[Livia]

Labour's been out of touch with working class people for a long time now. Anyone see "Last Whites of the East End", a documentary on BBC 1 last night? Set in Newham, where I come from, it demonstrated very clearly for me what Labour councils have done for the working class people of the East End.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

Labour's been out of touch with working class people for a long time now. Anyone see "Last Whites of the East End", a documentary on BBC 1 last night? Set in Newham, where I come from, it demonstrated very clearly for me what Labour councils have done for the working class people of the East End.

Labour councils are responsible for post war immigration?
The Scarman and Macpherson reports should tell you what you need to know.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Labour councils are responsible for post war immigration?
The Scarman and Macpherson reports should tell you what you need to know.

The Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales - a Scot - has said that "if people want to live in London they have to realise things change". Small comfort to the inhabitants who's families have lived in the East End for generations and watched their culture eroded by a Labour council. While they were opening cultural centres for people from all over the world, they closed the Passmore Edwards Museum, which holds the biggest collection of Bow Porcelain in the world. I know what I meant. The day I need you to educate me will be the day I fall off the perch. Thanks though...

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

The Mayor of Newham, Sir Robin Wales - a Scot - has said that "if people want to live in London they have to realise things change". Small comfort to the inhabitants who's families have lived in the East End for generations and watched their culture eroded by a Labour council. While they were opening cultural centres for people from all over the world, they closed the Passmore Edwards Museum, which holds the biggest collection of Bow Porcelain in the world. I know what I meant. The day I need you to educate me will be the day I fall off the perch. Thanks though...

You're welcome, multiculturalism is not a recent Labour construct it is a result of decades of governmental change and globalisation.
Nothing is certain but change this is what happens over time communities fragment, this societal dispersion is the result of Structural functionalism.

Local government funding has been eroded by cuts from central government, something has to give and to maintain front line services that may have been included in the cuts which had to be made. We are in a state of austerity remember, the cultural centres may have been able to draw on other funding, donations or sponsorship.