Posted on 03/29/2013 6:34:35 AM PDT by UKrepublican
UKIP leader Nigel Farage told a packed public meeting on Monday in Suffolk that he was flabbergasted at the immigration problems in Peterborough.
Speaking to Paul Stainton on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Tuesday, he bemoaned a sense of emnity that he felt had developed in the city in the last ten years, which he attributed to the high level of immigration.
Mr Farage said: I was amazed to see the sort of Polish quarter of the town, and to see the size of it, its rapid development, and how few people spoke English.
But the worst thing was a sense of enmity that has grown up between much of the local population and the large numbers of Polish people living there.
I think people get on together less well in Peterborough than they did ten years ago.
We have since the war had a managed migration policy into Britain of thirty to fifty thousand people a year. Over the last ten years its averaged half a million people a year.
You cannot assimilate new groups in society if theyre coming in at that level.
The UKIP leader said that British people were being discriminated against in the workplace.
He said: I met a 16 year old girl in Peterborough who applied for a job on a packing line and was told she couldnt get a job because she didnt speak Polish. Im sorry but that simply isnt right.
Mr Farage believes the forthcoming county council elections will mark a pivotal moment in the evolution of his party.
He said: I think May 2 is very important. It will really show across the whole of England whether this rise in the polls is fictional or real. I believe it is real.
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No, they arent.
Its the Rumanians, Bosnians etc that are the problem. There has been more to Eastern European immigration to Britain than the Poles.
Ping
Its not just that the immigrants are there (or here) its that they receive enormous government benefits that citizens can hardly get.
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