Summary of
‘It’s like you’re not in Britain’
The newspaper article ‘It’s like you’re not in Britain’ by Steven Morris, published in 2013 by ‘Guardian News and Media Ltd’ deals with the topic of Immigration-policy in Southampton and Great Britain referring to the importance for the Hampshire country council elections in May.
Steven Morris reports from the place of interest in Little Poland in Southampton.
Trying to give an overview of the situation there he asks many community members like Wesley Andrews, burdening about the loss of English in the streets, making him angry.
Furthermore stories about ‘immigrants on benefits’ make feelings run high.
What is more the expected influx of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria frightens him relating poverty in Great Britain.
He’s hoping for governmental intervention.
Others like James Morris, a fan of Labour, disagreeing with the idea that Polish people come and do jobs British people wouldn’t do, feeling more and more attracted by the ‘United Kingdom Independence Party’.
He thinks that was propaganda.
According to him, a jobless British person would ‘anything going’.
Other community members think positive about the Immigrants.
They brought good to the area and helped housing-business, caused by the emerging demand for housing.
Still the UKIP chair in Southampton Test David Nightingale, answering these voices back by saying ‘Immigration is draining our resources to a point where the immigrants themselves are beginning to see it must be stopped if our country is to survive’.
The council leader Richard Williams pins his hopes on the integration of English language at the centre of immigration policy.
It is the ‘key to everything.
Especially among descendants of immigrants the attitude towards new immigrants seems opened and respectful.
One teenager comments on that by revising one advantage of living in the EU – the free choice where to live and where to work.
June 2013
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