05/09/2016 Inside Out East Midlands

Hello and welcome to Newick-on-Trent and a new sdries

of Inside Out, East Midlands.

I am Lukwesa Bura and here is what is coming up in our special

Brexit programme tonight.

It is more than two months since the vote to leave the EU

and Peter Hitchens has been back to the town where three

quarters voted out.

But has anything changed as a result?

Is anybody happier?

Is anything really better?

Simon Hare wants to know about jobs in the East Midlands car industry.

We'll Brexit put the brakes on?

I think the car industry is one of those industries that is most

exposed to the risks around Brexit.

And a walk down the country's most cosmopolitan street.

What do they think of the vote on Leicester's Narborough Road?

If this was made a polling station, people would have voted rem`in.

With stories that matter closer to home, this is Inside Out

for the East Midlands. First this evening,

since the referendum, journalists from all over the world

have been descending on one particular town in Lincolnshire

They all want to see the pl`ce where one in eight people

is an Eastern European migr`nt and the out of four people

voted to leave the EU.

The highest pro-Brexit vote in the country.

But Peter Hitchens, columnist for the Mail On Sunday, was actually

in Barston five years ago.

At the time he caused controversy when he identified what he

called a quiet seething resentment in the town.

After the vote we asked Petdr to return to find out how

people are feeling now.

Who'd have thought that sledp Barston would have registerdd

the strongest anti-EU vote in the country?

I would.

I visited this handsome old town five years ago

for the Mail On Sunday to fhnd it transformed by mass migration

from Eastern Europe, which nobody had asked

for or expected.

Some people were annoyed when I pointed this out.

But in their quiet English way, people were upset.

Now they have taken the chance to show it.

But has anything changed as a result?

Is anybody happier?

Is anything really better?

The firment following my newspaper article drew some

people into politics.

Since I last met Bob he has become a counsellor.

Barston was over 75% for le`ving out it is because people are absolutely

sick to death of this uncontrolled immigration and light of control

of the Borders and free movement of people.

But nothing has happened.

No, nothing has happened, and the frustration

is starting to bubble.

Could it be that the problels of Bartson and indeed England go

deeper than the problem of mass immigration?

Why is it for instance that British people have been so unwilling

to do the work that these migrants undoubtedly do?

They always used to, Peter, there was never an issue.

Peter would travel in as we know from Sheffield and Nottingh`m,

there is other parts of the country.

They would do the job and they would go home and xou have

literally in this town thousands and thousands of Eastern

European is coming in.

It is far too many into short a time.

And it has completely unbal`nced the whole social structure.

Some of the Poles and Lithu`nians I spoke to five years ago Britain

treat that the British would not do the jobs they had taken.

At least 10,000 migrants were in Barston at the last census

and most of them are still working hard and long on Lincolnshire's

thriving farms.

Why can't you get British pdople to do the work that needs

to be done on your farm?

Anyone can come and do this work, the work is available,

it is organised by licensed agencies.

Anyone can apply.

In this area in Lincolnshird there is not huge unemployment locally,

people are finding work doing other things.

And you had people coming in from Sheffield.

We did.

That was a direct impact of Sheffield's steel industry

collapsing, and those peopld at the time travelled

to Lincolnshire to get the work

They hit retirement and stop coming and coincidentally in 2004

the movement of the borders in Europe allowed us

to access labour from abroad.

A quarter of the UK's veget`bles are produced in Lincolnshird,

among many other crops, Julian grows celeriac

for the country's biggest supermarkets.

We can't operate as a busindss without migrant labour.

Absolutely.

For us I think we would havd to give up vegetable production almost

overnight and revert back to basic arable farming.

Would that destroy you?

We would survive, we would survive as farmers, but it would not be good

news for our full-time staff that it is something that I hope

will never happen.

All these new workers need homes, for many that used to mean caravan

parks and grim multi-occupidd all houses like this one.

How many people living in a room like this?

There could be up to three, sometimes four.

In a room of this size?

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And, obviously...

So a house of this size, perhaps 20...

20 people, absolutely.

That still goes on, doesn't it?

It has not stopped.

I have got to say, really, it is very rare.

Outside investors have spotted a market.

Dismal places of this sort will be smartened up,

and the rents sharply raised.

So what are you paying now if you come here

from Poland or Lithuania?

It is actually very reasonable.

It is ?80 for a single room.

?80 per week?

?80 per week.

I think bartson is a great place, I really like the town,

and I think it is a vibrant place and it is a lot better

for the influx...

Are you a Barstonian yourself?

I have lived here all my life.

It was a very quiet, sleepy town.

You are right.

But it is vibrant now, we have all of the shops.

Vibrant is one of those words that people use, isn't it?

Some people don't want it to be vibrant.

Absolutely.

And I am not saying we haven't got problems, we have problems like most

cities, it is a lot to...

To get a doctor you have two weeks, to get some basic services,

they are stressed in Barston, but like the housing it is hmproving

and I think Barston has a bright future.

But bright for whom?

Money is not everything, people have to get on with dach

other, not easy with such different cultures.

Here on West Street, they call it East Street,

it feels as though two nations are living side-by-side.

Not speaking much.

Things are civil enough, for this young Lithuanian

who arrived ten years ago to want to stay.

It was a welcoming environmdnt.

People were kind to all of us at that time.

You mean the local people?

The local people where, yes.

In support of, and patient `s well.

Did anything change at all in the mood of Barston

after the referendum on the European Union?

It has changed, for I will see the first

couple of weeks.

In what way?

I would say people were mord tense, and the people actually do have been

waiting may further opportunity to express themselves,

they took their anger out on us slightly.

Now it is back to normal.

What is normal for Barston?

On an evening's stroll the town is happy and peaceful,

despite stories of drunkenness and violence.

What is the real mood?

Not so good, according to Eliza one of the young workers from Romania.

We are coming here to make loney and to making life better for us.

And how do people treat you?

The English people did not treat us very good.

Why not?

In my factory after that vote, with the European Union,

the coming into my office and they told me you have to go

home, you and all your friends go in your country.

And these are people you know?

Yes, England people.

And what did you say to thel?

I couldn't say anything because we are more

respectful, maybe.

I treat them with respect but they don't treat me as well

When things go wrong, the media take an interest

in it is a sad fact, but it seems some people in the town

blame me, not the government, for Barston's problems.

I know what we have done ovdr the last ten years has improved

the town without doubt.

And yet the naysayers, the talk-downers have reallx ruined

a lot of our reputation.

So doesn't it strike you that the publicity that came

to Barston as a result of pdople such as me exposing the problems

of mass migration actually did Barston a lot of good that would not

have otherwise come about?

I think you are right to a certain extent there,

but the negativity that Barston has had in Britain has I think

overwhelmed a lot of the people here, who have become disillusioned

with the town, where actually it is a thriving, vibrant town.

Last year we got an RHS Gold award because the town

looks so much better.

This part of England has always been very close to the

continent in many ways.

Don't necessarily being govdrned from the continent.

Exactly.

How do you separate these things?

We do, but where we governed?

I might argue about that.

You can argue with me, but you would lose.

Of course I would!

If there is a solution I don't know what it is.

Somehow, good people will ydt again try to clear up the mess

the politicians made.

But I am certain it was better to discuss it and publicise it

and pretend it wasn't happening

But if we could only learn from Barston's problems,

people could be asked and consulted before their lives

are changed completely, we might govern this countrx

a little better than we do.

Peter Hitchens there and the view from Barston.

Now one of the biggest questions about what will happen when we leave

the EU is the effect it will have on the economy and jobs.

The Remain camp warned of rdcession while

Leave spoke of greater opportunities.

Simon Hare has been taking ` look at one of the driving

forces behind our economy, the car industry.

Don't worry, this isn't somd kind of pitch to be a presenter

on Top Gear, I simply don't know enough about cars.

But what I do know about thhs car is the year it

was built.

1973.

It was a time of big petrol prices and big hair.

A year which began with Britain joining the European economhc

community.

And the UK automotive industry had become a real

blockbuster.

Now, we have voted to leave the European Union but what

will it all mean for our car industry?

Absolute classic, isn't it?

Beautiful 1973, the Daimler, made the year that the UK joined the

then European Economic Commtnity and I think it was the year that

more cars are made in the UK than ever

before, 2 million cars.

Really?

That's right.

It was our peak year.

Now we have seen UK car output increase in recent years and it is

on course by 2022 exceed th`t.

But could that be put in jeopardy by the

recent referendum results?

I think the car industry is one of those

industries that is most exposed to the risks around Brexit.

There has been big investment by multinational

car firms in the UK to prodtce cars here, largely for the Europdan

market, so 80% of the car output of cars made

in the UK is exported and

of the last figure is 57% of that went to Europe.

We're just going past Toyot`, the entrance to Toyota, near

Derby, now, there will be some concern, isn't there, about the

long-term future.

There will indeed be a lot of uncertainty.

Every few years the hunt around for the best

possible deal, from plans across Europe and some big companids I

think I Toyota or General Motors will look at the UK and think do we

really want to place investlent there if we don't know we c`n export

to Europe without tariff barriers?

Ahead of the referendum Toyota has told its 3000 employees at Burnaston

that Britain remaining in the EU was of critical importance.

Since the Brexit results, it has been keen to

reassure staff that the jobs are secure.

For the short and medium-term, nothing changes.

Our is to continue to do the good job which

we do every day in making qtality cars and being flexible to the

different orders from the ctstomer.

But in the future, cars could face a 10%

tariff or import tax when

shipped to the EU.

One recent report on the UK car industry had Toyota

among the companies most likely to pull out

of Britain as a result of

Brexit.

I think that is very premattre and not fair at this

stage.

What we are committed to at this stage is working with the

British government to ensure they fully

understand our concerns, the

fully understand the import`nce of zero tariff on car is, zero tariff

on parts.

We are communicating, and honestly the British government is

listening.

The British government is vdry concerned, they know our

concerns, what we are asking for is the automotive

industry should be a

negotiating priority.

There are said to be 500 companies in the East

Midlands involved in the car industry.

There will soon be another.

The German firm is relocating its UK car spares

distribution centre alongside the M1 at Markham Vale in North Derbyshire,

creating up to 400 jobs.

We had to get closer to our customers, really,

in the UK, so we took the ddcision to relocate the business to the

Midlands.

It is an ideal location here because basically you can reach

95% of the population within a four hour HGV drivd.

So here is a German company investing in Britain just a

short time after Britain has voted to leave the European Union.

As that cost you any problems, any second

thoughts?

No, I think for us it is very much business as usual at the

moment, we still have very ambitious plans.

We have bought the site, we

have bought the building, you don't do that sort of thing unless you

have an eye on the long-terl.

But you make many of your parts on the

continent, bring them here `nd then distribute them out.

Are you worried that is going to be more tariffs on

that?

I don't think we are ever going to know that until we know

what the situation is going to be, so it is very difficult to predict.

But we are where we are now, and we have got to get on whth it.

To me that sounded like an investment that

is happening in spite of Brdxit

But I am off on a short drive to meet

one businessman who is much more upbeat about it.

Ian.

Simon, how are you doing?

I am all right.

Thank you very much for agreeing to see me.

Please, come in.

From his home in North Nottinghamshire, Ian Beaton

runs his firm which designs the complicated tools that help car

companies make plastic parts.

He is part of the supply chain for several

car firms.

Including Toyota.

There are challenges, but I relish the

challenges ahead and I think once we get

to the short-term uncertainty of

this that is inevitable, I think medium to long-term there is a

really bright future and I `m really excited about it.

Since the referendum we havd actually picked

up significant business and this year looks

like it is going to be a

record-breaking year turnover for us.

Obviously I don't think that is

connected to us voting Brexit at all, it is

just a general sign, the

state of the UK economy and development of it.

We are nowhere near any sittation that we were back

in the financial crisis, and I do genuinely

believe in the skills and

attributes of the people of this country, and some of the unhque

products that we sell in the markets we sell into.

No one else does it as

good as ours.

We will survive, particularly in the type of cars and

other vehicles we build.

This car was built in Coventry.

People often think of the West Midlands when it

comes to cars.

But the East Midlands had a great automotive heritage,

long before Toyota arrived.

A whole host of historic Rolls-Royce cars,

many of which were built in Derby, have been brought together `long

with some of the Toyota has still made here today.

It is for the launch of a new business hub in thd

city called Infinity Park.

It is hoped it will attract companies

involved in making the cars of the future.

In Derby we have got the

commend this engineering base but we also want

to look to the future as

well.

What we have got to make sure in the post Brexit world is that we

are attracting businesses, we are showing we are open `nd

entrepreneurial and showing we are open for business.

And that certainly, I hope, is partly what

the Infinity Park is all about.

When Rolls-Royce was just arriving in Derby,

the East Midlands already h`d a

car industry.

Humber Cars in Beeston, which at the time employed

almost 2000 people.

And thanks to the workmanshhp, the Beeston factory

was famed for the quality of the cars are produced.

But in 1908 it came to an end with the company

realised they could make thdm much cheaper elsewhere.

A decision which thousands of people employed in the

car industry of today will be hoping is not repeated in a post Brexit

Britain.

Simon Hare reporting.

Finally tonight it is a mile long and a

decade ago, it was one of the most deprived streets in the country

But then the emigrants arrived, and now

Narborough Road in Leicester is a thriving business and shopping

centre.

In fact, academics have labdlled it the most cosmopolitan

Street in the country.

So with Britain's standing on the world

stage under even more scrutiny than ever before,

what did people there think about others leaving the EU?

And why do they choose to live there?

It is early morning and all is quiet on the south-west Leicester

front, except at the newsagdnts

This man from Tanzania has been up since 430.

Good morning, how are you?

All right?

Two first-class stamps, ple`se.

Two first-class stamps.

His customers have become hhs friends, but when he set up shop

some 50 years ago, some of his neighbours were not so welcoming.

This shop is about 100 years old.

And when I took over it was a bit of a cultural shock for thel,

the local yobs here.

There were a group of four and they attacked my shop,

vandalise my shop, set fire to my shop 19 times.

40p change, OK?

Thank you very much.

Bye-bye.

The changes since Subash arrived have been seismic.

The animosity towards immigrants has largely disappeared, and resurgence

from the London School of economics have

branded Narborough Road the

UK's most cosmopolitan Stredt.

So it is little wonder that people living

in the Narborough Road area keep a very close eye

on the news following Brexit.

In this area, you get a truly international perspective on

world events.

It is a street where the world comes to you.

This is not the Golden mile to the north of the

city, this is not Little Italy or Chinatown,

this is a street that is

fundamentally composed of people from everywhere.

By 9:30, this restaurant is already open for

business.

This man is a Kurd from Turkey, and for him Narborough Road

is a haven of peace.

Back home, thousands of Kurds have been killed

in a conflict which began 40 years ago.

There are lots of human rights breach is happening, people are

being killed by security forces

Journalists are being detained, freedom of speech is still `n

existing problem in Turkey.

It is now late morning at the hairdressers

opposite is packed.

Here, they specialise in creating unique

hairstyles for clients from all over the country.

I am from Zimbabwe but I was actually born in India.

New Delhi.

And obviously I live in Europe now.

So I might just retire to Antarctica!

Most of the new immigrants are from outside the EU,

they have travelled here in search of stability.

The referendum result came as a surprise.

I will tell you something rdally funny, one of my

clients said if this place was made a polling

station people would have

voted remain because of the different cultures that come in

here, everyone was foreigners, obviously want to remain, obviously

we trade among the countries.

If you are an immigrant from outside the

EU, then your status is not affected by Brexit.

But this man is from Poland and despite all the

uncertainty, he remains opthmistic.

I live the same way that I lived after the Brexit, I do almost

everything the same.

I think nothing will change for five or ten years.

A few doors away is one of the

street's longest established businesses, Val and Ian Smalley came

here from Canada three decades ago to sell books.

If you come back this afternoon, look for Kevin.

Now they get enquiries about repairs for

damaged skateboards.

Customers also bring along their rickety bicycles.

Good afternoon.

After lunch.

Yes.

Val and he are everybody's favourite agony aunt and uncle.

With quite a lot of the new incomers they have

got no English, or very little English.

So we have always help out with things like form filling.

In fact we have helped several people get citizenship.

The couple often get favours in return for their help.

It is just how the street works

People do bring us little ghfts

Food, often, food is easy to move around.

That is nice.

And the barbers on the corndr will insist on cutting my

hair, not that there is not have to cut but they like to cut it!

In the early days we helped them a lot.

But the book shop is not thd longest established business on Narborough

Road.

Nigel Makepeace has been selling musical instruments here for

more than 40 years.

Now as an Englishman he finds himself in a

minority.

I don't feel that I am a minority, the street has changed,

yes, but we are all very frhendly.

We have, for instance, we have a Malaysian teachers

here and my own daughter has married a guy from Sri

Lanka.

We have all integrated.

I am not a minority.

OK, so it is quarter to one and you know it is lunchtimd

on Narborough Road because the smells are overwhelming.

It really does get across the diversity of the

road, doesn't it?

What do you think is the success, the reason for

Narborough Road's success?

What is behind it?

Narborough Road is located relatively close to the citx

centre of Leicester, and we have seen this with many migrant

communities where they live in and around a city centre

for work, for transport reasons accessibility, in

other ways, places of worshhp.

What we have done as a city is avoided

the sense of a ghettoisation where you have one area heavily dominated

by one and another area dominated by another.

The London School of economhcs counted some 23 different

nationalities.

In just a few hours we found a further seven.

We came across shop assistants, waiters and

waitresses from places like America, Hungary, the Netherlands, Albania,

Latvia, Serbia and India, Btlgaria.

The minimarket is owned by this woman from Turkey.

She has just started to

train Susie to work in the shop

Susie can't yet speak English.

She came to Leicester with her daughter from Bulg`ria

What brought you?

Why did she come?

Money.

Economy.

There was no job the, the.

Nothing.

The London School of economics says one of the

most important lessons the immigrants can teach thd British

is how to survive the changds and

upheaval caused by Brexit.

Proprietors here generally have worked in some other occupation so

about 60% of traders on the street have experience of another kind of

work.

About two thirds of proprietors on the street speak the

languages or more.

This is an indication that they are culturally

and economically clued into the planet and

the use these skills to

the 21st-century citizens.

I call this meeting to attention.

We are now going to discuss parking.

At the end of a long day, the nations

unite.

Forget the big global issues, the top years of parking, btsiness

rates and litter.

There is someone here from every continent.

Except Antarctica.

A much more possible feeling on the street than there ustally

was, back in the old days where the a lot of into shops and it

really wasn't all that nice and it was

quite frightening night.

Now everything is open at nhght

And it is absolutely, it is a lovely place

to be.

And a big thank you to everxone on Narborough Road he made

me feel so welcome.

That isn't from as this week, but here is what is

coming up on the programme next Monday.

Cyclists and trams.

Is this a recipe for disastdr?

And now the foxes are in the Champions League,

what next for Leicester?

From Portugal, Belgium and Denmark, happy

days.

Hello, I'm Riz Lateef, with your 90-second update.