I live in Wisbech and visit Peterborough very often. There is an active and very well organised Filipino group there. They organise an event every month and last week held a family fun day at the Ferry Meadows Country Park, which was attended by lots of Filipinos, their families and friends. I did not count them all but there must have been between 100 and 200 folk there, lots of food, and no charge at all. Ferry Meadows is a superb location right in the heart of the city but very spacious and with a real country feel to it.
So sorry, Peterborough has its good points too. Yes, it does have lots of Eastern EU immigrants which are stressing local services. We do here in Wisbech as well because we are a farming and food processing town. However they are being welcomed into the community and now form about 25% of the client base for my business. Some of the nicest people you could hope to meet come from these communities. Well educated, very motivated and polite. It is no small wonder that local employers prefer to recruit from this group than from unemployed locals for they generally work harder and don't let you down.
Whether we should be closing the door on non EU immigration is another issue but I wanted to put an alternative view.
By the way..........I regard almost everything written in the Daily Mail to be totally biased b*llocks, designed to stir up the worst type of emotions in those type of people who still believe in Empire. It is now so right wing it makes even Fox seem well balanced.
