Incomers

It comes with the usual stuff about UK hostility to incomers, despite latest figures showing migration has risen sharply since the end of the pandemic, and 1.2m arrivals in the year to June 2022 is by some way the largest for 50 years.

When the locals direct their growing suspicions of incomers at her their hostility grows more palpable.

The issue of paltry checks on incomers was further highlighted in 2015 when Lithuanian Raimondas Jakstas, 26, was jailed for attacking his neighbour with a knife in Boston, Lincs.

We also grab opportunities in the afternoon (we both work from home, while the young ones go to an office), parking the dogs at the front door to alert us of any incomers.

The first part of that sentence is a compliment for Scottish football – our game can’t be that bad if it daunts incomers like this – but Hibs supporters understandably have parochial concerns.

She regrets the loss of community spirit, and feels that, with rare exceptions, the incomers don’t know how to be good neighbours.

Much of this movement is cross-county rather than distant migration, and the incomers thus bring aspects of their culture as well as reinforce shared cultural traits from both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border.

This dialect is at a low ebb due to the pervasive influences of television, education, and the large number of incomers.