WHY we need immigration.

Whatever your view is on Brexit and whether or not the ‘right’ side won there is surely one thing we can agree on. Without immigration and immigrants coming to Andover and surrounding villages to work our food service and hospitality industry will suffer.

Why? Because local British people do not do customer service!

Point in question, have you ever been to either of the local McDonalds, KFC or ‘Spoons? How many times have they got your order wrong (maybe it’s easier to count when they got them right)? Predominantly young British employees. You go to any of the food outlets, restaurants or pubs with a higher number of non-UK nationals working there and automatically you will see a better standard of customer service and in many cases the end product, in this case the food, is of a better quality.

What is it that makes non-UK born workers better at leisure and hospitality? Is it that they care about their jobs more and want everything to be ‘just right’ or is it that their homegrown counterparts feel its beneath them and not important enough?

Phillip Doherty, Roman Way, Andover.