Mother who dared to tell the truth about immigration on the BBC
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Mother who dared to tell the truth about immigration on the BBC: Granddaughter of a Polish airman explains why she HAD to speak up and reveal how her High Street has become a 'foreign country'
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When she arrived at Lincoln Drill Hall for BBC1’s Question Time last Thursday, Rachel Bull took a seat towards the back of the audience, never imagining that she would speak during the live television debate. At first, 35-year-old Mrs Bull listened quietly to the panellists discussing issues such as the future of the High Street and the scandal of supermarket burgers contaminated with horse meat. But when the topic shifted to immigration in her family’s home town, Boston in Lincolnshire, she found she could remain silent no longer.
After hearing Cambridge University professor Mary Beard airily dismissing claims that migrant workers were overwhelming the market town, office manager Mrs Bull almost leapt from her seat, waving her hand frantically in the air until she caught the attention of presenter David Dimbleby. ‘Boston is at breaking point. All the locals can’t cope any more,’ she said, her voice trembling with emotion and outrage. ‘You go down to Boston High Street and it’s just like you’re in a foreign country. It’s got to stop. The services are at breaking point.’
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When she finally finished speaking, there was a moment’s silence and then rapturous applause. In less than a minute, this ordinary working mother had given a snapshot picture of a town at the end of its tether and voiced the fears of huge swathes of the population. After the show had finished, audience members were still feting Mrs Bull like a heroine, shaking her hand and congratulating her for daring to speak out about the lasting impact of mass immigration.
Since then, Mrs Bull, who was born and brought up in Lincolnshire and lives with her marine engineer husband Steven and their ten-year-old son Luke, has had time to reflect on her impromptu television appearance. While she is rather overwhelmed by the attention her impassioned outpouring has attracted, she has no regrets about speaking ‘from the heart’. ‘It was an opportunity I couldn’t let pass,’ says Mrs Bull, who left school at 16 and trained as a secretary.
‘I couldn’t just sit there and say nothing while Mary Beard said that she couldn’t see there were any problems in Boston. I may not be as clever as her or have been to university, but this is my family’s home town and I wanted to say how it really is for the real people that live here. ‘I don’t blame the migrants. It’s not their fault. They are only doing what the law allows them to do, which is come over here and work. I blame the Government for not realising the impact it’s having on ordinary people — or managing it.’
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There is little doubt that Boston, where her family’s retirement-home business has been running since the early Sixties, has changed almost beyond recognition in recent years. Over the past decade the population has increased by 15 per cent, swollen by an influx of mainly Eastern Europeans who come looking for work picking cauliflowers, leeks, sprouts and beetroot in Lincolnshire’s vast fields. Officially there are 61,000 people living in this market town in the midst of the Fens, which in medieval times was at the heart of the English wool trade, although with so much immigration, it is hard to keep count. The borough council believes the true figure is more like 70,000.
While the gargantuan 15th-century tower of St Botolph’s Church still dominates the skyline, the town’s main shopping thoroughfare, West Street, has been nicknamed ‘East Street’ by locals because of the number of Baltic stores that have suddenly appeared there. Russian and Lithuanian cafes, Polish delicatessens and Eastern European hairdressers jostling for space alongside the town’s long-standing department store, Oldrids, are a stark reminder of the tensions that exist.
I saw the show the other night and this lady had it absolutely right, she completely put Mary Beard (a left wing academic) in her place who suggested everythings wonderful and just fine, and that those complaining of problems are just small minded Little Englanders - you can see this lady take on Mary Beard in the first video and Nigel Farage take on the other pro-mass immigration politicians in the second video.
But it just shows again, these people live on a different planet. And yet, later this year/next year we're going to be opening our doors to Bulgaria and Romania (29m people) because we're bound to by the European Union - and not one of the main parties is going to do anything about it despite the fact we have a housing crisis and all the other problems we're being overwhelmed with.
Isn't it time the people running this country woke up? but you know they won't, because behind the scences whilst they talk tough - they think people like me and you who think immigration ought to be controlled are just small minded and should shut up about it. Boy are they wrong, I hear Nigel Farage is planning to make it the central issue of the European Election campaign.
I love this quote though, sums it up;
'Politicians and academics live in another world' - Rachel Bull
Thoughts?
