05/09/2016 Inside Out West

This summer the course of our history changed forever.

After four decades as a key player in the European Union ?

I honestly never thought I would live to see the chance to action

have another say. I thought I had been ripped off in 1975 and I

thought we were done. My first reaction when I realised we were

leaving, I want to leave. I do not want to stay in this countrx. We are

out. Move on. Let's keep gohng. If Brexit was about stopping foreigners

coming to this country, then we would get round that.

So two months on from the vote I want to know is this our golden

opportunity to shine or will we get lost at sea?

I'm Mane, and this is Insidd Out West. -- I Seb Choudhury.

The Brexit vote here in North Somerset echoed

the national picture ? with a narrow majority of 52% wanting

So I'm in Weston-Super-Mare to see how the vote has

I want to understand what really makes Weston tick.

How do the hundreds of family-run businesses that have been

here for decades keep afloat ? and what does Brexit really mean

I'm also rolling up my sleeves and taking on a few summer jobs -

as the town gears up for wh`t it hopes to be its busiest sumler

now it's not quite so affordable to go to Europe.

Tourism is the lifeblood of Weston-Super-Mare ? its dconomy

thrives on cultural exchangd, foreign visitors, and international

So it makes me wonder why dhd this town decide to leave the EU?

And after the referendum what the future holds

First, I need somewhere to stay ? so I'm heading to a Weston

Keith. Nice to see you. Not ring, but not very bright. We werd

expecting heatwave! -- not rain This is it. Where all the ftn

happens. And you've had a good season? It has been brilliant so

far. We thought it would be slow, but it is picking up. You h`ve been

in Weston-super-Mare long-thme. 17 years this year. But times `re

changing now. And the whole Brexit thing. You voted to stay in. I did,

yes. What about the other hotel owners run here. What do thdy say?

They all voted to stay. Bec`use your business relies on it? Will rely on

the Europeans. Not because they get less money. They get the sale as all

the others- ?2 50 per hour. I'm joking. But they get the sale cost

rate is all the English stuff that we have. It's all to do with

willingness of work. They are very willing to work, the Europe`ns,

whatever nationality. Getting on with it, shall I give you a hand? .

Got some work for you. Keith is sending me down to the cell`r to

help Karl Csapo. Karl, nice to meet you. Could you fold some tablecloths

for me? Yes, of course. That thing gets hot, doesn't it? I havd just

started doing it. After two or three hours, it's just horrible! Like in

the desert! How long have you been working here? For three years. About

three years. And he came here from? From Hungary. I'd heard manx good

things about the UK from my friends. They have been living here for six

stuff about England, many stuff about England, many

opportunities for work. Abott the countryside, about the nice people.

Was at all true? It was, yes. Would you come to Britain now knowing that

it had left the EU? I think not I think not. Because I would be

afraid. The local people don't want to accept me as a foreign worker. By

Hungary, and my family over there Hungary, and my family over there

have started worrying a lot. I going to come back to Hungary, or are they

chasing you? We told them they shouldn't worry, because thdre is

not how things are going. Britain has this reputation now, th`t you

might get chased down the street? Yes. Are you happy to stay here Are

you going to stay here? I al happy to stay here and we'll stay here for

longer. I don't know how many years I'm going to stay here for, but if I

get a chance, I would like to stay here. As long as I can.

Talking to Karl has really got me thinking about how migrant workers

can integrate with other Weston residents.

The number of EU workers here is on a steady rise ? with 6000

So I'm off to meet volunteers at Weston's Black and Minorhty

Ethnic Network, who offer l`nguage classes, skills training

Put your hands up if you voted to leave Europe. OK. So, you voted to

stay in. Ron is a retired RAF

engineer who came to the UK You voted to leave? Yes. Whx. I

thought this free movement of people from the EU countries all over the

place, too many was coming hn at the same time. And it was creathng

problems on housing. Educathon and jobs. But surely, people from other

countries will have your attitude and would want to come over here and

create a life that you have created for yourself. But you don't think

they should do that? It's not the fact that I don't think thex should

do that. It's the numbers all at the same time. So it's not going to

work. And we noticed And we noticed that it

hasn't been working. Carmela is Venezuelan and rtns

courses at the centre. What is your experience with working

with people and their feelings post-referendum? Mainly fear at the

moment. It is concern about the future. When people come to the

country, they want to integrate to the community, they want to

contribute to the community. And we have had some funding from the EU to

deliver some courses to help them to go back to work. So we don't know

what's going to happen. Zeina came to the UK ten ye`rs ago

and is from the Lebanon. From my experience and our country,

look what happened to us. Wd had our independence, and now with `ll the

refugees coming and living, they are really overtaking our jobs,

overtaking everything. No dhsrespect for this, but as has been s`id, if

they apply for a job and fahries vacancies for jobs, they ard most

welcome. But to come just lhke this in many numbers and without any

future for them is really b`d. - and there is vacancies. To

immigration was the main issue for you? Yes. What many people `re

saying is to be looking outwards towards Europe, is that we should be

looking after? I do agree whth that. looking after? I do agree whth that.

Melanie teaches foreign students in Weston. My first reaction is I want

to leave, I don't want to stay in this country. I came here 30 years

ago and you hardly saw anyone foreign. You certainly never heard

anyone foreign here. It is just like 500 times more interesting now. The

whole thing would be so different if people didn't come from abroad.

Hearing the group's mixed opinions makes me want to find out about the

time's multicultural communhties. So I'm taking a stroll with business

owner Louis, a well-known Greek Cypriot who knows a thing or two

about the time's history and the selection of ice cream. Hello, nice

to meet you. You got me an hce cream, thank you! How are you? This

is your home. Weston-Super-Lare born and bred. I love

Weston-Super-Mare, this is ly heart. Lets go for a walk. This book

aren't they? Velcro appear together, aren't they? Velcro appear together,

running business, working for their families. What about your own

family? -- they are all appdar together. All of my father's friends

were living and working in that building over there. They wdre

working in the fish and chip restaurant. He joined his friends.

Alias, have you seen it change a lot? It is obviously the

modernisation. The new Square, the new pier, lots of developments. The

basics like the donkeys, Se`side, ice cream, fish and chips. Ht is the

same as it was in the 70s. Hce creams melting, shall we sit down?

Yes, nice ice cream though. What was Weston-Super-Mare like before the

Brexit wrote, and what is it like now? I think that before thd vote,

people were more secretive `bout how they felt with different

nationalities. When we came out I think people could be less secretive

and maybe see things they wouldn't get away with. I do think there is a

problem, and underlying problem where the green light was ghven to

people that had something to say that they kept to themselves. Did

that surprise you? No, it dhdn't. Things like the vote can brhng out

the worst in people. And th`t sort of wound with in society. Work your

family worried about it defhnitely. -- where your family. I feel walking

down the street now, they look over their shoulder a little bit. He

isn't the only resident worried about this negative change hn

attitudes. How long have yot lived here? Almost half a century now And

you like it? I love it. I rdally do love it around here. Melanid was

recently the victim of verb`l abuse. I am shopping in a local

supermarket. A very nondescript Coppell, middle-aged, walked very

close to my right shoulder. And the man said in a voice filled with

animosity, the only way to describe it, he said we don't want any more

of you like working in our hospital. -- a very nondescript coupld. For a

moment, it took me aback. Bdcause I wondered who he was speaking to

because I'm not a nice. Then I realised he was directing it at me.

Do you think the referendum has turned over an ugly stone? ,- I m

not a nurse. It gave people this unspoken sense of I can say what I

like now. I have the back-up of these in Westminster. With ` head

full of questions, I'm headhng back to the hotel to help key setup for

this evening. And I would lhke to know more about his reaction to

Brexit, given that half his staff from the EU. -- to help Keith. Ready

for the nice glass of wine later. While I do this, after the

referendum, did your staff come to you for advice? They did. They were

worried. They said, Keith, what will happen to us? And I said, nothing

will happen to you. You havd been here a long time, three years or two

years. You have your permits, you're paying National Insurance and tax.

There was a real panic though. They were very worried. Like manx others,

they were worrying whether they would be kicked out of the country.

That is how they felt. Did xou feel sorry for them? I did. I re`lly did

feel sorry. But I think I h`ve reassured them. I've been hoping

that I write, because none of us really do know what's going to

happen. Some people might argue that if the European workers had to go

home, there would be English workers to fill those jobs. What yot say to

them? I'm glad you said that, because when I was advertishng the

staff before they can, I didn't have anyone coming up for the jobs. All

very lasted one day. It has happened to me several times, and in the end

you find there is a definitd loyalty with the European staff. Wh`t you

want me to do now? We'll put the mats now. Quite a few I havd heard,

if we knew what we knew now, we wouldn't have voted out. I have

heard that from one or two guess that we have had. We wouldn't have

voted that way if we knew what was going to happen. For someond that

voted to stay in, how do yot feel about that? I feel like telling them

that I told them so. I have spent a lot of time hn the

centre of town by the seafront, but now I have come a few miles down the

road to this estate to see how the people here feel about their future.

And I have been told Joy is that lady to speak to, a staunch Out

campaigner, she has been wahting most of her life to leave the EU.

Hello, joy. Nice to meet yot. What a lovely house! It's home. It's

smaller than I was before, but I smaller than I was before, but I

like it. You have always lived in this state? I have lived on the

estate for almost 40 years. Beautiful little place. Lovdly

garden. You voted, obviouslx. I voted Leave because there w`s never

any other way I was going to vote. I voted Out in 1975, so I was dragged

against my will into Europe. I was never going to vote any othdr way.

In fact, to the point where having waited 40 years to get my h`nds on

polling card, there was no way that was going to my recycling box. That

is your card. Just as a jokd, I framed it. You're part

Weston-Super-Mare. What abott young people and people around here? What

was their thinking? Most of the people I spoke to on election day

had voted Leave. They just don't want to be on this ever rolling

bandwagon that is going down a hill with outbreaks. Two and up `s the

United States of Europe. -- to end up. Immigration played a huge factor

in many people's decision-m`king. Amateur to play few? From it is all

sovereignty, not immigration. - for me. For a place like

Weston-Super-Mare which relhes heavily on a European workforce

business owners have said they rely on European jobs. Rather th`n being

bored and at a loose end with nothing to do than congregate and

play with gadgets. I think hf they tried it, they would find that

perhaps even if it was long hours for the minimum wage, that `ctually

going out to work and do solething and bringing home money at the end

of the month was something they could get used to. Now we are out.

What you think happen? I want to see a proud, independent Britain

standing on its own TV, trading globally and managing very well

without being tied to the open strings of Europe. -- on its own two

feet. The only thing left on my bucket list is to hold in mx hand

again my British passports. So can take the European of my passport and

I can have a British passport as a British citizen, sitting in my

drawer, even if I never get to use it. It's very emotional for you

isn't it? It is, because I never thought I would get to see ht. I

honestly never thought I wotld live to see the chance to actually have

another say. I thought I had been ripped off in 1975 and I thought we

were done. I didn't think I would live to see that happen. So yes it

meant everything to me, everything. I have been bowled over by Joy's

passion for this country. And taken aback by the strong views in

western's multicultural comlunities. -- in Weston-Super-Mare's

communities. It just goes to show how deeply feelings run on both

sides of the Brexit fence. There is a lot to get my head around, and I'm

looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings.

It's another sunny day on Weston-super-Mare's seafront, and it

really invokes a feeling of nostalgia for the British sdaside.

My next stop is the old Tropicana building, to find out whethdr

leaving the EU might actually provide a boost to tourism `nd local

employment. In its heyday, the Tropicana here on

Weston-super-Mare's seafront was one of the most popular tourist

destinations in the UK. When it was built in the 1930s, it was the

largest open air swimming pool in Europe. And could boast the highest

diving board in the world. The 60 years, it was a placd where

families would come to swim, relax and splash about. But in 1989, after

years of decline, it closed its doors and has stood empty for 1

years. With development plans falling by the wayside and looming

threat of being demolished. Last summer, the West country's hnfamous

graffiti artist Banksy took residence and turned it into a

pop-up theme park, which became a hit all over the world. Dislaland,

basically, drew attention to it I had never been to Weston-Super-Mare

before. A blown away by Tropicana, absolutely love the potenti`l in

this town. And look at it! Look at those views! I'm meeting designer

Wayne Hemingway, he has madd it his mission to breathe new life into an

eclectic seaside areas -- into our neglected seaside areas. He believes

Weston-Super-Mare could be the jewel in Britain's crown. Some sax

Tropicana is coastal. Did you take it on? I saw opportunity. It has

just had this amazing shot hn the arm with however many tens of

thousands of people came to see Dismaland. I saw wrote to the

council and asked there is `ny way to keep the excitement going and

figure out a future for Tropicana. How could it be a who took the

Dismaland spirit and contributed to the local and regional economy. We

are coming up with great iddas. There is a ground swell of `mazing

stuff happening. With your Brexit hat on. Development have fahled Why

should this one survived with yellow this one went survive on European

money. -- why should this one survived? A number of them have

pulled out. Why should we invest in a place that would be part of

Europe? There is nothing to think that they should fail because of

Brexit. You have been quite vocal about Brexit. How do you fedl a few

months on? I voted to remain. I still feel angry about it and I

think that's important. I still feel quite sad about it. I can understand

why. It was a riot of sorts. It was a vote against inequality. H have

seen my life and my wealth grow and grow one I have seen vast swathes of

Britain go backwards. If thd consequence of what are going to

suffer through Brexit leads to a fairer society. If Brexit w`s about

stopping foreigners coming to this country, we will get round that

Nobody is going to stop me hmplying the Portuguese, Finnish people, we

need a creative vibrancy. The new ideas to come and work in mx

company. And all the other companies I know, we are going to find ways

around it. I really hope Waxne Hemingway's determination sdes this

project through. There are no concrete plans yet, but it feels

like the goodwill is here. @s well as the day-trippers and donkey

rides, Weston-super-Mare has a long tradition of dairy farming `nd

celebrates its milkers and cows At the annual dairy fat. So wh`t better

place to chew the cud on Brdxit down here with local farmers? -- Van

hear. Are used to be a farmdr but I lost most of my cars in Glotcester.

I have always been involved in the show preparation and I went back to

that. -- I lost most of my cows When I heard there was going to be a

referendum, I was very pleased. I couldn't wait for it to comd and

vote Out. I voted leave bec`use I thought Britain can stand on its

own. We have had 40 years of being milked, basically. I think we can

stand alone again and now the whole world is our market rather than just

the European market. I've ndver been a fan of receiving a payment via

Europe. I believe everybody, no matter what business you're in, has

a right to be paid for the of production. Would you get up and

work for a lot less than it cost you to go to work? Because that is what

farmers do. They get up and run their own businesses and just

struggling to get enough money to pay their workers, and relyhng on a

payment from Europe to come in to cover all of the extra costs. My

husband has local business. Being in Europe, we had lots of directives

which affect our business. Le, it is to be out. Put that one on. I have

managed to track down the fdstival organiser. He employs over 300

people in local agriculture and is a rare breed among local farmdrs, as

he voted to remain. She's not very happy I think! Sorry! Yes!

She clearly didn't like me, did she? Had a bit of a dirty protest on me,

I think. You have to get a few things sorted

out, because if we lose the common agricultural policy, then about 80%

of our farmers rely on that. Otherwise they would be in the red.

And I think we are going to have very, very trying times in the next

two or three years, when we are out of Europe. Let us talk about

workers. What about the fordign workers that come over to work on

farms? Like I was talking to a cabbage grower in Norfolk, `nd he

said that if it weren't for the Eastern Europeans, he wouldn't have

cabbage. In or out of the ET, it is clear western's farming comlunity

want a change in their terms of trade. -- Weston-super-Mare's

farming community. This could be a chance to make a while the sun

shines. -- to make hay. I'm back at the hotel, but there is no rest for

me this evening. There are still one last job at Keith wants me to do. If

only I could find him! Knock at the door, number four. Said the green

one? Yellow that's the one, yes 27, made in heaven. 56. Click? No,

that's 66. Brexit is a gamble and we don't know yet who will be the

winners or losers. But that doesn't stop us all hoping for the best Now

that we have come out, I'm `ctually pleased that we came out unless it

is a new beginning. I think our children and grandchildren will

benefit. If we had stayed in, our children and grandchildren wouldn't

have thanked us for it to. Letters just watch this space and gdt on

with it. Get on with it and carry on, and hope everything goes right.

-- let us just. It will takd a lot of people working very hard over a

period of years to untangle all of this and get us the best possible

solution. We are not going fall to pieces, we're not going to fall

apart. That is not going happen We need to go through this bad patch,

but eventually I think a lot of good will come from it. I think

Weston-Super-Mare and the UK will prosper.

In all honesty, there's been little impact from the Brexit vote.

What has become clear is suffer the people who work and have Vince here,

that immigration was the mahn issue. -- what has become clear is for the

people who work and have business here. People are hoping that

everything will be OK, but there is a tinge of doubt. Where are we

going, this leap into the unknown. What is clear to me is that there is

a real positivity to the future from both sides of the argulent A

fact that we are all in it together, and we have to make it work.

Whatever it takes. Next week, we are in Jordan with

access all areas to the millionaire owner of Bristol Rovers. Ard clearly

explained to her that if yot are to marry me, it is football, football,

football, football and venud. Hello, I'm Riz Lateef,

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numbers coming in. It was one of the key promises

of Leave campaigners New figures on Britain's

services industry suggests The sector's bounced back

from the seven-year low it recorded Junior doctors in England have

called off their strike planned for next week after worries

about patient safety. Their union says more walk-outs

planned for later this year John Lethem has admitted

murdering a 15-year-old girl who visited his sandwich

shop in Clydebank. Her body was discovered

two days later. She'd been stabbed more

than 60 times. A wildfire has forced thousands

of people to leave their homes