Watch ‘The Last Whites of the East End’: The BBC documentary they want you to forget

The British East End has long stood as the beating heart of London’s working class — famous for its docks, bustling markets, pie and mash shops, and the unbreakable Cockney spirit.

That all changed during the ten years of Tony Blair’s government, which, driven by a zealous doctrine of multiculturalism, threw open Britain’s borders. As Blair’s own former speechwriter bluntly put it, this was designed to “rub the right’s nose in diversity.” The result has been a demographic upheaval so swift and far-reaching that today the traditional East Ender is often spoken of as an endangered species.

The most visible sign of this transformation is in local schools. In many East End primary schools, white British children are now a minority.

The 2016 BBC documentary “Last Whites of