05/09/2016 Inside Out South West

Hello, and welcome back to a new series of Inside Ott.

Stories to get you talking here in the South West.

As a new future dawns for the south-west, we investigate

Is it a net gain for the industry that wanted out?

Things would stay as they wdre and probably become worse,

Also tonight, uncertain timds for the region's migrant workers.

The UK problems are not going to disappear if

And the German wanderers wondering what's next.

Do you think there will still be work here in Cornwall?

Rudi, you're pulling the strings of my heart.

I'm Jemma Woodman and welcole to Inside Out South West.

The results of the EU referdndum blew a huge raspberry in thd face

And almost all parts of the south-west joined in.

We asked John Henderson to try and track down some of thosd people

who found themselves in the Spotlight during the campaign

to find out whether Brexit is turning out as they

It's been a British summer like no other.

They are a team that took on the world and won.

Been a summer of truly disappointing results.

It's a bad week from Britain, bad week for the UK.

One place after arguably thd most important result of all.

The British people have spoken and the answer is we're out.

While some took to the stredts to celebrate, others

I feel like someone's kicked me in the stomach.

In the months leading up to the EU referendum, people in

the south-west pledged themselves into the argument.

Services like schools and hospitals in the south-west

I want to go to Iceland to see how they feel

I was concerned about short-term instability.

If there are any trade problems the EU just comes and sorts it.

The question is, in the ten weeks since Brexit, how are they

We first caught up with this fish buyer Angie Harrison in February.

She was undecided about which way to go in the referendum.

Will it affect our little boats here, whom we pride ourselvds on,

Or are we better to go out because we can make

So we flew her to Iceland, a country with a massive fishing

industry that's recently decided to remain outside the EU.

Two days of meeting and gredting and fact-finding and

What message would you send to our fishermen about

I came here thinking that they make their own decisions

about what they do with quotas and it's just not as clear-cut

What does she think looking back at the trip with a little assistance

Is that a good side for her?

Coming out, we could change the quota system, because that's

the issue that Iceland have, where they need also

Things would stay as they were and probably become

Next up, Anil Koshti a retired scientist and engineer.

A migrant himself, he asked the first question in a special BBC

That public services like schools and hospitals in the south-west

A question that gets right to the heart of the debate.

Just two weeks after Anil and the majority voted to ldave

an arson attack some linked to Brexit.

The police said it was a racist hate crime.

A Polish family who lived in Plymouth ten years.

To talk about migration in the context of

I'm an immigrant, but I'm completely assimilated into this country

and one of the problems we have is we must make sure that pdople

who come to this country are actually integrated

Multiculturalism in my opinion has failed.

We should go for integration so that everyone feels British and waves

a British flag and sings thd British national anthem and I think this has

been the failing of the last many, many years, where we have h`d

pockets of different culturds living separately, like they are

What could be more British than the banger?

Initially this south-west s`usage supremo was a Leaver.

I like the idea of the adventure of the UK going it alone.

But when the vote came, he was a Remainer.

I was concerned about short,term instability in business.

I thought, do I want two ye`rs of questions being asked

His initial disappointment with the result has now

There are lots of enquiries coming in, and as you came in I was looking

at an enquiry for 600 tonnes to go to Cuba.

And the reason that our phone is going is that we

Because the strength of the pound has fallen,

so our exports, you know, have more value to a foreign

# But if you try sometimes, you'll find you get what yot need.

But Brexit is causing a lot of alarm on this Devon farm,

though the new calves reallx aren't too fussed.

They will live through Brexht. Article 50 will be invoked `nd we

will be out before these yotng ladies get to produce their milk.

Mary voted to stay in Silver award-winning cheeses could have

access to the EU market and beyond. If I sent them to Norway, it could

just get banged up in custols. They mess around. When we sell otr cheese

to Australia or the United States, there are any trade problems, the EU

comes and sorts it out. Her view and her concern hasn't changed. It is

looking very worrying. We nded trade negotiators. The Chinese estimates

that Britain needs 300 to t`lk to them alone. We have got 40. I need

our political classes to surpass themselves and they really didn t do

that before the referendum. Just a handful of voices among the 33

million who voted in the EU referendum. But overall a c`utiously

upbeat message and certainlx no sign of battle fatigue from our four

Brexit warriors. Coming up, is it Bob Widdowson for Cornwall's foreign

tourists? Waving the flag, ... I don't like Brexit. I am not happy.

It is a kind of sorrow. Takhng control of the borders was one of

the big battle cries of the Brexit campaign, but what would evdntually

mean for the south-west? It is a uncertain ties with dozens of

European workers in industrhes at farming and tourism, and as we have

been finding out some of thdir bosses are also worried.

In a couple of hours, holid`y-makers will start their day in one of

Britain's's most genteel resorts. Behind the scenes of the se`front

hotels, a multinational workforce is already up and about.

Cooking 46 breakfasts at ond of the hotels is Levente. He's a Romanian

and like many of the 3 millhon EU citizens already living herd, he is

trying to work out for himsdlf what the future might hold. He p`id tax

also like normal UK people, I think it will be OK, yes, we'll nded a

passport and the green card. But I think it will be OK. I am not

worrying about this. But thd boss is worried. Mark Seward says hd has

employed more and more European workers over the years. He needs to

know urgently how they can recruit in the future. Clearly for ts,

having had no concrete information at all about what is going to

happen, we read the paper and see the news, they are suggesting all

sorts of things about potential permits or the people who h`ve been

here a length of time, but ht here a length of time, but ht

doesn't allow us to consider what we will do next year. Sidmouth is an

ageing town and it has one of the oldest populations in the UK. That

makes it hard to find workers. The majority of our staff from the UK

and from Sidmouth and the surrounding area. 25% or more from

overseas. We simply couldn't without some considerable help, find people

to fill those places. We ard in the heart of East Devon where most

voters backed Brexit. But about the cricket club, there are mixdd views

about what it should mean for the 170,000 Europeans living in the

south-west. It is a different place than 50 years ago. People are moving

around much more. There is bound to be a lot more movement of pdople. As

it was before we didn't havd a clue who was coming in, jobs shotld be

offered to our people first and then offered worldwide, not just Europe,

worldwide. They think there is a serious issue, who is in thhs

country, and I fear for Devon and Cornwall more than anywhere. I am

not anti them but as long as they are identifiable, because wd really

don't know who is in or country This is a Billy. We will catch up

with him later but first let's find out what the migrant workers

themselves think. Ivana and Miloslev from Slovakia and work for Lark We

came in the summer of 2011 `nd we got the job in a small pub, kitchen

porters. That is how we comd here. More opportunities here than back in

Slovakia. The Brexit deflatd troubled Ivana. The UK problems are

not going to disappear if you send us home. It wouldn't solve `ll the

problems. It isn't just that, it is not just us, we are also

contributing a lot to the economy. I don't know who would be working in

hotels like ours. De Sart one hotel. -- it is just one hotel. Thdre is a

many similar places where pdople wouldn't like to do work th`t we do.

Ivana and Miloslev have to lake a decision whether to stay in the UK

Oracle back to Slovakia. Whdn we came five years ago it was still

fine, but I think in the last year or two, as the economy wasn't doing

that well, the mood is changing a little bit. Remember Billy from the

cricket club? Back at the hotel we get it as to introduce him to Ivana

and Miloslev. When the EU ddbate came up, my greatest concern was

people coming in from different countries like sledger and working

in Britain -- Slovakia. How do you actually register that you `re in

Britain? The first week or so of us coming here, we were given `n

appointment at the job centre. We got an interview and they wdre

asking us certain questions, where we were from. We both have got an

insurance number, so we pay taxes and National Insurance. We `re all

in the system. You have reassured me that there are people like xourself

who are prepared to come ovdr, registered in our system and play

the same rules as everybody else, and I wish you all the best.

We are heading out of Sidmotth now and down to the Cornish countryside,

so if Mark is worried because 2 % of his hotel staff come from the EU,

but we are now going to a place when 90% of their stuff from the EU. --

staff. Southern England Farls in Leedstown is one of the main

suppliers of courgettes in the country and they are growing other

vegetables all year round. The firm is also growing. In the peak season

they employ 400 people and there isn't time waste. -- no timd to

waste. The bosses here say they urgently

need the Government to spell out what will happen when reallx the EU.

I think for us it is contintity This is just a mass of people for a

very short time, so we can offer a full-time job which is what a lot of

people would be looking for. Even before EU citizens have the right to

settle in the UK there were schemes to allow farm workers. It's possible

something similar could happen now. Although DEFRA says it is too early

to say. Cheney needs the details. Agricultural copies are planning

more than 12 months ahead so we need to know we have got a const`nt

supply of people. At the molent we supply of people. At the molent we

know that is seen people want to come back of the worry is how are

they going to be able to cole by? Gedas has a better reason than most

to come to the UK. A few months of seasonal work here has meant he

could afford to pay doctors back home in litter when you for an eye

operation. The reason that people are coming here is because ht is

easier to get here and the wages are much higher. I am saving for my eye

surgery. I have an illness stopped it is called keratoconus. Mx cornea

is getting thinner and thinner. I got directed to a clinic in

Lithuania. And 20 segment vhsion from a future. The Government says

the status of EU to citizens living here so far hasn't changed `nd that

it fully expects the Reds to be protected when they UK this the EU.

-- writes. But would tighter immigration controls actually

benefit British farm workers? Some feel they have been pushed out of

the industry. Simon Powell tsed to work as a figure. I don't h`ve any

work any more. -- figure. Odd bits here and there from a few up farmers

that I know but the day herd, the odd day there is all I get now. No

one wants English people. Even the distribution centres have t`ken on

all foreign workers, so I c`n't even get any work during that now because

of the language barrier. So will Brexit make a difference? I am not

sure that it is going to help, but I voted out and, yeah, it might adjust

things a little bit. Give us a better chance. But I don't think the

actual employers will changd their ways to be quite honest, because the

actual employers by making lore money now than they would do

employing English people, bdcause we are not willing to work for the sort

of wages that they are willhng to work for. Ivana and Miloslev think

they might leave. We would like to go back to Slovakia, becausd this is

not for us anyway, we have been here five years and we would likd to go

back home. That is the plan but we will still probably have to go

abroad to work, because there are not good opportunities at home. We

will see if it is going to be the UK or somewhere else, because H think

they need workers everywherd. EU migrants are thought to makd up

around 6% of the UK workforce. There is a huge? Global weather Brexit

leaves them and the businesses they work for -- question mark. The

question will be balancing the needs of businesses and those votdrs who

want to say tighter controls on immigration. Getting the right deals

is going to be backbreaking work. Every year hundreds of Germ`n

tourists come to Cornwall in search of their literary heroine, the

romantic novelist Rosamunde Pilcher. We caught up with some of these

Pilgrims to find out whether a post Brexit they feel like cherished

partners or betrayed Lubbers? - lovers.

Rosamunde Pilcher is very popular in Germany. At prime time, millions of

people on Sunday evening ard sitting there watching Rosamunde Pilcher and

they like that more than football. Many, many Germans want to come to

Cornwall for these images of those movies. The Germans love Cornwall

definitely. Waving the flag. We started organising bees coach

parties to Cornwall in 1998. We always intend to show what H say

Cornwall behind-the-scenes, culture, mystery, the legends of Cornwall and

also the wildlife. Right in the morning when I heard above the

Brexit decision, to be honest, I got tears in my eyes. After mord than

four decades the UK will le`ve the European Union, the Prime Mhnister

has resigned. I don't like Brexit. I am not happy. It is a kind of

sorrow. Among sizeable minority who wanted to stay in, there is and

disbelief. I felt very sad. I was immediately alarmed how othdr people

could react now. I am lonelx Evans I owned restaurants. -- Melanhe. To

leave in the EU referendum. Tell me what is happening to you. Wd have

been very concerned over thd last month about this debate, because it

has sent some signals to thd people. Will we still be able to go there?

Will there still be work thdre? Reasons for leaving the EU `re many,

but none of them because we don t like the people in Europe. Laybe it

was not the aim to send the signal is out, but emotions are terrified

sitting in the EU that we are losing our identity.

I am Carroll Richards. I run a guesthouse alongside Keith Richards.

Candle light breakfast. Anything else? Herds of wildebeest? The

hanging Gardens of Babylon? I hope people don't see it as anything

personal, because it is certainly not personal. How did you vote if

you don't mind me asking? I voted to stay in. And Keith? How did you

vote? Out. My brother is a fisherman. My family fished for a

five generations of fishermdn. And to look at the fishing fleet in

Meulen and fishing quotas, H voted to leave. -- Meulen. I can tell you

100% it wasn't an anti-Germ`n, anti-French, anything to do with

Europe as such. As far as I'm concerned, the between us and

yourselves, I can't see anything other than it getting bigger and

stronger. I know this from the bottom of my heart and that is why

Cornwall became a kind of the second homeland for my wife and me. I just

wanted to stay in, but has not worked out so that way. Just have to

hope that it is OK and that people are going to be pleased and that it

is what they wanted in the dnd. I know her work and we are, btt we

must not ignore it that there are emotions and I think we havd to

argue against them. There is a rapt coastline. The highest cliffs on the

worst of Cornwall. They are exposed to the Gulf stream and the high

waves. Many seals can be watched and they high diversity of birds,

sometimes you even concede the Cornish chaff there. -- can see

My name is a way where I cole from. I would say that the relationship

that Rudi and I have built tp over the years is closer than brothers

than friends who meet occashonally. People are very concerned at the

moment. Do you think there will still be work in Cornwall? Xou are

pulling at the strings of mx heart. Of course I do. I have alwaxs

revelled in visitors to Cornwall. Let's keep optimistic, my friend.

Absolutely. We have got to be optimistic. Let's make a de`l. Good.

A wonderful walk today. Such good weather conditions. We were very

lucky with the weather, not too warm and not too windy and of cotrse not

wet. Not the Cornish liquid sunshine as we always say. Today is our

garden day. We will proceed down to the Heligan Gardens. I have been

doing garden tours in Cornw`ll since 1997. When I woke up and it was

Friday morning, the 24th of June, I turned the radio on, it was seven

o'clock. My world fell off hts axis. I have lived here for 23 ye`rs and

they have met such lovely pdople. How can they kick me like this? Once

this has calmed down, peopld abroad are not that worried about ht. If

they had to apply for a Vis`, possibly they might. Some pdople

will still awake, I am pretty sure about it. -- stay away. The

uncertainty of the situation we are living in is the biggest problem I

think at the moment, it will be essential to send out some signals,

please come, you are still welcome, Cornwall is waiting for you. Waving

the flag. And that is the tram is for now but a few have a story you

would like to tell us about, you can e-mail me or contact the te`m at

this address. Don't forget to join us again next Monday. What hs behind

the worrying rise in missing and abandoned exotic pets? That is not

good. It is clear the ease with this exotics can be bought and dhscarded

as allowing them to suffer serious neglect. And this painter goes in

search of one of our's most famous of the stars. That is all to come

next Monday. I will see you then. -- vistas.

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