Polish woman was booed for saying she feels unwelcome in the UK

A Polish woman was booed on BBC's Question Time after revealing that she has not felt welcom in Britain after the Brexit referendum vote.

The woman, who has lived in the UK for 23 years, told BBC host David Dimbleby that she'd never felt discriminated against "until Brexit".

"I'm actually one of the immigrants that is no longer welcomed here," she said.

When asked by Dimbleby to specify in what way she felt discriminated against, the woman replied:

"I feel I am no longer wanted by 52 per cent of the voters... Can I just finish please? You can comment in a minute and boo me in a minute,” she said among the boos and the jeers. “Fifty-two percent of the voters voted against immigration. Polish is the second most popular language in this country and therefore the majority of the people voted against the Poles.”

She was interrupted by Lisa Duffy, the runner-up in Ukip’s leadership election, who said: “We don’t want to stop immigration, we want to control immigration. There was nothing in the referendum asking if we were voting against the Polish or not”. 

But the woman, who is married to a British person, explained that Polish people “work extremely hard” in conditions most people would not want to work.

“I interpret for some people who work for 12 hours, seven days a week. They work in such conditions most people would not want to work and yet they are the ones the people in Britain want to get out.”