Wisbech Community Forum

THE TOWN CAME TO NATIONAL ATTENTION, albeit briefly, after a BBC documentary in July 2010, called 'The Day The Immigrants Left' set out to examine the vexed issues of jobs and the migrant workforce. Its screenplay consisted of finding a cartoonish collection of local ne'er-do-wells, and putting the, on screen, into jobs where most of the workforce were migrants. The locals were portrayed (rightly of wrongly) as bigoted, work-shy buffoons, while the migrants alongside whom they worked (or failed to) came over as articulate and hard-working over-achievers. Cynics suggest that this was the BBC's traditional PC and Left-Wing bias enjoying its finest hour.