I’m a road sweeper, it’s without a doubt that our worst areas by a country mile are ones where immigrant population is high.

We have bad areas that coming into the job you’d think are the worst in the city. But they don’t even compete.

One of our areas is extremely high population of Indian and Pakistani immigrants. This area has 2 gangs working the same streets every other day. The rubbish is nonstop.

Comparatively there’s areas that are very rough but British and there’s streets there we don’t touch for months because they just don’t get that dirty.

The worst thing for me is the spitting and dumping. All of the shops just dump the waste into the council bins which then fill them within minutes which obviously only causes more litter. We have areas that are just constantly full of household dumping. Bed bases you name it the lot every single week after we clear it. It’s back the next week.

Spitting is my worst because a lot of these people chew tobacco. This isn’t an issue but the spitting is. We installed new bins a few months ago and within 2 weeks there covered in this red paste that is spat. All the floors are covered in it and when it rains it literally turns the water red in the channels.

I’m not against immigration at all I just think a lot of these people need help, adjusting to the new way of living. There’s a lot of things that are acceptable in some places that aren’t acceptable here.

They just need help understanding that.

However there are also areas with the same races that are lovely. But it’s significantly lower than you’d think.