On 30/10/2013 18:23, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , harryagain
wrote:

It's pretty self evident that if we have lots of immigrants they will
overload our services/housing.

Already happened, but that's too hard for hayseeds like JJ to
understand.

It certainly has. Our eldest son went into reception year in a class of
23 with three spare places. Three years later, our second son was 30th
on a list of 54 for the same class. The only change in that time was an
influx of East Europeans renting in the area, plus a few from Western
Europe. Every day there are dozens of conversations going on between
parents waiting in the playground in numerous languages. Most of them
are perfectly nice people, but it still does anger those of us that have
lived in the area all our lives and struggle to get our kids into the
local schools.

Our second son did get in in the end. We had to go through a formal,
legal, appeals procedure and two children were given places - there are
two limits, 30 per class maximum, plus floor area divided by how much
space each pupil requires and the latter is not a strict, legal limit.
The whole thing was very stressful and for two and a half months he had
no school place at all.

SteveW