.

Why is it offensive? It would be interesting. I am sure the teacher could learn a lot, as well as the kids.
I have experience of teaching in multilingual schools myself; just not that many languages in one class. That's all I meant, so you can stop feeling offended on behalf of whoever.

Daphne, I come from a long line of Welsh coal miners and Welsh stone masons and quarry workers, I have no need to play the working class victim card , I am not s victim, not xenophobic , not socially conservative , just very proud of my working class roots and of being working class myself.

As you live in one of the top ten wealthiest places in the country you are in no position to judge and belittle working class people and yes it was snobbish to condemn a whole class of people as you have just done, proud? poor you that you need to try to look down on decent , hard working people to boost your ego, I feel sorry for you

Corbyn is not a wally, he is a dangerous man

Iam, I heard Abbott too, what a load of nonsense did that woman speak , nothing new there though

Dan Jarvis is one of the many vicechairs of Progress, a group set up to support Blair by acolytes of Mandelson.
Durham Council is still going to sack some of its workers and reemploy them on different contratcs, paying them less.
Brighton and Hove were going to do the same, but were outvoted.
Both council leaders are members of Progress.
Not very socialist. In fact, wasn't that the reason Hatton was drummed out of the Labour Party?

How odd, a group set up to support a politician who left the house in 2007, do tell Jen, what support is Dan Jarvis and this group giving to Blair? I assume you know ,you said it with such certainty.