Wake up! Of course people feel threatened by mass immigration.
There are No jobs. No affordable housing and critics are accused of racism, it comes as no surprise that indigenous Britt's are beginning to feel angry and discriminated against.
These days we're unable to celebrate our own culture for fear of offending others, yet we're forced to accommodate the religious and cultural demands of immigrants, some have no intention of respecting ours. In fact in the area where I used to live the last time I visited I was threatened and racially abused, it's become a no go area for whites. I am outraged by this and outraged at our governments stupidity for allowing this to happen. No doubt some brain washed sad moron won't even understand any of this, they want these concerns silenced.

Anders Lustgarten writes "It's true that many people have legitimate grievances about their lives -over access to housing, to healthcare, to good schools, to secure jobs- for which immigration (IF politically manipulated) can become a touchstone".

Precisely, IT WAS POLITICALLY MOTIVATED. Labour may very latterly have introduced a SLIGHTLY more rigorous set of rules but for years that deliberately introduced a mass immigration policy for England, despite a lack of housing and services already. Read former Labour policy wonk and speech writer Andrew Neather's 23.10.09 article in the London Evening Standard 'Don't listen to the whingers - London needs immigrants' here: http://bit.ly/d3i1T5 and also read about the already existant population ticking timebomb 'Rising immigration could double population of Britain by 2081'(Standard, 29.2.10) here: ttp://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23423366-rising-immigration-could-double-population-of-britain-by-2081.do

Worse than this however was that Labour did this secretly, fearing the backlash from their own traditional support-base who were always going to lose out to people undercutting their quotes if self-employed or their labour rates if employed. But then that was the plan, to bring in millions more immigrants to bolster the working population to make Britain more competitive. Never mind the indigenous population!

I feel so sorry for the ordinary WORKING PEOPLE of this country who were delibereately BETRAYED BY LABOUR. And here are the new Lanour leadership candidates continuing to make out they are still the good guys. What a joke.

I wish to make it crystal clear that I do not condone attacks, verbal or otherwise, on immigrants at any time. If someone is in the UK legally and have a right to work then they have done nothing wrong and nobody should blame them. But if you feel you own lives have been undermined and your childrens' opportunities then blame the people who are really responsible. That meaas New Labour, pure and simple.

Just for the record, I voted Labour into power in 1997 and I voted them out in 2010. I did not vote for the loathesome BNP and their policy of hatred. I could not vote Lib-Dem because I disagree with Britain unilaterally giving up our nuclear deterrent, never want to join the Euro, and certainly never wish to see foreign powers given one more inch of influence over the governance of our country rather than our own elected governement (whether you like them and voted for them or not). On all three counts this deleted the Lib-Dems but also Labour as we hear from Ed Balls that Gordon Brown offered to scrap Trident in secret talks with them about setting up a Lib-Lab coalition after the election, despite universal support in the Labour cabinet for maintaining Trident as the only viable defense and stating so publicly to the British people.

So I voted Tory and regret it not one bit. In fact reading some of the leftie journalists and comments slag of the new coalition when they've only just begun and have to clear up the almight financial mess Labour left behind yet again I feel positively delighted that I voted Tory.

'New' Labour ... same old lies. Never again!

Jesus, it's so easy to scapegoat immigration for everything. It adds to the economy, it's really not the worst thing in the world. And you can't do anything about the vast majority anyway, coming as it does from the EU. Blaming all our problems on immigration is dangerous and traditionally tory, I hope Labour aren't going to be stooping to that level, it's really quite pathetic.

I'm noticing the same comments and phrases as on the Graun comment section. The same spelling mistakes as well. Looks like the xenaphobic and/or racist trolls are on the loose again

Oh, Oh and one last thing. Barbara have you tried looking here? Its a marvelous website

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/employment/jobseekers/index.htm

There appears to be quite a number of jobs. Not many good ones mind, I should know I'm currently a jobseeker myself. You make the common mistake of not discerning between 'no jobs' and 'lots of sh*t jobs'. Toddle off to Mogadishu if you want to see no jobs... No thats not in Pakistan

Immigration is just the hype of the moment. I would hope that Labour wouldn't appease the BNP.

Anders, you're in fantasy ville. Firstly, and most importantly, get it into your head that it is not racist, it is not even xenophobic, to be opposed to a million and more people moving to this over crowded little island in less than a decade. The numbers were unprecedented outside of wartime.

If you only factor in "economic" benefits, and don't bother to think about additional demands on housing, health, transport and schooling, then you a fool.

Middle class idiots like you can't get beyond a sodding guilt complex about the empire, and a real contempt for working class people who did not ask to make way for an influx of young, cheap and mobile east Europeans, large extended families from basket cases like Pakistan and assylum seekers who cross every safe border in Europe to end up in Dover.

I fear that your play won't go down well outisde Islington.