[Si Coe]

Well in my experience as a teacher I'd rather teach immigrants than 'home grown'.
In my previous school in Salford, 98% white, the number one career choice for girls was hairdresser. The most popular subject was childcare because unsurprisingly most were pregnant within a year of living (miracle they waited!).
The boys didn't really have a preferred career choice as most planning on being unemployed. As they put it 'why waste your time working when you can live on the social and play Xbox all day'. They weren't being lazy, that really was how they saw the world worked. And their parents agreed - after all that was their experience too.

Now I'm in Moss Side, and my form of 30 represent 16 nationalities. And you speak to the parents who will say things like 'I came to this country to give ....... a better chance in life'. They want to be doctors, or lawyers - they won't settle for dole scrounger! They have hope, ambition and drive - and that also rubs off on our small English contingent. They come from the same basic stock as the Salford lot, but exposure to those who don't expect everything handed to them on a plate has improved many.

Is immigration bad? Not for those I work with. The benefit cheats are mostly white British who feel the nation owes them something for being born here, not those that came to this country seeking to improve their lot.