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wrighty 6:00 Sat May 14
Last Whites of the East End

Cockneys are becoming a dying breed in one east London borough, according to a new BBC documentary.

The film, the Last Whites of the East End, claims that white British people are leaving the borough in such numbers that 73 per cent of the local population is now made up of black and minority ethnic people.

The borough, in the shadow of the Olympic Park was historically almost all white working class, home mostly to dockworkers who moved in during the 1800s.

However, according to the documentary, more than half of the white population has left Newham in the past 15 years alone, resettling in places like Essex.

While in the same period, seventy thousand immigrants have moved into the borough, meaning it now has the lowest percentage of white British residents of anywhere in London.

Newham is now the most multicultural place in the UK, with 147 languages spoken across the borough.

One man says in the documentary: “It’s hard to find somebody who speaks English in Newham.

“We’ve always been a country where immigration plays a part, but not on the scale you find now.

“You go from Aldgate to Barking and there is very few English people left.”

Children at one local primary school, Drew Primary in Docklands, speak 43 different languages, with a new non-English speaking pupil arriving each week.

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Australian head teacher Emma Peltier said she believes the school’s multiculturalism to be a positive thing.

She said: “We no longer live in a mono-cultural society, we have 43 languages spoken and at least once a week we have a child arrive who has no English.

“Really quickly children pick up the language.

“Schools and children can be a fantastic way of people assimilating into society because children don’t see colour and children don’t see religion.”

Last Whites of the East End airs on BBC1 on Tuesday, May 24, at 10.45pm.

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Northern Sold 6:01 Sat May 14
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2 page spread in the Sun about this

Nurse Ratched 6:04 Sat May 14
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"children don’t see colour and children don’t see religion.”

That's a lie.

I spend more time than is desirable or healthy on London buses, and therefore get to hear the depressingly inane conversation of school children. They are bogglingly preoccupied with their own and other kids' colour, race and religion.

Crassus 6:11 Sat May 14
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Depressing - ethnic cleansing by another name

Nurse Ratched 6:14 Sat May 14
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"Australian head teacher Emma Peltier said she believes the school’s multiculturalism to be a positive thing.

She said: “We no longer live in a mono-cultural society, we have 43 languages spoken and at least once a week we have a child arrive who has no English."

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!

Takashi Miike 6:22 Sat May 14
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Blair's britain

Tricky Pablo 6:25 Sat May 14
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Drew School was my primary school back in the 70s, it was a great school back then as was the area.

Wish I could say the same now but sadly it's hard to recognise the place

AKA ERNIE 6:27 Sat May 14
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Blame the ones leaving

Hermit Road 6:32 Sat May 14
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Nurse Ratched 6:04 Sat May 14

That is true.

Sven Roeder 6:32 Sat May 14
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Is it a school or a language school?
The Aussie bird knows she will back in Sydney in a couple of years having done her missionary work.

Nurse Ratched 6:33 Sat May 14
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I can't work out of you are agreeing or disagreeing with me :-(

Nurse Ratched 6:35 Sat May 14
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Sven, I bet she congratulates herself several times a day about what a SPLENDID person she is.

JLAP 6:35 Sat May 14
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The rumbling of our forefathers turning in their graves drums out over the east end!!

Sven Roeder 6:39 Sat May 14
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I'm sure.
She will have a little black book that lists all the countries she has brought together in her little rainbow world. Together with a world map with pins in every country.

Crassus 6:44 Sat May 14
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Sven Roeder 6:32 Sat May 14
''The Aussie bird knows she will back in Sydney in a couple of years having done her missionary work''.

Hope they do an Abou and eat the self richteous bitch

ironsofcanada 6:44 Sat May 14
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East End was always a place for newcomers, dare say that those of us whose family come from there have a fair bit of non-English-speaking foreign blood in us.

HairyHammer 6:46 Sat May 14
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Nurse Ratched 6.04

I disagree, children who are brought up well by parents who do not play the race or anti race card will not give two hoots about other children's colour.

But I cannot speak for Religious or Racist white parents who both want to keep everything as they were back in the good old days Religious 1600,s White Anglo Saxons 1960's.

HairyHammer 6:46 Sat May 14
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Nurse Ratched 6:46 Sat May 14
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Yes, irons.

Whites have always been in the minority in london. From the middle ages onwards. Immigration has always been on this scale. This is all perfectly normal.

Nurse Ratched 6:47 Sat May 14
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Hairy, mate, you're a twit.

Mr. Burns 6:47 Sat May 14
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All I can see that multiculturalism has bought to the East end is loads of used mattresses in people's front patios.

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