Victoria Gillick of Wisbech has sent me a copy of a letter she has submitted to the Wisbech Standard for publication following my two blog posts about migrants in Wisbech, which can be viewed here, and here.
I really enjoyed her accompanying letter which said: “I’m really grateful to you for what you have done for the town … bless your sweet cotton socks.” She also kindly sent me a link to check out Home Office crime statistics.
She questions the true figure of Wisbech’s migrant population and seeks more answers on this issue. This is what she wrote:
Political blogger Ellee Seymour is almost right, but not quite. Commenting on the recent Daily Mail article about Wisbech, she says that ‘a third of Wisbech’s 20,000 population is now said to be Eastern European’. Statistics are funny things, and Ms Seymour’s mistake, although a common enough one, is too important to be overlooked.
Until a decade ago the population of Wisbech was indeed 20,000. But if, as seems evident today, one in three of the town’s inhabitants are now from Eastern Europe, it means that these incomers have in fact increased the population by 50 per cent to a current total of around 30,000. By anybody’s reckoning this is a huge population explosion, and goes some way to explain why local people have a distressing sense that they are being slowly but surely elbowed out of the picture by this rapid and continuous influx of foreign speaking settlers.
When their numbers are relatively few, immigrants will usually make an effort to integrate socially with the host community. But the new immigrants to the Fens are legion, and therefore feel little need, or desire, to integrate at all. They are employed en bloc in the fields and factories and they lodge together in shared rooms or house, each different East European nationality sticking closely with it own. They have established their own shops, selling their own kind of food, in their own language. Some even run their own exclusive pubs in the town.
Others have been further dis-integrated from the local populace by being granted their own separate church services, again in their own language. We have also seen how an increasing number of them have felt sufficiently well established to start having children, or have brought other dependent family members, even grandparents, over here to live with them. So the population keeps on growing, and with no apparent upper limit in sight. Everything is guesswork, nothing is known for certain.
Will Fenland councillors please wake up and start giving their electorate some simple facts, however uncomfortable. For example, have medical and NHS dental services in Wisbech been substantially increased in recent years to cope with the situation? How many foreign nationals are living in subsidised council accommodation in the Fens? How many migrants’ children are now attending local primary and secondary schools? How many local immigrants are currently unemployed and receiving benefits or pensions? And what is the jobless total among young Wisbechians? In the last three years, what proportion of local crime has been committed by foreign nationals? And finally, why is Fenland Licensing Panel continuing, against all police advice and public protest, to grant drinks licenses to yet more and more outlets in Wisbech when the town is already awash with hard liquor and its damaging consequences?
*Victoria is quite right when she says that the population figure for Wisbech which I quoted is a decade old; they are the figures used on the Wisbech Wikipedia page and were quoted by the Daily Mail in their report too. We should have updated figures when the latest population data from the 2011 census is published this summer. And this will only be accurate if it was completed by our new migrant population too. It might still be a guessing game.
Bloody foreigners coming over here and slogging their guts out in muddy fields all day, paying their rent, educating their children and going to church on Sunday.
Disgraceful.
to victoria gillick. very well put. pleased you took the time and effort to try and make the arogant authorities pay attention to their job. but money talks to these people and while immagrants love to play in mud for not and sponge of us. the authorities are happy to let them on condition the immagrants vote for them.
the rest of society is left to shut up and suffer the side effects of the situation.
congrats to victoria gillick
regards
john goude
‘@ Socrates
Instead of the sarcasm perhaps you might praise your fellow Englishmen for their tolerance, sense of fairness and refusal to be provoked into voting for the BNP or even UKIP in significant numbers.
Never mind. It appears that we are going to have it your way and sustained levels of immigration (magnified in towns such as Wisbech but equally common in cities) will continue unabated.
So we shall get to see fully how this … this …social experiment unfolds.
When it does doubtless you’ll have an prolonged episode of amnesia or, most probably, denial as to causation and blame as Lefties always do after they’ve messed things up.(Nu Lab’s levitating economy anyone ?)
So I’ll take the opportunity to say it in advance to both you and anyone else who is so bottomlessly stupid as to think that this has been a good idea:
I told you so.
eastern european migrants eastern european migrants i would like to set the record straight on this thorny issue, i intend to give my own personall view and not from others , despite the politicians from this town and or elected councillers and our mp ,steering clear of the problems created by the mass migration by economic migrants from latvia lithuania poland and russia,
i have witnessed public urinating against cars in town , public drinking by gangs of young eastern european men . drugs are rife amongst the migrants, i have witnessed shoplifting in wisbech asda store ! feel free to read the weekly magistrates section in the fenland citizen , not many local surnames are there!! motoring offences are common place especially no insurance, murders dare i say it have actually happened here 4 to my memory all very tragic but all from the eastern european community , but no one wants to discuss it why i ask you , it is not racist to have an opinion based on fact, when people see these problems regarding the town they are right to question it and point the finger to the direction of the problem,s
there are obvious problems associated with g.p surgeries , the courts ,hospitals etc where interpretors have to be called in at a cost of £300 a go ! local housing seems to be given to the eastern european community before our own children and young families who are starting out trying to get a roof over there heads, not to mention pressure for local jobs, i can tell you scores of local kids between 18 and 25 that cannot find work locally due to the eastern european communtiy migrants taking any vacancies ! i agree there are good and bad in any community or society , but i tell you this we ,the local community that have lived and worked in the fens all our lives and are law abiding tax payers , are sick of being told how much we need the migrants and how good they are for the town, to finish i personally witnessed a woman being punched in the face and kicked on the ground by a young male migrant , no police as he was a migrant , and please fenland district council stop giving alcahol licences to every foreign food shop that opens in the town ,it is making the problem worse, some that read this will say he is a racist and a bigot i say no i am defending my town as the politicians have let us down yet again,