![]() “They don’t think about the effect their words have on people. White, who described herself as a pro-immigration housewife from Rodley, described the area as “not the nicest” but said people generally got on. “But for a riot you need people en masse and you’re not going to get people grabbing their pitchforks around here.” Stupid people will always do stupid things,” she said. ![]() You are going to get the individual idiot. “When it comes to stuff like that, it’s individuals. Polly White, 31, described Reeves’ comments as inflammatory and more likely to raise tensions than calm them. John Szocze, 53, and Jillane Szocze, 39, both of Bramley, were charged on Monday over the racially aggravated incident and are due to appear at Leeds magistrates court on 26 October. ![]() “Business-wise it affected us a lot,” he said, as an English-speaking customer purchased a bottle of imported tanning lotion. He said the only Brexit-related consequence for the shop, which opened last November to cater for Bramley’s growing Polish community, had been a 7-10% increase in importing prices due to the fall in sterling. The amount of cards we received was incredible – 100 cards at least – phone calls from different people saying they feel sorry and they’re not part of that community.” “Other than that one incident we haven’t had any issues. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Imagesīut on Wednesday morning, a worker at the Koala Delicatessen – who did not want to be named – said the shop had a “really good” relationship with its customers, nearly half of whom were English. Labour MP Rachel Reeves said there were ‘bubbling tensions in this country that I just think could explode’ if immigration were not curbed.
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