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“one of the protest organisers, said the demonstration was not racist or xenophobic”.

“Our problem is not with the immigrants in general, it’s with the people who arrive here, who don’t speak our language, who don’t mix, don’t take part in the life of the community and who create their own ghettos where they keep them selves to themselves,” she said. “It’s been complete madness over the last few years with foreigners, arriving in incredible numbers.”

I have slightly changed the wording, but the above would be considered both racist and xenophobic had it been said by an English protest organiser.

In fact it was from a report in the Telegraph about the English invasion of a small town in France forcing the price of housing through the roof, I can sympathize with the people who are making a peaceful protest to demonstrate against the destruction of their way of village life.

Around 100 people took to the streets of Bourbriac and called on all “proud French natives” to express their anger at “colonisation”. They demanded more low-cost housing, criticised estate agents for “market speculation” and set fire to piles of property magazines.

The protest was part of a growing backlash against the increasing number of Britons moving to rural France.

Bourbriac is now home to about 700 Britons, 100 Germans and Dutch, among a French population of 1,200.

Maiwenne Salomon, one of the protest organisers, said the demonstration was not racist or xenophobic.

“Our problem is not with the British in general, it’s with the people who arrive here, who don’t speak French, who don’t mix, don’t take part in the life of the community and who create Anglo-Saxon ghettos where they keep them selves to themselves,” she said. “It’s been complete madness over the last few years with foreigners, particularly the Anglo-Saxons, arriving in incredible numbers.
“The result of this has been that property prices have rocketed in the whole of Britanny and Bretons themselves can’t find anywhere to live, whether it’s to rent or to buy.”
She said that the cost of buying a home had risen by up to 600 per cent.

In a Europe without frontiers this sort of thing is going to happen more often.