I moved here 10 years ago from a medium sized town in West Yorkshire with my family and have not looked back.

My son is getting a better standard of education than he could have ever hoped for before and it’s a pleasure interacting with my neighbours and local business owners (of all nationalities).

Crime is off the scale with some of the lowest home and car insurance rates anywhere in the UK backing that statistic up and I feel genuinely safe in my own home.

On top of this I am surrounded by amazing countryside just moments away from my front door.

What I am now seeing in Spalding is a deep down hatred towards migrants coming to our town to work which prevents them integrating into our community and instead forces them to set up their own shops, businesses and before you know it schools and churches all because the “natives” won’t let them in.

What is happening in Spalding today is what happened in the rest of the UK 20 years ago. Migrants coming into the area wanting to make a better life for themselves.

Shut them out and they will come anyway however they will be FORCED to create a parallel community.

In West Yorkshire, a Mosque in every small town and a muslim school for every christian one is common place. This isn’t a bad thing but it could have been some much more integrated if people had not been so prejudice 20 years ago

And now history is repeating itself in South Lincolnshire.

If you really don’t like it here then leave but I am pretty sure you will find the grass isn’t any greener on the other side!